Tera Myers, 38, resigned from her position as a science teacher and volleyball coach of a suburban St. Louis high school, after a student confronted her about being a former porn star.
Myers is a mother of four children and had been teaching in the Parkway School District for four years. The school accepted her resignation "out of respect for her privacy and that of her family."
This is the 2nd time that Myers has had issues trying to teach. In 2006, she was suspended from a school in Paducah, KY. The school district decided not to renew her contract.
Myers began her stint in porn because she was a homeless mother of two. " I was broke and wound up meeting some strippers who introduced me to stripping. I was making a lot of irrational decisions, porn only being the worst.”
Myers worked her way out of the mess she was in. She received a teaching degree from Murray State University in Kentucky." I’ve found God. I’ve gotten an education. I’ve done everything I could possibly do to prove that I’m a different person now. … As a teacher, I can exemplify what it means to change.”
This just makes me sad. Teaching is a crappy job to begin with. Here is a person that so badly wants to teach kids and be a positive influence. She has obviously worked really hard to forget about her past and move on with her life.
I understand that once this is out it might be a little distracting, especially to high school age boys, but there are other grades she could teach where the children don't know of such things yet. I just don't think her past should ruin her career.
Would like to hear your opinions...
