Local school teacher quits after student discovers her x-rated past

A west St. Louis County high school teacher quit her job after her x-rated past was exposed when one of her Parkway North students discovered her pornographic work in the adult film industry.

The teacher, Tera Myers, was suspended five years ago when she was a teacher in Paducah, Kentucky.

Parkway North says it never knew about the science teacher’s past until a student discovered it on the Internet on Friday. That raised a red flag, and district officials are now left wondering if background and reference checks are enough.

The porn-star-turned-teacher tied to shed what she calls her worst mistake – one she made more than 15 years ago. This past continues to haunt her today.


http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Local-school-teacher-quits-after-student-discovers-her-x-rated-past-117562414.html

...expecting this day to come.

And if past mistakes would keep you from being anything today then 90% of our politicians should be out of a job.

Her porn past may have no bearing on her ability to teach, but in order to be an effective teacher her students have to respect her. There's no way she can command that type of respect in the classroom anymore - boys will pass around the link to her internet porn for the rest of her career if she remains in teaching, at least at the secondary level.

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of some kind, he'll get away with it.

If she's a credentialed teacher who hasn't broken any rules it's just unfair to let her go. If she'd starred in an R rated teen beach epic she'd be the rockstar teacher but because she showed a little much she has to walk around with a scarlet W on her...

unfair.

This kind of thing shouldn't matter. Maybe some day it won't.

That doesn't say a damn thing about the person she is now or in any way change what she is doing now. She should be judged on her performance in her current position, not what she did when she was younger.

and it's sad that it isn't.

Past mistakes have a way of creeping up and ruining your current life. It sucks.

She made a living at the time and almost certainly paid taxes on the income. Where's the "mistake"?

per the article (which I just read), the teacher called it her worst mistake, so yes. If she believes it was a mistake, then it was a mistake.

"And just WHAT were you doing looking at pornography on the Internet, young man? You just earned a week of detention AND I'm calling your parents in for a conference to discuss your apparently unsupervised access to such materials when you SHOULD be working on your homework. Is that assignment I gave you completed yet?"

That's what she SHOULD have done.

You can't have thought that through. Since when is it a teachers job to police what a student does when they are not at school? Since when did teaches become the morality enforcers?

I mostly just meant that she should have gone on the offensive and shamed him for his activities. But you're right, that kind of "morality enforcer" thing isn't appropriate.

I do get where it could be disruptive to a classroom to have a former porn star as a teacher but yeah, if I were in her shoes, I'd probably have done what you suggested and gone on the offensive.

A shame, since it appears both her students and their parents supported her the first time her former career popped up. But this is Puritan-Land. Porn is evil!*
















*(For everyone else. I will happily enjoy my porn on my laptop, in the privacy of my dark man-cave. Everyone else, however, should not be watching it, as it is evil and immoral).

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Out of school is out of bounds

She should be judged on her performance in her current position, not what she did when she was younger.


Right, like we do with political figures... especially the ones we disagree with. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Maybe this will teach a lot of the students that you need to think before you do anything you may regret later. Not that I think there is anything wrong with her choice when she was younger, but it is what it is now.

just stumbled opon it.

She went on Dr. Phil when she was suspended in 2006.

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would we then hail the puritan yell.

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she wouldnt be let go. being a teacher has certain requirements as with other professions and the past choices can interfer.

someone says used coke in past, well if it was on the net she would be let go for that, too.

i hope she can use her teaching degree in an area that her past decisions wont effect her present choices.

Many people that are atheists are let go when they are teachers. Shouldn't we just let some stuff go and judge them on how they are doing their job? Just like the woman that got fired as a teacher because she had pictures of herself on Facebook with alcohol when it was legal.

I work in the 4th largest school district in the nation. I was investigated for being an atheist. My possessions were searched and all 180 of my students were interviewed. Finally, when I was informed of what the investigation was about, I called my union rep, who had to call the District's lawyers and have them explain to my supervisor that it was not immoral to be an atheist and was not, therefore, a firing offense.

Any websites about atheism are still blocked from employee or student view, like the sites about gangs and porn; students were prohibited from starting an after school freethinker's club on the grounds that it would provoke the Christian students; I still have to hide my personal beliefs -- unlike the religious teachers -- because I'm a single father and I need this job.

Happens all the time. I can only imagine how much worse it could be in a rural area or the Bible Belt.

The person is a heartless little bastard or bitch in my book and will have to live with this the rest of their life. They can only hope that something similar doesn't befall them. They have contributed to ruining a life. I can't help from speculating if the person claims to be a Christian. "He without sin cast the first stone."

she chose a profession where it matters.

I have an idea about this, but I'm curious what yours is.

not apply. i dont see she has any debt to anyone. i only see it as her earlier choice interfers with her choice to be teacher. i dont see any debt in that.

the case with the teaching field. teachers have an expectation of certain behavior, as much as some may want to moan and groan about it.

i tell my boys, be careful and wary what goes on net with their names. higher education and potentional jobs can be effected by certain behaviors. i dont point the finger at everyone. it is on the kids shoulders to make good choices.

Why would a history in the x-rated industry be a particular problem?

I'm actually not questioning it to be dismissive of it; like I said, I think there's a reason for it.

but even more, i think all this is a waste of time for me

If I didn't have one, you'd have your proof.

If we're going to leave someone without an income, shouldn't we have a good reason for it?

not going to do it. i f you have something to say, say it. but this back and forth crap gets to the point i dont even know what the fuck you are talking about.

it becomes a mess.

I really can't force anyone to play a game on DU.

but.... we all know stepping into certain fields have certain requirements. teaching is one of those. we should also recognize choices we make in life will effect the future, so behooves us to make good choices.

make whatever you want out of that, but i mean no more or less than what i typed

and society doesn't owe her anything. We're all victims of our own choices. Sometimes, it really sucks.

For example, just this morning I was enjoying my coffee when I opened DU and found my beverage was turning me into a drugged work slave with depleted adrenals. That kind of bummed me out but it was my own fault.

That thread = WIN!

There's a lot of false impressions here that the student looked her up, realized she did porn, found the porno, etc. That's not what happened. He looked up her name and found out she was a porn star from previous reports that reported this.

And yeah, I looked for the porno... ;)

Nothing like a really smart teacher type... :evilgrin:

"Her movies include Ass Whores 12, Climax Shots 86 - Three To Tango, Double Your Pleasure Double Your Fun, Eruptions - Double Dippin, In Thru The Out Door 7, In Thru The Out Door 8, Party House 5, Sex Freaks 10, Tight Ass, Wet Cum Shots 6, Exit Only 6, Wet Cum Shots 7, Rug Munchers, Major Slut and Butt Brats 7."

That's usually the best part of a porno.

that there were six Butt Brats before hers.

She wasn't fired this time or even suspended. If the kid should be shamed for what he did why shouldn't she be shamed for what she did? Seems to be some double standards in the responses here. I have sympathy for her but it was her to choice to do what she did 15 years ago AND her choice to resign over it.

Maybe she could find a job where she isn't an influence on kids.

This is teaching the kids a valuable lesson - the choices you make will stay with you forever and will prevent you from doing certain things in your life that you love to do.

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(St. Louis, Missouri) More than four years ago, a former porn starlet named Rikki Andersin lost her job working as a science teacher under the name Tericka Dye at a Kentucky high school.

Subsequently, Tericka Dye changed her name to Tera Myers and began working at a St. Louis-area high school.
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http://interested-participant.blogspot.com/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikki_Anderson

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experience. lol.

i know this cause i was telling him about this thread, so leave an impression for him on the choices we make and repercussions we experience