[presidio9]

Teacher Tera Myers decided to call it quits after students discovered her X-rated past.

[presidio9]

Tera Myers, aka Rikki Andersin, a former pornstar in a scene from an adult film.

[MrDem]

Are they sure it was a star in porn movies or horror flicks?

[MeganC]

An object lesson for our times that while liberals may preach to the libertines they secretly loathe them.

[Grunthor]

What did she do that was illegal?

[brownsfan]

I know it’s over done, but ... GUILTY!

[I cannot think of a name]

She should have lured a five year old boy to her house and killed him.

There are people out there that can always find “forgiveness” and “reform” for those kinds of crimes.

Porno on the other hand is apparently unforgivable.

[DTogo]

She probably has a good discrimination case to file... no?

[richmwill]

Well, at least she keeps her “activities” to actors in her films and not the students. That’s a plus for her...

[library user]

Why is this story from 2011 if she admitted these things on Dr. Phil five years ago? I’m missing something.....

[andy58-in-nh]

There’s no reason to fire her merely because she sucked as an actress.

[RichInOC]

Okay, I’m looking at that picture and the still from when she was working, and I’m thinking the biggest problem was that the boys were going to keep saying “I thought they only hired hot women for porn flicks.”

[skr]

Can’t blame her for not wanting to endure the slings and arrows from people who don’t respect those who have worked hard for a second chance.

[GSWarrior]

Back in 1979 when I was in the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, someone discovered a picture of a woman lieutenant who worked in our office posing naked with her husband in a swingers magazine.

She was promptly discharged from the Marines.

[ConservativeStatement]

[the invisib1e hand]

Old sluts never die...

[Red Badger]

I bet the students paid attention in class!...............

[Responsibility2nd]

Better article...

A Parkway North High School science teacher who informed the school’s principal Friday that she had been involved in the adult-film industry before becoming a teacher has been placed on administrative leave, according to a district news release.

The teacher, Tera Myers, requested the leave after a student approached her about her past, according to the district. She will be paid through the end of the school year.

Parkway, which did not identify the teacher in its statement, said the teacher began working for the district in August 2007 after passing standard background and reference checks.

A spokesman for the district said today that since the teacher’s involvement in the porn industry did not break any laws, it wasn’t revealed in the background checks.

Myers, 38, was suspended in 2006 from a teaching job in Paducah, Ky., according to news reports.

Other teachers and parents stood by her after her past was revealed, but her contract was not renewed because the superintendent feared her past would be a distraction for students, according to KMOV (Channel 4).

The teacher went on to share her story on the Dr. Phil television show before being hired at Parkway.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/article_6cc45f24-49ac-11e0-b19f-00127992bc8b.html

[Republic of Texas]

Any word on what happened to the porn viewing student?

[OrangeHoof]

I'm somewhat sympathetic. If she had been doing well teaching for the last four years at the school, I wouldn't dismiss her just for something long ago in her past. How many of those teachers did illegal drugs in their youth but are teaching our children today?

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.

[Victor]

Guilty.