Teacher Resigns After Showing Lewd Video

A few days after appealing his termination for showing a clip from the movie "Jackass Number Two" to students, a South Carolina high school teacher tendered his resignation, in part, he says, to protect the students that came out in droves to support him.

In the movie scene, a naked actor puts a sock puppet over his penis and inserts it into a cage with a poisonous snake.

The snake responds in anger, as did parents of students at Wando High School in Mt. Pleasant when they found out about the screening. Christopher Poston had downloaded the movie to play during a Latin class he was covering on Feb. 14, and turned it off when he realized the content was inappropriate, his lawyer, Jay Masty, claims.