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

[Anonymous]

It’s all going as planned, we the teachers were able to shut down public schools with our great power. Wow, we hold all the authority and it sure feels great.

Now we can make 100k untaxed in our plan to have 2 full time jobs. Hahaha, the parents of DCUM are very intelligent. How did you all know about our plan? You probably also know we planned Covid to make a crap ton of money and not work.

We knew it’d work. Now we can make double the money and do the same amount of work. The perfect plan, the pod plan.

[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.

Please don't use the phrase "rich brats" as it's a classist slur and just another form of bias/discrimination. It's not a child's fault that their parents have more financial resources than others.

[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.

You are the one that complains about everything, not me.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s fine. Honestly I can’t imagine my salary cap being 100k in DC. If I lived in Alaska I’m sure that’d be great but here? I’d never be able to afford my dream home.

[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?

I don’t know, one teacher I spoke to said they had a 3 hour a day gig at $80 an hour, 5 days a week.

The issue is that it’s far more lucrative to focus on that than on teaching your DCPS class.

Imagine you got 30 kids into a tutor program each paying you $200 a week for the ability to reach out and ask questions....

[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?

I don’t know, one teacher I spoke to said they had a 3 hour a day gig at $80 an hour, 5 days a week.

The issue is that it’s far more lucrative to focus on that than on teaching your DCPS class.

Imagine you got 30 kids into a tutor program each paying you $200 a week for the ability to reach out and ask questions....

They are not waiving IMPACT this year so the teacher can’t really choose to focus on the pod, unless they want a low impact rating. It’s going to be much harder to “fake it” during an observation when it’s all online etc.

[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?

I don’t know, one teacher I spoke to said they had a 3 hour a day gig at $80 an hour, 5 days a week.

The issue is that it’s far more lucrative to focus on that than on teaching your DCPS class.

Imagine you got 30 kids into a tutor program each paying you $200 a week for the ability to reach out and ask questions....

They are not waiving IMPACT this year so the teacher can’t really choose to focus on the pod, unless they want a low impact rating. It’s going to be much harder to “fake it” during an observation when it’s all online etc.

You can’t fake it in the classroom either. Only 35% of DCPS teachers get highly effective. Also that evaluation isn’t the whole score, so you technically could do mediocre on that and get an effective score. Maybe not highly Effective though

[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.

I just scoured DCPs and did not find this document. Please attach a link. I think this may be written by your friend’s school. There are programs run by DCpS where teachers are paid admin premium to tutor DCPS kids. I know you can’t tutor in a DC building but I have not read anything the quoted mentions.

[Anonymous]

You know a lot of you seem to be obsessed with teachers lately. Like we make so much money and have so much power.

You’d think we were getting paid 300k+ like some politicians.

It’s odd

[Anonymous]

Yes we can teach pods, as long as it isn’t during contracted hours.

Although I think maybe some will blur that line by doing it during their lunch.

Why are people so interested in teacher’s money? I mean I get if you are still delusional and think we shut down in person that’s one thing. But those who are sane, why do you care?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes we can teach pods, as long as it isn’t during contracted hours.

Although I think maybe some will blur that line by doing it during their lunch.

Why are people so interested in teacher’s money? I mean I get if you are still delusional and think we shut down in person that’s one thing. But those who are sane, why do you care?

Because it is extremely unethical. Talk about sleazy.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes we can teach pods, as long as it isn’t during contracted hours.

Although I think maybe some will blur that line by doing it during their lunch.

Why are people so interested in teacher’s money? I mean I get if you are still delusional and think we shut down in person that’s one thing. But those who are sane, why do you care?

Because it is extremely unethical. Talk about sleazy.

Simple answer, because as parents we want 100% focus on the kids you were hired under contract to teach at DCPS. Side hustles are just that, a side hustle. It's not hard to understand "conflict of interest".

[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.

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[Anonymous]

Parents just want teachers to do the job that they are paid for, to the best of their ability (not DL).

As most everyone else in a capitalist society is required to do. Or you lose your job.

[Anonymous]

Op- how can we help you? Honestly. How can this online community support you?