If We Don't Pay Teachers Well, Can We Fire Them For Doing OnlyFans?

Missouri, USA.

The essence of this Brianna Coppage case is that she worked in a low-paying school district in Missouri -- believe it was Franklin County Schools (hopefully that tag is right) and had an OnlyFans page to help make her ends meet. She was fired when someone, apparently one of her supervisors at the school, found the page. I am not sure of the specific terms of the firing, although it seems it would be related to a potentially boiler-plate “morality clause” in her contract.

For her part, Coppage told this to The New York Post:

“There is this expectation that teachers should be the moral leaders of students, and I do not disagree with that … I taught the curriculum. I taught students reading and writing, and I didn’t guide them on my thoughts or beliefs. … And I can’t control what people think of me. I just know that who I am as a person, I’m not doing anything illegal. I am a good friend. I am a good family member. That is all I can think about right now.”

This kind of stuff is extremely triggering for people and creates deep division lines among human beings, especially in polarized America.