Middle School Teacher Named ‘Stacie’ Caught in Perhaps Predictable Scandal

Posted on | March 8, 2012 | 55 Comments

Let’s face it: If you ever hire somebody with a name like that, you can generally expect trouble to result:

Stacie Halas, a 31-year-old science teacher at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard, was removed from the classroom Monday, three days after pupils reported spotting her in a series of X-rated clips.
“Maybe it’s not a crime as far as the penal code is concerned, but we feel it’s a crime as far as moral turpitude is concerned,” said Jeff Chancer, superintendent of the Oxnard school district. . . .
Halas . . . uses the stage name “Tiffany Six.”

What sort of “science” was Miss Halas teaching those kids? Did her duties include teaching the sex education classes that are now mandatory in California public schools? The question must also be asked why, if there was “moral turpitude” in Miss Halas performing as “Tiffany Six,” there was no criminal complaint against whichever Web site operator exposed her X-rated performances to her middle-school students?

Isn’t it illegal to show that stuff to kids? So why aren’t the proprietors of these sites held legally responsible for ensuring that kids don’t have access to these sites? But these are not the only serious questions raised by this disturbing news story.

How and where did these students see “Tiffany Six” in action? Did they volunteer this information to school officials? How much time elapsed between (a) when the students first figured out that their science teacher was “Tiffany Six” and (b) when students first made school officials aware of their employee’s extracurricular activities?

Am I the only one who suspects that Miss Halas’s video performance career may have been something of an “open secret” among her students for many weeks or months before somebody brought this to the attention of administration officials? How many of her students had seen these videos during whatever period of time it took for officials to become aware of this and take action?

Such questions are very important, because this isn’t the first time there has been a sex scandal at this Oxnard school:

Back in 2010, the very same Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School where Halas worked was in the news for a similar scandal, when two middle school students were caught videotaping themselves having oral sex in a classroom. . . .
According to ABC News, officials were notified that two junior-high school students, a boy and a girl, engaged in oral sex during class time. Even worse, some of the students were said to have started recording the two minors going at it on their cell phone cameras.

The kids got in trouble for producing their own amateur version of exactly what science teacher Stacie Halas allegedly did in her career as the professional performer “Tiffany Six.” Some people might think the following quote is slightly relevant:

“For more than a decade, California’s dedication to teaching comprehensive sex education has made the state a national leader . . .”
— Lauren Shaw-Stryker, Planned Parenthood

A national leader! And “dedication to teaching,” indeed!

Certainly, public schools around the country must be struggling to keep pace with the cutting-edge “comprehensive sex education” offered in California, where middle-school students watch videos of their teachers having sex and make their own sex videos in class.

Of course, this story doesn’t involve a Catholic priest or a radio talk-show host, or else the media might think it was a real scandal.

Possibly related: Is pornography really harmless? And finally: Would it be OK for Rush Limbaugh to call “Tiffany Six” a slut?

UPDATE: Conservative Hideout offers thoughts on moral relativism and Cultural Marxism in “Calipornia.”

Welcome, Instapundit readers! At least one of the commenters didn’t get the humor of the first line about why it’s always trouble to hire someone with a name like “Stacie.” Would it help to explain that this is self-deprecating humor?

But if you have to explain a joke . . .

Category: California, Education, Scandal, Sex

Comments

55 Responses to “Middle School Teacher Named ‘Stacie’ Caught in Perhaps Predictable Scandal”

mschuyler
March 8th, 2012 @ 7:35 pm

Just FYI, the local news talk show “Newsline PM” had this subject today and did the usual call-in. I just happened to have been car-trapped (well, truck-trapped) and listened to the entire thing. Not one caller thought Staci should lose her job over this. And more than one person wondered how the train of discovery happened.

Also, sccording to Newsline, the Oxnard School Board had a meeting on this to ask the populace what to do. Not one person showed up to say his or her piece on the situation, so it was tabled.
richard mcenroe
March 8th, 2012 @ 7:39 pm

Hell, I’d rather have Sasha Grey reading to my kids than Barack Obama, so you know where I stand on this.

If we’re pointing fingers, where were the parents who can put the adult content filters on the house computer.
Irish92
March 8th, 2012 @ 7:40 pm

You guys should have a “left-wing hypocrisy” week, along with the other right wing blogs. It could be like all the various made-up holidays of the left (earth day, celebrate diversity, etc…). You could talk about pornography, Gloria Steinham defending Bill Clinton, PETA’s silence about windfarms killing birds, sponsors of Ed Schultz condemning Rush. Really, it would take a year or so to discuss liberal hypocrisy but I thought you guys might like the idea of creating a right-wing holiday.
FenelonSpoke
March 8th, 2012 @ 7:56 pm

The unions must have been slipping; She didn’t make enough money as a CA science teacher to not to have to make porn videos as well?
polypolitical
March 8th, 2012 @ 8:04 pm

you get a “like” for knowing who Sasha Grey is. Which, in the context of this post, is pretty funny to me 🙂
robertstacymccain
March 8th, 2012 @ 8:23 pm

Maybe the citizens couldn’t be bothered to attend a school board meeting because they were too busy downloading pron.
CPAguy
March 8th, 2012 @ 8:45 pm

Why was she fired? I don’t get that part.

RSM brought up some good points about the kids having access to to porn…but is there some sort of morals clause for teachers?

They can’t fire teachers for being terrible educators, but they can be fired for legally being involved in porn?
DaveO
March 8th, 2012 @ 8:55 pm

Is the problem she doesn’t believe in AGW? Or that the kids have disabled the parental controls and have enough leisure time to discover Teach is a pR0n queen?

And, will we be seeing more of her at the next Rule 5 post?
EBL
March 8th, 2012 @ 9:08 pm

Off topic, but did it get chilly in hell today?
t-dahlgren
March 8th, 2012 @ 9:37 pm

I think it important that we thank Stacy for doing the, err, um, legwork of running down a topical photo of the young lady to go along with the story.

Saves the rest of us from having to do so. Giver that he is.

Or, at least it frees up time for researching ‘Sasha Grey…
robertstacymccain
March 8th, 2012 @ 9:40 pm

She’s not really good-looking enough for Rule 5.

Probably the reason she was “Tiffany Six” rather than “Tiffany Ten,” IYKWIMAITYD.
t-dahlgren
March 8th, 2012 @ 9:45 pm

Tiffany N+1 is probably closer to the truth.
t-dahlgren
March 8th, 2012 @ 9:49 pm

We already have right wing holidays. We call them ‘holidays.’
robertstacymccain
March 8th, 2012 @ 9:52 pm

I think readers will agree that the photo is a rather subtle illustration of the essential problem with the Government Education Establishment in America.
Vanderleun
March 8th, 2012 @ 10:05 pm

“Apparently an office worker at the school somehow stumbled onto one of the videos ”

It was an accident! It just jumped into my hand!
Nathan M. Bickel
March 8th, 2012 @ 10:11 pm

This teacher made a huge mistake. She should have publicly proclaimed herself, a lesbian and introduced some homosexuality sensitivity training into her science teachings. Had she done that, she may prevented her classroom suspension and [then] been welcomed with open arms by her school and the taxpayer funded political correctness and multicultural public school industry.
JeffS
March 8th, 2012 @ 11:07 pm

Which was her day job, and which was her night job?

Inquiring minds want to know.
JeffS
March 8th, 2012 @ 11:07 pm

You mean she really blew it?
ThePaganTemple
March 8th, 2012 @ 11:32 pm

From the looks of her pic I’d say she was demonstrating the science behind the suction power of a vacuum. Of course there’s also the chance she was merely engaging in some good old fashioned pole smoking. Anybody know her number by any chance?
Adjoran
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:01 am

Maybe not as off topic as you suppose . . .
Adjoran
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:04 am

Don’t you just hate when that happens?
Adjoran
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:10 am

Nearly 40 years ago a young friend was proud and excited to tell me he was a defense witness in a criminal trial. I had to see it, he testified well, but then the Commonwealth’s Attorney got to cross examine him. As was their custom at the time, the CA sought to intimidate or upset the defense witnesses from the start with a standard question:

“Have you ever been convicted of a felony, or a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude?”

My friend didn’t bat an eye: “I have never been convicted of a felony, and my turpitude has never been doubted!”

Silence for a second, the CA was taken aback. I couldn’t help it, and let out a laugh, which cracked up the assistant CA at the table and the defense attorney. The judge was struggling, but controlled himself, gaveled for order, and said, “Let the record show the witness answered in the negative.”

Good times, good times.
Pathfinder's wife
March 9th, 2012 @ 1:29 am

As a refugee from employment in the educational field I can say with some authority that while a moral clause may not be the case, there is some reasonable expectation of professionalism and dignity (and perhaps some professional ethics). Sadly, there are many now who have none of the above (which also answers the question of why we have both porn star teachers as well as lousy ones).
jwallin
March 9th, 2012 @ 3:45 am

This begs the question; how did under 18, minors access this type of video?

And shouldn’t they be sanctioned for obvious violating SOME rule or law concerning them accessing it?

Remember all you sexual adventurers out there; Paris Hilton isn’t famous and rich because she made a sex video. She was already rich and a member of that class.

Plus video, audio and social media are forever.

Not only that but with the coming of surveillance cameras and drones, even a backyard romp will no longer be just between you and your s.o.
Rich Vail
March 9th, 2012 @ 6:02 am

What this woman does on her own time is her own business…if “moral turpitude” were the measure of public prosecution, then upwards of 90% of Democratic politicians would have to be prosecuted for some criminal offense of “moral turpitude.’
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March 9th, 2012 @ 7:07 am

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Eric Jablow
March 9th, 2012 @ 7:45 am

PETA’s silence about windfarms killing birds? What about PETA’s silence about PETA killing stray dogs?
bandit keena
March 9th, 2012 @ 7:58 am

If she was teaching sex ed at least she had a professional background and was an expert in the curriculum.
Mark
March 9th, 2012 @ 8:00 am

All parents who don’t want their kids having access to p0rn need to move to log cabins in the Alaskan wilderness, with no form of communication invented after 1875. Is p0rn harmful? Unfortunately we’re already well into the experiment, and there is no control group.
Maureen O'Brien
March 9th, 2012 @ 8:01 am

What, you have something against the names Eustacia and Anastasia? Or is this just something against -ie and -i variant endings being liable to tempt girls to dot the i’s with hearts, thus leading to trouble?

You’re a funny, funny man, but obviously I’m missing something that makes this particular opening line funny.
Lorenzo Poe
March 9th, 2012 @ 8:54 am

Seen her ‘body’ of work. She’s not good enough at pron to make a living at it so she teaches in Cali. No experience required!
Mirco Romanato
March 9th, 2012 @ 9:02 am

” “Maybe it’s not a crime as far as the penal code is concerned, but we feel it’s a crime as far as moral turpitude is concerned,” said Jeff Chancer, superintendent of the Oxnard school district. . . .”

So?
Everything this retarded think is “moral turpitude” is a warrant to be removed from a job?
If it was a soldier caught on a clip lawfully shooting the enemy they would remove his/her for moral turpitude?

This is simply tyranny with a different label on the bottle.
Did she behave in some unprofessional way during her lessons?
If so, her past is not important. Remove her
If not, her past is not important. Let her stay.

“And finally: Would it be OK for Rush Limbaugh to call “Tiffany Six” a slut?”

It would be wrong, because she didn’t ask for others to pay for her sex expenses. She is better than so many people living on the dole.
Felix
March 9th, 2012 @ 9:02 am

If you want happiness for an hour; take a nap.   If you want
happiness for a day; go fishing.   If you want happiness for a
month; get married.   If you want happiness for a year; inherit a
fortune.   If you want happiness for a lifetime; help someone else
metalscapeinc
March 9th, 2012 @ 9:06 am

“as the penal code is concerned,”

“penal” code! Get it? Penal (wink, wink). Oh, I thought we were talking intermediate school culture here. Sorry.
robertstacymccain
March 9th, 2012 @ 9:44 am

My name is Stacy — trouble!
Another Anon
March 9th, 2012 @ 10:13 am

“But if you have to explain a joke . . .”

Then you’re German?
Finrod Felagund
March 9th, 2012 @ 10:30 am

If you want porn to be illegal, either convince your state legislature to pass a law to make it illegal, or move to someplace like Oklahoma where it already is illegal.

Leave the rest of us alone.
Anneliese
March 9th, 2012 @ 10:30 am

so, anybody seen a commercial or family guy or adult swim or …well media in general? You can filter your internet all day long and then let your kid go to public school and WHAM all that protection for nada. Preparing the kids for the world you HOPE they will live in is pretty far removed from preparing them to live in the world. There are alot of excellent high achieving females/mothers out there swinging on a pole on a tuesday afternoon … they get a tax break, not fired. oh yeah, who sets these standards for moral watchamacallit again?
rbeccah
March 9th, 2012 @ 11:17 am

I come from an era when a sixteen-year-old best friend could ask if you could get pregnant from kissing, so I think sex education in school is not a bad idea. But sex education used to just cover the biological basics and the possibility of STDs. Now, they seem to teach all the many ways you can have fun having sex, and that, I think, is a perversion of what the education part of it was supposed to be.
Greg Hill
March 9th, 2012 @ 11:43 am

Their curriculum is very “hands on”.
Dirt Crashr
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:00 pm

What about the “moral turpitude” of being in the Teacher’s Union?
richard mcenroe
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:03 pm

Be fair, Stacy, much as we all may appreciate the accommodation, no one looks their best with their cheeks sucked up into their sinus cavities, especially from that angle.
richard mcenroe
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:03 pm

Like the time that deer jumped out and savagely attacked Stacy’s car?
richard mcenroe
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:05 pm

Let’s just note that Mr. Chancer is doing precisely what Rick Santorum said he precisely would NOT do…
richard mcenroe
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:06 pm

I think I flagged this by mistake; my bad. Was trying for the spam above it.
richard mcenroe
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:07 pm

Nah, German is, “you WILL laugh, yes?” *rack slide*

Having to explain a joke is “boss humor”…
Mike
March 9th, 2012 @ 12:19 pm

Teachers are lauded for teaching kids to hate America and promoted if they’re committed marxists, but getting filmed having sex? That we cannot tolerate!!
max
March 9th, 2012 @ 1:14 pm

I think you’ve stumbled onto something. Perhaps someone could fake some porn movies of bad teachers and release them so the teachers could be fired. Not homosexual porn though since that is probably OK.
[email protected]
March 9th, 2012 @ 2:02 pm

And some people wonder why kids are opting for libertarian/libertine politics.
mechanic540
March 9th, 2012 @ 3:47 pm

I wonder if the reporter/editor realized what he /she was saying when reporting that it wasnt a violation of the “penal” code. Just sayin.