Are DCPS teachers legally allowed to teach in-person (pods/ tutoring)?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason it rubs you the wrong way is because it’s a clear conflict of interest. If a teacher can make $80 an hour (as one teacher I spoke to told me they are getting) private tutoring, they have obvious incentives to divert attention and planning towards that.

But this is America - for a country with no real culture, the one thing that is undeniably American is the ability for people to exploit moments like this for financial gain.

It bothers me because I’m sure kids will pay the price, but then again, having attempted to teach for 3 months and realizing how hard it is, if my 5th grade teacher moonlights and gets an extra $100K by milking someone, I’m kind of the view “good for you”.

Nobody is making $100k tutoring. They still have day jobs. They’re not teaching pods. If they can work 5 hours a week on evenings making a little extra cash, what’s the problem?

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher and have never heard of an actual policy before, and I don’t tutor so it’s not a concern of mine. A friend’s DCPS school sent this out though:

Q: Can a family hire DCPS teachers and staff to tutor or supervise a student outside of their tours of duty?
A: DCPS teachers or staff may not be employed by a family whose child attends the school where the teacher or staff member works. DCPS employees, including teachers, are bound by strict DC ethics regulations regarding outside employment and conflicts of interest. These prohibit DCPS staff members from tutoring students who attend the school where that staff member is employed. Additionally, teachers providing tutoring services to any students, regardless of whether the students attend DCPS, may not tutor students during their tour of duty, may not use government resources or non-public DCPS information while tutoring, and may not advertise their services (or allow the family to advertise their services) by describing their DCPS employment.

[Anonymous]

Boy, if I catch wind of any of the teachers from our school doing in-person pods after all their letters talking about how in-person teaching isn’t safe, I plan to name names. Insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boy, if I catch wind of any of the teachers from our school doing in-person pods after all their letters talking about how in-person teaching isn’t safe, I plan to name names. Insane.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m a teacher and have never heard of an actual policy before, and I don’t tutor so it’s not a concern of mine. A friend’s DCPS school sent this out though:

Q: Can a family hire DCPS teachers and staff to tutor or supervise a student outside of their tours of duty?
A: DCPS teachers or staff may not be employed by a family whose child attends the school where the teacher or staff member works. DCPS employees, including teachers, are bound by strict DC ethics regulations regarding outside employment and conflicts of interest. These prohibit DCPS staff members from tutoring students who attend the school where that staff member is employed. Additionally, teachers providing tutoring services to any students, regardless of whether the students attend DCPS, may not tutor students during their tour of duty, may not use government resources or non-public DCPS information while tutoring, and may not advertise their services (or allow the family to advertise their services) by describing their DCPS employment.

Thank you! It sounds like a lot of teachers are violating these rules by touting their DCPS employment. Can you tell me what “tour of duty” means in this context? Does it mean “while employed by DCPS (even after hours)” or just “during the school day”?

[Anonymous]

You can’t be that stupid. You don’t really think working with the same 3 students in a controlled pod environment is remotely similar to teaching in a DCPS school. I will have zero issues if my child’s teacher chooses to do that in the evenings. Sounds like some of you (or one persistent voice) just want to come up with new threads each week to slam teachers because you’re overwhelmed (like us all) during this pandemic and you need to direct your frustration somewhere. That’s the only way I can explain these illogical arguments.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a massive conflict of interest because teachers said it was too unsafe to open regular schools and therefore created this crazy need for private pods in the first place!

Imagine if the water company turned off your line but the next day showed up with a truck of bottled water to sell it to you for 10X the cost.

+100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's a massive conflict of interest because teachers said it was too unsafe to open regular schools and therefore created this crazy need for private pods in the first place!

Imagine if the water company turned off your line but the next day showed up with a truck of bottled water to sell it to you for 10X the cost.

+100%

If the experts (so no, not you, Nancy, on dcum) said the city’s water supply was compromised and the city kept scratching their heads saying we’re trying to figure out how to make this umm um water safe...then yes, yes I would gladly buy the bottled water being sold to me! Bring on the deer park until the faucets can be trusted!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it rubs you the wrong way is because it’s a clear conflict of interest. If a teacher can make $80 an hour (as one teacher I spoke to told me they are getting) private tutoring, they have obvious incentives to divert attention and planning towards that.

But this is America - for a country with no real culture, the one thing that is undeniably American is the ability for people to exploit moments like this for financial gain.

It bothers me because I’m sure kids will pay the price, but then again, having attempted to teach for 3 months and realizing how hard it is, if my 5th grade teacher moonlights and gets an extra $100K by milking someone, I’m kind of the view “good for you”.

Nobody is making $100k tutoring. They still have day jobs. They’re not teaching pods. If they can work 5 hours a week on evenings making a little extra cash, what’s the problem?

What happens when some of those teachers eventually get sick from making money off their private pod? Do they still get to call in sick? Can they still collect sick pay from the public school? How is that OK?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it rubs you the wrong way is because it’s a clear conflict of interest. If a teacher can make $80 an hour (as one teacher I spoke to told me they are getting) private tutoring, they have obvious incentives to divert attention and planning towards that.

But this is America - for a country with no real culture, the one thing that is undeniably American is the ability for people to exploit moments like this for financial gain.

It bothers me because I’m sure kids will pay the price, but then again, having attempted to teach for 3 months and realizing how hard it is, if my 5th grade teacher moonlights and gets an extra $100K by milking someone, I’m kind of the view “good for you”.

Nobody is making $100k tutoring. They still have day jobs. They’re not teaching pods. If they can work 5 hours a week on evenings making a little extra cash, what’s the problem?

What happens when some of those teachers eventually get sick from making money off their private pod? Do they still get to call in sick? Can they still collect sick pay from the public school? How is that OK?

^^ Also, why should the public school class have to suffer because of a teacher's greed to make money on the side? Wasn't the whole damn point of 100% DL to make sure teachers don't get sick to ensure continuity of operations?!

[Anonymous]

I’ve tutored after school before COVID-19. At my school because we have a program. But for a mere $40 and I can only get about 3 hours a week.

I’ve had several parents from my school approach me about teaching their pod and I accepted one.
I have a PhD for god sakes and I’m a good teacher, DCPS is a joke with their ‘admin premium.’

I want overtime like other jobs. I have kids too and DC isn’t cheap. It really has nothing to do with COVID-19, and the price is around the same as what I got for tutoring outside of my school.

Perhaps this will show parents that teachers didn’t decide DL, I promise we aren’t stupid enough to ‘make’ that happen then teach in pods. We understand the idea of public image.

Also why are people surprised? The is the US, a capitalist nation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it rubs you the wrong way is because it’s a clear conflict of interest. If a teacher can make $80 an hour (as one teacher I spoke to told me they are getting) private tutoring, they have obvious incentives to divert attention and planning towards that.

But this is America - for a country with no real culture, the one thing that is undeniably American is the ability for people to exploit moments like this for financial gain.

It bothers me because I’m sure kids will pay the price, but then again, having attempted to teach for 3 months and realizing how hard it is, if my 5th grade teacher moonlights and gets an extra $100K by milking someone, I’m kind of the view “good for you”.

Nobody is making $100k tutoring. They still have day jobs. They’re not teaching pods. If they can work 5 hours a week on evenings making a little extra cash, what’s the problem?

What happens when some of those teachers eventually get sick from making money off their private pod? Do they still get to call in sick? Can they still collect sick pay from the public school? How is that OK?

^^ Also, why should the public school class have to suffer because of a teacher's greed to make money on the side? Wasn't the whole damn point of 100% DL to make sure teachers don't get sick to ensure continuity of operations?! [/quote
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You don’t own teachers, Karen. We didn’t make DL happen, perhaps now you can see your false narrative for what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it rubs you the wrong way is because it’s a clear conflict of interest. If a teacher can make $80 an hour (as one teacher I spoke to told me they are getting) private tutoring, they have obvious incentives to divert attention and planning towards that.

But this is America - for a country with no real culture, the one thing that is undeniably American is the ability for people to exploit moments like this for financial gain.

It bothers me because I’m sure kids will pay the price, but then again, having attempted to teach for 3 months and realizing how hard it is, if my 5th grade teacher moonlights and gets an extra $100K by milking someone, I’m kind of the view “good for you”.

Nobody is making $100k tutoring. They still have day jobs. They’re not teaching pods. If they can work 5 hours a week on evenings making a little extra cash, what’s the problem?

What happens when some of those teachers eventually get sick from making money off their private pod? Do they still get to call in sick? Can they still collect sick pay from the public school? How is that OK?

^^ Also, why should the public school class have to suffer because of a teacher's greed to make money on the side? Wasn't the whole damn point of 100% DL to make sure teachers don't get sick to ensure continuity of operations?!

Greed to make money on the side?

If we were being paid even 40k tax free I still wouldn’t call it greed. There’s been plenty of articles and research done on high quality living in DC. You need to make 130k. Teachers cap out at about 100k. We all want to live a high quality and expensive life.

Greed...I can’t stop laughing. You probably think Trump is an angel and other corrupt silver spoons.

[Anonymous]

Working families are bending over backwards to keep teachers safe with this 100% DL. Teachers kicked and screamed all summer that "they don't wanna dieeee!!!!" And now many are taking blatant risks with these private pods?! We might as well reopen schools then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason it rubs you the wrong way is because it’s a clear conflict of interest. If a teacher can make $80 an hour (as one teacher I spoke to told me they are getting) private tutoring, they have obvious incentives to divert attention and planning towards that.

But this is America - for a country with no real culture, the one thing that is undeniably American is the ability for people to exploit moments like this for financial gain.

It bothers me because I’m sure kids will pay the price, but then again, having attempted to teach for 3 months and realizing how hard it is, if my 5th grade teacher moonlights and gets an extra $100K by milking someone, I’m kind of the view “good for you”.

Nobody is making $100k tutoring. They still have day jobs. They’re not teaching pods. If they can work 5 hours a week on evenings making a little extra cash, what’s the problem?

What happens when some of those teachers eventually get sick from making money off their private pod? Do they still get to call in sick? Can they still collect sick pay from the public school? How is that OK?

^^ Also, why should the public school class have to suffer because of a teacher's greed to make money on the side? Wasn't the whole damn point of 100% DL to make sure teachers don't get sick to ensure continuity of operations?!

Greed to make money on the side?

If we were being paid even 40k tax free I still wouldn’t call it greed. There’s been plenty of articles and research done on high quality living in DC. You need to make 130k. Teachers cap out at about 100k. We all want to live a high quality and expensive life.

Greed...I can’t stop laughing. You probably think Trump is an angel and other corrupt silver spoons.

If heaven forbid you get sick from your private pod, you will be out for weeks if not months. Your regular students will suffer massively with their teacher out. If it's not that much money to begin with, why even risk it?

Classic case of chasing private profits while socializing risk.