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What do you all think about a 10th grade high school chemistry teacher who tutor's his own students? Unethical? What are the policies at your high school, if any?
If the tutor is also the child's current teacher then you have a conflict of interest, even if there is no actual wrongdoing:
1. The teacher could interpret test results more favorably for the tutored students, even if its subconscious because he/she "knew what the student meant" or "knows the student knows the material".
2. High incentive to cheat by tampering with answers in order to show progress and continue receiving tutoring pay.
3. Bias against students not paying for tutoring, especially for college recommendations.
4. Teacher is determining quiz/test questions and homework (obviously not the end of year Regents) and could omit questions on topics in which the tutored student are weak.
5 For subjective component of class grade, such as participation, teacher could favor tutored students.
These are ones off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more.
Last edited by MathSciGirl; 09-21-2013 at 06:49 PM..
And you could rig quizzes and tests during the beginning of the year to be extra hard so the students' parents decide to hire you to tutor their child.
I agree with all the points made, and it answers the questions, "why would anyone hire the person who couldn't get the pupil to understand the material in the first place?" It's THE reason to hire the person. I know of a scenario on LI where this is happening with a big-ticket sport.
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