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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A Missouri high school teacher says she has been placed on leave after officials discovered that she was performing on a pornography website to supplement her salary.

Brianna Coppage, 28, who taught English at St. Clair High School, says her teaching days are probably over, but she acknowledged she knew the risks.

Coppage told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she was put on leave on Wednesday after being interviewed by two administrators. Her access to school email and other software was suspended while the district investigates, she said.

“It was kind of always like this cloud hanging over my head, like I never knew when I would be discovered,” Coppage said in an interview. “Then, about two weeks ago, my husband and I were told that people were finding out about it. So I knew this day was coming.”

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 140 points 1 year ago

i bet that school district is soooo embarrassed that they pay so incredibly poorly that their teachers have to sell their bodies....

[-] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year ago

You know, if these schools are going to refuse to pay teachers enough to live on, maybe they shouldn't be so uptight about where those teachers get their supplemental income from. 😒

[-] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 58 points 1 year ago

So when do the school administrators get fired for looking at porn online?

[-] deft@ttrpg.network 54 points 1 year ago

disgusting where would one find this content? solely to support the lady. hypothetically

[-] ryry1985@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago
[-] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Time to go support an educator and help defend her rights

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Only 59 videos posted to the page and making $8-10k per month?! She must do a ton of private custom shit

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Jfc. I do my best to avoid porn and everything, but who fucking cares? Fucked up priorities.

[-] Soundhole@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

On the one hand, I strongly agree with you. But when I think about it, she was teaching high school kids who would 100% get access to her videos. That just doesn't seem like a healthy situation for anyone involved. She sounds in the article like she accepts that she needs to do one or the other.

$42,000/year for a full time teacher is the real story here. That's outrageous.

[-] Serinus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Eh, deal with it. I'd rather have a moonlighting teacher than an unqualified one. At least this teacher was smart enough to not settle for $42k/year.

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She taught English to freshmen and sophomores and made about $42,000 last year, according to the newspaper’s public pay database. She said she’s earned an additional $8,000 to $10,000 per month performing on OnlyFans.

The fact that teachers have to do porn to survive is telling that conservative society is fucked.

[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

The sad part is conservatives will question why she couldn't live off 42,000 a year!

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Because the conservative boomers are all retired, with fully owned homes, and don't know what things cost these days.

[-] Spendrill@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

Missourah: That's disgusting, we want to see students on OnlyFans, not teachers.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 22 points 1 year ago

That's disgusting! Where?!

[-] Zimmy@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

You know what they say. Once you've seen one boob, you want to see the rest of them.

[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Teachers should be paid more. When doing any job with kids you must be careful about opening an OnlyFans.

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[-] fische_stix@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

If one wanted to view this material to form their own opinion, where would one go to do this? Obviously this would be only for the purpose of confirming that these allegations are accurate and also deciding whether or not this constitutes any sort of suspendable offense.

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