Left to right: Melissa Petro, ...
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."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
An internecine struggle within the Democrat party. Post-modern moral relativists vs. working-class and lower middle-class Latinos . . . the latter hold a bunch of out-dated bourgeois notions. I wonder how they’ll be punished.
Left to right: Melissa Petro, ...
Not Guilty, just a little naughty perhaps!
“...frankly, I don’t mind if she teaches the 3rd grader ... however, I DON’T want her teaching my 16 year son in high school ... “
Probably your 16yo son would not mind. They re very understanding and forgiving at that age ;)
Exactly why I would be afraid.
Becuase I felt it was better to respond privately, which is how you should have responded too, instead of this way. I tried to show decorum, sorry if that is a problem for you.
If this teacher had showed decorum and kept her sex life private, I might have had a little understand of her but she didn’t. She let it all hang out, so to speak. She bragged about it, how long before the kids found out an admired teacher was a whore and proud of it? My daughter took up smoking because of an admired teacher, glad her teacher wasn’t a show off whore.
Yeah, I was wondering about that one, too! But then I arrived at another synonym: Journalism.
Yeah, I was wondering about that one, too! But then I arrived at another synonym: Journalism.
Excellent point.
= Paid for doing the Lewinski specialty.
Pretty much every Art Teacher I have ever known has had “issues” of one order or another.
ROFL!!
“I’ve got my pencil...”
When I was a kid I would frequently visit the lady neighbor next door. She put up with my chatter and I remember when I liked one of her necklaces and she gave it to me. I did not know until I was much older that my friend was a call girl.
"for mer sex worker,"
Apparently you only have to be concerned if your name is Mer.
looks like she did major in “Liberal Studies”.
“She also wrote that she found ‘the lifestyle physically demanding, emotionally taxing and spiritually bankrupting,’ and gave it up after a few months.”
Maybe she was put there by the Creator for a reason....
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