Posted on 03/08/2011 1:30:21 PM PST by presidio9
A St. Louis high school student is getting an "A" from authorities after discovering a teacher's X-rated past.
Tera Myers, 38, was put on administrative leave at Parkway North High School this week after a student inquired about pornographic films Myers starred in during the 1990s.
The science teacher decided to leave the school "out of respect for her privacy and that of her family," Paul Tandy, spokesman for the school district told the Daily News. "She was concerned about the impact it would have in the building."
Officials didn't know about Myers' past, which included a suspension five years ago from a Paducah, Ky., school for her role in the adult films.
While in Kentucky, Myers taught under a different name, Tericka Dye.
In 2006, the former porn star spoke to several media outlets and even made an appearance on "Dr. Phil," arguing she deserved to get her job back and that she had made the biggest mistake of her life.
"Anybody who has been in my classroom could tell you how much I love teaching and how much I love these students, and that should be what matters more than anything in my past," she said in May 2006.
Myers, whose stage name is Rikki Andersin, said she made the movies when she was living in California, working as an exotic dancer to earn desperately needed cash.
Because Myers' role in the adult films wasn't illegal, her pornographic past didn't show up during a background check.
The teacher, who has been at the school for four years, will be paid through the end of the school year but will not be returning in the fall.
"We're surprised, very surprised," said Tandy. "At the same time we feel for her and her family. We do believe she has tried to move on with her life... Unfortunately, even though it happened 15 years ago, [the video] is still there."
ashahid@nydailynews.com
Any word on what happened to the porn viewing student?
I was working at a dealership. Nice, new, everyone hae PC’s on their desk. I don’t know what he was looking at but one of the young salespeople all of a sudden screamed “OH MY GOD!!!” He was really agitated. DANG DANG DANG DANG he says (well not actually but you get the picture.) “I can’t believe it. Come look!”
There’re somethings you just shouldn’t share. Or, as the Old Preacher said “Son, I don’t think I’d ah tol that.” So, we all run over to his computor. You know those pop-ups you sometimes get? Adult Friendfinder or something. There’s his beautiful wife of 2 years. And, she looked even better with her clothes off.
It was very traumatic for him. But probably not as traumatic as the crap we gave him. He left the next day. Never did find out if they patched things up or not.
I'm not excusing her past behavior, nor her changing identities after her dust-up in Kentucky to hide her past, but I'd be willing to let it slide if she was otherwise a good teacher.
Guilty.
“Porn stars should not be school teachers.”
I feel the same way about homosexuals, anti-Americans, communists, and socialists.
And if you’re not banning them all, then I see no reason to single out one!
Rapist’s can be POTUS...but porn stars can’t be teachers.
Groan.....
You just named half of the czars. Look up Kevin Jennings.
Apparently, lied on her application (hiding her past, including previous suspension).
The porn is just unseemly.
Just a guess.
If history is any guide, I suspect she'll swallow anything but her pride.
Are you kidding? She’s heterosexual. Ban her.
“She had no civil service protection?”
I believe that most schools still have a “morality” clause in their contracts with teachers. How that is interpreted now days is kind of loose given that homosexuals are allowed to teach but being a porn star would cross most peoples definition of immoral behavior (at least for now).
So, we’ll blacklist or fire a legal former pornstar, but its ok for a former terrorist (Ayers) and his skank wife to teach.
Hello?
“There’s no reason to fire her merely because she s****d & f****d as an actress.”
Fixed.
One of Uncle Sam’s Misguided Children was really misguided there.
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