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

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I thought many teachers do tutoring over the summer as a side job. And they also tutor throughout the school year.. I don't think they tutor their own students. but I have seen and heard of many cross-grade/class tutoring during the school year.

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Anonymous wrote:^^^and neighbor told me the rate the teacher was charging.

So you (or someone else) reported it, right? What happened?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do you care, op? You worry about you.

It's just unethical that she's recruiting teachers from her school to work for her. Are these people really going to be focused on helping our kids during the day or will they spending their time on their side hustle because it's more lucrative? What if it makes a ton of money and she quits mid-year leaving children without a teacher?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you care, op? You worry about you.

It's just unethical that she's recruiting teachers from her school to work for her. Are these people really going to be focused on helping our kids during the day or will they spending their time on their side hustle because it's more lucrative? What if it makes a ton of money and she quits mid-year leaving children without a teacher?

It’s not unethical.

You sound anxious. Try an SSRI.

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

Then report it, a-hole.

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Anonymous wrote: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!!!

As long as they aren't tutoring their own students for money, it's fine.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you care, op? You worry about you.

It's just unethical that she's recruiting teachers from her school to work for her. Are these people really going to be focused on helping our kids during the day or will they spending their time on their side hustle because it's more lucrative? What if it makes a ton of money and she quits mid-year leaving children without a teacher?

How dare those teachers. They are supposed to be living on county wages and risking their lives so OP can go to work and make money and here they are trying to start a business or something.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you care, op? You worry about you.

It's just unethical that she's recruiting teachers from her school to work for her. Are these people really going to be focused on helping our kids during the day or will they spending their time on their side hustle because it's more lucrative? What if it makes a ton of money and she quits mid-year leaving children without a teacher?

A large number of teachers tutor every year. It's only a problem for you now because you are frustrated with everything going on.

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There is literally no evidence any tutoring teacher plans to tutor on contract hours. Realistically, you would also never know if they did in the extremely unlikely event that were to happen. You are spun up over an imaginary scenario. For what? Repeat after me: I am not here to police others. The only person I can control is myself.

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Anonymous wrote:There is literally no evidence any tutoring teacher plans to tutor on contract hours. Realistically, you would also never know if they did in the extremely unlikely event that were to happen. You are spun up over an imaginary scenario. For what? Repeat after me: I am not here to police others. The only person I can control is myself.

+100

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Anonymous wrote:I know an ES in Fairfax County where a couple of teachers were tutoring in their classrooms right after dismissal. Not to mention other unethical practices in the same school.

The teachers that I’ve known who’ve done this did it for free or they were paid by the school for teaching in an official before or after school tutoring program.

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It's just unethical that she's recruiting teachers from her school to work for her. Are these people really going to be focused on helping our kids during the day or will they spending their time on their side hustle because it's more lucrative? What if it makes a ton of money and she quits mid-year leaving children without a teacher?[/quote]

That’s quite a lot of what ifs in your scenario.

IME, teachers put their salaried job first, always, and usually only take on a couple of tutoring jobs to get some spending money. At my school, I would estimate that 1 or 2 teachers tutor 1 or 2 kids each.

Usually, the teachers who go after tutoring jobs the most are the young teachers who need the money if they are ever going to stop sharing an apartment. Nobody is going to leave a salaried job with benefits for some side hustle money.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know an ES in Fairfax County where a couple of teachers were tutoring in their classrooms right after dismissal. Not to mention other unethical practices in the same school.

The teachers that I’ve known who’ve done this did it for free or they were paid by the school for teaching in an official before or after school tutoring program.

I don’t believe this was the case. The teacher must have received “a generous gift” from some parents.

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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.

LOL The age of the innocence

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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.

LOL The age of the innocence

We see them PLENTY in class and there’s the expectation we help them for free since we are their teacher after all. No teacher is risking their license or getting in trouble with admin to tutor a student, there’s plenty other kids to tutor if you want.