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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I’m a teacher. I have taken zero risks since March. I haven’t been inside a store since the school buildings closed. We go out for daily walks but that is it. I have groceries delivered. I’m sure I’m in the minority but we are still treating this as we did in March/April in my household.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

So you are teaching a pod outside of school hours? If you teach and have kids, how is the pod gig not going to impinge on the time you give your DCPS students?

You are fine with flouting the DCPS rules? Do you consider yourself ethical?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

So you are teaching a pod outside of school hours? If you teach and have kids, how is the pod gig not going to impinge on the time you give your DCPS students?

You are fine with flouting the DCPS rules? Do you consider yourself ethical?

Then they say that DL is hard for them because they also have kids at home (which I agree with them) but now they have time for Pods?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

So you are teaching a pod outside of school hours? If you teach and have kids, how is the pod gig not going to impinge on the time you give your DCPS students?

You are fine with flouting the DCPS rules? Do you consider yourself ethical?

My pod starts at 3:30 the school day during DL for me ends at 3.

My parents are looking for purely academic professionals and I believe have hired a nanny part time until 3:30

Also if I wanted I could teach a pod for at least an hour during my lunch since that’s not part of my tour of duty.


As for my students I’m not worried, I’m young and intelligent. All of my kids get to grade level by EOY and I’ve never had a parent complain, even during DL.

I was the teacher who provided some in person lessons for students in March who were teetering green to make sure they were learning. All the things DCPS is trying to implement I was already doing in my classroom in March and more.

But nice try, I don’t feel this is unethical whatsoever. My school also already knows.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

So you are teaching a pod outside of school hours? If you teach and have kids, how is the pod gig not going to impinge on the time you give your DCPS students?

You are fine with flouting the DCPS rules? Do you consider yourself ethical?

Then they say that DL is hard for them because they also have kids at home (which I agree with them) but now they have time for Pods?

Are you really that daft? My business represents all DCPS teachers now? Wow I’ve never seen a group of people so silly. I have a husband, he watched the kids while I teach a pod. Or do you think all teachers are single parents now too?

I’m excited to see what other false assumptions people pull out of their asses. If you’re salty about not being able to afford a pod, make your own with nannies.

[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.

Load of BS. My school offers tutoring OUTSIDE of a teachers tout of duty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So you are teaching a pod outside of school hours? If you teach and have kids, how is the pod gig not going to impinge on the time you give your DCPS students?

You are fine with flouting the DCPS rules? Do you consider yourself ethical?

What's the difference between teaching a pod and taking some other part-time job like food delivery in order to make ends meet?

I can't believe you would be against a teacher tutoring *on their own time* to make a little extra money.

That is incredibly classist of you and sounds like a typical upper middle class entitled person's response to someone beneath them on the socioeconomic ladder trying to climb up a few rungs. You should examine your own privilege and then apologize to the teacher.

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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.

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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.

100%

See my above answer, I’m not repeating it. My student don’t suffer during the regular school year when I work my other job from 4-9pm. But ok.

[Anonymous]

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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.

100%

And when I miss work for getting food poisoning outside of my school? Or if I got the flu?

You seem to think teachers don’t leave for weeks during the regular school year from being sick or other personal issues. Covid is making people so jealous of what others have and lose brain cells.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So you are teaching a pod outside of school hours? If you teach and have kids, how is the pod gig not going to impinge on the time you give your DCPS students?

You are fine with flouting the DCPS rules? Do you consider yourself ethical?

What's the difference between teaching a pod and taking some other part-time job like food delivery in order to make ends meet?

I can't believe you would be against a teacher tutoring *on their own time* to make a little extra money.

That is incredibly classist of you and sounds like a typical upper middle class entitled person's response to someone beneath them on the socioeconomic ladder trying to climb up a few rungs. You should examine your own privilege and then apologize to the teacher.

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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.

100%

And when I miss work for getting food poisoning outside of my school? Or if I got the flu?

You seem to think teachers don’t leave for weeks during the regular school year from being sick or other personal issues. Covid is making people so jealous of what others have and lose brain cells.

Have you been awake at all this year? We're in the middle of a freaking pandemic, which is why teachers pressured schools to shut down in the first place. And now you compare Covid to a random tummy ache to justify your reckless side business? Talk about literally trying to have it both ways....

[Anonymous]

Teachers are welcome to make money off private pods, but then regular schools should also open. If you're OK tutoring rich brats in some sweaty basement then you lose the whole argument that it's "too unsafe" to reopen schools.

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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.

100%

And when I miss work for getting food poisoning outside of my school? Or if I got the flu?

You seem to think teachers don’t leave for weeks during the regular school year from being sick or other personal issues. Covid is making people so jealous of what others have and lose brain cells.

Have you been awake at all this year? We're in the middle of a freaking pandemic, which is why teachers pressured schools to shut down in the first place. And now you compare Covid to a random tummy ache to justify your reckless side business? Talk about literally trying to have it both ways....

I’m sick of this teacher bashing. I didn’t decide to do DL, stop with your false narrative. If I worked part time as a nurse or grocer would that be ok?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers are welcome to make money off private pods, but then regular schools should also open. If you're OK tutoring rich brats in some sweaty basement then you lose the whole argument that it's "too unsafe" to reopen schools.

Nope, only rich children deserve the best. That’s how it always is and will be. DL will be so awful, DCPS hasn’t even given teachers access to canvas yet and won’t until a week before school. But teachers won’t be able to set it up because DCPS decided to pack the week with a bunch of mandatory useless training.