A science teacher from Southern California has been fired from her job on Wednesday after it was revealed that she was in a pornographic film, according to school district officials. Trustees for the Oxnard School District voted during a closed session this week to fire Stacie Halas, who taught students in seventh and eighth grades at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School. The board president, Veronica Robles-Solis, said that the vote by the trustees to fire Halas was a unanimous vote.
“We’re dealing with the disruption that we believe it would cause our district, and the schools in our district, if she were to return back to the classroom,” Superintendent Jeff Chancer said.
Halas, at the time of the vote, was out on paid administrative leave. She was placed on the paid leave last month, when the video came to light. There were no students in the video, which reportedly was made prior to her arrival at Oxnard as a teacher back in 2009. Halas has just 30 days to appeal the vote by the trustees and she can do so by requesting an administrative law judge hearing.
School officials conducted an image search of the teacher on the internet after students were making claims that she was also working in porn. School officials restarted the investigation when other teachers showed the officials some downloads from smartphones. The school’s computer network blocks access to sexual sites.
“I saw parts of the video,” Chancer said last month. “It’s hardcore pornography.”
A letter was distributed to parents of students at all three of the district’s junior high schools. The letter requests that parents make sure their children do not search the internet for the teacher’s video or images.
“It has been alleged that one of our teachers is depicted in at least one pornographic video and possibly others on the Internet,” Chancer said in the letter.