Porn star teacher put on administrative leave

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Tera Myers, a.k.a. Tericka Dye, a former porn star turned teacher, is finding it hard to leave her past behind.

Missouri’s Parkway School District has placed a teacher on administrative leave at her request after a student approached her about her stint in adult film almost 15 years ago, and she admitted her past to the principal, according to the Associated Press.

The New York Daily News is reporting that Myers is a science teacher at Parkway North High School in St. Louis.

Myers worked in the adult film industry in California under the name Rikki Andersin, starring in films with titles such as “In Thru the Out Door 7,” “Party House 5,” and “Butt Brats 7.”

This isn’t the first time Myers’ porn star past has interfered with her teaching career. Going by the name Tericka Dye, Myers made headlines in 2006 when she was fired from a west Kentucky school, again supposedly because students had seen a video she had starred in. Administrators immediately suspended her and banned her from school property, and Myers’ attorney at the time said, “The school claimed that students would be too disrupted by the knowledge of her past, and that her classroom would be unmanageable.”

The controversy surrounding the case led to Myers appearing on an episode of the talk show Dr. Phil, where Dr. Phil McGraw reportedly described pornography as “the sleaziest, worst industry.” Myers told McGraw that she “changed [her] life” and that she was “proof that anybody can change their life.”

Myers soon after landed her current teaching job at Parkway North, where she has taught for four years. The school has already acknowledged that she will not be asked to return in the fall.

School district spokesman Paul Tandy was quoted as saying, “We’re surprised, very surprised. At the same time we feel for her and her family. We do believe she has tried to move on with her life… Unfortunately, even though it happened 15 years ago, [the video] is still there.”