LCPS Principal started a tutoring business - isn't this a huge conflict of interest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:seems like a can of worms when Suzy does better than Jimmy and Jimmy's parents find out that Suzy uses a tutor working for their teacher's company.

Jimmy's parents are welcome to get Jimmy tutoring, too.

[Anonymous]

I don’t have a problem with it.

Betsy Devos doesn’t either, but I suspect for different reasons.

[Anonymous]

Smells like cheating

[Anonymous]

I know an LCPS ES teacher who was hired for pay during contract hours to assist my neighbor’s child with spring DL. This was an active teacher at the school also working on DL with her own class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know an LCPS ES teacher who was hired for pay during contract hours to assist my neighbor’s child with spring DL. This was an active teacher at the school also working on DL with her own class.

DURING contract hours is now a conflict of interest plus unethical.
Hopefully the tutoring company does not do this either.

[Anonymous]

this is not the same as starting a cake business. there is a direct conflict of interest.

this is a slippery slope for publics to go down the drain. i have seen this happen in other parts of the world.. in the worst case, teacher personal interests will eventually kill education quality in the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know an LCPS ES teacher who was hired for pay during contract hours to assist my neighbor’s child with spring DL. This was an active teacher at the school also working on DL with her own class.

DURING contract hours is now a conflict of interest plus unethical.
Hopefully the tutoring company does not do this either.

Correct. And yet a teacher at our ES did this for my neighbor, and my neighbor saw nothing wrong with it, and apparently neither did the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know an LCPS ES teacher who was hired for pay during contract hours to assist my neighbor’s child with spring DL. This was an active teacher at the school also working on DL with her own class.

DURING contract hours is now a conflict of interest plus unethical.
Hopefully the tutoring company does not do this either.

Correct. And yet a teacher at our ES did this for my neighbor, and my neighbor saw nothing wrong with it, and apparently neither did the teacher.

I feel like I am talking to a toddler. Again. But: You worry about you, ok? Stop thinking it is your job to monitor others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know an LCPS ES teacher who was hired for pay during contract hours to assist my neighbor’s child with spring DL. This was an active teacher at the school also working on DL with her own class.

DURING contract hours is now a conflict of interest plus unethical.
Hopefully the tutoring company does not do this either.

Correct. And yet a teacher at our ES did this for my neighbor, and my neighbor saw nothing wrong with it, and apparently neither did the teacher.

I feel like I am talking to a toddler. Again. But: You worry about you, ok? Stop thinking it is your job to monitor others.

In order to improve the education system we need to monitor others.

[Anonymous]

This should be deleted since the thread title is a lie.

[Anonymous]

Peoples gots to get da moneys.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know an LCPS ES teacher who was hired for pay during contract hours to assist my neighbor’s child with spring DL. This was an active teacher at the school also working on DL with her own class.

DURING contract hours is now a conflict of interest plus unethical.
Hopefully the tutoring company does not do this either.

Correct. And yet a teacher at our ES did this for my neighbor, and my neighbor saw nothing wrong with it, and apparently neither did the teacher.

I feel like I am talking to a toddler. Again. But: You worry about you, ok? Stop thinking it is your job to monitor others.

In order to improve the education system we need to monitor others.

No, Karen. That is not true at all. For one thing, Karen, you're often wrong but rarely in doubt. Therein lies the problem, Karen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here - I misspoke, it's not a principal, it's a teacher. Still...

Please name this teacher as I'm in need of tutoring for my children. Many thanks in advance!

[Anonymous]

During contract hours is obviously wrong, and not allowed.

After contract hours? No problem, as long as the teachers are not tutoring students in their own schools which isn't allowed (at least where I work).

The fact that it is a private company might change things, though. I mean, teachers are allowed to work for companies such as Mathnasium after hours, and the company might provide tutoring to students from many different schools, including ones where their employees teach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:this is not the same as starting a cake business. there is a direct conflict of interest.

this is a slippery slope for publics to go down the drain. i have seen this happen in other parts of the world.. in the worst case, teacher personal interests will eventually kill education quality in the school.

It is the same. They’re both open to the public. You can choose to work there or not. You can choose to do business there or not.

Unless there are student/family incentives for using either business, there’s no conflict.