Olivia Sprauer, a teacher at Martin County High School in Florida, said that she was forced to resign after photos from her modeling career surfaced.
According to WPTV, Sprauer claims that on April 29, the school’s principal asked her to come into the office and showed her one of the pictures. It was one of the photos she took as a model and at that point, the principal asked for her resignation. She was then escorted off school property.
Sprauer started teaching in 2011 and only hoped to make it through the end of the school year, but she didn’t make it to May.
“Lots of teachers get fired or asked to resign for the same things I did,” Sprauer said in an interview with The Huffington Post. “I knew I didn't want to come back next year and I knew I wanted to go to grad school so I decided if I made it to the end of the year I would be happy.”
She said about her students, “They trusted me and they made me happy so that aspect of it was sad.”
The school only said that Sprauer doesn’t work for the system anymore.
Sprauer doesn’t think she did anything wrong, noting that she didn’t do pornography and she was pictured in a bikini. “I take swimsuit glamour style photography,” she told the Huffington Post. She also says that she wants to go to her students’ graduation.
Sprauer went by the name Victoria James as a model and notes on her Model Mayhem profile, “I am more than comfortable shooting TASTEFUL nudes for the right projects and look forward to hearing from photographers interested in capturing the perfect photograph!"