A Missouri high school teacher has been placed on leave after officials discovered that she was performing on a pornography website to supplement her salary.
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.”
Teachers are decently paid in some places, like where I live, but, yeah, definitely not in a conservative place. Don't want to attract any highly educated people and have to keep the ones who do it for the love of teaching so destitute that they don't have the energy to put into fighting the political crap.
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. 😒
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I agree. She can't continue teaching high school or probably even middle school boys once this comes out. She'd probably be fine teaching elementary age kids. There'd be a lot more dads attending parent-teacher conferences so it might even be a positive thing.
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.
I don't see a problem with her being put on leave. She is in a position of authority for children who are coming of age sexually. High schoolers have a hard enough time navigating social and emotional landscapes around sexuality, sexual identity, and sexual preference without the added complications of having an authority figure thrown in.
I think I would definitely have a problem with her being put on leave if she were an elementary school teacher where her students would not be sexually maturing and would not be curiously looking up her adult content.
Hell yeah. We should put all attractive teachers on leave in fact, since high schoolers have a hard enough time navigating society without the added complication of an attractive authority figure thrown in.
In fact, may as well put the ugly ones on leave as well, since those might be some people’s preferences as well.
Eunuchs and robots are out, again might be a kink. Self led learning should go too, since they may be a narcissist and get off on the thought of themselves being in charge.
May as well not teach them, since they may have a learning kink.
I see a huge problem. Since it didn't involve the school. Or violate anyone's consent. The school should keep their mouth fucking shut unless they have something to actually criticize her for that's relevant. Such as her ability to teach. Which isn't what they're doing.
But as a Missourian our state embarrassing us must mean it's a day ending in Y.