ST. LOUIS (First Alert 4/Gray News) – A former teacher at a high school in St. Louis who resigned after her OnlyFans page was reported to district officials has been fired after just days on a new job. Brianna Coppage was a teacher for five years, spending two at St. Clair High School. She was ... Read more
Punish?
This whole thing is a consequence of her initial action.
There is a direct and detrimental impact to her ability to do her job, and you’re forgetting that aspect of it.
Or do you think the school should wait until a student starts stalking her? Or having a constant barrage of sexual harassment? Would you be okay with her bringing 18 yo students on for content?
She didn’t break any laws, per se. And we shouldn’t shame her for sex work. Even so, actions have consequences and she professes to have known this was “a risk” going into it.
The schools can’t undo what she decided to do. The schools choices are to either ignore it and hope more shit doesn’t hit the fan, or terminate her employment. Keep in mind, if another scandal comes out, the whole “the school knew about it” thing is going to make liability an absolute bitch in lawsuits.
Sounds like victim blaming to me. If a student stalks or sexually harassed her, you punish the student.
you’re right, if it happens. The problem here is that it’s unnecessary drama that is inevitably going to eat up the school’s legal defense fund; and probably a lot of other funding. You can’t really blame the school for wanting to not deal with that.
particularly when the school does discipline the student and the parents sue. Even if the school wins, the school looses.
The only reason this is impacting her ability to do her job is because other people are making it a problem for her. If people harassed me at my job and my job fired me for it, that wouldn’t be fair. But she’s a woman expressing sexual freedom, of course plenty of people will hate her.
So… you don’t think her current students… googled her, found out this was her, and watched her content?
Or you don’t see how that impacts her ability to teach?
Which, brings us back to: they know, and it’s available for them to find with far less effort than you imagine. Don’t think so? Ask yourself how her channel blew up after the first time.
I think parents should control their children’s access to the Internet. Teachers are allowed to have a life outside of their extremely demanding underpaid job without puritans demanding that they be a role model for children in every aspect of their lives.
Your dodging the question:
Do you think her students aren’t aware and checking her content; or do you think it doesn’t impact her ability to teach them?
You’re right there’s a lot of things parents should do. It’s pretty much impossible to completely control a teenagers access, though, and entirely outside of the school’s ability to control. Particularly when students start passing them around off line.
I think your arguments are presumptious and that you aren’t asking a question in good faith. It doesn’t matter if her students are aware of it or not, if she’s not bringing it up in the classroom, she isn’t doing anything wrong.
Explain exactly why this makes it impossible for her to effectively teach. I’ll engage once you’ve actually constructed an argument.
Are you really going to insist that, having watched pornn of some one; your perception of them hasn’t changed?
Perhaps you’re a better human than most. Or entirely disinterested. It’s 2024, they’re hormone-riddled teenagers, at least some of them have watched their teacher in a porno.
Even if nothing “happens”, it will be a distraction. There will be those people that aren’t cool about, too. Either freaking out as puritanical assholes or those who can’t handle a crush with out being a creep.
We don’t live in an ideal world. It’s not fair, it’s. It not right. But reality is that this is a massive legal liability for the school- one they cannot afford.
Ideally, none of this matters. we don’t live in an ideal world and even if we did and it wasn’t a liability then it will always be a distraction. Because this is 2024 and it takes 2 seconds to plug her name into one of a dozen search engines, all of which are going to come up with “teacher suspended/fired for Only Fans” as the top few pages.
It’s not her fault. It’s not the schools fault. But it is reality. And reality is jerk.
This entire response was intellectually bankrupt, so I’ll limit my response to the part that stood out:
Too bad people like you fuck that up.