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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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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 321 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Someone gets naked so everyone loses their minds.

People shoot up schools: thoughts and prayers, thoughts and prayers....

Religion is insanity.

[–] 9715698@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lots of countries have religion, but not many countries have guns as the leading cause of death among children and teens.

[–] andyburke@fedia.io 54 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yeah, instead they do things like kill LGBTQ people with machetes or put you in prison for apostasy.

Religion is insanity.

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[–] vaseltarp@lemmy.world 226 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That problem would probably get a lot less acute if you guys over there finally started to pay decent wages to teachers

[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 181 points 1 year ago (8 children)

But if teachers were paid well, more talented people might decide to become teachers, and then children would receive better educations and possibly start to question why our society is structured the way it is. Much better to solve the problem at its root and keep everyone ignorant.

[–] vaseltarp@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are right. That would horrible.

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[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 179 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How did they discover the page? I'm curious about this.

Gaither said in the interview that she made an account on the direct-to-subscribers website because she has over $125,000 in student loans and needed the extra income.

"Teaching does not financially support a person," Gaither said. "It’s really hard to stretch those paychecks during the summer. That’s why I did it."

According to the report, Gaither's pay, which includes a stipend for coaching the school's cheerleading squad, was around $47,500.

When Gaither took the account down, she claimed to have had around 1,500 subscribers and was bringing in an extra $3,000 to $5,000 per month.

47,5/12= ~3.96k per month

With an onlyfan page, she made more than the teaching job. The issue isn't her onlyfan page. It's the paycheck at the end of the month. They must pay more. Supervisors also have to stop going on onlyfan for other thing than work. I don't believe they discovered it by chance.

Onlyfan is one of the symptoms of low income not a problem.

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Jesus, I make like 3k less and never finished college. I do a shit job on phones. She gets peanuts for putting up with BS and doing 1.5 jobs for a school. Teachers don't get enough.

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[–] aaaantoine@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (8 children)

She's a high school teacher. I'm gonna guess the students figured it out first.

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[–] Harpsist@lemmy.world 149 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So. Underpaid highschool teacher is held to a higher standard then checks notes ex-president(and traitor to) the united states.

[–] Sharpiemarker@startrek.website 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Correct. You only have to look at Roe's reversal to see that we're waging war against women in the US. The cruelty is the point.

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[–] Rusticus@lemmy.world 136 points 1 year ago (19 children)

It is sad to me that the focus isn't on trying to pay her a living wage so she doesn't have to have a side hustle. And by the way, all the "free market, lift yourself up by your bootstraps and just get another job" judgmental assholes can just fuck off because that's exactly what she is doing.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Teacher pay, aide pay, and student loan debt should be the conversation were having here in my opinion. Not the morality of only fans and especially not useless crap like her username.

[–] TechyDad@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly this. My wife was a teacher, but hasn't been in a classroom in over 15 years. When she was pregnant with our second son, we did some budgeting. Take her salary and subtract after school care for our oldest son and daycare for our youngest son and we had $3,000 left over. Not $3,000 a month - $3,000 a year.

And that was before clothing appropriate for school, supplies for school, gas to get to school, and the mydrid of other expenses that come with being a teacher. If she remained a teacher, we wouldn't be earning money. We would be paying for her to remain tracking

So she stopped teaching and became a stay at home mother.

(By the way, we used her salary because hers was the smaller one. Had mine been the smaller salary, I would have quit and become a stay at home dad.)

We once calculated how much she earned per hour. Given that she was getting in before school to set up, working late after school to help kids out or grade papers, and working holidays to get lesson plans in place, she was making less than minimum wage. She would literally have made more per hour at McDonald's.

Teachers are very important and deserve more than "maybe, if you're lucky, you'll end up with minimum wage."

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[–] gkd@lemmy.ml 116 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Speculation about Gaither's involvement on the platform began in mid-October when she was seen in a video posted on Coppage's account. While the video didn't include Gaither's face, it was recorded at a party, and she was seen in a public picture wearing the same costume that was worn in the video posted on OnlyFans, according to the report.

So are we not going to call into question the “professionalism” of whoever found this video? Or did someone just accidentally make their way to onlyfans and pay to access her content. 🙄

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 107 points 1 year ago (20 children)

This is DISGUSTING. Someone please post her handle or website so I can avoid it.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Probably not smart to use your real full name for this as a teacher

[–] rosymind@leminal.space 56 points 1 year ago

Or it is, because once you get expelled from teaching and your name is making headlines, you can rake in the $$$ from all the free advertising

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 90 points 1 year ago (9 children)

How do those "officials" find these OF accounts? 🤔

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[–] De_Narm@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

They get it all wrong. In an increasingly online society, this is a nice way to keep the parent-teacher conferences interesting.

But seriously, I don't get the problem with sex work. It's not like that's in any way shape or form relevant for her teaching capabilities. Sex does not become immoral just because you point a camera at it and all these people had to have sex to have children in the first place. Where's the outrage about children living with their parents? These monsters have sex with each other! Some even while the children are at home!

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 70 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well I personally think the real issue here is teachers graduating with too much debt and the fact that most teachers are forced to have some kind of second job in order to pay their debt, bills, & rent \ mortgage.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The only way I can see this becoming a problem is if the kids can't focus in her classes because they know she has an OnlyFans account. But kids have imagined fucking their teachers since I am sure teachers have existed, so it would just be an extension of that and she probably would have strategies to deal with it.

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The teaching community (as an institution)has some pretty specific thoughts on how to maintain the parent/student relationship and it involves maintaining some kind of curated image to their students.

One time, when I was maybe 25, I saw a gaggle of good looking women at a pub about the same age as me, and then they came over and asked how I had liked the conference. "conference?"

There had been a teacher conference and a large group went for drinks later and assumed I was also a teacher. I lied and joined the group.

We ended up going to a nightclub later, and one teacher saw that a few of their students had managed to get into the club, and they LOST IT. Not upset at the kids, but they were captured by abstract horror at the thought of their student seeing THEM at the club.

I pushed on it a little bit, like "shouldn't they be the ones worried about seeing you?"

And like, the whole group thought I had lost my mind. If COURSE the students couldn't see us there, how would they ever respect us if they understood us as humans with our own lives? The teacher/student relationship would evaporate. Anarchy. The response to my question was immediate and unanimous.

So... I gotta say... I don't really get it... But there is a culture and mindset within the teaching community that is extremely foreign to me. And, based on my personal experience, I suspect that suspending OF teachers is probably the popular response within the greater teaching community as a whole. I'd be REALLY curious if there is any data that disproves my hypothesis.

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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 84 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the only reaction people will have when the article drops about her getting fired. Then she gets more viewers, and probably makes more than she ever would have as a teacher.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is ridiculous. What she does on OnlyFans has absolutely nothing to do with her performance as a teacher and it is disgusting that teachers that we desperately need are not only getting fired for being forced to do outside work to afford to be able to live and also buy supplies for their own classrooms but that they're getting excoriated for it.

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 83 points 1 year ago (48 children)

Nobody’s biz what she does outside of work. These cunts can fuck off.

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[–] elouboub@kbin.social 78 points 1 year ago (20 children)

Horny parents outraged that their obsession is also teaching their kids.

"She's on OnlyFans!"

How do you know?

"Uh...."


Plus 125k in student loans and ~50k salary? What the fuck else is she supposed to do?

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

The real unfortunate thing is that she's lucky in that she's attractive and willing to do this. There are a lot of teachers who are in the same financial situation but don't have that as an option.

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[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The irony of this is being put on administrative leave and ending up on the news is likely to make her OF blow up. Probably a win/win for her.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I had friends in college, including one who was an ed major, who helped pay for their education by working in the local strip club. No one gave a shit because social media didn't exist back then. But could you imagine if it got around that the student teacher was also a stripper? How dare she for some reason!

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[–] Lizzy_Wizzy@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Imagine giving a shit if someone makes porn in their free time.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I had a home ec teacher that was found out to do playboy spreads. As a young teenager I did not care. My parents did not care(they were hippies). Who cared the most were dumbass older teenage boys for some reason writing her porn name on the chalkboard before she came in one day. It was like they were angry at her for turning them on. That’s when I realized men’s sex education and support for processing complex thought and feelings around relationships and sex is abysmal.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 43 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It might not have been about making them horny. They just found something to bully the teacher about and used it. Teenagers are monsters.

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[–] Kushia@lemmy.ml 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Imagine if we just paid teachers better so that they didn't sometimes resort to this to make ends meet. Nah, let's persecute the poor teacher instead!

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[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I keep wondering when the war on teachers is going to spread to my district. Given how many Republican "parent choice" signs I see up I don't think I have long. Really would have liked my kids to go to a functional school.

I don't care if my kids teacher does porn.

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[–] Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] athos77@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe they should pay the teachers then.

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