Under no circumstances should a teacher be asking a child for money

Mar 15, 2019
9:20:54am

Iman23 All-American

without the parents understanding what is going on.

So many ways that could be abused.

I can't believe the teacher would do that, and I bet she would be in deep trouble for doing it, if the district knows she/he did

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Is this weird? My son told me this morning that his teacher asked him for $3.

Belboz

3/15/19 8:45am

Write out a check for $3 and see what happens 🙂

SV Coug

3/15/19 8:47am

Yes weird

Pete

3/15/19 8:48am

she's definitely buying lunch with that money. send a check written to the school district and see how she responds

byujag

3/15/19 8:49am

So way back in the early 80's when I was wee cougar at Provost Elementary we

MacroCougar

3/15/19 8:50am

Sounds like pay to play to me.

Iron Coug

3/15/19 8:51am

Hey, if you want on the best science project team, you’ve gotta pay for it

James Halpert

3/15/19 8:52am

I gave bad/incomplete information. he told me originally about it on Monday

Belboz

3/15/19 8:53am

If it were me I'd send a quick email just to check it out

pistol12

3/15/19 8:53am

so the teacher wants the kids who broke the chair to fix it. No big deal.

MormonThug

3/15/19 8:54am

to me it's not about the responsibility, it's about the unusual way the teacher wants to do it

byujag

3/15/19 8:58am

I actually agree with the spirit of what you are saying. Parents don't need to

pistol12

3/15/19 8:58am

I've been a dad for 23 years.

Belboz

3/15/19 8:59am

It's got me a little curious, to be honest.

Eddie

3/15/19 9:10am

It seems a little weird a note didn’t come home. It makes me

gwalker

3/15/19 8:57am

RE: Is this weird? My son told me this morning that his teacher asked him for

byubyu

3/15/19 9:01am

I would write out a check for 300 cents. It confuses bank tellers and the like.

Archaea

3/15/19 9:10am

Once, I paid my CPA $200 and 3521 cents on a check. He was less than amused.

Archaea

3/15/19 9:17am

Under no circumstances should a teacher be asking a child for money

Iman23

3/15/19 9:20am

Oh geez.

byubyu

3/15/19 9:28am

I'm in a white minority school district...if you asked a minority kid to bring

Iman23

3/15/19 9:40am

For sure should notify the district then.

byubyu

3/15/19 9:43am

I'm fine with her holding the kids accountable and even trying to make sure they don't just pass

soupie

3/15/19 9:50am

300 pennies

BYULAWGUY

3/15/19 9:55am

If this happened in my classroom, I'm supposed to report it to financial sec. then they add the fine to student records.

Jimo Dashen

3/15/19 10:39am

I don't have an issue with such a small amount of money being given, but

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