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Following a “deep-dive digging” investigation, a teacher has been fired after her saucy side hustle was exposed. Sheena Sittner, a substitute teacher from Missouri, was first suspended by a staffing agency after an investigation revealed she was an adult content creator in her spare time.
Using her termination as an opportunity to speak out about poor working conditions, Sheena cited low pay and the pressure that the education industry puts on staff, particularly women. She said: “If teachers were paid better, women wouldn’t have to resort to online content creation”.
She ended her statement with two powerful words: “Sex sells”.
The former teacher also claimed that she had run the adult content account for more than two years, suggesting that someone must have had a suspicion and launched an investigation.
Speaking to Missouri news outlet KTVI, Sheena said: “It’s funny because I’ve had this account, this [adult content] account, for two-plus years. So, whoever did find it did some deep-dive digging, because two years later and now it’s being found out.”
According to Sheena, she always believed that her content would be found one day, but she did not expect to lose her job, despite strict school rules about what teachers post online.
She did not believe she would be “completely stripped away from being at my kid’s school”. Getting increasingly agitated, she described the moment that she received an email from the staffing agency, Kelly Education, instructing her to “refrain from contacting any schools or districts” while on suspension.
Sheena said that she understood that to mean she was effectively barred even from her own child’s school. She added: “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.”
Explaining how she plans to deal with the aftermath of the scandal, she said: “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.”
The former substitute teacher, who is adamant that her online work does not impact her parenting or teaching, insisted: “My personal life is completely separate from my professional life. I have kept those two separate forever.”
