Grading the Newest Sex Scandal Teacher, December 20, 2019
North Carolina – A local middle school teacher has been arrested for having inappropriate relationships with students.
Officials say they received an anonymous tip through Hunters Creek Middle School’s “HCMS-Say Something” site on Wednesday about potentially inappropriate communication between a staff member and students. The information, according to the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office, was that a teacher was having an inappropriate relationship with two 14-year-old students.
Officials say investigators with the office’s Special Victim’s Unit began investigating and say they learned that Ashley Beasley had sent inappropriate photos and videos to two male students she taught at the school.
On Friday, 32-year-old Beasley was arrested and charged with two counts of indecent liberties with a child and two counts felony indecent liberties with a student by a teacher.
Onslow County School says Beasley began working as an eighth-grade science teacher in August. …
She is being held at the Onslow County Sheriff’s Detention Center under an $80,000 secured bond.
You know, if I’ve learned anything from all those year of watching my love Kari Byron on “Mythbusters” or my crush Natalie Portman in “Thor” or everyone in “Hidden Figures” (besides the oppressive white males) or Miss America winner Camille Schrier:
… it’s that we need to inspire more women to take up careers in STEM. Women scientists are essential to our understanding of the universe and we need to enable more young women to enter the field and shatter all those glass ceilings.
That of course, extends to teaching the sciences. And that means encouraging not just the brilliant, gifted and resourceful ones like our new Miss America, but also the crazed, depraved ones with terrible judgment like Ashley Beasley. A STEM teacher who, just since August, was able to blow up her career like a beaker full of colorful hydrogen peroxide with her hands on approach to teaching. Sure, her career in the field was short lived. But there’s little doubt she taught things that will last those middle schoolers a lifetime.
The Grades:
Looks: I love the first photo. The mirror selfie shows that she’s bringing some heat. But what is it about that mugshot that just wins me over? That bad girl, incorrigible, stinkeye look with the tousled, bedhead hair. She manages to go from “cute Southern former sorority sister” to “I will rock your world and then steal your wallet while you sleep” in just four photos.
Grade: B
Moral Compass/Bad Judgment: OK, so based on the charges she never sealed the deal. She “just” (and I use the term relative to other SSTs) sent a bunch of nudes and (presumably) masturbation videos to two 14-year-olds. Which is enough to dump hydrocloric acid all over her teaching future, get her arrested and held on $80,000. But it would be unfair to all the other Sex Scandal Teachers who are out there laying it on the line every day if I gave her high marks for just pressing “SEND.”
Grade: C-
Intangibles: What kind of a science teacher is she? The kind who can educate her students on anatomy, biology, physics, human reproduction and chemistry in a way they’re never going to learn from memorizing the Periodic Table.
Grade: A
Overall: B-. She’s under strong consideration for the 2019 All Star team.
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