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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Auctioning teacher experiences is a bad practice.

Remember the Oyster teacher who molested a student? The movie night he hosted for students was one of the most popular items.

It also puts teachers in a bad position, pressuring them to spend personal time basically babysitting your kids. They won't tell you this, but it is an imposition. 
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You’re attempting to make a point with false information.  The former Adams pedophile teacher molested that student IN CLASS with other students present.  As a longtime OA parent, I have never seen any teacher donated auction experiences hosted at the teachers’ homes.  [/quote]

We don’t know the whole story. We know he was groomed inside and outside of the sleepover as well as what happened in the classroom.[/quote]

Yes, we do know the whole story because of the plea agreement.  The teacher may have groomed the student, but it was not because of a school sponsored auction item.  As was the case with Beauvoir’s pedophile teacher, the Adams teacher developed a relationship with the student’s family which facilitated access to the student outside of school hours.  Adams had nothing to do with that unfortunate situation.[/quote]

It is just wrong to press the teachers into service in this way. They HAVE to offer it, and pretend to be happy to do it as 'engagement with parents and dedication to school' is an IMPACT item to be scored. And it is a form of privilege for the parent committees to not think about whether this is an appropriate thing to ask employees who make far less than the parents at the school. What is the teacher supposed to do with his/her own kids during the 'experience?' Do they have to hire a babysitter to go to the auction, even if the ticket is comped?

I would not be thrilled to do additional unpaid 'volunteer' work at my nonprofit job. I am working well over 40 hours a week as it is, as are teachers. Leave them out of it.

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