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    The important piece of this to me is this: She made $1 mil on OnlyFans and $42k/year as a teacher. She wants to be a teacher despite making plenty of money from other sources. This tells me that unless you have other evidence of impropriety she’s someone we want in the classroom. It also reinforces my stance, along with plenty of other studies that have been performed, that a universal basic income won’t stop people from working.

    Pay people better and we’ll just keep working because we like it. It’s part of being human, but we shouldn’t be suffering to survive at the same time.

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        Add in that id you don’t blow it all, you get to count the interest income. A long term investment gets about 6-7% per year. That’s actually more than the teaching job pay.

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          To go the other way, her tax bracket is a lot higher than the base salary alone would be. And if it’s $1m in a year, almost all of that will be in the highest bracket.

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            If shes single, her combined effective federal and Missouri income tax is around 40%, so she took home roughly 600k. If she’s married, then her total effective tax is 25%, so she took home 750k.

            For the 600k investment at a conservative 4%, which right now you can get in some savings accounts, her interest alone would be 24k/yr. For the 750k, it would be 30k/yr.

            With a more realistic return of 7-8% in today’s high interest rate markets, both of those sums would net more than her old salary of 42k/yr.

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      People probably will choose to work on different things though. It’s harder to exploit a workforce that isn’t as desperate. That’s the real reason why UBI isn’t happening.

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        My school had a sex ed class although I can’t honestly remember anything that we were told in it. But basically if students managed to get to the end of formal education without getting pregnant that was generally considered to be a success.

        They seriously had no real interest in educating students at all.

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              Depends if the school’s in Texas or not. But more broadly In my experience the problem is that they go on and on about no sex outside of marriage which is an unrealistic expectation, and don’t actually ever explain things like preventatives.

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        While I’d trust this person to do a good job better than the teachers hired by Catholic schools, being an Only Fans performer doesn’t really qualify you for that.

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      Ditto. Ive met countless older people now who kept up doing the work they were passionate about, even if it in time became a hobby that they did at a loss. People like to work. They like to see the fruits of their labor take shape before their eyes, and they like feeling like theyre doing something that benefits someone other than themselves.

      As it stands, the rules we live by only reward the infinite pursuit of profit, but that doesnt align with the values people find themselves holding whether they like it or not.

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      I quit a job I really liked for one I didn’t like nearly as much because I hardly made more than minimum wage

      If I won the lottery I would go back to that first job and work for free.

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      Case in point to your last part:

      I was fired at the beginning of the year. I had sufficient funds I coulda retired if I wanted to. I’m not quite 40.

      It’s been 2 months and I am so fucking bored I got a job. I didn’t go get a part time job to fill my time, I got a job in my field continuing to work at “my level” because it fulfills me.

      I’m now able to do what I want because I want to rather than because of some existential need. My work product is WAY better.

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      You can’t retire on $1m net worth. That’s not even a house in lots of areas.

      It definitely helps. But giving up my career for $1m would be a very bad investment.

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        Average investment returns are (conservatively) 8% per year, with a safe draw down being 4% per year. Which means she can safely withdraw $40,000/yr indefinitely without her investment decreasing in value over the long run.

        Easily enough to retire in a decent cost of living area if she wishes, or work a small side job to boost her income to support a higher cost of living.

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          Especially considering she was making $42k annually as a teacher (according to another comment, I didn’t actually read the article). So she was able to live on roughly that amount already.

          Realistically, she could continue to create OnlyFans content for some time and make and invest more than the initial $1m.

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          The safe withdraw for an extended early retirement is 3.5%

          With 4%, while the chance is small, you could end up running out of money.

          Someone did all the numbers for 35-40+ years looking back historically, and there were 4 or 5 years where if you started then and didn’t adjust your plan, you’d run out of cash.

          There were 0 scenarios where 3.5% ran out

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        Yeah, except she can go makeinimum wage working full time for benefits and call it a day. You can live on minimum wage if you also have a mil in the bank to start. One door closed but a bunch of others opened. She can do that job you want that you don’t do because it doesn’t pay much.

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          Working full time isn’t retiring.

          You also have a weird notion about benefits, and employers willingness to give full time hours so you even qualify. But that’s not even the slightest bit related to this discussion.

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            Most folks with the degree and certification required to teach can find another full-time job that offers benefits, e.g. health insurance (which even a million dollars will get burned up quickly if a serious medical issue arises and you have no insurance).

            But I think the point you’re missing is that she can continue making shit loads of money on OF for as long as she can while also working another job, as OF isn’t exactly something you need to 8 hours a day to do (though, some models probably do when you factor in advertising and getting your name/rep established).

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        You can’t pay for groceries with your net worth but given million bucks I’d retire immediately. That amount of money invested to the stock market pays around 50 - 70k interests every year and you get to keep the million.

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        Someone else calculated that $1 million is about 30 years of the teaching salary. So you cannot retire on a career either.

        If I were forced to choose I’d take the $1 million up front over a low-paying career and let it grow in the market while I found other work to avoid using it. $1 million up front over $1.3 million across 40-some years is a very good investment. Consider the decreased value of future money.

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        I have no idea why you’re being down voted. You’re absolutely right. You can’t live on back interest from $1M, so you have to invest it, and while some years you’ll make more than 10% average invested in the stock market, over 10 years you’ll average 8% because some years you’ll not only make no returns but you’ll lose some of your investment. Which means if you’re living off those returns, some years you’ll have to eat into those investments, slowly eating down the money you have making money for you. You’re paying taxes on those returns, and if you’re living off them, they’re considered short term investments and you pay a higher tax rate - because you pay taxes on returns on your investments.

        Rich people get richer because they have other income and can leave the money and the returns untouched; they aren’t living on the returns until they have far more money invested than $1M.

        People down-voting you are morons.

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          You’re paying taxes on those returns, and if you’re living off them, they’re considered short term investments and you pay a higher tax rate

          (US tax info) Investments are taxed as long term (the lower tax rate) if you hold them for at least a year. Meaning, after the very first year, there is no reason to every pay the higher short term capital gain rates. A solid strategy is to invest in index funds and hold them for decades. If you aren’t retired, put the dividends back into more index funds. The long term trends earn you (conservatively) 8% per year average.

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            The capital gains which you are, supposedly, drawing off of to live on (this was the original premise) is short term capital gains. The amounts you draw in your loss years are, yes, long term, and taxed at a lower rate, but that’s the hole in the boat causing your revenue stream to sink - the bigger problem is that what you draw from ROI is taxed at the higher rate.

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              You don’t get taxed on losses, or on loss years, whatever that means tax-wise. You get taxed on gains, period, which is the increase over your basis. Less than a year held is short-term, more than a year is long.

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          Yep, people acting like it’s plausible for someone to retire and live the rest of their life renting a room, at the same income as they got fresh out of college.

          Plus they’re citing studys aimed at 35-40 years life expectancy, for someone retiring in their 20s, maybe early 30s.

          And in one breath will decry the inflation calculations being cited by the government to show we have a “healthy” economy. And in the next, try to pretend cost of living isn’t sky rocketing and someone can live the rest of their long life on 40k/yr.

          That’s lemmy for you, though. No point fighting the tide.

          Edit - also, I’m sure those studies probably included some amount of social security helping out, which you’re not getting if you retire in your 20s.

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            I think they just mostly don’t understand economics, taxes, or have spent any time thinking about these things. Which isn’t surprising, because why waste time thinking about it when it’s increasingly unlikely to happen to you? Not understanding it is one thing, but thinking and then voting with your hormones is another.

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    A million dollars from OnlyFans and now she gets an employment law claim against the new employer.

    This may truly be the only way to get ahead as a teacher in the US…

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    I love how the employer admitted to not checking her references or googling her beforehand.

    Can’t really blame her when they didn’t do their due diligence.

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    After her OnlyFans became public, Coppage told KMOV that she made $1 million on the platform. Her yearly teaching salary was $42,000, she said at the time.

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        Enjoy sitting at the shite end of the Pareto income distribution.

        OF is a marketing gig, if you don’t have a way to push your content and leverage network effects, you’re not going to make any money.

        The revenue from an only fans is the customer count × avg customer lifetime × avg subscription price, customer count is a function of your exposure to potential customers, and lifetime is a function of your content frequency and originality (I assume if you upload the same content types the fan base gets bored).

        So, if you want a successful OF, you need to first focus on exposure, but the algos on most social media reward the haves, so your first issue is getting into people’s feeds. The best way to do this is targeting niches, areas with lower volume or high demand for content.

        Then you need to keep your audience by engaging with them but pushing new concepts, which will present it’s own challenges. There’s very much a quick copy culture on these networks that you’ll probably have to emulate to keep on the front of the engagement curve, and expect anything you do that success to be quickly replicated ad infinitum until it doesn’t anymore. I think this is a losing battle over time.

        You can also offer whale services like “girlfriend experiences” to try and lock in big spenders, but first you need them on a hook.

        It’s not just snap some pics and you’re good.

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            Now you know the unit economics of OnlyFans, and it’s an exercise to the reader to try them out.

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            It’s also just common sense.

            It’s like trying to become a successful twitch streamer or YouTuber - it’s a very saturated market. Think about how many articles we’ve all seen about someone or another getting flak just for having an OF at all, now multiply that by at least 1,000 and you have a rough starting estimate of how many people even have one, let alone how many are “successful.”

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          The best way to do this is targeting niches, areas with lower volume or high demand for content.

          It’s Lemmy’s time to shine! If my time here has taught me anything, it’s that there’s a surprisingly high demand for Star Trek and Linux. Time to paint a penguin on my dick and live long and prostitute my ass.

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          Yea I kno, I’ve looked into it before and it can be summed up as “it’s a job with fun sexy bits, but lots of job bits still” LMAO

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          Considering teachers practically work 100% of the time, it seems it would be difficult to genuinely perform the duties required while still maintaining a flourishing side gig like OF.

          My wife is a teacher. I see how much they have to work at home. She probably wasn’t a great teacher in the first place.

          I feel her point about the pay. Considering the hours worked, teaching is barely approaching minimum wage.

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            “140 subscribers and we do a grading in doggystyle stream! Who wants a sticker?” Throw in a couple A+ emotes, and you’ve got cross-career synergy. Depending on her grade level it might not be as demanding outside of work.

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        You’ll need a school full of students and probably some news sites to run an article about you in order to make those kinds of profits.

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    They claim that I violated their social media policy, but will not respond to me with how I violated it.

    This second part is what is going to get her a nice piece of damages. What was the policy? Was it spelled out when she started? Is Only Fans actually social media?

    The answers are: There’s a vague one that certainly doesn’t cover the use of OF; she wasn’t given it; and no, she’s an actress.

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      Only if she can prove the firing was related to being a member of a protected class. Unless it was not at will employment but I’m not aware of any private sector jobs like that anymore.

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        No, they gave a reason and that reason isn’t covered under their policy, so she should still be covered.

        If they let her go without a reason, then she would have to prove discrimination. But if they say “You violated our social media policy” and refuse to show how, and she can prove that nothing she did was on violation of the policy as written, then that is a clear case of unlawful termination.

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        Lots of teachers are part of a union. There’s no mention of it in the article that I see, but union workers tend to be a little bit more protected than at will workers.

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          In this case, she seems to have moved into healthcare in some way or another and may no longer have union support.

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        As said below, they gave a reason. It has to be consistent with the actual policy and that policy has to be applied fairly and universally. If someone is making it up as they go, then they did it wrong.

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      I mean, you can do all the things on only fans you do on Instagram so I would say it’s definitely at best social media, at worst porn platform

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    If someone were willing to pay for pics of my ballsack and I made a lot more selling those pics than I make teaching in high school I would still miss my less-paying job

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    It feels like she knew she would get fired from this new job, leverage it nationwide articles and get even more subscribers to her OF page. She even references the teaching gig in her bio, and the new job in her latest posts.

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      Maybe. It doesn’t matter. Jobs shouldn’t be able to fire you because you get naked on the Internet, which requires you to pay to even see in the first place.

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        Eh I disagree with some jobs. Teachers are supposed to be role models to students and keep certain things private.

        The problem is we aren’t paying teachers adequately for that. It reminds me of essential workers during the pandemic. If we need these people so badly, or we’re asking them to be role models and be private about certain things, then we should be paying them much, much more.

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        I’m a teacher and they specifically have guidelines on what you’re behavior online should be. Keeping your socials clean. Making sure my interactions with students are kept professional.

        The fact is that kids these days are nosey and great researchers. Having an only fans as an educator has a huge risk of students discovering it, and will ultimately change the relationship between student and teacher from a student/ teacher relationship to a viewer/ pornstar one.

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          to a viewer/ pornstar one

          And depending on their age, they might even have sex. People want one easy solution to all problems, but being a teacher and a regular office worker is not the same, hence the standards are different too.

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        Gonna get roasted for this, but why?

        I think it’s pretty reasonable for an employer to fire someone for posting racist things on the Internet. I think we can all agree on that. Actions outside of work can have an effect on work and so I think it’s reasonable to make employment decisions based on how the employer acts outside of work. I would argue racism is morally wrong and sex work is not, but I don’t think it’s possible to define employment laws in a way that fits a universal moral code.

        I love the protected classes we have for employment now: age, gender, color, religion, etc. I think these protections are valuable to employees everyone, and I think they make sense because they don’t affect your ability to do the job. I having “does sex work on the side” on this list makes much less sense.

        I think many, maybe even most, jobs wouldn’t be affected by an employee having an onlyfans, and so in my opinion someone shouldn’t get fired for it most of the time. But I think there’s a clear line between the protected classes and people who post on onlyfans.

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      Her job doesn’t get to decide what she does in her off time. Of course on the streets of the real world they definitely try and succeed. I’m saying that they should not.

      God i just want the world to change for the better. This is dumb

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    …”They claim that I violated their social media policy, but will not respond to me with how I violated it.”

    KMOV reached out to Compass Health, but the company has not yet responded.

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    I’m a senior manager at a pretty big company.

    That’s something she does on the side, and if anyone in the workplace gave her shit, I would tell them to leave it the fuck alone unless they wanted me to bring HR in to the convo.

    Can people please not be cunts? (I’m an Aussie…)

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    If there was karma on this place then I’m about to yeet it into oblivion but nevertheless. Teachers are not paid nearly enough but doing only fans and teaching to not combine at all. I won’t bother explaining why because it’s obvious.

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      To me this reads as:


      < preemptive justification for saying something controversial and/or indefensible >

      < controversial statement with no justification or reasoning >

      “Not going to explain because it’s obvious”


      Probably not how it was intended, but that’s some weak sauce

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        My sauce is that it is not how a teacher should act period. Also it’s not private she also has some pornhub which is publicly available website. no matter the pay.

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          that it is not how a teacher should act period.

          C’mon dude, just say the sexist parts out loud. We all know that’s where this conversation is headed anyway.

          It’s the only reason you keep sticking to circular logic to defend yourself. You know if you say what you really mean here, it isn’t going to go over well.

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            What is there sexist about this mate ? It doesn’t matter whoever does it a teacher should not be making porn on the side.

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      doing only fans and teaching to not combine at all

      Then we’ll see fewer and fewer teachers. And more and more sex workers.

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        that’s actually what I’m saying as well. The pay for teachers and the conditions they are working in are absolutely horrendous. I can’t imagine working with a bunch of, lets face it, zoo animals who have a near free rule because the school and the parents back them all the time and that 5 days a week for hours. but at the end of the day you can’t expect to post porn online and then be suprised that you’re getting fired. The reality is that teachers are still held to high standards while received little to no pay and students are not. in a perfect world I expect both of them to be held to high standards.

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      So I’m just curious as to who exactly reported her because presumably they don’t look at that kind of content and when they did find that content they were appalled and they just sort of stumbled onto it?

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      I won’t bother explaining why because it’s obvious articulating my feelings on this would reveal me to be sexist and regressive.

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      Next morning in class:

      Billy you get full marks today, your dad gave a generous tip last night.

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        Thanks I practically explosed laughing and everyone in the waiting room starred at me.

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    OnlyFans and high school teacher absolutely do not mix. There is a 0% chance one will be able to properly educate students in that environment.

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      If only we paid them a living wage so they wouldn’t have to seek additional income to survive.

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        If only we paid them a living wage


        ST. LOUIS…Her yearly teaching salary was $42,000

        In 2016, the median household income in the City of St. Louis was $42,000. source (expand the dropdown: What does this indicator measure’)

        She made as much teaching as the median household income in the area by herself (completely ignoring the rest of her household). Since when is that not a living wage?

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            I’m not the person you are replying to, but I take your point and agree with you in principle. However, you didn’t really address their point that $42k is the median household income in her area. So at least half the households (not just individuals) are trying it. But I don’t know how it’s working out for them.

            Perhaps that region is quite affordable or has a low cost of living or is crime ridden, idk.

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          Hello!
          I couldn’t get your link to work to check your source, but data commons said the median personal income for St Loius in 2022 was around 35k.
          I believe the data came from the US census, so it includes students and retirees. It is probably safe to assume that household median has gone up since 2016. She probably earned a living wage, but not the living comfortably wage I believe teachers deserve. (Not trying to start an arguement, just trying to be helpful.) Have a good day!

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            Because real people have to deal with the real world as it is, not as they imagine it ought to be in their heads.

            No amount of “it shouldn’t be like this” is going to convince a school full of kids in the heat of puberty to behave under those conditions.

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              Like how the real world paid her only slightly more than a intro fry cook salary to teach hundreds of kids so their parents could go be productive members of society for 8 hours, so she looked for other ways to supplement her income?

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              Ok then pull the stick out of your asshole and realize your morality isn’t relevant.

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              I’m going to get downvoted for this, but you’re speaking truth here. It sucks that she had to find something to supplement her income, and it is certainly a problem. That said, her starting an OnlyFans page was a poor choice on her part for all the reasons you laid out, and I’ll add one more: it increases the chance for her to be sexually assaulted by either a student, parent, or coworker. Also a very big problem. I’m not saying any of this is fair or just, it’s the reality of the world we live in. Fair or unfair, just or unjust, the choices we all make have repercussions. I don’t think it’s “fair” that she needed to supplement her income with a side hustle; but she’s not the only teacher who with a side gig, and most of them don’t wind up on OF. I don’t think it’s “just” that she was fired, but the kids at the school finding that content would’ve created a giant mess and possible legal situation for the school (which takes money from the already meager pot teacher pay comes from, i.e. tax revenue). Until the problems we all agree exist are addressed (sure, hold your breath waiting for that), the current reality simply cant be ignored out of idealism.

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        Yes because “I’m 18!” Really works, (or most parental controls.)

        I was 8 or 9 when I discovered my dad’s password book. Kids can and will find a way.

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            I didn’t say it was.

            But if you really think highschool students aren’t going to find their teachers on the internet… social media, OF… whatever… then you’re brain dead.

            As for if it’s appropriate or not… let me ask you, would it be appropriate for her to say, put on a strip show for her students, while they wanked off to it?

            Cuz that’s exactly what happened.

            Further consider the number of times that teachers have been terminated (or calls for that,) after shitty social media posts (racism, sexism, bigotry. The list is long.)

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              But if you really think highschool students aren’t going to find their teachers on the internet… social media, OF… whatever… then you’re brain dead.

              But, again, that’s not her problem.

              As for if it’s appropriate or not… let me ask you, would it be appropriate for her to say, put on a strip show for her students, while they wanked off to it?

              That’s not at all what happened, so this isn’t relevant.

              Cuz that’s exactly what happened.

              No it isn’t.

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                That’s not at all what happened, so this isn’t relevant.

                Cuz that’s exactly what happened.
                

                No it isn’t.

                She was outed by people who knew her. She thinks it’s a video with her husband’s face, but that’s not necessarily true. You don’t know that students weren’t the ones who recognized her. Any identifying tatoos that might be visible… her voice. Or maybe they were lurking on her other social media and recognized his face.

                But at this point, I guarantee you, after it got out… her students definitely have seen her. Regardless of whether or not her then-students knew or found out, her current students absolutely have. or at least, a few of them. This is not the kind of thing that just goes away; and she hasn’t tried to make it go away. in fact she’s monetized the drama.

                It is a bit odd that another school hired her without knowing about the account, though. That school needs to have a look at it’s screening process.

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              But they don’t know to look for it do they, and it’s not like it’s listed under her name so there no more likely to find her than any other OF content creator

              Maybe a co worker is on the site, statistically probably some are, how would I check for that other than to go through every single profile to see if one of them is theirs. Plus I have no necessary reason to suspect that one would be, so why would I do that?

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                You think teenagers aren’t on OF?

                As for being discovered, it’s probably just random chance. It happens. It could have been anyone. Students, coworkers. Parents. Friends.

                There’s ways of identifying people online, and plenty of weirdos dox or try to dox sex workers.

                Once she got doxxed, all bets are off, though.

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                  But she wasn’t discovered it was apparent that made the complaint, how did they find it? 🤔. So the children demonstrably didn’t know.

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            Punish?

            This whole thing is a consequence of her initial action.

            There is a direct and detrimental impact to her ability to do her job, and you’re forgetting that aspect of it.

            Or do you think the school should wait until a student starts stalking her? Or having a constant barrage of sexual harassment? Would you be okay with her bringing 18 yo students on for content?

            She didn’t break any laws, per se. And we shouldn’t shame her for sex work. Even so, actions have consequences and she professes to have known this was “a risk” going into it.

            The schools can’t undo what she decided to do. The schools choices are to either ignore it and hope more shit doesn’t hit the fan, or terminate her employment. Keep in mind, if another scandal comes out, the whole “the school knew about it” thing is going to make liability an absolute bitch in lawsuits.

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              Sounds like victim blaming to me. If a student stalks or sexually harassed her, you punish the student.

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                you’re right, if it happens. The problem here is that it’s unnecessary drama that is inevitably going to eat up the school’s legal defense fund; and probably a lot of other funding. You can’t really blame the school for wanting to not deal with that.

                particularly when the school does discipline the student and the parents sue. Even if the school wins, the school looses.

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              The only reason this is impacting her ability to do her job is because other people are making it a problem for her. If people harassed me at my job and my job fired me for it, that wouldn’t be fair. But she’s a woman expressing sexual freedom, of course plenty of people will hate her.

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      There is a 0% chance one will be able to properly educate students in that environment.

      The high school teacher probably wasn’t using OnlyFans as a teaching platform. Those were two completely different environments.

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      Most adults are perfectly capable of siloing different parts of their lives, especially between work and personal lives.

      But I can see you’re probably not part of most adults and therefore it MUST be impossible for everyone else…

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        Most adults

        We are talking about highschool students here. You think they will be able to properly learn in such an environment?

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          You think they will be able to properly learn in such an environment?

          Why wouldn’t they? In middle school one of the teachers (a long time ago) did some porn and I saw the pictures. It didn’t affect my ability to learn. Seeing boobs didn’t magically make my brain stop working.

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          Ah I get it now, you must be one of those school administrators who implements asinine dress codes for girls because “It’s too distracting for the boys”

          They’ll learn just fine. Not to mention the myriad of ways of doing OF in a way that prevent IRL identification. Hell, OF has profile geo blocking as a built in feature lmao

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            Highschoolers, the people who are well known for telling the truth when presented with an ‘are you 18’ prompt when looking at porn.

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              They’d probably need to steal a credit card too, at least from what I know. I can imagine a person who is willing lie, but I don’t know if most of them would steal from their parents.

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      Right, teachers should not be human and exist on any sexual level. They should be automatons devoting their every second of life to their students for 42K a year.

      Give me a break.

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      If you just read the article, though, you will see that her new job has nothing to do with teaching. She was fired for “violating the social media policy” after five days, she says they won’t elaborate further.

      She says she was also up-front about her side gig. But how exactly do you put your OnlyFans experience on your resume? “Internet Personality”?

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      Dude.

      Several years from now you’ll be able to tell your phone to make a sexy video of your school librarian, a toaster, and a maths equation. How will anyone get anything done?

      As a society we need to realise that producing questionable material is not shameful, and consider I stead that accessing compromising content concerning the school librarian may be appropriate.

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        Who will these people with sexy school librarians my school library was like 75 years old and an absolute crank.

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      The issue is how parents would react to it more than the students caring themselves.

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      OnlyFans and high school teacher absolutely do not mix. There is a 0% chance one will be able to properly [indoctrinate] students in that environment.

      There, fixed that for you!

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        How ever did you manage to crack the code? You must be very smart to have figured out educate means indoctrinate. Now the CIA is gonna hunt you down to prevent the information from spreading.

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      Holy fucking Christ Lemmy is full of some of the stupidest people.

      This was clearly a joke, people. About how you wouldn’t be able to educate ON OnlyFans.

      For fucks sake.