need some opinions before I lose my cool at school :( kinda long, sorry

[Just Lori]

BTW, Starsky & Hutch fanfiction? For three dollars? Yeesh. I wouldn't have paid more than a quarter.

Was it Slash? I'd buy that for a dollar!

It wasn't slash.  It had one of them getting shot or hit by the car or something and calling out for the other, who rushed over and held him in his arms.

I have such a weird memory.  I can remember a snippet of Starsky & Hutch fan fiction, but I can't remember that our library books are overdue.

[IndianInlaw]

SHE'S JUST PLAIN NUTS!!!!

Selling stuff to 4th graders?

We tell our kids to follow teacher's instructions, so how in he11 is she supposed to refuse!!!!

This woman is insane

[hollasa]

SHE'S JUST PLAIN NUTS!!!!

Selling stuff to 4th graders?

We tell our kids to follow teacher's instructions, so how in he11 is she supposed to refuse!!!!

This woman is insane

On the other hand, it's a great opportunity to talk to a kid about good instructions from an adult, and bad instructions from an adult...

[Verruca]

It had one of them getting shot or hit by the car or something and calling out for the other, who rushed over and held him in his arms.

This is the best sentence I've read today. 

Seriously, it's cracking me up.  I just have this picture in my head...

(reaching out) "Staarrrrrskyyyyy!"
(running over) "Hutch!" (taking Hutch in his arms) "Hold on, buddy, just... hold on." (looking around desperately for help that isn't there, while the camera moves away in a crane shot, centered on the two partners) "Someone!  Help us!  Please!"

::dies laughing::

[Bijou]

Please tell me hat you talked to the principal about DD's teacher selling jewelry in class! I am pleased that you have the tutering/grade side of things taken care of, but a teacher selling anything to a student is wrong! Teachers are authority figures, what is to stop her from targeting students who didn't buy something from her and treating them poorly?

The other part of it is that she is there to teach and anything she does that takesaway from that time (such as selling jewelry) is compromising the education of the students in her class.  That really infuriated me, along with all the other stuff...and how did this woman know that personal calls at work would not jeopardize the op's job?  Some people should be assigned to standing out on their back porch licking their index finger, holding it up in the air to see if the wind is blowing, writing down "yes" or "no" on a piece of paper and shoving it through a mail slot in the side of their house that's above a garbage can.

[Just Lori]

(reaching out) "Staarrrrrskyyyyy!"
(running over) "Hutch!" (taking Hutch in his arms) "Hold on, buddy, just... hold on." (looking around desperately for help that isn't there, while the camera moves away in a crane shot, centered on the two partners) "Someone!  Help us!  Please!"

::dies laughing::

OMGosh, I think you've read her fanfiction!

I apologize for the thread drift.  I don't mean to make light of a serious situation.  Teachers have no right to try to sell their students anything during school hours.  Honestly, I don't know that I feel comfortable with them tutoring their own students, as there is a potential for a conflict of interest.  Maybe there should be a schoolwide policy that teachers can only be hired to tutor students who are not already in their class.

[artk2002]

Yesterday was the last straw.  Our school has a free tutoring program.  To get in, the teacher must request your child because they need extra help. It's 2 afternoons a week for an hour each.  One day they work on math, the other reading and science.  Last month, my daughter got an award for all A's and B's.  A B in math.  Last week they sent home the forms for tutoring.  My son got one but my daughter didn't.  I would assume she still had an B.  I haven't seen any tests brought home because "they are being filed" according to my daughter.   I got the following note yesterday:

Dear Ms. ########,
####'s grade is a high F.  She really needs extra help. I tutor for $25 per hour for those interested. (this is not school tutoring) She says she's having a tough time on several skills.  Let me know.

Go ahead... lose your cool.  This is wrong on many, many levels.  I know, for a fact, that at the school where my ex teaches, the teachers are not allowed to tutor their own students privately. What this woman is attempting is close to extortion.  Show the note to the administration, and if that doesn't get any action, start climbing up the food chain until you hit the Superintendent and the BoE.