Middle School Teacher under investigation for taking payoffs from Students??
By MJLami
@MJLami (1173)
United States
June 17, 2007 8:22pm CST
That's correct. A teacher in Hartford, CT is being investigated for taking money from her students so they could skip detention. Allegedly the teacher was paid $2 to $3 per skipped detention. The report was filed by a parent who says her son paid $40 to this teacher. What do you make of that? Is it time we started censoring teachers as we do politicians, clergy? Share your thoughts please.
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9 responses
@highflyingxangel (9225)
• United States
19 Jun 07
This just floors me. She'd takes little bribes? I mean seriously, how much money can you rack up from $3 detention payoffs? Obviously a lot if you continuously assign students to detention.
That is just sad though. I could never do something like that.
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@butterfly39 (3904)
• Philippines
18 Jun 07
Well, that's a good idea, but maybe we should listen to the teacher side why he/she did that and a process will follow.
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@dopey22girl (3319)
• United States
18 Jun 07
Wow that's crazy. So many things are happening with teachers lately it seems. I think schools should be more careful before hiring someone, but really what else can you do?
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@MJLami (1173)
• United States
18 Jun 07
So far you've closest to getting my point and answering my question. This is one teacher alleged to have taken a pay off and under investigation who may be proven innocent. My questions are should we expect more of our teachers? Should they be on the same level with clergy and other public figures? Should we censore them?
@joey_matthews (8354)
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18 Jun 07
I think it's pretty bad when teachers allow students to cheat and both are as bad as each other.
What can learn by cheating?
~Joey
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@MJLami (1173)
• United States
18 Jun 07
I agree, no one learns from cheating. Their life becomes a complete mockery and they have no value whatsoever (I know someone like that). My concern in this is much more global than one teacher. I think I will re-writ this because my point was at the end and missed by everyone.
@66jerseygirl (3877)
• United States
18 Jun 07
i certainly do. I heard of case similar to this not too long ago but instead of taking money to skip detention,this teacher was taking money from students to skip gym class. What are they thinking for goodness sake!
@magikrose (5429)
• United States
18 Jun 07
That teacher is demented. Those kids learned nothing from but how to bribe someone. I thought the point of detention was to teach the child a lesson in behavior not bribery.
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@arunbongale (144)
• India
18 Jun 07
Ok. At my place where I live, its a common thing. We come across such things so many times.
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@xenpen (90)
• United States
18 Jun 07
$40? Either the teacher raised the fees or that kid is one serious troublemaker. :P
Seriously, that woman is obviously someone who is a control freak and doesn't mind getting paid for it. She's like the kid who pushed other kids around, took other kid's lunch money, and raised a fist whenever someone would threaten to tell the teacher.
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