Teacher breaks silence after being fired over ‘adult content’ side job
A teacher who lost her job after it was discovered she had a side job making 'adult content' has broken her silence.
For around two years, Sheena Sittner had been making X-rated content on the paid subscription site OnlyFans while working at her day job as a substitute teacher in Missouri.
While she'd kept her side hustle on the down-low, eventually it was discovered by someone who 'did some deep-dive digging', Sittner said.
“If teachers were paid better, women wouldn’t have to resort to online content creation. Sex sells," she told KTVI.
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Following her account being uncovered, Sittner allegedly received an email from the contractor that hired her, stating she has been suspended and must not contact any 'school or districts'.
Sittner, who is from St. Louis County, brushed off the backlash she's received but said she'd been most upset by how the punishments given to her affect her son.
“It’s like all of a sudden I’ve done something so wrong and sinful that I’m not even allowed [to] volunteer at his school.
“I can find another job. I can handle the backlash and the criticism, but when it affects my child or my children, that’s where I draw the line,” she said.
While she said she has always been aware that putting content online means it'll be 'there forever', she did not think that it would lead to her being 'completely stripped away' from her son's school.
“My personal life is completely separate from my professional life. I have kept those two separate forever," Sittner said.
According to KTVI, a spokesperson for Sittner's school district stated that she should be treated like any other parent with the ability to volunteer and participate as she had passed a background check and took part in online safety training.
Her contractor told The New York Post that the warning to not contact schools only applies to her professional role as a substitute teacher, adding that they take 'all concerns raised about our substitute educators seriously'.
The statement provided to the outlet read: “During active investigations, we remove our substitute educators from current and future assignments while the matter is reviewed. To protect the integrity of the review, we ask our educators to route communication through Kelly Education rather than the school during that time.
“It does not, and cannot, limit anyone’s right as a parent. Nothing in our request restricts their participation in their child’s education."
Danni King