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.
Just because teachers are controlled by schools in other ways doesn’t mean that they should be controlled in this way also. Simply saying that teachers can’t do X and therefore they ought not be able to do Y is a non-argument.
The argument isn’t about control, it’s about agreed upon terms in a contract of employment. If she agreed to conduct herself a specific way when she signed her contract and then did the opposite this is a matter of breach of contract. Should schools hold their employees to such standards is a different conversation than should an employer hold an employee accountable when they break the terms they agreed to.
To frame the situation in another light, despite being a room full of adults who can consent it’s generally regarded as a terminatable offense if a college professor has a relationship with a student, even when both parties are consenting. With that in mind should it be acceptable for a teacher of under aged students to generate content of a sexual nature with the intent of mass distribution? Students in her school/class will inevitably gain access to that content and now you have a situation where a highschool teacher has exposed themself to children. With that in mind this seems like the kind of thing you’d consider an improper act of conduct.