Another teacher at a Missouri high school was placed on leave after administrators found out she was selling content on OnlyFans, according to a report.

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.

  • moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    1594·
    11 months ago

    How did they discover the page? I’m curious about this.

    Gaither said in the interview that she made an account on the direct-to-subscribers website because she has over $125,000 in student loans and needed the extra income.

    “Teaching does not financially support a person,” Gaither said. “It’s really hard to stretch those paychecks during the summer. That’s why I did it.”

    According to the report, Gaither’s pay, which includes a stipend for coaching the school’s cheerleading squad, was around $47,500.

    When Gaither took the account down, she claimed to have had around 1,500 subscribers and was bringing in an extra $3,000 to $5,000 per month.

    47,5/12= ~3.96k per month

    With an onlyfan page, she made more than the teaching job. The issue isn’t her onlyfan page. It’s the paycheck at the end of the month. They must pay more. Supervisors also have to stop going on onlyfan for other thing than work. I don’t believe they discovered it by chance.

    Onlyfan is one of the symptoms of low income not a problem.

    • unphazed@lemmy.world
      42·
      11 months ago

      Jesus, I make like 3k less and never finished college. I do a shit job on phones. She gets peanuts for putting up with BS and doing 1.5 jobs for a school. Teachers don’t get enough.

      • rchive@lemm.ee
        121·
        11 months ago

        The teachers that I know all get summer jobs which bumps their yearly income up several thousand dollars.

        • TechyDad@lemmy.world
          161·
          11 months ago

          A lot of teachers need to use the summers for conferences and planning lessons for the upcoming year. (My wife was a teacher.)

          • rchive@lemm.ee
            4·
            11 months ago

            If it’s a required thing they should obviously get paid for that time.

            • lad@programming.dev
              1·
              11 months ago

              If it’s the same in the US as in where I lived, the employer will try to push working hours count to as low as possible. Like, you must do this and that to prepare for work but who knows how much time you spend for that so we pay nothing.

              To be fair, this is not uncommon in other fields, where you must get better to stay useful for an employer but that effort is only “paid” in rases (sometimes) or not being fired.

    • aaaantoine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      332·
      11 months ago

      She’s a high school teacher. I’m gonna guess the students figured it out first.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.world
        71·
        11 months ago

        Which one of those kids is gonna rat out their teacher?

        My guess it was someone in admin who found it … maybe not the first but they would have been the one to pull the plug.