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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About the trips:

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sdut-company-rewards-teachers-for-school-trips-2011dec26-story.html

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They're not school trips so compensation rules don't apply. They make it very, very clear they aren't school trips. Of course, there is always an idiot out there who doesn't bother to read or listen to the numerous times they say they aren't school trips. 
I don't find myself becoming mad that a person who coordinates and chaperones my kid for a week  should get their trip comped. Honestly the petty people out there are something else.[/quote]
they aren't school trips but the teacher is responsible for supervising the kids.[/quote]

Not sure if you're aware of this but teachers are people! Just like you and I!
I'm far more worried about teachers getting tutoring side jobs through the unwritten referral directory than this.[/quote]
Wow! You think teachers shouldn't have side gigs? They're not allowed to tutor kids in the school they work in. What's your issue? [/quote]

PP here. If they want to have side gigs, that’s fine (it shouldn’t be necessary but it is). They should not be able to use their MCPS positions or MCPS resources (including email or student/parent contact info) to advertise their side gigs. [/quote]

100 percent. This is basic ethics.[/quote]

How is it a side gig if the teacher isn’t making a profit and usually has to take 1-2 days of personal leave while traveling?

You sound jealous. If not of teachers, then of families who figure out how to make this happen for their kids.[/quote]If the teachers' compensation was worth less than the labor of chaperoning the trips, teachers would not chaperone the trips. The fact they do means it does. This is basic microeconomics.

Compensation for the teachers includes, but is not limited to, a free trip, cash, electronics and exotic trips like “Tuscan Spa Week” or “Ancient Peru and Machu Picchu.”

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/watchdog/sdut-company-rewards-teachers-for-school-trips-2011dec26-story.html[/quote]

They can work a side gig, but the issue is pressuring parents to sign up their kids with multiple emails for a trip that is NOT MCPS sponsored and 100% through a private company (which then has a liability issue).[/quote]

My daughter’s middle school principal cracked down on them and said they should not be sent out through the school.[/quote]

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