Teacher fired for her past.

[jackofallgeeks]

Along the same lines of that children's show hostess I mentioned a while ago (and who was re-mentioned when I noted the "shred your internet history" service for kids of rich, influential, easily-embarrassed parents), Here is a teacher who was fired because it came up that, 12 years ago, she was in pr0n.

Now, right-off, I think that it's generally poor for to hold someone's past against them. We are not the people we were. If she was currently in porn or something I might be a bit more sympathetic, but that's not the case. In short: judge people on who they are, not who they once were.

But even beyond that, as the article says, this woman has a real success story of climbing out of bad circumstances to become a better person. She had an alcoholic father, went into porn, then joined the military in order to get a college education and become a school teacher. That's actually a pretty positive, admirable story and, like the article states, it gives something of a good role model for kids. it says, "yeah, we make mistakes. But you can over come that. You don't have to tie yourself to your failings."

Comments

[higheststar.livejournal.com]

thanks for this entry. i am going through something like this right now. i made a huge mistake a few years ago, and now people who have never met me but know what I did are telling this person that I am not a good person and that he should not let me in his life. These people are all suppose to be good Catholics and I find myself very frustrated that they don't want to even give me a chance. I am not the person anymore, but that doesn't seem to matter. Good to know everyone doesn't think like that.