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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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”. [/quote]

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?[/quote]

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?[/quote]

^^  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?! [/quote]

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. [/quote]

[b]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.[/b]  If it's not that much money to begin with, why even risk it?

[b]Classic case of chasing private profits while socializing risk[/b].[/quote]

100%[/quote]

And when I miss work for getting food poisoning outside of my school? Or if I got the flu?

You seem to think teachers don’t leave for weeks during the regular school year from being sick or other personal issues. Covid is making people so jealous of what others have and lose brain cells.[/quote]

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