The internet was supposed to help more people become more informed about what is happening in the world around us. It seems to have another function as well, exposing just how f(ornicating) stupid some people can be! Brianna Coppage has given us a whole new take on what living in the Show Me State means!

Missouri teacher on leave after school district discovers her OnlyFans porn page

by Ethan Colbert | Thursday, September 28, 2023

ST. CLAIR — A high school English teacher has been placed on leave after the St. Clair School District discovered she performs on the pornography website OnlyFans.

The 28-year-old teacher at St. Clair High School, Brianna Coppage, said in an interview with the Post-Dispatch that she was put on leave on Wednesday after being interviewed by two administrators. Her access to school email and other software has been revoked while the district investigates, she said.

“It was kind of always like this cloud hanging over my head, like I never knew when I would be discovered,” Coppage said. “Then, about two weeks ago, my husband and I were told that people were finding out about it. So I knew this day was coming.”

St. Clair is in Franklin County, about 55 miles southwest of St. Louis.

The school superintendent, Kyle Kruse, said in a statement that the district was “recently notified that an employee may have posted inappropriate media on one or more internet sites.”

A 28-year-old cutie, teaching in a high school? What does anyone think would happen once just a single student in her high school discovered her OnlyFans site?

Coppage said she joined the direct-to-subscribers website OnlyFans over the summer to supplement her teaching salary.

She taught English to freshmen and sophomores and made about $42,000 last year, according to the Post-Dispatch public pay database. She said she’s earned an additional $8,000 to $10,000 per month performing on OnlyFans.

Coppage said she chose the site because its content is available only to subscribers and she thought it would help protect her identity.

She doesn’t know who notified the school district of her account, but she suspects it was after she and her husband appeared in a recent video alongside two other OnlyFans performers in St. Louis who have a substantial following.

“(The district says) they haven’t made a decision yet, but I’m just kind of putting the pieces together that I am not coming back,” Coppage said. “I’m very aware that I am probably never going to teach again, but that was kind of the risk I knew I was taking. I am sad about that. I do miss my students.”

That story is from the St Louis Post-Dispatch, but this article title references “More biased reporting from the Lexington Herald-Leader.” I only found the Post-Dispatch article die to an internal hyperlink in the story published in what my best friend used to call the Lexington Herald-Liberal.

Teacher says she made an OnlyFans for extra money. Missouri school puts her on leave

by Mike Stunson | Friday, September 29, 2023 | 11:29 AM | Updated: 12:14 PM

A high school teacher in Missouri says she has been placed on administrative leave after her OnlyFans account was discovered, according to news reports.

Brianna Coppage, a 28-year-old teacher at St. Clair High School, believes the discovery of her adult content page will lead to her firing. Her OnlyFans — a subscription service where people can pay for original photos and video that are often sexual in nature — was created as a way to make more money, she told news outlets.

“(The district says) they haven’t made a decision yet, but I’m just kind of putting the pieces together that I am not coming back,” Coppage told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “I’m very aware that I am probably never going to teach again, but that was kind of the risk I knew I was taking.”

Normally, I would not have quoted down to that third paragraph, because it repeats what was in the Post-Dispatch, but I wanted to document the hyperlink from the Herald-Leader which referenced my original cited story. More, I wanted to point out that McClatchy reporter Mike Stunson noted, in the first paragraph, that his source was other “News reports,” and that he clearly had the Post-Dispatch story available to him. At the bottom of the Herald-Leader’s copy of the story is the notification that “This story was originally published September 29, 2023, 11:29 AM,” so it was written the day after the Post-Dispatch story.

Here’s where the bias of the story begins:

But her pay — just over $42,000 during the 2022-23 school year — led her to pursue OnlyFans as a way to supplement her income, she told The Missourian.

Missouri state law requires teachers to be paid a minimum salary of $25,000, according to the Missouri National Education Association. The average salary, the association said, was $53,512 in 2022.

However, the average starting salary for a teacher in Missouri — $34,052 — is the second-lowest in the United States, the National Education Association said. The state also has the 47th worst average teacher salary in the country.

This is the main thrust of Mr Stunson’s story, his journolism, that Mrs Coppage’s salary wasn’t particularly high. However, the story also noted that she had been hired as a communication arts teacher in August of 2022, so she was just starting her second year with the school system. While neither article tells us what Mrs Coppage’s starting salary was, she was earning roughly $8,000 more per year than the average starting salary for a teacher in the Show Me State.

Mr Stunson’s story tells us that Mrs Coppage’s OnlyFans account earned her “thousands of dollars of extra income each month,” but doesn’t tell us how many thousands of dollars. How many readers inferred that meant a couple thousand dollars extra a month, as opposed to the “additional $8,000 to $10,000 per month” reported in the Post-Dispatch article, an article Mr Stunson had right in front of him! That’s deliberate bias.

Mr Stunson’s article, as posted on the Herald-Leader’s website,^[1]I must concede the possibility that Mr Stunson’s original could have been edited by someone else, or appear in a different form in another McClatchy newspaper. also fails to mention that Mrs Coppage is married. How many readers got the impression that she was a single woman, perhaps living in poor circumstances, and desperately needed the money? After all, mentioning that she was married concomitantly tells the reader that the household probably had a second wage earner.

What about the community? According to the Census Bureau, Franklin County, Missouri, where St Clair is located, the median household income was $65,263 per year, and at about $42,000, Mrs Coppage was being paid 64.35% of the median household income herself. Mr Coppage would have had to be earning just $11.18 per hour to bring the family income up to the county median.

These things are the kind of relevant information an unbiased article would include, but things an article attempting to push the “oh, poor baby, she was mired in poverty” meme leading article would omit. And Mr Stunson omitted them!

Lies, damned lies, and statistics. In his article, Mr Stunson did not actually lie to us. Rather, he gave us statistics, from sources that he documented, but he gave us only those statistics which would push his article in a particular political direction, and omitted information which would put an entirely different spin on things. If Mrs Coppage was making an extra $8,000 to $10,000 a month, that works out to roughly $96,000 to $120,000 a year, which is pretty good money in Franklin County, Missouri.

Richard A Green introduced himself to Herald-Leader subscribers on Thursday, September 28^th as the newspaper’s new Executive Editor, saying in part:

I’ll be relentless in ensuring we deliver the kind of consequential content readers in Lexington, Central Kentucky and the broader commonwealth not only expect, but demand. I know we must be your trusted, unbiased source of compelling journalism that informs, entertains and equips communities and readers to drive change.

Well, Mr Green, just a day after you introduced yourself to us, your newspaper published a clearly biased article, designed not to inform us about the subject’s probable dismissal, but to push the meme that public school teachers are underpaid. And yes, since Mr Green wrote, “I hope you’ll share your thoughts in an email or call,” and included his email address, I will forward this article to him, so he realizes just what is being published in the newspaper he runs.