Teacher Jeff Spires Caught Running a Cash For Good Grades Program
In what appeared to be a win win situation… Jeff Spires was a high school teacher strapped for cash in the middle of a recession. So he came up with the genius idea to charge his students for better grades. He didn’t set a certain price. It was a give whatever you can afford program. Of course eventually he got ratted out and had to resign.
Jeff Spires told students to staple cash to their test papers and he would give them a higher mark.
One 16 year old student said he paid $40 on two occasions to have his grades improved from a C to a B.
Spires, who taught at Charlotte County High School in Charlotte County, Florida, admitted to taking money from two students before he was found out.
After admitting to taking cash to change grades he told school officials he was desperate for money as he was facing bankruptcy.
‘Maybe I see the kids are as desperate as I am,’ he told the school’s investigators.
The maths teacher said he was in such dire financial straits this year that he decided to take the cash.
Students were told to staple the cash to quiz or exam sheets or use a paper clip. There was no set fee and students gave what they could afford.
One senior paid Spires $15 and $30 for his grade to be improved for a quiz, but Spires rejected an offer of $200 from another student to mark her up from a B to an A as the grades had already been recorded.
Changing the grade could have led to an investigation which would have uncovered the bribes.
Should he have been fired or reprimanded? If he was a good teacher I would say reprimanded.
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so no parent knew..? 11-20-11
This Is Harvard & Yale Colleges… In Fact, Ask George Bush, Jr.
Wow.
That is very true Shawn. Educators should be paid greater sums of money..
Sad truth is if we payed teachers right to start out with this wouldnt happened…if we get charged like 200 for daycare per kid…why not pay teachers the same…but hey give kids the thumbs up take advantage in life when you can…if it gets u further ahead in life why not.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Lmao!!!
WOW…. They’re just letting anybody in these classrooms with our kids. Predators… Molesters… Abusers… Bullies… Now this. I don’t even know what label to give him.
lol wow! he like “say they not paying me what they use to how about a 20 for an A+? Huh what do you say? huh huh huh?
*pokes his elbow in the kids ribs* hahaha
He’s teaching them money makes things happen early….lol
Where was this guy when I was going to school?