A Canadian special needs teacher’s scantily clad side hustle garnered her a pink slip, but her supposed “egregious” online activity left her with allegations of her own as to how taxpayer funds were used for the investigation.
Far from the over-the-top acceptance in Toronto that allowed a crossdressing shop teacher to don z-cup prosthetic breasts, School District 43 in British Columbia, Canada has taken a zero tolerance policy even for behavior off-duty. As such, 35-year-old special needs teaching assistant Kristin MacDonald, with the social media alias Ava James, found herself fired after refusing to comply with a request to deactivate her OnlyFans and other accounts.
The now-former Terry Fox Secondary School education assistant in Port Coquitlam, east of Vancouver, spoke with Fox News Digital and explained, “I was advised to deactivate all Ava James social media platforms immediately, including [Instagram], TikTok and OnlyFans, or possibly be terminated. I did not comply.”
According to an interview she did with CBC, MacDonald had been working there since 2015 earning $1,000 biweekly after deductions, and she had turned to the subscription service as a way to make ends meet.
However, a three day investigation, seemingly prompted by a student complaint about a social media post featuring MacDonald that said, “Ava James only wears bikinis in her TikToks,” and her refusal to comply with requests to cease the salacious activity led to her being terminated on June 16 after her initial warning April 28.
“In the employer’s view, each of the above six points independently constitutes a fundamental breach of your obligations as an employee and cause for termination of your employment,” the letter to MacDonald stated after arguing “Your misconduct in this matter is egregious.”
She had been said to have disparaged the district during interviews and used her profession in education to promote subscriptions to her adult content on OnlyFans, actions the district found violated a rules clause about “off-duty conduct being ‘appropriate.'”
Speaking with The Sun, MacDonald’s Canadian Union of Public Employees representative Randy Kootte argued, “The union does not believe that Kristin’s off-duty conduct violated any company policies or collective agreement provisions.”
Furthermore, having received images from her OnlyFans in the letter that followed the investigation, MacDonald concluded that the district must have been guilty of a violation as well, having likely used taxpayer funds to subscribe to her content.
“Since the investigation by the district into my off-duty conduct, they have confirmed that school district 43 subscribed to my OnlyFans account,” she told Fox News Digital. “I’ve gotten emailed screenshots from my OnlyFans account that my school district sent out to Myself, the union and HR, that only paid subscribers have access too, meaning I have proof that the school used taxpayers’ money to subscribe to my OnlyFans.”
The former education assistant did not suggest that she would be seeking any legal recourse for her termination and merely expressed her hope that, after two years of college to earn her degree that she is still paying off, she would like to return to her regular career. “At this point, I’d like the ability to go back to working for a school district.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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