Speaking of judging teachers. What does this teach our kids? That you can never recover from past mistakes? That some sins are forgivable but not others? I bet if Miss Dye's past had included a youthful shoplifting charge or getting drunk, they'd have asked her to talk to the kiddies about her wild youth and how she overcame it. If she'd been in a gang and beaten someone into a coma, they'd have her preaching every Sunday about how family and church are the all, not gangs. But because she made *one* mistake born of desperation and possible mental illness, she's no longer fit to teach kids? So what if the students whisper and giggle about her past? They'll do that anyway. If she were some teacher with a great body, the boys would point and giggle. Do they discriminate against teachers who may be the source of the kids' dreams? It irks me that people want to bring God into the school in matters of evolution and prayer, they want to use the Bible to teach kids that even thinking of sex is wrong. But they seem to forget those passages about forgiveness, compassion, and becoming a new person. Miss Dye's a Christian, so according to the Bible she's a completely different person in God's eyes. Why is Man not letting her forget her past? And what message will this send to all those young girls who've made mistakes such as sleeping with boys before they were really ready, or getting pregnant out of wedlock? Seems to me this punishment teaches kids it's better to hide what they've done for fear of persecution.
Children watch what we do and say all the time. They emulate us whether they or we want them too. I fear action like this is teaching kids to be judgemental, unforgiving, paranoid, embarrassed about sex, hypocritical, falsely righteous, and ultimately fearful of being human. Teacher Out Of Job After X-Rated Video Surfaces http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4859482 (PADUCAH, Ky.) -- A teacher in western Kentucky has been suspended and will not have her contract renewed after administrators found out she appeared in an adult movie more than a decade ago. Tericka Dye, a science teacher and volleyball coach at Reidland High School in Paducah for the last two years, was suspended Wednesday and told she would not return to the classroom in the fall. "Your presence in the classroom would cause a disruption to the educational process," McCracken County Schools Superintendent Tim Heller wrote in a letter to Dye. "I fear there would be less than a serious approach to schooling by students who viewed the video or know about it." Dye said she suffers from bipolar disorder and agreed to appear in the 1995 flick because she had no home or income and her disease wasn't being treated. Dye said she spent one day in Los Angeles filming the movie and did not use her real name. "I absolutely 100 percent regret doing that," Dye said. "I've always tried to look ahead and not focus on it. But I wasn't diagnosed at the time." Dye later joined the Army and served in a military police unit at Fort Lewis, Wash., before going to college and becoming a teacher. Some parents, such as Bonnie Chilcoat of Reidland, supported Dye. Chilcoat took her daughter, Nicole Genel, out of school to attend an impromptu rally Wednesday for the suspended teacher. "She's not the person she was 10 years ago," Chilcoat said. "We've all done things that we regret, except hers is on tape." Mark Blankenship, a Murray attorney hired by the Kentucky Education Association to represent Dye, said the superintendent's decision may be challenged. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
