HARD LESSON: Tera Myers quit her St. Louis teaching post after her prior life as a porn star (above) was revealed. (
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A bespectacled Midwestern high school science teacher and mom of four has resigned from her job — after it surfaced that she was once a porn star.
Tera Myers — a k a Rikki Andersin, the buxom, blond star of such XXX-rated gems as “Tight Ass” — last week was outed by one of her male students at Parkway North HS in St. Louis, where the 38-year-old mom has taught juniors for the past four years.
“The student found some information on the Internet on a person he thought was her, including photos, and printed it out at home and brought it in,” school-district rep Paul Tandy told The Post last night.
“He asked her, ‘Is this you?’ And she said yes.
“Of course, she immediately realized this could have some implications,” Tandy said.
The rep said that after huddling with the principal and other officials over the weekend, the chagrined teacher agreed it would be best if she didn’t finish out the year.
Tandy admitted that the district was unaware that Myers had been forced out of a previous teaching post in Paducah, Ky., in 2006 — when she went by the name Tericka Dye — after her bawdy past caught up with her there.
He said that in his district’s defense, school officials called her former employer before hiring her, but that district didn’t reveal why she’d left.
St. Louis school officials also had apparently missed an episode of TV’s “Dr. Phil.”
Myers appeared on the show after being booted in Kentucky, telling viewers that she’d made the biggest mistake of her life turning to porn 15 years ago when she was broke.
“Probably more of us should watch these shows,” Tandy said. The community was “surprised and shocked” to learn of Myers’ raunchy past, he said.
“She has a family, she has children in our school district,” Tandy said. “As you can imagine, within minutes, [the news] was throughout the building.
“We don’t know her as a [porn] star. We just know her as a person . . . I think she had a lot of kids who liked her and thought she was a good teacher.”
He said the district hopes to use the incident as a teaching lesson.
“We’re trying to remind them of real-world consequences, that the decisions you make will be around in the electronic world forever,” he said.