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Teacher fired for bikini modeling side job

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STUART, Fla., May 10 (UPI) -- A Florida teacher was fired on National Teacher Day after the principal learned about her second job as a bikini model.

The South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Olivia Sprauer, a 26-year-old single mother of two, was fired April 29 from her job as a ninth grade English teacher at Martin County High School in Stuart after the principal discovered she had modeled beachwear.

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"It was just a way to pay my rent in a safe part of town," Sprauer said of her side gig.

The school cited a policy stating teachers are to be "held to a high moral standard."

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