"She's not a good role model. I do not want my daughters to find out about this,"
Who knows, maybe she can teach your daughters how to go forth and sin no more.
(NOT GUILTY, btw...)
Posted on 09/27/2010 5:33:29 AM PDT by Libloather
Bronx teacher admits: I'm an ex-hooker
By KEVIN FASICK and YOAV GONEN
Last Updated: 6:48 AM, September 27, 2010
Meet Melissa Petro -- the teacher who gives a new twist to "sex ed."
The tattooed former hooker and stripper has been teaching art in a Bronx elementary school for three years, The Post has learned.
Calling herself a "for mer sex worker," the well-liked teacher has been shockingly up front about her past -- posting online accounts of her sexcapades in Mexico and Lon don.
But in her boldest move, the 30-year-old posted an essay this month claiming she also had been a prostitute.
"From October 2006 to January 2007, I accepted money in exchange for sexual services I provided to men I met online in what was then called the 'erotic services' section of Craigslist.org," wrote Petro on The Huffington Post, using her real name and picture.
The attached bio identifies Petro, who has an MFA in creative nonfiction from The New School, as a "former sex worker, researcher, writer, educator, and feminist."
It appears she managed to keep her shenanigans a secret from parents at PS 70 -- who were stunned by the revelation.
"I don't want nobody that used to do that to be around my kid," said Grace Ventura, whose son is in third grade. "People like that should not be allowed to be anywhere near children."
Yocelyn Quezada said perhaps Petro had managed to turn her life around, but she still fumed that a former money honey was teaching two of her three kids.
"She's not a good role model. I do not want my daughters to find out about this," Quezada said, "and I do not want my daughters to be around that kind of person."
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"She's not a good role model. I do not want my daughters to find out about this,"
Who knows, maybe she can teach your daughters how to go forth and sin no more.
(NOT GUILTY, btw...)
If she has reformed and is sincere she could be a very good
role model, and it’s good to have a teacher who has actually
held down a real job for once.
She would have been much smarter to keep her past life private
If she turned her life around then OK, but boasting about it is just looking for trouble
(or a payday from the lawyers -maybe she is NOT an ‘ex’ whore after all)
Maybe for those not worried about diseases
Indeed. We should make sure that your child is exposed only to adults of the very highest quality.
(BTW; ditto ...not guilty)
Sex worker - What else can someone with an MFA in creative non-fiction do??
(Sorry to those of you holding an MFA, but it is one of the more useless degrees, only 1% of grads have a job in that field)
$61,000 a year for an art teacher???
The Bronx is not nearly as expensive as Manhattan.
She is not guilty. I am not at all worried about diseases for the obvious reasons.
....if they screened others, a hooker, would be mild considering what else is working as educators.....
someone should check if the Pimps union has made a big donation to congress. Pimps are the real beneficiaries of the changes to Craigslist, which had allowed hookers and johns to cut out that middleman.
“Creative nonfiction”? Would that be “lies”?
And federal regulations will prohibit the school from knowing about her HIV status.
Eh, I don’t know if I’d PAY for it, she’s not a monster though.
Excellent qualifications for HuffPo or anywhere else in MSM. But she needs the doctorate to replace Gibbs.
Only a teeny bit Guilty.
and those are 4th graders.
blech
Interesting on many levels.
While I'm all for "second chances," and have known a number of former drug users and prostitutes that have turned their lives around, the above shows some very poor judgment. The only reason I can see for writing and posting something like that would be if she was being blackmailed, or someone was threatening to go public with the information against her, in order to diffuse the situation, somewhat.
"I don't want nobody that used to do that to be around my kid," said Grace Ventura, whose son is in third grade. "People like that should not be allowed to be anywhere near children."
I have mixed feelings about this statement, but a parent has the right to decide who should and shouldn't be allowed around his or her children. Again, as I mentioned above, she appears to have pretty poor judgment, and from that, more than her past, I'd be hesitant to entrust my children with her.
Mark
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