Can a former porn star make it in the real world, or would their past haunt them too much to hold down a 9-5 job? Well, a middle-school science teacher was fired after her students learned she had appeared in adult movies, but she's not giving up.
Stacie Halas had hoped not just to get her job back, but to put aside her regretful past and start a new life outside the adult industry.
According to ABC News, a three-judge commission is saying sorry, but you aren't fit to be a teacher or be in a classroom at all.
"We were hoping we could show you could overcome your past," Halas' lawyer Richard Schwab said Tuesday. "I think she's representative of a lot of people who may have a past that may not involve anything illegal or anything that hurts anybody."
Judge Julie Cabos-Owen said such past matters in an age when technology makes porn easy to access and hard to bury.
"Although her pornography career has concluded, the ongoing availability of her pornographic materials on the Internet will continue to impede her from being an effective teacher and respected colleague," Cabos-Owen said in the 46-page decision issued Friday by the Commission on Professional Competence.
Halas does deserve to start a new life, just like we all do, but Judge Cabos-Owens does make a strong point.
With the power of the internet, her past will be brought up a lot more than it would say in the 1970's or 80's, and being a teacher would only magnify that problem as you know kids would be mocking the 32 year old.
Halas, known better to adult film fans as 'Tiffany Six', was let go from Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard last April after online videos of her in porn were discovered by students and teachers.
Do you think Halas deserves a chance at teaching, or is her past too much to handle?
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