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“The principal didn’t post it.”

Parent Lori Turner said she filed the complaint against Mueller with the profession’s regulator and withdrew her children from the school in a rural community 24 kilometres north of Red Deer county in the fall of 2009 after the principal criticized her in a private meeting for raising concerns about the photo with senior officials at the Wolf Creek School Division.

“I think she was upset because she got her wrists slapped by administration,” Turner said.

“She asked me if I had never been young and stupid once, and I said ‘sure,’ but never when my career was guiding and mentoring children.”

I think she was upset because she got her wrists slapped by administration

Parent Barb Neilson pulled her kids out of the school last fall because she was dissatisfied with the response of both the local school board and the ATA to numerous off-colour and ribald jokes that appeared on Mueller’s Pinterest account.

In one repost that Neilson found on the principal’s publicly accessible account a year ago, there is a drawing of two women playing squash while wearing form-fitting attire.

The accompanying caption reads “Shorts: if it looks like your vagina is trying to eat them, they’re not for you.”

Another is a photo of a teenage girl sitting in front of the Christmas tree holding a sanitary napkin on which a human eye has been drawn.

The words “Thanks Dad for the IPad” are superimposed on the picture.

She was posting humour that was not cool at all

“(Mueller is) supposed to be a strong female role model,” said Neilson “and she was posting humour that was not cool at all.”