“I was fired from substitute teaching because of my band’s MySpace page,” Ian claims. “On my MySpace page, I think at the time I had two or three songs, and one them had the F word in it. The songs weren’t meant to be malicious. They were just meant for my own personal music expression.

 

"The first time I got fired from substitute teaching was because I handed a well-behaved student my band’s sticker, which had the link on it. The student went to the link, the principal found out and didn’t approve of that, so I was fired. When I found out I was fired, I called the superintendent of schools directly and told him that I thought this was unfair, I should be able to substitute teach and pursue music at the very same time without having conflict. As soon as I was fired, I took all the explicit material off of my MySpace page, and I got my job back.

“Over the summer break, we came out with a new song. I created a music video and put it on my MySpace page. I had a quick clip of a girl exposing herself in the music video. The kids who saw the video were very supportive and very complimentary of my work, but I was fired again. I’m a very respectable person, and I keep my job and my music separate, and there’s no reason I should’ve been fired,” he says.