I so totally agree that we need to provide teachers with a livable wage. In fact we’ve come to the point that I think we should just double what most of them are earning.
However. Porn is a business. And it is - as they say - not run by the boy scouts. And the criminal end of that business is obsessed with young girls, especially teens. There are huge amounts of money to be made grooming and soliciting young girls for the industry. Which makes schools a potential hunting ground.
We also have States which are rolling back the requirements for teaching degrees or even Bachelors degrees to become a teacher. It is becoming easier for less dedicated people to slip into the system. This worries me greatly.
So I think a hard line between our schools and anything approaching the porn industry is just a necessity. It is always necessary to pay attention to the incentives in the case.
Someone making extra money off of OnlyFans is not terribly far from doing a porn film. And if their child gets leukemia, who knows what they might do to get the needed treatment? And if the Director says “We could take care of all of your troubles if you could bring a younger friend along,” what then? And if the teacher maybe has a student living in poverty? You can see how the path might lead even a formerly honest and well-meaning person astray.
And that’s before we even consider the guy who wants to be a porn director/actor and thinks the best way to break in is to recruit a bunch of young girls. And then he decides the best way to do that would be to sign up as a substitute at the local high school.
It’s all very sordid, and horrible to think about. But there are more of these guys than we want to admit. So I think anyone who is even peripherally related to that industry has to be a hard “No” to work in a school. (In any capacity.)