Class teacher privately tutoring pupils in their class

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DS’s teacher tutors a couple of kids in his class each week. I thought this kind of thing was not permitted (teachers engaging in transactional engagements with parents). Anyone else think this is a bit odd?

Surely it’s better for the kids having their own teacher as their tutor rather than a stranger?

Please could you explain the conflict?

Honestly, if she's such a great teacher they woukd not need a private tutor. I'd be surprised if a school permitted this.

It seems wrong.

A teacher gets paid to teach pupils say maths. To the best of their ability.

Then in the evening, the parents of the pupil pay the same teacher extra to give the same pupil more teaching - either because they are struggling, or they want them to do even better than they would have done in the same class without tutoring.

Hmmmm - not sure you can assert that children only need tutoring if their teachers aren’t very good!

Some kids need more help than others, it doesn’t take much to work this out really. The bottom set kids aren’t there because their teacher is crap.

I'm paid by the state to teach them. I shouldn't also be taking money from their parents. That's insanity.

No - if a child wants to do 11+, say, then they may need things not taught in school such as verbal and non verbal reasoning, or additional practice writing an essay in exam conditions etc

How old are the students?

So you just don’t believe in tutoring overall? What about the kids that need extra support?

I don't agree at all.

There just isn't time during the school today to give all the children the one to one attention that they need. Sad but true.

Mind your own business!

Tutoring other pupils who they don't teach seems fine.

Agree, it's odd to do current pupils

Two teir teaching

You get the extra support from the tutor if you pay up?

Little Johnny has problems with maths so he goes to the teacher for support as long as his parents cough up?

Do you reserve the top teaching aids or tips for the tutees and the normal class gets the big standard lesson?

Sorry this sounds dodgy

This. I have several friends who are teachers and the rule appears to be that you can't tutor children from your own school.

The conflict is the teacher should be teaching well enough in class for students to achieve in line with their ability. If she doesn't do this, then, some parents will pay extra, therefore she receives more income.
Additionally, no school would be happy with a teacher being 1to1 with them in the child's home.

No, out of school. Not allowed to tutor on site.

Mind your own business!

Why aren't you minding your own business? would MNs exist if everyone did this? 🙄

I wouldn't like to do it, personally, because I like to keep my home life separate.
I'll happily tutor my own kid and my friends' kids for free in the holidays, if they want (totally different schools/ areas), although my kids aren't interested.

I genuinely don't know where they find the time and energy to tutor. Especially if they're already running interventions- for free- after school and have marking etc to do.

It means the teacher has a vested interest in some children in their class performing better than others. So come exam or assessment time, they might a) inflate the grades or scores of those children or b) devote more classroom time to them to improve their chances of doing well.

No problem with teachers tutoring outside of school but it shouldn't be children in their class.

I understand that many teachers, particularly those who teach year 5, offer tutoring for 11+ where I live. Why not? They earn a ridiculously low salary and I don't blame them for trying to earn more.
The teachers that I know don't tutor the children that they teach.

That's unfair. Teachers run revision classes after-school and exam warm up sessions in their own time and free of charge.

That seems different to being paid by a parent to tutor pupils they teach privately.

It's a conflict of interest. Once that teacher is accepting money from those parents, for services rendered, the teachers relationship with those parents changes. The teacher may rely on the money and may have a vested interest in maintaining a better relationship with those parents because they are paying them money.
Can they still be completely impartial when dealing with issues in school that arise involving that child?
No. So it's unethical

That's not what I said.
I do not believe that teachers should be paid by parents to tutor students they already teach.
I also do not believe that teachers should privately tutor students who attend the school in which they teach.