To think forcing people to watch your YouTube channel is unethical?

[DrSeuss]

New primary school head(joined at Easter) has just decided that all Y6 staff must use a certain YouTube channel for revision. Written into curriculum, no exceptions. On closer inspection, this proved to be her monetised channel. Effectively, this means she is paid every time we watch. I know it's not megabucks but still, it leaves a bad taste?

Forcing use of social media??

Yeah that's not ok. You need to complain to school

She’s making YouTube videos to help year 6 children study?

Yes very unethical on more than one level!

1. the obvious personal gain
2. Other revision channels will be available and might suit different children better.
3. encouraging use of social media in children.

Complain to governors.

I'm Y6 staff. I will have to use the videos to teach various conepts/topics and also revision skills in as much as Y6 revise, more like how to remember grammar or spelling points.

Ooooh no that is not on.

Complain to the highest level

This is big.

It's a conflict of interest and a pecuniary advantage that should have been declared to Finance.

Not declaring it and writing it into the curriculum could be breaching not just financial rules (which is actually massive), it's also a breach of Nolan principles for standards in public life. It's poor governance if it's been assumed to be nothing as well, as they might have assumed that it doesn't represent any real financial advantage.

It would be wise to use government whistleblowing avenues, rather than make yourself directly identifiable. And make sure your union membership is up to date - oh, and get this thread deleted to avoid being identified in real life.

(Source: Governance professional)

Thank you for validating the concerns my colleagues and I have. We had a previous, long serving head and inevitably, it's been tricky at times adjusting. We weren't sure if this was clouding our judgement but it appears not.

That is a huge conflict of interest.

Sounds like a clear breach of Code of Conduct to me! The fact that (a) it is her content so hard to objectively decide it's the best source material (b) she is using her public sector position for financial gain

Very bad optics for her and the school as well. How naive / arrogant of her!

I think that she is more the type who feels that she is such an excellent practitioner that her videos are fantastic and clearly the best choice from the point of view of teaching and learning. Not sure to what extent the conflict has occurred. It's more "Hey, look at my amazing videos that I created because I am so awesome " than seeing us as a cash cow to bemilked. How much does each view actually pay, does anyone know, please?

This may be more about the school wanting to give easy access to their approved revision videos than an attempt on the teachers part to make money - which is harder than you think!
The minimum required to monetise is

• 500 subscribers
• Three videos published publicly in the last 90 days
• Either 3,000 watch hours in the past year OR 3 million YouTube Shorts views in the past 90 days.

Ofsted.

Are you sure she's making money from it?

I had a quick Google and it said this:

If you want to start earning ad revenue, your channel will need to have generated 4,000 hours of YouTube watch time over the past 12 months and have at least 1,000 subscribers.

I bet she makes no money from the videos. Be careful you don’t look silly complaining!

Are you sure she's making money from it? Not all channels have the ability to monetise videos. Are ads appearing before the videos? If not then she's probably not making anything from it.

Also you need to have A LOT of views to make any decent money, 30 views from the class wouldn't make anything. It's roughly £3.50 per 1000 views according to Google.

Anyone remember the days when teachers taught from books and kids learned from books.
Now teachers sit with screens and encourage children to use screens.
Why have schools anymore we can get our answers anywhere with the click of a button.
Most of us say we dont like the internet or too much screen time but then we need it as mostly everything is online now.
Society has ruined itself.

Ads appear before some of my work videos and I assure you that alas I make absolutely no money from them.

So ads does NOT equal monetised.

Still dodgy as shit but maybe not financial fuckery