After a troubled childhood and growing up with an abusive, alcoholic father, and being afflicted with bouts of severe depression, anxiety episodes and bipolar disorder, Tericka Dye starred in a handful of porn videos (as Rikki Anderson) before enlisting in the Army. After getting out of the Army she then starred in a couple more video before reenlisting in the Army, but this time she wanted something different, so she became an MP, eventually being assigned to the 42nd Military Police Brigade at Fort Lewis in Washington state.
After getting out of the army she then used her GI Bill to go to college and graduated at the top of her class. She was a teacher at Reidland High School in Paducah, KY for a few years, teaching science and coaching the volleyball team. She was well respected by both students and her peers. Her peers respected her because her students did very well in her classes, and her students respected her because she was always honest and up front with them about overcoming her bipolar disorder, being abused by her alcoholic father and, without being specific, the fact that she did some things she was not proud of before she went to college.
Didn't take the students long to discover her porn past, but it never bothered them. If anything, as many of them have said, it let them relate to her in that you can overcome a lot, and that you don't have to be perfect to succeed, all it takes is resolve, hard work and determination.
A few years into her tenure someone I'm sure, rented a porn video and was shocked to discover the star of the video was his daughter's science teacher, a video that was made 13 years before. He wrapped up the video in a plain brown wrapper and sent it to the school board anonymously (tho it later came out who it was). The School Board reactive in fine Bible Belt tradition and suspended her (but with pay), paid her to the end of the contract, and then refused to renew it, stating her past would be too much of a disruption for the students (not knowing, or not caring, that the students had known about it already for at least a year). She filed a grievance with the School, of course.
She later appeared on Dr Phil with her attorney (a good friend of mine, as well as my attorney) and watched Dr Phil get boo'd by his own audience as he berated her for her past. Too funny.
She has since dropped the grievance and is now teaching elsewhere under a different name. The School Board of the system where she now teaches is fully aware of her past, as, I'm sure, are her students. Her volleyball team won the state championship this year.
I disagree with the Reidland School Board refusing to renew her contract, but at least I understand it. I live there. That kind of religious moral hypocrisy runs rampant where they preach forgiveness but refuse to grant it. But refusing to renew a teacher's contract because he's too patriotic, or even too conservative, that's just asinine.
