A second teacher at a high school in Missouri was put on leave after administrators discovered her OnlyFans side hustle.

Megan Gaither, 31, said during an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she was placed on leave from her English teaching and varsity cheerleading coach position on Oct. 27 after district officials found out about her account on the OnlyFans platform.

  • @[email protected]
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    -557 months ago

    That’s not how public school teachers operate.

    For example, you’re not allowed to be visibly drunk in public if you are a public school teacher.

    There are good reasons for this. Teachers are supposed to be role models for students, so seeing one passed out in the gutter isn’t acceptable.

    If you don’t like it, then don’t become a public school teacher. There are plenty of other jobs you can do.

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        -207 months ago

        Not sure how this is relevant.

        The job qualifications and contracts are different for police officers than teachers.

        • @5too
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          197 months ago

          It’s entirely relevant to your argument. Both are commonly expected to be role models. This expectation is enforced in only one case.

          • @[email protected]
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            -37 months ago

            The job qualifications and contracts are different for police officers than teachers.

            If officers agreed to terms that prevented them from having an OnlyFans, then you would have a point.

            It’s not a part of their contract, so why would they be punished for it?

            It is a part of a public school teacher’s contract, so they aren’t allowed to do it.

            If they don’t like it, they can do something else.

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      217 months ago

      If extra restrictions are being placed on their personal lives they should be paid more to compensate for it.

      • TechyDad
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        127 months ago

        Public Schools: “The best we can offer is a ‘Great Teacher’ mug, tissues for your classroom, and a hearty thumbs up! Actually, the budget won’t support the mug. Or that tissues. Oh, and in completely unrelated news, the superintendent was just given a 25% raise.”

        • hOUse_atomics
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          27 months ago

          Lol, around easter our admins gathered together to go door to door and deliver plastic easter eggs, one per teacher, with about 5 loose jelly beans inside. Not even good jelly beans.

          Like, they’re paid twice what we are and they spent a whole day on this.

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        27 months ago

        Just because teachers are controlled by schools in other ways doesn’t mean that they should be controlled in this way also. Simply saying that teachers can’t do X and therefore they ought not be able to do Y is a non-argument.