Southern California teacher fired over porn video

[bemildred]

I guess teachers can be fired after all.

OXNARD, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California science teacher was fired Wednesday night for performing in a pornographic video, school district officials said.

Oxnard School District trustees voted in closed session to dismiss Stacie Halas, who taught seventh- and eighth-graders at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School. Veronica Robles-Solis, the board president, said the trustees voted unanimously to dismiss Halas.

"We're dealing with the disruption that we believe it would cause our district, and the schools in our district, if she were to return back to the classroom," Superintendent Jeff Chancer said.

She had been on paid administrative leave since her appearance on the video surfaced last month. No students were in the video, which was apparently produced before she became an Oxnard teacher in 2009. Her age hasn't been disclosed.

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[xchrom]

1. du rec. nt

[PoliticAverse]

2. "asking that their children not search Internet sex sites for the teacher's image." - lol. n/t

[JVS]

5. That's like sending them an engraved invitation to search for the video.

[Kaleva]

6. Well, did a search and she did several videos and they are hard core porn

[Kaleva]

3. OP ought to provide link to alleged porn video...

so that the rest of us can make a better informed judgement on this story.

[KG]

4. ron jeremy was a teacher, before hitting it big in pr0n.

don't ask me how i know this.

[yellowcanine]

7. On the bright side it could help her porn acting career.

The movie titles would write themselves.

[liberalhistorian]

8. I'm the daughter of hard-working and

eventually-burned-out and now-retired teachers, and a staunch defender of teachers and unions, but I have to agree with the school's action here. That is really inappropriate and unacceptable for a teacher, especially in the internet age. I'm no prude, but I'd be upset if I were a parent at this school. Most education contracts contain a "morals" clause that allows termination in cases like this, and it's warranted.

[MurrayDelph]

9. I graduated in the early 70's in Los Angeles

One of the teachers in our school was a former Playboy Playmate of the Month.

[Arctic Dave]

10. I once had a teacher who was Ms Alaska,

should be fired for letting people take pictures of her acting like chattel?