CBS News reports that a Missouri high school science teacher named Tericka Dye quit her job after her students found out about her past as a porn star named Rikki Andersin.
Dye is a mom to four children and when her students in Missouri found out her past as an adult film star she asked the Parkway School District in St. Louis to place her on an administrative leave for the remainder of the school year.
This occurred in 2006 while she also worked as a volleyball coach. The teachers stood beside her but she was suspended from pay and the superintendent believed that her presence would be a distraction within the classroom since students new of her past.
The schools do background checks, but being an adult film star is not illegal so it had never come up.
CBS reports:
Before leaving the high school, Dye said her decision more than a decade prior was the worst choice she'd ever made.
"I'm a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who's made a lot of bad decisions in life," Dye said in May of 2006. "Anybody who's been in my classroom could tell you how much I love teaching and how much I love these students, and that should be what matters more than anything in my past."
Dye's attorney announced in early 2007 that Dye had withdrawn an appeal of a ruling on a lawsuit she filed against the McCracken County School System and was leaving Kentucky. Her attorney declined to comment where she was headed.
The 38-year-old is also known as "Tara Myers," she had changed her name so that she could be a teacher in Missouri, but it came back to bite her in the butt.
