LCPS Principal started a tutoring business - isn't this a huge conflict of interest?
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Anonymous
| 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!!! |
Anonymous
| OP here - I misspoke, it's not a principal, it's a teacher. Still... |
Anonymous
| That sounds sheisty, shady & wrong. |
Anonymous
| It’s fine for a teacher. A principal? No way. |
Anonymous
| Assume this is for pay and not a volunteer effort to support students? Our school (MCPS) had a volunteer tutor set up, although it was mostly staffed with students. |
Anonymous
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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. |
Anonymous
| Seems like there is a good market for this. Good for her. |
Anonymous
| No commute time and the distance learning “day” is going to be shorter than an in person school day. Time to cash in! |
Anonymous
| A conflict of interest would be offering extra credit to her students if they or their families choose her service. |
Anonymous
| Why do you care, op? You worry about you. |
Anonymous
| Teachers are allowed to have a side hustle as long as it doesn't impact their primary job- surely this would be done after contract hours. No different than if this teacher decided to wait tables or something. |
Anonymous
| 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. |
Anonymous
This. More power to them. |
Anonymous
| seems like a can of worms when Suzy does better than Jimmy and Jimmy's parents find out that Suzy uses a tutor working for their teacher's company. |
Anonymous
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1. There is a process for approval of outside employment so, barring information to the contrary, I would assume that the teacher followed this process.
2. You are not obligated to use the service. 3. No teachers are obligated to participate. 4. If you have a concern, there is a process to report starting with the principal. |