There are people out there that can always find “forgiveness” and “reform” for those kinds of crimes.
Porno on the other hand is apparently unforgivable.
It's the school setting. Porn stars should not be school teachers. Even if she has changed, her legacy follows her. There are many things she can do where her legacy won't be an issue. Teaching kids is not one of them.
Rapist’s can be POTUS...but porn stars can’t be teachers.
I am also not getting why she was fired. Was she doing a good job teaching? Did she have any disciplinary issues? Did she have a good grasp of the curriculum? To me those seem far more pertinent than what she did 15 years ago, and I am sure that if all had to state a list of the dumb things they did in their past that a number (including some very 'holy' types) would probably say things that made a porno flick pale a bit.
As for what you raised 'unforgivable' sins ...I was having a discussion with a colleague about that some time back. In many churches, a person can stand up and say that he was suffering from a drug addition, or a gambling problem, or used to steal but wants to mend his ways, etc etc etc. But dare he stand up and say he cheats on his wife and needs help, or has a porn addiction, or some other sexual vice. Suddenly, the same congregation who were falling over each other trying to embrace the heroin addict, end up looking like the guy's (say cheating on his wife) issue is highly contagious and it will infect all the rest of the men in the congregation. Even worse if it is a woman who stands up (this really glitzy country club that was seeking me as a member bent over backwards telling me how it did not allow single women, and when I asked because they were trying to avoid the temptation of married men falling for them. That alone was the reason I decided to opt for another club who had members that were human beings rather than bovines that couldn't control themselves around single women and thus require kindergarten rules).
Anyways, why was she fired? I can understand a school may have the right to fire/hire who they want (and that is fine with me), but why was she fired?
There are, by the way, a lot of very good people who have done some very bad things in the past. Looking at the Bible, Saul (before his encounter with Christ on the road to Damascus, and becoming Paul) was not a very nice chap. In fact, he was far worse than any porn star, and had blood on his hands. I fear that this lady should have been a heroin addict instead ...she would have found acceptance.
I seem to recall a narrative in the Bible where, as a group of men were about to stone a woman for her sexual sins, a certain Man we all owe a lot to, came forth and started writing in the dirt with a stick, asking he without sin to cast the first stone.