# Teacher Reveals Former Prostitution in Support of Craigslist Adult Services Rights - Loses Job **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [September 28, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352 "2010-09-28T14:47:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/101 "2010-09-29T17:23:16Z")
> [@villa](#): > > There’s a lot of people you wouldn’t want teaching your child, then. I don’t remember the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, expressing remorse or regretting his law-breaking ways. Nor Ghandi. Nor Homer Plessy. Nor Rosa Parks. And there are many more. Hell, I’m not remorseful nor regretful for any of the laws I have broken, and I think I am eligible to teach. Rosa Parks, MLK, and Ghandi all did somethin that this woman did not: They accepted the consequences for their civil disobedience. They knew going in that they were likely to be arrested for what they did, and they accepted that. Nowadays protesters seem to think that they shoudl get to both break the law AND get off scott free. That’s not how it works. You raise awareness by breaking the law, fine, but you also take the consequences as part of the larger campaign of outrage to raise awareness and get laws changed. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/102 "2010-09-29T17:29:47Z")
I think she should get off scott free. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/103 "2010-09-29T17:33:04Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > > [@villa](#): > > > > There’s a lot of people you wouldn’t want teaching your child, then. I don’t remember the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, expressing remorse or regretting his law-breaking ways. Nor Ghandi. Nor Homer Plessy. Nor Rosa Parks. And there are many more. Hell, I’m not remorseful nor regretful for any of the laws I have broken, and I think I am eligible to teach. > > Rosa Parks, MLK, and Ghandi all did somethin that this woman did not: They accepted the consequences for their civil disobedience. They knew going in that they were likely to be arrested for what they did, and they accepted that. Nowadays protesters seem to think that they shoudl get to both break the law AND get off scott free. That’s not how it works. You raise awareness by breaking the law, fine, but you also take the consequences as part of the larger campaign of outrage to raise awareness and get laws changed. The person he (and I) responded to said his issue was that the person did not have the good sense to be repentant for their crime and this, in that poster’s view, was why he does not want them teaching his kids. We were noting a lot of people break crimes who are not repentant of them and this, in itself, does not make them unworthy of being a teacher. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/104 "2010-09-29T17:42:53Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > Nowadays protesters seem to think that they shoudl get to both break the law AND get off scott free. That’s not how it works. You raise awareness by breaking the law, fine, but you also take the consequences as part of the larger campaign of outrage to raise awareness and get laws changed. Well yes, if you are caught, and if the state chooses to punish you. I think the punishment should also fit the crime as well. I don’t see this woman saying “I shouldn’t have been fined or imprisoned for being a hooker.” She’s not breaking a law **now**. The punishment is out of place. It would be the equivalent of Rosa Parks being punished not for sitting on the bus, but instead for giving a lecture 3 years later about how she sat at the front of the bus, and didn’t think it should be illegal for black folks to do that. And, to be honest, I would have been in favor of MLK and Rosa Parks getting off scott free too. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/105 "2010-09-29T17:46:47Z")
> [@villa](#): > > > [@TruCelt](#): > > > > Without reading the whole thread, I’ll give my initial impression of this story. My sense is that she has a criminal past, and is not terribly apologetic about it. In fact, she seems to be in support of other people indulging the same crime, while working to get it decriminalized. > > **I’d say more she believes in supporting people who are committing the same crime, rather than suggesting people go out and commit it.** > > > [@TruCelt](#): > > > > I wouldn’t want someone with a conscience that elastic teaching my child. To my way of thinking, it’s a matter of character. She hasn’t expressed any remorse, or given us any reason to believe that she regrets her law-breaking ways. > > There’s a lot of people you wouldn’t want teaching your child, then. I don’t remember the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, expressing remorse or regretting his law-breaking ways. Nor Ghandi. Nor Homer Plessy. Nor Rosa Parks. And there are many more. Hell, I’m not remorseful nor regretful for any of the laws I have broken, and I think I am eligible to teach. > > **Of course, I am not comparing the campaign to legalize prostitution with the Civil Rights movement, or comparing her admission of past turnign of tricks with Rosa Parks’ refusal to sit at the back of the bus. But your suggestign that remorse and regret is necessary is a recipe for subservience to the state that I don’t want my children learning.** > > I don’t expect my son’s teachers to apologize for having commited victimless crimes, nor do I expect them to stop campaigning to strike those laws. Especially when those laws, such as those on prostitution, are based on a very sexist view of the place of women. I’d think the children might gain more from having a teacher willing to fight that sort of battle than they would be harmed by having their morals (more likely their parents’ morals) offended. **I’d say more she believes in supporting people who are committing the same crime, rather than suggesting people go out and commit it.** I said “indulging” not “indulging in” **Of course, I am not comparing the campaign to legalize prostitution with the Civil Rights movement, or comparing her admission of past turnign of tricks with Rosa Parks’ refusal to sit at the back of the bus. But your suggestign that remorse and regret is necessary is a recipe for subservience to the state that I don’t want my children learning.** And yet that is precisely what you have done. I do not see where she staged a demonstration by openly picking up a John in the Courthouse Square. I’d probably feel differently about a planned act of public defiance. This is a woman who liked to get laid and decided to make some money in the process. Please do not sully the name of Rosa Parks by comparing her act with this one. Rosa Parks knew she was risking her life when she did that. She knew that the men in white hoods could appear at her door any moment. She was a hero, not just some party girl looking for a few extra bucks. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/106 "2010-09-29T17:54:29Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > And yet that is precisely what you have done. I do not see where she staged a demonstration by openly picking up a John in the Courthouse Square. I’d probably feel differently about a planned act of public defiance. No I really haven’t. I am not making this teacher out to be a hero of any kind. The comment you made was: > [@](#): > > I wouldn’t want someone with a conscience that elastic teaching my child. To my way of thinking, it’s a matter of character. She hasn’t expressed any remorse, or given us any reason to believe that she regrets her law-breaking ways. I (and others) simply pointed out that breaking the law without remorse or regret doesn’t make you not fit to be a teacher, then gave examples of people who broke the law and did not show remorse or regret but who were, IMHO, fit to teach. If they did not regret breaking the law, and are fit to teach, then your implication that someone who breaks the law without remorse is unfit to teach is fundamentally flawed. That’s no comparison between this woman and the Civil Rights movement. If you think she is unfit to teach, it then cannot be because she broke the law and showed no remorse, unless you think others who broke the law without remorse are also unfit to teach. Therefore you need to find another reason. It could be she broke a law regarding prostitution and showed no remorse. But your original position falls if you think MLK and Rosa Parks were fit to teach. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/107 "2010-09-29T17:58:29Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > And yet that is precisely what you have done. I do not see where she staged a demonstration by openly picking up a John in the Courthouse Square. I’d probably feel differently about a planned act of public defiance. Not surprised you chose to miss the point of **villa’s** post. As to what I quoted you would feel differently then if Rosa Parks, instead of staging her defiance, was just some chick who one day had enough and decided not to sit in the back of the bus all on her own? Defiance only matters if it is planned as such? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/108 "2010-09-29T18:06:00Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > [@TruCelt](#): > > > > And yet that is precisely what you have done. I do not see where she staged a demonstration by openly picking up a John in the Courthouse Square. I’d probably feel differently about a planned act of public defiance. > > Not surprised you chose to miss the point of **villa’s** post. > > As to what I quoted you would feel differently then if Rosa Parks, instead of staging her defiance, was just some chick who one day had enough and decided not to sit in the back of the bus all on her own? > > Defiance only matters if it is planned as such? I haven’t missed the point. I just disagree that Rosa Park’s action is analagous to this lady’s. In fact I find it ludicrous to compare the two. As for the “Not surprised you chose. . .” I’ll just say that we’re not in the pit, and if this is your tone, I won’t respond again. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/109 "2010-09-29T18:09:28Z")
> [@villa](#): > > There’s a lot of people you wouldn’t want teaching your child, then. I don’t remember the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, expressing remorse or regretting his law-breaking ways. Nor Ghandi. Gandhi. > [@crazyjoe](#): > > Rosa Parks, MLK, and Ghandi Gandhi! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/110 "2010-09-29T18:09:32Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > The following was posted at [Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-petro/post_803_b_707975.html): > > > [@](#): > > > > From October 2006 to January 2007 I accepted money in exchange for sexual services I provided to men I met online in what was then called the “erotic services” section of [Craigslist.org](http://Craigslist.org). . . .At [Craigslist.org](http://Craigslist.org), I was able to bill myself as exactly what I was at the time: a graduate student, bored and curious, sexually uninhibited, looking to make a little money while having a little fun. I wrote my own ads, screened my own prospective dates, decided on my own what I would and would not do for money, and – best of all – I kept every penny I earned, all without the interference of an agency or other ubiquitous “middle man.” > > . > > . > > . > > …I made a decision to desist some months after I’d gotten started, exiting the industry just as freely as I’d entered – never have I felt it was the state’s obligation – nor its right, in fact – to protect me from the decisions I made. > > . > > . > > . > > I hope to never again make the choice to trade sex for cash even as I risk my current job and social standing to speak out for an individual’s right to do so. > > It was posted by Melissa Petro, who was at the time an art teacher at elementary school P.S. 70 in the Bronx, a job she’d held for three years. She’s since been [reassigned to “administrative duties.”](http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/bronx/bx_teach_admits_an_ex_hooker_HAs5wQMrW8KdcAfpgrK3WP) > > She’d been open about her sexually adventurous past in other on-line forums, but acknowledging prostitution, as opposed to simply recreation, was apparently the straw that broke the dromedary’s back. > > I know we’ve done discussions like this before, but given that her prostitution was (a) for a very short time, and (b) completely in the past, is there good reason to stop her from teaching art to elementary school kids? I don’t see it. Fucking apocalypse I agree with Bricker. Again. For mostly the same reasons. Geez, the woman was honest in her private matters and they fired her. I might want to add that I understand why they changed her job duties. People get all in an uproar about sex and kids and prostitution. I can understand the prejudices of not wanting her around their little flowers. But I suspect that if we were to have omniscient knowledge about the teachers kids are around that this former hooker would probably fall in the middle of shocking. What they are really complaining about is her indiscretion. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/111 "2010-09-29T18:41:20Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I might want to add that I understand why they changed her job duties. I don’t think they “changed her job duties.” My impression is that “reassignment to administrative duties” means the rubber room, where they make you sit and do nothing all day until you quit. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/112 "2010-09-29T18:44:16Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > I haven’t missed the point. I just disagree that Rosa Park’s action is analagous to this lady’s. In fact I find it ludicrous to compare the two. > > As for the “Not surprised you chose. . .” I’ll just say that we’re not in the pit, and if this is your tone, I won’t respond again. Yes you have missed the point. **Villa** was explicit in his post #100: \*“Of course, I am not comparing the campaign to legalize prostitution with the Civil Rights movement, or comparing her admission of past turnign of tricks with Rosa Parks’ refusal to sit at the back of the bus.” \* I was explicit about the point being made in post #103: _“The person [villa] (and I) responded to said his issue was that the person did not have the good sense to be repentant for their crime and this, in that poster’s view, was why he does not want them teaching his kids.”_ **Villa** was again explicit in post #106: _“That’s no comparison between this woman and the Civil Rights movement. If you think she is unfit to teach, it then cannot be because she broke the law and showed no remorse, unless you think others who broke the law without remorse are also unfit to teach. Therefore you need to find another reason.”_ Yet you continue to create a strawman despite what people are saying. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/113 "2010-09-29T19:13:57Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > [@TruCelt](#): > > > > I haven’t missed the point. I just disagree that Rosa Park’s action is analagous to this lady’s. In fact I find it ludicrous to compare the two. > > > > As for the “Not surprised you chose. . .” I’ll just say that we’re not in the pit, and if this is your tone, I won’t respond again. > > Yes you have missed the point. > > **Villa** was explicit in his post #100: > > \*“Of course, I am not comparing the campaign to legalize prostitution with the Civil Rights movement, or comparing her admission of past turnign of tricks with Rosa Parks’ refusal to sit at the back of the bus.” > \* > > I was explicit about the point being made in post #103: > > _“The person [villa] (and I) responded to said his issue was that the person did not have the good sense to be repentant for their crime and this, in that poster’s view, was why he does not want them teaching his kids.”_ > > **Villa** was again explicit in post #106: > > _“That’s no comparison between this woman and the Civil Rights movement. If you think she is unfit to teach, it then cannot be because she broke the law and showed no remorse, unless you think others who broke the law without remorse are also unfit to teach. Therefore you need to find another reason.”_ > > Yet you continue to create a strawman despite what people are saying. So what you’re saying is much like Rosa Parks this lady is a dirty whore and children shouldn’t be allowed to even have knowledge of them? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/114 "2010-09-29T19:50:44Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > So what you’re saying is much like Rosa Parks this lady is a dirty whore and children shouldn’t be allowed to even have knowledge of them? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/115 "2010-09-29T20:01:21Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > [@boytyperanma](#): > > > > So what you’re saying is much like Rosa Parks this lady is a dirty whore and children shouldn’t be allowed to even have knowledge of them? > > Huh? Sorry sarcasm. Just trying to understand what goes on in TruCelt’s head. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/116 "2010-09-29T20:08:25Z")
> [@villa](#): > > Should a gay teacher from Texas be fired if he admits to having had sex before _Lawrence_? “I’m sorry, I didn’t know it was Lawrence’s turn.” ---
**Author:** ![theR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@theR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theR)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/117 "2010-09-29T20:12:24Z")
> [@crazyjoe](#): > > > [@villa](#): > > > > There’s a lot of people you wouldn’t want teaching your child, then. I don’t remember the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., for example, expressing remorse or regretting his law-breaking ways. Nor Ghandi. Nor Homer Plessy. Nor Rosa Parks. And there are many more. Hell, I’m not remorseful nor regretful for any of the laws I have broken, and I think I am eligible to teach. > > Rosa Parks, MLK, and Ghandi all did somethin that this woman did not: They accepted the consequences for their civil disobedience. They knew going in that they were likely to be arrested for what they did, and they accepted that. Nowadays protesters seem to think that they shoudl get to both break the law AND get off scott free. That’s not how it works. You raise awareness by breaking the law, fine, but you also take the consequences as part of the larger campaign of outrage to raise awareness and get laws changed. Is Petro not accepting the consequences? I’m confused. I’m honestly not even sure what that means. If the consequences were being arrested in the cases of Rosa Parks and MLK, or fired in the case of Petro, what choice did any of them have other than accepting it? What if Rosa Parks and MLK didn’t accept it? When MLK refused bail in Albany until given concessions by the city, wasn’t that fighting instead of accepting? Weren’t the Montgomery bus boycotts fighting rather than accepting the consequences? ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/118 "2010-09-29T20:14:27Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > > Yes you have missed the point. > > > > **Villa** was explicit in his post #100: > > > > _“Of course, I am not comparing the campaign to legalize prostitution with the Civil Rights movement, or comparing her admission of past turnign of tricks with Rosa Parks’ refusal to sit at the back of the bus.”_ > > > > I was explicit about the point being made in post #103: > > > > _“The person [villa] (and I) responded to said his issue was that the person did not have the good sense to be repentant for their crime and this, in that poster’s view, was why he does not want them teaching his kids.”_ > > > > **Villa** was again explicit in post #106: > > > > _"That’s no comparison between this woman and the Civil Rights movement._\* If you think she is unfit to teach, it then cannot be because she broke the law and showed no remorse, unless you think others who broke the law without remorse are also unfit to teach. Therefore you need to find another reason\*\*."\* > > > > Yet you continue to create a strawman despite what people are saying. > > So what you’re saying is much like Rosa Parks this lady is a dirty whore and children shouldn’t be allowed to even have knowledge of them? I don’t need to find another reason, because I hold that the two situations are not analagous. ---
**Author:** ![Mozart1220](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Mozart1220](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mozart1220)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/119 "2010-09-29T20:23:24Z")
I have a friend in Utah who is a middle school math teacher. He had dropped out of school when he was 16 and spent the next 7 years partying and singing in a “hair band” (imagine a local version of Poison) When he met his current wife, he care enough to clean himslf up, get his GED and enroll in college. He graduated with a teaching degree and a 3.98 GPA. (It helped that he was a brainiack) Now he is a great teacher beloved by almost all his students. Last I saw him he even had long hair and a beard, but 100% drug free for 20 years. Bad role model? Who else could teach kids the dangers of drugs and the fact that even if they get in deep, they can turn it around and get thier lives together. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2010, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teacher-reveals-former-prostitution-in-support-of-craigslist-adult-services-rights-loses-job/555352/120 "2010-09-29T20:29:53Z")
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