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.

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      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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          Not sure how this is relevant.

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

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

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

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          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.”

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            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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          What do you mean? It’s a part of their contract. They can take it or leave it.

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          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.

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          People don’t want to acknowledge facts they don’t like.

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      In this case I think it is.

      It’s not that she’s a sex worker that’s the issue it’s the fact that teens can barely keep their head clear is they have a cute teacher they could picture naked. That effect would be 1000% worse if you can simply give your teacher five bucks to slap her kitty while saying your a great student.

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        This is like blaming the victim for being shot. It’s a 100% the guy with the gun

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          It’s not at all the same.

          In this case she would be the victim and the shooter. She shot herself in the foot, there are hundreds of ways to spoliate identity effectively on onlyfans and she chose not to. She knew her fan ase and took advantage then claimed to be the victim.

          If it weren’t a teacher pandering customized pornography to underage school children would it be ok? I’m gunna guess no, it’s essentially pedophilia at distance.