Anonymous
Post 07/26/2020 08:34     Subject: LCPS Principal started a tutoring business - isn't this a huge conflict of interest?
Teachers have always done tutoring. You just can’t tutor a current student. But, that is the number one way teachers make extra money.

Yes, this year there will be higher demand.

Thank you to the teachers who are organizing to make this easier and simpler to find that extra support.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2020 01:50     Subject: LCPS Principal started a tutoring business - isn't this a huge conflict of interest?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Teachers can tutor anywhere or with anyone after hours as long as it isn’t one of their current students. For themselves, for tutoring companies, doesn’t matter. Many do this every year. You can’t be mad teachers hold second jobs. Nor can dictate they not.


LCPS publishes the list of teachers who are willing to tutor and the subjects they cover. There is no problem with tutoring gigs outside of school.

I was told they can't provide the services on school property and can't tutor a current student. I know admins who were involved in breaking both of those conditions at an LCPS school.


Not in Virginia, but in Montgomery County Public Schools, the rule is that teachers cannot teach a student in their own school or a feeder school. I think that this is a great rule.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2020 01:19     Subject: LCPS Principal started a tutoring business - isn't this a huge conflict of interest?
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.


LCPS parent here and my child was tutored after school in the school with admin knowledge. It was special ed related though.
Anonymous
Post 07/26/2020 01:16     Subject: LCPS Principal started a tutoring business - isn't this a huge conflict of interest?
Anonymous wrote:Teachers can tutor anywhere or with anyone after hours as long as it isn’t one of their current students. For themselves, for tutoring companies, doesn’t matter. Many do this every year. You can’t be mad teachers hold second jobs. Nor can dictate they not.


LCPS publishes the list of teachers who are willing to tutor and the subjects they cover. There is no problem with tutoring gigs outside of school.

I was told they can't provide the services on school property and can't tutor a current student. I know admins who were involved in breaking both of those conditions at an LCPS school.
Anonymous
Post 07/25/2020 19:21     Subject: Re:LCPS Principal started a tutoring business - isn't this a huge conflict of interest?
As long as the teachers don't tutor students from their own school, it is not shady at all.