A FORMER teaching assistant is hitting back after she was fired for creating an OnlyFans account to make up for low wages.
Kristin MacDonald, 35, was let go for allegedly sexualizing the school environment with her raunchy content.
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The education worker had worked for School District 43 in British Columbia, Canada, for eight years when she was sacked.
The school board discovered her account in April and asked her to take down the page or she would be fired.
She refused and was let go from the job on June 16.
Board officials wrote a termination letter that slammed her behavior and claimed she sexualized the school environment with her racy photos and videos.
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"Your misconduct in this matter is egregious," read the letter seen by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The letter says that MacDonald mocked the school system in media interviews, linked her education work to her pornographic content, and capitalized on it by pursuing both careers.
The model released exclusive content on OnlyFans and racy images on her public Instagram under the pseudonym Miss Ava James.
She guessed that a TikTok of herself in a schoolgirl outfit had something to do with the angry letter.
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"I feel like they're making connections to, you know, me defaming the education system by wearing this outfit," MacDonald told CBC.
"It's so far-fetched to me. It seems very petty."
MacDonald now claims that the school used taxpayer money to subscribe to her account and investigate.
Kristin claims: “They admitted to getting an OnlyFans subscriber account.
“I kind of felt like they were poking at me being like, ‘yeah, we saw what you’re doing’ or whatever.”
Co-workers have been unsupportive of her side hustle, and Kristin was forced to read a list of comments made by them in a work meeting.
She said they were all negative and based only on personal opinion.
Kristin said: "They made comments on my appearance, how I don’t belong in a school, that they can’t look at me the same way because of what I’m doing."
But Kristin is fighting to keep her job as a teaching assistant and has reached out to her union to help her.
Her union representative Randy Kootte said: “The union does not believe that Kristin’s off-duty conduct violated any company policies or collective agreement provisions."
But she's optimistic: "What I hope the final outcome will be is that this situation sets a precedent for other people in similar situations where maybe they are being discriminated against based on doing some sort of sex work.
“I would like to see policies and employers be more accepting and progressive with their opinion and outlook on sex work. Because sex work is still work.”
MacDonald said that she earned merely $1,000 every two weeks for her work as an education assistant and turned to OnlyFans for extra cash.
She hopes her story will reduce the stigma about sex work and spark a conversation on what is really harmful to students.
"I feel strongly that in this day and age, we should be able to do what we want as long as it's not illegal," MacDonald told CBC. "I'm not hurting anybody."
The District told The U.S. Sun that it does not comment on individual employee matters, but stressed that it is dedicated to serving the community with a safe environment.
"The District recognizes and values the central role its employees play in achieving the District's purpose of providing quality public education in a safe, inclusive, and socially responsible environment for the benefit of the learners it serves and the broader community," the statement reads.
"Consistent with that, the District strives to ensure all employees are treated equitably and issues are investigated and addressed thoroughly and fairly in accordance with the District's policies, procedures, and legal obligations."
The U.S. Sun has reached out to MacDonald for comment on this incident.
