PHOENIX -- CBS 5 Investigates discovered some Valley teachers making their private lives public by posting them on the Web.

MySpace.com is a social networking site where users can create personal pages, chat with friends and post their favorite pictures and blogs.

The site is popular with students, but 5 Investigates found a number of teachers with personal profiles containing often inappropriate content.

CBS 5 Investigates took a list of teachers who just started teaching in Arizona and searched for them one at a time on MySpace, checking to see which ones have profiles and what they might show.

"We hold a lot of people to higher standards. Certainly our teachers because they're given our children to try to help shape and mold," Tim Delaney said.

Delaney spent the last 20 years evaluating right and wrong for corporate America. He looked at some of the MySpace profiles 5 Investigates found.

In one picture, a teacher appears to be flipping off the camera.

"That, I think, if you were driving down the freeway and saw that on a billboard, you would find it offensive," Delaney said.

The teacher, Alexandra Wiltjer, teaches math at McKenny Middle School. She refused to speak with 5 Investigates.

Some teachers had more graphic pictures.

"They're fun, funny pictures that my friends and I took," said first grade teacher Lindsey Orser. "And yes, I wouldn't necessarily go and flaunt them across school."

Orser defended her photos, claiming her first grade students would never see them.

"There is nothing that I do in my personal life that is illegal. There is nothing that I do in my personal life that interferes with how I teach my kids," Orser said.

But Superintendent Tom Horne has a different standard.

"If you were to ask her, 'Would you do this in the class in front of your students?' the obvious answer would be, 'No, I would not,'" Horne said.

As the saying goes, "a picture is worth 1,000 words." But sometimes, one word is too much.

Elementary school teacher Eric Honeck's MySpage page contains a song with graphic profanity.

"That's the worst thing of all," Horne said.

The song contains the lyrics, "with a roll of duct tape and a big ol' wrench, she just might have a fatal f---in' accident! Oops!"

"That teaches kids a degrading view of the whole female gender, and that's by far the worst thing," Horne said. "That should be absolutely not acceptable."

Honeck refused to speak with 5 Investigates and removed his profile from the site.

CBS 5 Investigates wanted to hear from students affected by teachers with inappropriate profiles.

"You shouldn't know that about your teacher at all," one girl said.

"That's why you get private MySpace pages," said another student.

"I couldn't learn from a teacher that I knew did that kind of thing," said a third student. "It'd be harder for me, 'cause I'd be like, 'Wow, wonder what she did last night.'"

The Arizona Department of Education has a policy that says teachers cannot behave in a way that discredits the profession. Horne said each of the individual school districts will likely now investigate the teachers' pages.

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