Missouri teacher who performed on website known for explicit content has resigned, official says

A Missouri high school teacher, Brianna Coppage, who was suspended from her position after authorities discovered her involvement in a subscription-based website featuring explicit content, has chosen to resign, according to a statement by a school district representative.

Brianna Coppage, an English teacher at St. Clair High School, had been placed on leave the previous month after school administrators came across her profile on the OnlyFans platform. She had explained that she had joined the site as a means to supplement her teaching income. Recently, she submitted her resignation, which was confirmed by Superintendent Kyle Kruse in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

It is important to note that the teacher, who is 28 years old, was not pressured to resign, and the school district took extensive measures to maintain confidentiality when her OnlyFans page was initially discovered through social media posts. Superintendent Kruse had issued a statement last month, indicating that there might have been inappropriate media posted by an employee on various internet platforms.

At the time of her suspension, Coppage had stated to the newspaper that she had decided to join OnlyFans during the summer in order to supplement her second-year teaching salary, which was approximately $42,000. Notably, Missouri is known for having one of the lowest starting salaries for teachers in the United States, as per the National Education Association.

Coppage had mentioned that she was earning up to $10,000 per month through her activities on the OnlyFans platform before her suspension became a widely covered international news story. In the aftermath, her subscriber count surged by over 100 new followers, and she increased her subscription fee by more than double. Despite her suspension, she had expressed her intention to continue posting on the site.

In a statement given to the newspaper back in September, Coppage emphasized that she did not regret her decision to join OnlyFans. She acknowledged that while some may view it as a taboo or shameful pursuit, she believed that sex work didn’t have to carry a sense of shame. She did express a desire for things to have unfolded differently.

As of Wednesday, a publicly listed phone number for Brianna Coppage was not available. St. Clair is located approximately 55 miles southwest of St. Louis, and the high school she taught at has an enrollment of around 750 students.

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