Give Me an A!
After a student informed the principal at Charlotte High School in Punta Gorda, Fla., math teacher Jeff Spires was confronted and admitted it: yes, he sold better grades to the kids for cash payments of $40–70. The students would staple or paper-clip the cash to quizzes, and Spires, 36, would increase their grades. Why? “Maybe I see the kids as desperate as I am,” Spires allegedly told a school district investigator, who said Spires “went on to say that he was in financial straits due to bankruptcy, arrests, and jail time.” Charlotte County Jail records show Spires has been jailed three times in the past two years for charges including DUI, driving with a suspended license, and probation violation. Spires has resigned from the school. (RC/Sarasota Herald-Tribune, WINK Ft. Myers) ...Teacher bribery isn’t the scandal here. School teachers keeping their jobs when they are “in financial straits due to bankruptcy, arrests, and jail time” is the scandal.Original Publication Date: 11 December 2011
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 18.
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