Teacher fired for appearing in porn

On one hand I think, how stupid of her to do something like this, it can and will get out. But then I think, well she does have to make extra money and she probably thought her students were too young to find out. Probably not the smartest thing she could have done. I would have been a little bit more lenient if it was something that she did a long time ago rather than while in the employ of the school.

She was not doing anything illegal, and she was not filming on school time or on school property. It was none of the school's business.

Teachers are held to higher standards. This woman's students knew about her past acting career and she was a distraction to their public educational process. If she wants to continue teaching, she should look to the college age level.

In order for a teacher to be effective at their job, their students need to respect them. If they see you as a joke, you're useless.

Whether she was doing something illegal or not, I would not want my children taught by a porn actress. My children had great respect for all their teachers and I don't know how they could have, or for that matter how I would have, had respect for them . Call me prudish or whatever, but I don't want my children to think that a porn actor is a respectable job.

 

 

I don't see it as any different from any other acting job - it's acting. 

Well yeah it's acting. With their clothes off and penises in their mouths and intercourse, etc. Hardly an issue I wanted to have to chat about with my young children. I know some people won't find anything wrong with it, but I stand by my opinion that "I" wouldn't have wanted her or any other porn person as a teacher for my child. I personally have no respect for porn actors and I hope neither do my children. Again, just my opinion.

I don't see how she did anything wrong. Appearing in porn is not illegal, and her students are too young to be watching it in the first place. I certainly don't see how it's grounds from firing from a public school. If it was a private school with "moral" clauses (similar to the unwed mother thread we had) then it would be different, she would have violated a contract (although the article makes it hazy if she was "moonlighting" as a porn actress or doing it prior to her position at the school, so even then it may not be applicable). But in this instance? It's none of their darn business. She did nothing wrong legally, and as far as I knew having sex doesn't render you intellectually incapacitated so it doesn't affect her ability to teach. As long as she's not making porn with one of her students I don't understand the witch hunt.

Edited by Karen1985 - 4/23/12 at 3:48am

 

Karen and Phoenyx, I agree.  It's legal for adults to make those films, and she was even performing under a different name.  I don't understand the need to judge others based on the legal things they do in their own time, just because someone doesn't like it.  Teachers are people, too!