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Education Published November 4, 2023 5:03pm EDT

Student loan debt has teachers

turning to porn to pay it all off
Within weeks, two Missouri teachers were discovered to have had accounts on the OnlyFans platform
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Missouri teacher who resigned after school found out about her OnlyFans says she's made close to $1 million
The former Missouri teacher who resigned after school administrators found out about her OnlyFans account told Fox News Digital she's made
close to $1 million by selling adult content on the website.

Some teachers are quitting their jobs and turning to porn to pay off their student loan debt,
which exceeds $50,000 on average.

Two teachers from the same high school in Missouri were placed on leave after their
bosses found out the educators were operating OnlyFans accounts. Both said paying off
student loan debt was one of their top reasons for selling racy content.

Brianna Coppage was an English teacher at St. Clair High School when administrators
pulled her into a meeting in September and asked if she was secretly running an account
on OnlyFans.

"They specifically said they got a report from an adult in the Sullivan School District, and
they asked, do I have any other income streams, like outside of teaching? And said, ‘Yes, I I

do have an OnlyFans.’ They asked how long I had been doing it, if it was during my own
time or … anything at school, which I told them," she told Fox News Digital.

EX-MISSOURI TEACHER WHO DITCHED CLASSROOM FOR ONLYFANS HAS NO REGRETS:

'FAR EXCEEDED MY TEACHER SALARY'

Brianna Coppage, 28, a former English teacher at St. Clair High School, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch she was
put on leave after an interview with two administrators. (Brianna Coppage/Instagram/Facebook / Fox News)

Coppage said her work on OnlyFans was "completely separate" from her professional life
at school, where she made $42,000. She said the account was opened to help pay down
student loans from her advanced education degrees.

Weeks after being placed on leave, Coppage decided to resign. Since opening the
OnlyFans account over the summer, Coppage claimed in an interview with Fox News
Digital to have made nearly $1 million.

A second English teacher at the same Missouri high school was also placed on leave Oct.
27 after her bosses found out she was also running an OnlyFans account.

Inan interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Megan Gaither, 31, said she needed the
money to pay down over $125,000 in student loans.

SECOND TEACHER AT MISSOURI SCHOOL ON LEAVE OVER ONLYFANS SIDE HUSTLE:

'IT’S WORKING OUT OK SO FAR'

St. Clair High School English teacher Megan Gaither was placed on leave after administrators discovered her
OnlyFans account. (Megan Gaither/Facebook / Fox News)

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

According to the report, Gaither's pay, which includes a stipend for coaching the school's
cheerleading squad, was around $47,500. On average, students take out $55,000 in loans
for a teaching degree, according to a National Education Association report.

Gaither had an OnlyFans previously but took it down. 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.

"ILOVE education and teaching, and I loved seeing my students and cheerleaders learn
and grow into themselves. I’m damned good at helping them do that," Gaither said in a
Facebook post. "I’ll be telling my story. And hey. At least I didn’t try to neglect my duties of
paying back what I borrowed to get educated, right? I made the adult choice of getting a
side hustle. And guess what? It’s working out ok so far."

Coppage and Gaither aren't the only teachers who have recently turned to OnlyFans to
make more money.

"Imade the adult choice of getting a side

hustle. And guess what? It’s working out
ok so far."

Brianna Coppage, Megan Gaither, Samantha Peer, Kristin MacDonald and Courtney Tillia illustrated in front of a
classroom. (Facebook, Instagram, Michael Loccisano/Getty Images / Fox News)

Kristin MacDonald, a former special needs teaching assistant in Canada, was fired from
her job in June after refusing to take down her OnlyFans account after it was discovered
by school administrators. MacDonald went by "Ava James" on OnlyFans.

"Iwas advised to deactivate all Ava James social media platforms immediately, including
[Instagram], TikTok and OnlyFans, or possibly be terminated," MacDonald told Fox News
Digital. "I did not comply."

Kristin MacDonald, a teaching assistant in School District 43, was fired after the district advised her to delete
social media for "Ava James," her OnlyFans persona she maintains to make money on the side.
(Instagram/@a_v_a_james88 / Fox News)

SPECIAL NEEDS TEACHER FIRED AFTER SCHOOL DISTRICT DISCOVERED ONLYFANS

ACCOUNT DENIES 'EGREGIOUS' CONDUCT

The school district's contract with James included a clause regarding "off-duty conduct
being ‘appropriate,’" which MacDonald believed was "up for individual interpretation."

In the school's reasoning for firing her, administrators said she posted content that
"involves the sexualization of the school environment" and also disparaged the district in
news interviews.

Samantha Peer, a former middle school teacher in Arizona resigned after students came ,

across her OnlyFans account. Some of the content was allegedly being recorded in a
classroom setting.

"Icreated content at the beginning of the summer in order to earn extra money on the side
to help pay for our basic necessities that our salaries were no longer meeting," Peer said in
a video on Facebook. "I chose an anonymous name as well as blocking the entire state of
Arizona on my OnlyFans so that it wasn’t accessible to anyone living in the state."

Samantha Peer no longer works at Thunderbolt Middle School in Lake Havasu, Ariz., after students came across
her OnlyFans account, where she posted pornographic material. (Facebook / Fox News)

Peer made videos under the alias "Khloe Karter" on OnlyFans and was initially placed on
leave Oct. 24, 2022.

The Lake Havasu City Police Department in Arizona said the teacher might have recorded
some of the content in a classroom setting.

"Additionally, it was reported that some of the pornographic image(s) of Mrs. Peer
depicted her in a classroom-type setting, presumably on Thunderbolt School Property. The
superintendent of schools was advised of the report, and it was learned at that time that
they had also received the same information that was initially forwarded to the police
department," police said.

The school district wrote to parents in an email that "the images depicted did not happen
during the school day and the person depicted no longer works for LHUSD."

Courtney Tillia, a former Arizona high school teacher, also turned to OnlyFans after
ditching her teaching job in 2018.

"Back when I was a teacher, my family really struggled financially ," Tillia told the New York
Post, "OnlyFans allows me financial freedom. I can provide everything my family needs
and more."

Social Media personality Courtney Tillia attends "The Pink Party" at The Godfrey Hotel Hollywood July 6, 2022, in
Los Angeles. (Paul Archuleta/Getty Images / Getty Images)

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She told TMZ that she has made over a million dollars from her three OnlyFans accounts
and has been able to provide more for her family.

FOX Business' Peter Aitken, Andrew Mark Miller and Greg Wehner contributed to this
report.

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