I can empathize with this teacher. She is to be commended for turning her life around. However, with all the teacher scandles lately, with female teachers seducing students, everyone complains, "don't they screen these teachers?" Parents want the school boards to "weed out" potential threats to our childrens' safety and moral development. Commonsense should tell us that an ex-porn star would not be a safe gamble.
The school board is given the charge of protecting the students. We should commend them for trying! Yes, it is difficult for this teacher, but she did fear this might happen some day, because even in her own mind, she anticipated that she would be let go. She would not have anticipated that once her past came to light, that it would be shrugged off, and things would move merrily along. What the school is doing is what parents would normally want and expect.
After seeing her plea her case, we can see that she is sincere, and she has a good record as a teacher. Unfortunately, this has caused a disturbance, and most kids in that school will think of the porn video when they see her. This is not something we want our kids contemplating while trying to pay attention to their school work. Any caring adult would see that the kids' well being should come first.
There should be something done about the boy(s) that started to show this tape around. It is illegal for minors to have these materials. So there should be consequences there. But, this teacher is also paying consequences for the actions she took in her youth.
Perhaps, the school district can find an alternative position for her that would be acceptable to her. There are positions that would allow her to positively impact the lives of students, without risking distraction, "daydreaming", or setting a president for future teachers with pasts that may be seen as a threat to the children. If she is given a "pass" for this, then how can the school boards protect our children in the future? A teacher may cry "foul", and "discrimination" if a school board tries to not hire, or dismiss, someone with a "high risk" past.
With the moral attack on our youth, with movies, TV, music, and media, school is a place that should protect them as much as possible. Most parents do their best at home to protect their children from immoral influences. A higher standard should be set for our students to try to achieve. There have been too many bad influences slipping through the cracks and getting to our students. Dr Phil always says, "the best predictor of future behavior, is past behavior". There are exceptions to the rule, but how can school administrators be expected to predict which teachers ARE the exceptions and which are not. If they accidently miss one, or let one through that DOES hurt a child, then everyone will yell "why didn't they stop this before it happened?" All they have to go on, is the past history. Let them try to do the best job they can protecting our kids.
Kids across the country are playing pranks and harassing teachers. Tericka, a high school science teacher who loved her job, lived in fear of her scandalous past catching up with her and getting her fired. Students eventually found out about her shocking past and the news spread throughout town like wildfire. Are other teachers taking her side, or do they feel her punishment was justified? How can she move forward? Then, Anna, an assistant principal, was harassed on the Internet when two students created a fake MySpace page alleging to be her. She says they completely attacked her character and need to be held accountable for their actions. Was this just a practical joke gone bad, or were these students out for revenge? Find out what Anna did to show these kids that some jokes just aren't funny. Could the mischief your kids get into end up costing you thousands of dollars? Talk about the show here.
