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

[Anonymous]

When I was a child, teachers would keep kids after school to tutor them--unpaid. It was also used as punishment (we were all walkers.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

If half the class is paying the teacher's business partner, how do you think subjective grading goes? You've basically added a middleman to bribery at this point. Tutoring kids in other schools is probably fine. Tutoring kids in other classes, less so but probably ok. Forming a business with teachers in one school to tutor kids in that school seems like official corruption to me

Emphasis is on the words TO YOU. Nobody else gives that much of a damn.

[Anonymous]

When my husband tutored he got called for not having a Business License in Fairfax County. Lucky for him, he had put the income on taxes. Also, neighbors rat out tutors who use their homes.

[Anonymous]

This reminds of that story in Fairfax about how a lady who ran one of the language schools/test prep places stole a copy of the COGAT and all her kids got amazing high test scores, then they investigated, and now spend a ton of money making a fairfax only cogat which is kept under lock and key.

[Anonymous]

Seems very dicey if they are grading the same kids they're tutoring.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems very dicey if they are grading the same kids they're tutoring.

They’re not. Teachers don’t tutor their own students for pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems very dicey if they are grading the same kids they're tutoring.

They’re not. Teachers don’t tutor their own students for pay.

There is an LCPS principal who is recruiting teachers not on contract or for after hours work to work for her tutoring company (including teachers at her OWN school). Is this legal? Is it ethical? Is it a conflict of interest? I wouldn't want my child to be in a school where the principal is too busy running her side hustle to care about the students in the school she works for!!!

if the premise of the tread is correct, they don't tutor their own students, they tutor their business partners' students and their business partners tutor their students

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP-It’s not too much different than a teacher starting a cake business that her friends, students & their families frequent.

Families are not obligated to use her service.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems very dicey if they are grading the same kids they're tutoring.

They’re not. Teachers don’t tutor their own students for pay.

There is an LCPS principal who is recruiting teachers not on contract or for after hours work to work for her tutoring company (including teachers at her OWN school). Is this legal? Is it ethical? Is it a conflict of interest? I wouldn't want my child to be in a school where the principal is too busy running her side hustle to care about the students in the school she works for!!!

if the premise of the tread is correct, they don't tutor their own students, they tutor their business partners' students and their business partners tutor their students

Op couldn’t even accurately describe the person in question as a principal or teacher. She saw something on Facebook and is making huge assumptions while knowing absolutely nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teachers can tutor anywhere or with anyone after hours as long as it isn’t one of their current students. For themselves, for tutoring companies, doesn’t matter. Many do this every year. You can’t be mad teachers hold second jobs. Nor can dictate they not.

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In high school I had a math tutor who taught the same subject at my school. It was fine since I was not in his class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers can tutor anywhere or with anyone after hours as long as it isn’t one of their current students. For themselves, for tutoring companies, doesn’t matter. Many do this every year. You can’t be mad teachers hold second jobs. Nor can dictate they not.

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In high school I had a math tutor who taught the same subject at my school. It was fine since I was not in his class.

Not in the DMV anymore and a huge percentage of teachers at my child's school do after-hours tutoring. The rules here are that the teacher cannot tutor a child who is one of their current students and the tutoring cannot be done on school grounds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems very dicey if they are grading the same kids they're tutoring.

When a parent goes to her/his child’s classroom as substitute and grades her/his own child is very dicey too. The adm who allows this practice is unethical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers can tutor anywhere or with anyone after hours as long as it isn’t one of their current students. For themselves, for tutoring companies, doesn’t matter. Many do this every year. You can’t be mad teachers hold second jobs. Nor can dictate they not.

+1

In high school I had a math tutor who taught the same subject at my school. It was fine since I was not in his class.

Not in the DMV anymore and a huge percentage of teachers at my child's school do after-hours tutoring. The rules here are that the teacher cannot tutor a child who is one of their current students and the tutoring cannot be done on school grounds.

That's a pretty consistent policy across the districts where I have worked. Some will not allow you to tutor students who attend your school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems very dicey if they are grading the same kids they're tutoring.

When a parent goes to her/his child’s classroom as substitute and grades her/his own child is very dicey too. The adm who allows this practice is unethical.

That seems official corruption

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Teachers can tutor anywhere or with anyone after hours as long as it isn’t one of their current students. For themselves, for tutoring companies, doesn’t matter. Many do this every year. You can’t be mad teachers hold second jobs. Nor can dictate they not.

+1

In high school I had a math tutor who taught the same subject at my school. It was fine since I was not in his class.

Not in the DMV anymore and a huge percentage of teachers at my child's school do after-hours tutoring. The rules here are that the teacher cannot tutor a child who is one of their current students and the tutoring cannot be done on school grounds.

That's a pretty consistent policy across the districts where I have worked. Some will not allow you to tutor students who attend your school.

And it is pretty certain that whoever tutors with the business the woman OP is referencing will follow that policy. They’re not going to risk their job or license because they just HAVE to tutor that student in their class and will do it no matter what! Tons of kids they don’t teach need tutoring. They will tutor them from 3-6 or 4-7 just like every other tutor does every other school year.