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Intriguing Sacked Teacher Says She Does Not Care About Being Reported Over OnlyFans After Business Booms Online

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/missouri-substitute-teacher-onlyfans-school-assignments-1825000
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u/PrecedentialAssassin 13h ago

If I were a hot teacher I would start an only fans then anonymously report myself so I’d get fired then my OF would blow up from all the coverage. You’d probably make more in a year than you’d make in a career teaching

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u/mysticknightt 13h ago

This is the way.

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u/applecombinipimento 12h ago edited 12h ago

Idk a full lifetime career teaching plus pension is a lot

OF would be a one time lump sum and then impossibility of being able to work anywhere that has a DBS check most likely which is every job that's worth having. Add to that the taxes as well

Most of types do not make much money at all

Even with the headline it won't be much

Edit: ah it's the US. I don't know how their system works.

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u/Secret_Dragonfly_438 12h ago

Article says she was a substitute teacher. That’s the equivalent of being a day laborer. No benefits, no pension.

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u/applecombinipimento 12h ago

Ah okay wonder if they can carry on being hired for education places if they're exposed as a sw

Probably not I imagine maybe against their contract

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u/athomesuperstar 12h ago

I used to teach. Pay was horrible, but health coverage/benefits were amazing.

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u/bryanthebryan 11h ago

Former teacher here. I can confirm the pay was horrible.

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u/HoldenHotpockets 11h ago

US education system is currently rat fucked by conservatives, so teachers don’t get paid even close to equitably. Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if quitting a “good” teaching gig for a minimally successful OF career would be a net positive move

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u/LionGuy190 5h ago

Depends on the state. In WA, experienced educators make 6 figures.

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u/Legitimate-Donkey477 4h ago

In Seattle where a house costs 7 figures.

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u/_redacteduser 1h ago

Our school district here in WA has amazing, well-paid teachers. The surrounding houses are affordable at their income level. I feel pretty grateful for it because our kids have had nothing but great school experiences. I know it’s not like that everywhere.

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u/sir_culo 12h ago

Lump sum? You might want to get that checked out. 

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u/Reikukaja 8h ago

Is that a lump sum in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?

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u/Membership-Bitter 11h ago

They mean there will be a sudden but fleeting monetary boom that will eventually die out. In a month's time her subscribers will tank and she will make so little money from this, while then making it harder for her to get any public facing job going forward. Not to mention most people who obtain large sums of money in an instant tend to squander it. Most people who win the lottery end up spending it all within 2 years iirc

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u/sir_culo 11h ago

Whoosh 

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u/Red-it-sux-since-ipo 5h ago

Sure, but that's when you make a new article "OF model can't get work as a teacher!!" Then after that dies out you make a new one "OF model denied teaching job by prestigious private high school!!!" And so on.

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u/gorilla-grow-tent 13h ago

a solid jumbotron feature at a football game works pretty well if ya dress for the cameraman

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u/Leoryn-Floreli 12h ago

I'm speechless.

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u/gorilla-grow-tent 11h ago

Not complaining or shaming, I don't click "link in bio" crap on Insta though. If they didn't want more followers, I don't even care to suggest how to go slightly... undercover.

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u/xChoke1x 12h ago

Gotta be in Canada though. Lol

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u/gorilla-grow-tent 11h ago

Not a requirement for boxing ring girls, but I know what ya mean ;)

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u/ButteredPizza69420 12h ago

Work smarter not harder

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u/MycologistSubject689 12h ago

you can make more in a MONTH on OF than you do in a year teaching lmao

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u/Snoborder95 12h ago

But the time and money it takes to go to college to be a teacher sucks

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u/AnavelGato2020 11h ago

Every year I hear about teachers, police or other worker being fired for having and OF. Some of them probably did indeed out themselves to generate traffic. 😆

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u/hansblixkilldslmshdy 2h ago

look seriously if i was a woman i'd consider it. certain assets have value, period. the amount of shame that society puts on women that want to display their bodies is unbelievable. and its purely a projection stance, anyone shaming is literally projecting their own insecurities in nearly all cases, its jealousy or low self-worth or some other low confidence issue

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u/Waiting4Reccession 11h ago

Hot teachers just go an marry a rich guy, they dont need onlyfans. Especially elementary school teachers and English teachers. It should be a meme at this point.

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u/ILiekBookz 13h ago

Its not like teaching was paying her bills

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u/satyrday12 13h ago

She was actually a substitute. That's like minimum wage.

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u/LowAside9117 13h ago

In my town it's been below minimum wage because it's a gig job

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u/Cockrocker 8h ago

Well, that's why we tip no?

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u/totallyjaded 13h ago

Where I live, the district pays $140 / day.

And you have to pay $45 for a substitute teacher license, along with $80 for a background check. So on day one, you pretty much wind up in the red, after taxes. Then you get that sweet, sweet $17.50 / hour.

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u/origamicactus 11h ago

There are fast food places around my city that have starting pay around that much. I guess substitute teaching is easier in that you can just sit on your phone, complete online work or training between looking up to check on the kids (depending on The class).

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u/totallyjaded 11h ago

Yeah, I've been a hiring manager in tech for years. I've heard a lot of "I could make that at McDonald's / Target / wherever" from people who never set foot in a college classroom, when the entry-level positions legitimately do pay the same. And my response has always been "Those places don't have a hundred people applying. And, this job is a stepping stone to something else. If you do it right, you should be in a different role in less than a year's time."

I don't know how the schools sell it, honestly. I kicked around seeing what it was like to be a sub, when I wanted to burn off a bunch of accrued time off. But giving my first day for free was a non-starter. I'm kind of surprised that people will clock the 60 college credits (my state's minimum requirement) and be like "All set. Gonna be a sub now, and never, ever get the benefits that teachers get, or compensation for experience."

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u/Xenophonuscrete 12h ago

They started the article out like she had been teaching forever and then shes just a sub so its not even much of a job. Lol.

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u/Byrdboy 12h ago

Not sure where you are but my district is over $200/day for subs and it goes up like $40 for long term subs. You can certainly make a living out of it.

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u/picks43 11h ago

350 a day here in Cali, we also get pension and healthcare.

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u/0202_tihssitidder 11h ago

OF will be great if you go viral. She just went viral. Now she can work it for years.

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u/-CoachMcGuirk- 13h ago

I’m a teacher and we had a former porn-vid actress hired as an aide. Nobody had a clue what she used to do and didn’t care. The ironic part is that one of Christian fundamentalist teachers outed her and she was subsequently removed. I guess she had quit the business and was recently divorced trying to make ends meet.

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u/highbudsilver 13h ago

Id ask how the Christian knew

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u/kgruesch 12h ago

Every accusation is a confession with them. It's almost a law of nature at this point.

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u/rjnd2828 13h ago

Aint no hate like Christian love. I'm not even religious and even I am familiar with Mary Magdeline

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u/probablyHuman69 13h ago

Love your user name. We had a middle school teacher that made it to retirement that posed nude in playboy. When we, the students, found out we kept quiet and just passed around a print out.

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u/Mr-Digglethe-Wiggle 13h ago

Must be the gym teacher.

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u/nahman201893 12h ago edited 11h ago

So they pay teachers shit and subs even less and then fire them for making up the gap in income. Fast forward 10 years and there's barely any teachers. I'm sure they will be asking "where have all the good teachers gone"?

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u/AnotherPersonsName 11h ago

They are bought out by high property taxed areas or private/Montessori schools.

In those areas they don’t even need “good” teachers since the parents are already so involved and usually well off. Local high school recently had a back to school night and they had to close off some roads bc so many parents were there and they needed extra street parking.

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u/ticklemesatan 11h ago

We’re already 5-10 years into that trend.

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u/0202_tihssitidder 11h ago

OnlyTeachers might work. For several reasons.

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u/pikap83 11h ago

That is the trick. In 10 years the people who were taught by bad teachers would assume all teachers are bad and thus is normal their children have bad teachers. As a matter of fact, they would think they are overpaid. Thus creating a vicious cycle.

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u/Hicklethumb 43m ago

I wouldn't have enjoyed highschool nearly as much if it wasn't for my hot math teacher.

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u/Phone-Medical 13h ago

Comment section needs some research

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u/hamster_squeezer69 12h ago

Wtf man, $28 a month? I don't pay that much for any entertainment subscription.

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u/Stripedanteater 12h ago

Guy who cheated on me spent thousands for stupid videos of women just having sex with a dildo or a stranger. Understanding insecure men is just not worth the mental energy. These women sure do profit off of it though. It’s pretty sad all around. Loneliness, mental illness, and poverty woohoo.

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u/FunkTheFreak 12h ago

With a little digging, I am sure you can find a lot of her stuff on the web for free.

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u/RainingMoneyHustard 9h ago

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u/Hotmancoco420 59m ago

You sir are a gentleman and a scholar.

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u/edvurdsd 13h ago

What else is new

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u/rnd68743-8 12h ago

I read this as "Stacked Teacher Says...".

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u/Afraid-Expression366 13h ago

I have some questions for the manager who discovered her OnlyFans account.

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u/VoradorTV 13h ago

not sure what the issue is, did she do something illegal? i would sue for wrongful dismissal

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u/National-Charity-435 13h ago edited 12h ago

I recall a private (catholic) school mother getting outed by a father for having an OF, then her kids got kicked out

Shouldn't the father get the same treatment for "stumbling upon" her OF? Lust and borderline adultery

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u/ResponsibleFix92 12h ago

That’s so embarrassing why would he ever admit to this lmao

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u/National-Charity-435 12h ago

In July, things became problematic for the couple when a dad from Sacred Heart Parish School stumbled upon Crystal's OnlyFans page, Crystal says. He told his wife, who eventually spread the news around the school.

lmfao he told HIS WIFE

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u/dragunityag 12h ago

Look he was just doing research to know how to avoid it.

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u/hybridaaroncarroll 12h ago

Or "I was hacked!!"

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u/leftofthebellcurve 10h ago

didn't this mom also have her OF username on the side of her car

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u/National-Charity-435 10h ago

Think that's the Florida mother

The one I'm referencing is the CA (Sacramento) one

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u/leftofthebellcurve 9h ago

You’re right I do remember that mom being from florida

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u/broken_toyz_in_ON 13h ago

Mrs. Poindexter

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u/Silver-Machine-3092 12h ago

Yeah, I think he "stumbled" all over her OF

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u/popejubal 12h ago

In the US, wrongful dismissal is a very hard case to win. Only a few specific reasons for firing someone are illegal and then you have to prove that you were fired for that illegal reason. Firing someone because you don’t approve of their extracurricular activities is not illegal. I think it’s dumb, but it isn’t at all illegal. 

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u/cwx149 11h ago

Usually there's some kind of fine print in their employment contract that would allow them to dismiss her for something like this

In the past when this has happened at Private schools they've mostly had "decency" clauses and stuff that boil down too "if your behavior is too far out of the bounds of what we consider acceptable we can fire you"

No clue how it works for public school teachers usually though

Edit: looks like she was a substitute teacher not a full time teacher so she's basically a gig worker for a school. Substitutes are sometimes closer to contractors or temps than true employees so I won't be shocked they can dismiss her for this

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u/useroftheinternet95 11h ago

Society is so fucking cooked

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u/RainingMoneyHustard 9h ago

We're only a few generations away from having nothing but influencers and onlyfans rejects running the world.

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u/stayndarsh 1h ago

OF already has recruiters giving guest lectures in colleges 😔

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u/dear_hatt 12h ago

If they're going to write an article on her. They should at least link her site 

/sheenasittner

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u/OutsideImpressive115 13h ago

Signs of the times where a teacher happily switches to porn instead. Crazy fucking times man

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u/SimpleGuy7 10h ago

OF’s the answer!

What a world we live in today, such amazing progress.

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u/Basemastuh_J 12h ago

Missouri has the worst education sector so I don't blame her

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u/turnuout 12h ago

I thought that said STACKED teacher. Maybe it should. 🤔

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u/OutsideOk1380 12h ago

This is such good advertising

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u/RetinaJunkie 13h ago

Amazed there is so much OF money going around

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u/Brief_Review_2933 13h ago

Never underestimate the power of lonely simps

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u/ToTheYonderGlade 11h ago

It's shocking. Same goes for sports betting and prediction markets.

As much as "tax the rich" makes sense, how about these men stop spending so much on gambling and videos of women and instead put they money towards their community or a charity?

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u/DuhHamletovogOca 13h ago

I mean, I do think that teachers need a level of professional standards, like everyone ofc, as they are working with children, but if she's not promoting her OF in the school, not engaging sexually with other teachers, or is not dressing inappropriately, I don't see how "student safety" was in question...

On the other hand if the kids figured it out, it'd be a problem.

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u/ReasonableDefault 10h ago

She was teaching elementary school at the time, would be a concern if they "figured it out".

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u/wild_reach2099 13h ago

I read that as “stacked” teacher at first lol

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u/Berns429 12h ago

I saw the OF, it was a real bust… 😏

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u/PadreSJ 13h ago

Was she doing anything with her students? Minors? In the classroom? -- If not, what's the problem here?

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u/IllMathematician8994 12h ago

Im not against sex work, but Im 100% on board with some professions shouldnt get involved with it and working in a school is one of them

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u/akathescholar 11h ago

wicked that this kinda feels like an unpopular opinion. maybe i’m too darn old fashioned but i don’t want my politicians trading stocks like i don’t want my athletes encouraging gambling like i don’t want my teachers selling nudes. the warehouse industry won’t allow minimum wage workers to smoke weed off the clock so why is it not ok to establish parameters for other careers and industries

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u/wally-sage 11h ago

Warehouse workers SHOULD be able to smoke weed off the clock. The rule for that is just stupid.

But inherently I think the issue with your comparison is that it's two areas where there's a very clear conflict of interest versus two things that happen outside of work. I'm not arguing whether it's right or not for a teacher to have an OF account but it sure ain't anywhere near as morally incorrect as political insider trading.

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u/notandyhippo 11h ago

Honestly it only becomes morally incorrect if your identity is known and causes a disruption in the classroom

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u/tishimself1107 3h ago

You can smoke weed off the clock but cant come to work intoxicated in any form for health and safety especially in a setting with machinery of any kind in operation. Its a health and safety, insurance and common sense thing.

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u/MistrFish 11h ago
  1. Politicians trading individual stocks is a conflict of interest, not a general moral issue
  2. Sports betting has existed since the first Olympic games in 776 BCE. it's not surprising at all that athletes would be in on it.
  3. Banning workers from consuming weed off-hours is stupid to begin with
  4. the fact that a teacher would need to start an OnlyFans account to make ends meet is a systemic issue. Teenagers should be able to understand that a woman engaging in these practices does not give them the right to show her disrespect at school, and any kid that actually finds her account was already snooping around on websites where they shouldn't be.
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u/Discussion-is-good 11h ago

The issue imo is blaming teens reacting poorly as a fault of her activities outside of work, as if she's doing anything at all to advertise it to them.

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u/throwawayie6o 12h ago

As long as it’s not in the classroom, then it’s fine; maybe the schools should pay better to deter teachers having to go this route for extra money

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u/Sumnerr 12h ago

Yea, it isn't like kids have access to the internet or anything. Rumors never spread through a school. What could possibly go wrong?

Take a walk, jeez.

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u/SinoSoul 13h ago

Christians clutching their pearls is always the problem.

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u/Runfasterbitch 11h ago

What’s the problem? I definitely wouldn’t want my child’s teacher to be on onlyfans

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u/0202_tihssitidder 11h ago

Dads try to nail hot teachers. Moms don't like that.

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u/thezestypusha 52m ago

You are cool with your kid being in a class where the teacher is a pornstar..? You do you i guess

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u/East_Insurance_1037 40m ago

Yall care too much about shit that doesn’t matter

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u/Any-Confection5660 12h ago

Lucille Bluth Gif
"Good for her"

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u/WiggerJim69 12h ago

If she wasn’t filming content in the schools, i don’t see why she was fired

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u/Elegante_Sigmaballz 13h ago edited 12h ago

Does the UK pay their teachers like shit too? if so, good for her.

Edit: Missouri teacher, I was too quick to assume she is from the UK based on the site reporting this.

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u/Bred_Slippy 13h ago

She's from Missouri

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u/Adventurous-Tea-876 13h ago

TIL that Missouri is in the UK.

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u/ProfessionalRandom21 13h ago

Teacher is paid very well in UK, well atleast in my region.

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u/Bred_Slippy 13h ago

Nationally their pay is pretty poor. Not much over UK median. 

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u/p8262 13h ago

From my experience, teachers are significantly underpaid considering the importance of their work. I think their pay and career progression should be aligned with roles in the Civil Service.

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u/Obsydie 13h ago

They're significantly underpaid considering they don't have time to get all of the admin work done during the work day. Including the lesson preparation, marking, safeguarding, and anything else I've forgotten.

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u/ProfessionalRandom21 13h ago

They also have like 3 month of the year off too though

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u/Obsydie 12h ago

Children are extremely difficult to look after. Anyone would need a break from wrangling thirty of them every day, plus (most) parents would stay the state was stealing their children if they weren't given time off to go on holiday.

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u/Ok-Title-270 11h ago

I don’t disagree but having that much time off is a big perk

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u/Obsydie 8h ago

They also don't get lots of that time off, teachers spend a great deal of time during the school holidays doing training and other assorted meetings.

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u/Ok-Title-270 7h ago

They get way more than most people

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u/Final-Staff-4928 13h ago

They’re paid shit for what they endure.

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u/StatementSpare1990 12h ago

Yeah it's weirdly stressful. 

You have to be ultra-professional and act as a leader all day - on top of kids actively trying to make your job as difficult as possible because they're bored.

0/10 don't recommend. Any other job you can be an adult and relax around your colleagues at least part of the day.

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u/TheLoneCenturion95 29m ago

Only in private schools. Most teachers earn fuck all for the time they put in, it's why we have a shortage because it's not worth the money to attempt to teach people's feral kids.

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u/HugglesGamer 12h ago

None of my teachers were good looking enough to be on onlyfans… wtf happened lmao

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u/Alternative-Hold1669 12h ago

how long is that gonna last ?

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u/VermicelliMany1133 12h ago

Could use some more photos of her in this article!

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u/HuntPsychological673 12h ago

So another teacher who watches her OF turned her in?

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u/One-Construction3936 12h ago

Man, I don’t know. Throwing away a lucrative career as a substitute teacher. Seems reckless but I wish her well.

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u/Purona 12h ago

Nah not interesting. shes barely a content creator

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u/Onetruemcgee 12h ago

An educator by day and an educator by night.

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u/dukestduke 12h ago

Her profits: 5 dollars a month

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u/Cautious_Ad5132 12h ago

I commend her and the valuable work she does for the community. Kudos to you sexy teacher!

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u/bigdracco23 12h ago

Could the article have been about students moving their seats as of late.

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u/yeetzapizza123 11h ago

Surely it will work out long term 

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u/Un4gvn2 11h ago

Well, teachers making 100 bucks a day have to do something to pay the bills. And the president is a molester that still has his job.

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u/Snuggly-Muffin 11h ago

just imagine finding out your hot teacher has an OF....

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u/MuddledLucidity 11h ago

I have two thoughts on this. 1) It was appropriate for them to suspend her. 2) I hope she gets rich and lives her best life.

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u/collegefootballfan69 11h ago

My teacher - Sister Mary Catherine- could have been the first OF nun

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u/Numerous-Net-4983 11h ago

Congratulations to Jugs McGee

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u/Scuffed-Jodhpurs 10h ago

how is this interesting

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u/Vandstar 10h ago

Social engendering, nice. Ain't gonna work, but nice anyhow.

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u/whisperworks 10h ago

“Fuck them kids” could be the motto of American education lol

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u/CrisEXE__ 10h ago

Back in the mid 90’s it was discovered that one of my teachers did some shoots for Hustler.

Everyone of the students knew, other teachers knew, the administration knew. Nothing happened. She retired like 30 years later from the same school.

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u/mandrogd53 10h ago

what about the 'kink positive' gay who is running for congress from Long Island. NYT was cheering him on, including his lifestyle, in an opinion piece over the weekend

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u/Toga2k 9h ago

Not to knock her decision, power to her for getting paid better, teachers deserve better pay.

...but why work with kids in the first place if working with kids is such a low priority for you.

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u/djeeetyet 9h ago

it is very very likely the person who reported her is an avid consumer of this content. why don’t the dudes who watch this stuff lose their jobs? i mean there is a good chance they’re doing it on work phones or computers, which probably violates professionalism contracts.

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u/SomeCalligrapher3610 9h ago

i feel she has been wronged and i will join her only fans in a show of support. please provided link.

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u/CandidSecurity1043 7h ago

❌Sacked teacher
✅ Stacked teacher

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u/myrunawaysac 6h ago

"Stacked" teacher, you mean?

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u/MattyK414 4h ago

Right. And here's an advertisement.

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u/qwote 4h ago

Pay your fucking teachers

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u/wild_cherry1987 13h ago

Reddit comments be like: "normalise prostitution and not having any decency because money is king. Also f*** those kids" 

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u/Even-Pressure-8356 12h ago

The joke is them kids just lost another caring teacher to a job that paid better

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u/FrogsMakePoorSoup 11h ago

Is $140 a day right though? Seems really low for insecure teaching work.

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u/Consistent_Army_9355 12h ago

The problem is children need more than a subject matter expert, they need a role model as well. If she was doing college lectures her personal life can be ignored, but not for the age of her current audience

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u/Even-Pressure-8356 12h ago

Come on this is just dumb. Most teachers have nothing to do with the kids after the shift is done. If the kids are finding the link to the only fans on your desktop, thats a you problem

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u/Consistent_Army_9355 2h ago

Being a role model doesn't require active involvement in their lives. Merely learning what the teacher does, which is certainly bound to happen, is sufficient to influence them. Otherwise I guess you'd be totally fine if she was a drug dealer or human trafficker, because the separation between her personal life and her work life is 100% unblurred

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u/axolotlorange 11h ago

If you want teachers to be role models, you need to pay them enough that sex work is not a viable alternative

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u/wild_cherry1987 11h ago

Should factory workers also be OF prostitutes? Anyone really.. don't like the pay? Oh boy have you tried online prostitution??

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u/axolotlorange 11h ago

I don’t think factory workers should be role models either.

But I’m not going to act surprised when people make economic choices.

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u/Discussion-is-good 11h ago

Theyre not paid for that boss.

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u/Ok_Row_4920 12h ago

I don't give a shit about people making money either way, the big issue for me is government thinking they can dictate what people can or can't do with their own bodies.

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u/jswissle 12h ago

😂😂😂😭😭

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u/Discussion-is-good 11h ago

Only fans isnt prostitution.

You could learn the definition of words at least if youre gonna feel so strongly.

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u/Ok-Scholar-1875 12h ago

Where the fuck were all these slutty teachers when I was in school 😭

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u/Byrdboy 12h ago

It was actually ur mom not ur teacher

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u/Proof_Ambassador2006 12h ago

Hah got em

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u/Ok-Scholar-1875 12h ago

Hah.. I got him worse.

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u/SmootherWorm 12h ago

Is your onlyfans suffering from low subscriptions and weak support? Try becoming a teacher, and watch your stream grow!

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u/Puzzleheaded-Web446 12h ago

less people would do porn if we payed people living wages.

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u/HOrnery_Occasion 12h ago

Entertainment sells!