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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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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. 😒

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 117 points 1 year ago (2 children)

M... maybe we could try paying teachers enough so that they don't have to open an OF to make ends meet?

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 103 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

What frustrates me is schools are frequently very willing to spend money on sports related expenses. A librarian left a a New Hampshire school $4 million dollars. They spent $100,000 on the library and $1 million on a new scoreboard (source) In the vast majority of states the highest paid employee is a football coach (source). Local governments don't really care about education and because local governments are typically elected to me that means American citizens don't really care about education either.

[–] semibreve42@reddthat.com 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The school you’re talking about is my alma mater, what they did is even worse then you describe.

That librarian was neurodivergent and left his savings to the university at which he worked with no specific restrictions.

The university execs wanted to use the money on sports, and directed the advancement department to create a narrative to support that decision. They found a mention he enjoyed watching sports at the nursing home during the last months of his life.

Close friends said he wasn’t interested in sports at all - he loved numbers and statistics, and at the end of his life at a nursing home the only numbers he could get to were baseball statistics. He couldn’t care less about the sport, he just liked the math.

UNH rewrote his life and personality to justify spending his gift on athletics.

https://deadspin.com/how-unh-turned-a-quiet-benefactor-into-a-football-marke-1819064622

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

That's a frustrating read but I'm glad I got to see a glimpse of the man who was just a random bit of trivia rattling around in my head. I'm going to try to remember Robert Morin as a kind man who loved learning and generosity. To me those are wonderful traits. And I'm willing to bet that the name Robert Morin will live on in that library for generations to come. Thanks for posting this.

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

Many Americans don't recognize the importance of paying attention to local politics, even when they care about education.

[–] Salamendacious@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

We're at a point where, in my opinion, that's analogous to someone smoking and chewing tobacco their whole life and then being shocked when they're diagnosed with cancer.

I know that comes across as sanctimonious and that isn't my intention I'm just frustrated with amount of willful ignorance in our society.

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[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 15 points 1 year ago

It's worse than that. A lot of school boards are run by right-wing assholes because a lot of Americans are very concerned about education in the sense that they want to prevent children from learning anything about how the world actually works.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I’ve seen worse over ~15 years of nonprofit management. Not that this isn’t bad. I’m just saying it gets much worse.

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[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also stop making us pay for our own supplies. We can’t write off more than $300 of class materials on our taxes too - maybe she could add some pencils to her routine to make them a legitimate business expense.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I can't fathom this is real. The US education system is destroyed in that case.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Bruh. I live in a wealthy-ass community, in a wealthy-ass state, and i still bought school supplies for my kindergartner’s class. Like, not for my kid - for the entire class. Shit’s completely fucked. And education here is like 99th percentile.

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 57 points 1 year ago

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

[–] deft@ttrpg.network 53 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ryry1985@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] PutangInaMo@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Time to go support an educator and help defend her rights

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

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

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Spendrill@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

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

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] blazera@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What, do you think shes doing only fans content while at the school?

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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