A teacher from the Bronx, New York has been removed from her postion after this video emerged of her at an open mic event talking about how she used to have sex for money and comparing teaching to having sex with her boyfriend. According to the NY Daily News:
Melissa Petro, 30, an art teacher at Public School 70 in Mount Eden, recently revealed her dark side at the Bowery Poetry Club on the lower East Side.
“My memoir that I’m working on now is about my experiences in the sex industry starting when I was 19 years old and living as a student abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico,” Petro said at the event, videotaped by an audience member and obtained Monday night by the Daily News. “I started as a stripper and worked on and off for years, and I did other activities in that industry.”
The city Education Department learned of Petro’s past from a post this month on TheHuffingtonPost.com, in which she claimed she was also a craigslist.org hooker from October 2006 to January 2007. Petro, a public school teacher for three years, has been placed on administrative duties.
In another video from the website Vodpod.com, aired on WABC Channel 7 News on Monday night, Petro compared teaching children to having sex with her boyfriend.
Good times. Did she go to far or should she be allowed to stay on the job and continue talking about her checkered past?
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haha, all the women “Fire her”
all the men “i think she should be given a chance”
When will people realize the internet ain’t no joke you put your self out there this is what happens cause everyone has a camera phone and posting that stuff to youtube,facebook,tweeter etc, is one click away.
THANK U. smdh
If we are a country that truly believes in forgivness and second chances and if Miss Petro was good at her job (both blow and teaching) she should be allowed to stay and keep her job (both blow and teaching).
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Dude said “I hope she keeps her job” … aka “I want to beat”
I think we all have a past ( some more interesting than others) an our past should not determine our future. She no doubt should have kept this to her self. There are people doing all kinds of things in their personal lives they would never own up to, that many if they knew would not approve of, so no judgement here.
That’s stupid let her keep her job
There are just some things that you keep to yourself until you’re in a position to not be held accountable.
61,000 for an art teacher damnn.
thats what im saying. haha. bump all that other shit.
I’m not sure where you live but in NYC 61,000 a year is more like 40,000…
LOL. Agreed.
SMH. i hate when people get fired from their jobs for internet shit, this is retarded. Let her keep her job.