Exemplary Dallas ISD Teacher Fired Over Past in Porn Pleads With State ‘Please Tell Me This Is Not the End'

A Dallas ISD teacher who was fired because she was an adult film actress more than a decade ago says she was forced into “sex slavery” and is fighting to get back her dream job helping children.Resa Woodward, 38, taught sixth grade science at an all-girls STEAM academy at Balch Springs Middle School before she was removed from the classroom in November. She was fired after she was trolled on social media and her previous job in adult films became public. She is appealing her termination to the Texas Education Agency.Woodward said she was forced into “sex slavery” by a controlling and manipulative man, according to her appeal letter to education commissioner Mike Morath, released to The Dallas Morning News this week.“Young, stupid and afraid, I complied to avoid his wrath,” she wrote. “Only a woman who has been through such a horrifying experience could fully understand, but I’m asking you to understand and re-consider the terrible charges being brought against me, the victim of an abusive past.”  Continue reading...

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