I have dozens of friends who are teachers and all of them offer private tuition services in the evenings and at weekends. Millions of people in the country in all sorts of professions work a second job or sell a skill or service or product to make more money. Private tuition is legal, fairly common and an excellent way for a teacher to supplement their main income. Supply and demand. They have a skill and people want to pay them for it. As long as it’s outside contracted hours set by the school it’s fine.
There are tens of thousands of teachers offering private tuition services on all the major databases. I’ve seen the tuition databases advertised in all of the major newspapers, in magazines and on the Dept for Education website, talked about on the BBC etc... In fact there’s a worry that as it’s so lucrative and the supply is so huge, many teachers could actually retire from their main job and become a private tutor instead. It’s a great way for parents who might not be able to afford private school fees to pay a fraction of that cost to have some one-on-one teaching especially in an area their child struggles with and teachers get paid an hourly wage closer to what they deserve.
As per usual, the teacher-bashing DM found one or two teachers who tried to do it during the work day and got the usual suspects foaming at the mouth over nothing. And part-time teachers and supply teachers are allowed to do this anyway. As long as it’s outside of work hours, why are people so concerned with what teachers do outside the hours they are paid for?!