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'Hooker Teacher' Forced To Resign, Now Can't Find Work
AOL ^ | 02/15/2012 | By Claire Gordon

Posted on 02/16/2012 9:13:10 AM PST by Responsibility2nd

Melissa Petro has spent much of her young life writing about the plight of sex workers: The stigma and shame, their treatment as victims or villains. Now Petro has been trampled by the forces she was trying to fight. After writing about her own experience as a sex worker, Petro was forced to resign from her teaching post. With two master's degrees, five years' experience in nonprofit work and three years as a teacher, as well as a litany of published writings, Petro is skipping meals. No one will give her a job.

~SNIP~

Petro began stripping when she was 19, on her semester abroad in Mexico. From a working class home, and the first of her family to attend college, Petro had a string of grueling low-wage jobs. She entered the sex industry for the same reason as hundreds of thousands of American women: the money.

~SNIP~

Petro wishes her story could have raised issues like the legality of prostitution and the constitutionality of her speech. Instead, she describes herself as being treated as a monster, vanquished, now left to hand out resumes, and scrounge desperately for cash -- the same bleak circumstances that lead so many women to sex work in the first place.

"I was being idealistic," she writes about that HuffPost op-ed. "I was being provocative. I was naive. I picked a fight that I thought I could win -- and I was wrong."

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To: Responsibility2nd

Guilty!


41 posted on 02/16/2012 9:56:27 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Future Snake Eater
Petro wishes her story could have raised issues like the legality of prostitution and the constitutionality of her speech.
 
I don't see where "constitutionality" comes into this at all. She made some bad decisions that negatively effected her career. Did I miss that part of the Constitution?

 
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Apprarently so. She obviously is a Paultard. If RoPaul was president, prostitution would be legal and her rights to teach kids by day and (bleep) at night would be protected.
 
/snarky dig at lbertarians off 
 


42 posted on 02/16/2012 9:57:27 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This mean Liberals and/or Libertarians (Same Thing) NO LIBS.))
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To: PapaBear3625
I actually know a school teacher who used to be a stripper in her younger days.
 
 
 
Did she become one of those teachers who got caught having sex with one of her students?


43 posted on 02/16/2012 10:00:26 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This mean Liberals and/or Libertarians (Same Thing) NO LIBS.))
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To: trailhkr1

Bush’s fault!


44 posted on 02/16/2012 10:01:20 AM PST by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Little Ray
I think that is called a “mistress.”

No, this is different. A mistress is usually a woman a guy loves other than his wife and has a relationship that is more than just sex.

45 posted on 02/16/2012 10:05:55 AM PST by trailhkr1
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To: Responsibility2nd

46 posted on 02/16/2012 10:28:38 AM PST by TonyInOhio (Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour)
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To: Responsibility2nd
The ho is in big trouble.


47 posted on 02/16/2012 10:29:14 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorists savages.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Teacher get fired for being a whore.

And she wants pity?
Does the label “sex-worker” make it any different?


48 posted on 02/16/2012 10:31:07 AM PST by kidd
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To: trailhkr1

Remember what Charlie Sheen said..”Hey I’m not paying for the girls..I’m paying for them to leave”


49 posted on 02/16/2012 10:33:21 AM PST by Paddyboy
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To: eastforker
I'd hit it! I've done worse, better too but still...
50 posted on 02/16/2012 10:36:55 AM PST by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: eastforker

“We are all whores to some extent on how we sell our bodies to the highest bidder.”

I disagree. Renting your body for labor (picking cotton) or your mind for labor (computer programming) does not involve selling your soul. Prostitution/stripping/porn sells the soul. There is a marked difference.


51 posted on 02/16/2012 10:43:49 AM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Responsibility2nd

It’s more general than that, I think. It’s on par with some idiot movie star saying something incredibly stupid, there’s a big public backlash, and then they whine on the Today Show about their right to free speech being trampled.

This looks like she feels the Constitution protects her decisions, whatever they may be, from any/all public fallout.


52 posted on 02/16/2012 10:45:03 AM PST by Future Snake Eater (Don't stop. Keep moving!)
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To: PapaBear3625

Miss Davis you go to the prom with me ?


53 posted on 02/16/2012 10:45:08 AM PST by wordsofearnest (Proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs it. C.S. Lewis)
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To: Persevero

Well of course it is your right to disagree, however, we can both agree your morals are a standard for you and maybe not everyone else! Her story also includes the fact she used the money she made from hooking to further her education and get a degree. Why must a person suffer their future because of a lifestyle they once had. Sometimes ya just gotta do what ya gotta do to survive.


54 posted on 02/16/2012 10:54:49 AM PST by eastforker (Don't be ornery for Romney, instead Root for Newt!)
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To: trailhkr1

Re your post #19, what you are describing is a whore and nothing but a whore.


55 posted on 02/16/2012 11:05:53 AM PST by OldPossum (ou)
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To: eastforker
"I’d hit and so would has just about anyone everyone else!"

Fixed!

I'd wager her panties have seen more floors than Johnson's Paste Wax.

56 posted on 02/16/2012 12:00:12 PM PST by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

So, while she was teaching elementary school, at night she committed criminal acts for money. And then she confessed publicly to these criminal acts, and got fired from her teaching job.

This isn’t really about stripping, or even being a hooker to get through college. It seems to be about not being allowed to be a school teacher if you are moonlighting in a criminal enterprise.

And it’s certainly not about “free speech” — she didn’t get fired for WRITING about why prostitution should be legal, she got fired for confessing to committing crimes while she was employed as a teacher.


57 posted on 02/16/2012 12:16:25 PM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Responsibility2nd
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58 posted on 02/16/2012 12:26:13 PM PST by ZX12R (FUBO GTFO 2012 ! We should take off and Newt washington from orbit.)
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To: eastforker

“Why must a person suffer their future because of a lifestyle they once had. “

I think people are redeemable. I hope she recovers. That said I wouldn’t hire her to teach my kids. I think she has a problem making good moral judgments. Also, I presume she is a damaged soul.

I don’t like honest work such as fishing or bus driving made equivalent to whoring. It’s not all the same thing. There is moral work and immoral work.


59 posted on 02/16/2012 1:28:40 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: eastforker

“we can both agree your morals are a standard for you and maybe not everyone else”

No, I can’t really agree to that. God defines what is right and wrong. We don’t. And we are all subject to His standards, not our own.


60 posted on 02/16/2012 1:30:37 PM PST by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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