Should a teacher be fired because he was — in the past — a porn star?

Does it make any difference if it was gay porn?

Does it matter that he used an alias in the movies? That he won awards for his film performances?

[Shawn] Loftis was suspended from his substitute teaching position in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools in January; his teacher's certification was revoked in April, despite his insistence that his porn days were over.

Loftis' porn shtick was to film in exotic locations around the world and slide sight-seeing and history segments into the dirty flicks. He took a similar travel-focused approach to his citizen-reporting gig with CNN.

Loftis is a popular CNN "citizen reporter." Here's one of his clips:



He'd left porn to go into teaching. Now, kicked out of teaching, he's back to porn.

Would you fire a teacher because he used to be a porn actor?
	Yes. No matter how good a teacher he was.
	Yes, but only if there were some other problems.
	No. But this could be a factor if there were serious other problems.
	No. This should not be a factor at all.
	No. It's to his credit that he had a successful porn career and left it to teach.
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ADDED: This may be a remnant of an old belief that teachers of young children shouldn't be sexually active at all. My maternal grandmother was a teacher at a time when female teachers were required to remain single. She hid her marriage to retain her job.

IN THE COMMENTS: Zachary Paul Sire notes that there are questions about whether Loftis had quit porn.