If one has been a sex worker, is it possible for her or him to move on to do something else? Will society accept her/him?
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Teacher Unjustly Punished For Revealing Her Sex-Work Past
Once you've been a sex worker, are you a sex worker for life, or can you have other skills and talents and do other things?
If one has been a sex worker, it is possible for him/her to move on to do something else even though society may not accept him/her. I think what someone did in the past is mainly their business unless it effect the job that they are currently doing. Melissa Petro use to work as a prostitute but now works as a teacher. Petro was then fired from her job because she told the public about her past sex work. I feel that isn't fair because as long as it wasn't getting in the way of her teaching then it shouldn't have been a problem. Some people are capable of changing and moving on to a different and better life. Now, it would be different if Petro was discussing her past life with her students and telling them that it was alright to go out and prostitute then she should have been fired. Why should Petro hide the life that she came from, that life might have motivated her to change and become a teacher. I don't think that people should be judge because of their past.
ReplyDeleteShaletta M. Hanson
Although Melissa Petro was a sex worker in the past, she has moved on with her life and started a new career as a teacher. I think its unfair for her career to be taken away like that, especially because she was being honest about it. If the school were to find out later on, as if she never told and it were a big secret maybe they would have reason to be mad. But, it was her past, and she's been teaching for 3 years so obviously she has talent with that. I agree with Shaletta when she says people shouldn't be judged because of their past.
ReplyDeleteGreat comments. I wonder if we'd also be willing to say that we shouldn't judge another person at all.
ReplyDeleteI think it is easy for us to say that we do not care, and that we should not judge people on their past; but this lady is teaching third graders. I think the parents being outraged and asking for her to quit is not society fearing sex or openness about sex it is just that we hold our teachers to a higher standard then most professions and we do this because they spend more time with our children during the week then the parents do. I think their background plays a huge role, I would not want a former prostitute teaching my children and I am judging her because it is still illegal in this country and by letting her in the classroom we are promoting this to our children and saying "if you want to work as a prostitute that is fine, because see you can rebound like your third grade teacher did" and I do not think that is the message we want to send to our children.
ReplyDeleteNick Jezierny