Lapeer Community Schools
Bylaws & Policies
1130 - Conflict of Interest - Private Practice
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The maintenance of unusually
high standards of honesty, integrity, impartiality, and professional conduct by
School District employees is essential to ensure the proper performance of
school business as
well as to earn and keep public confidence in the School District.
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To accomplish this, the Board
of Education has adopted the following guidelines to assure that conflicts of
interest do not occur. These are not intended to be all inclusive, nor to
substitute for good judgment on the part of all employees.
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No employee shall engage in
or have a financial interest, directly or indirectly, in any activity that
conflicts or raises a reasonable question of conflict with his/her duties and
responsibilities in the school system.
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Employees shall not engage in
business, private practice of their profession, the rendering of services, or
the sale of goods of any type where advantage is taken of any professional
relationship they may have with any student, client, or parents of such students
or clients in the course of their employment with the School District.
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The use, sale, or improper
divulging of any privileged information about a student or client gained in the
course of the employee's employment or through his/her access to School District
records
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The referral of any student
or client for lessons or services to any private business or professional
practitioner if there is any expectation of reciprocal referrals, sharing of
fees, or other remuneration for such referrals
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The requirement of students
or clients to purchase any private goods or services provided by an employee or
any business or professional practitioner with whom any employee has a financial
relationship, as a condition of receiving any grades, credits, promotions,
approvals, or recommendations
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Employees shall not make use
of materials, equipment, or facilities of the School District in private
practice. Examples would be the use of facilities before, during, or after
regular business hours for service to private practice clients, or the checking
out of items from an instructional materials center for private practice.
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Should exceptions to this
policy be necessary in order to provide services to students or clients of the
School District, all such exceptions will be made known to the employee's
supervisor and will be disclosed to the Superintendent before entering
into any private relationship.
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Tutoring
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It is expected that every
effort will be made by the principal and teacher to help the child with his
difficulties at school before recommending that parents engage a tutor. The
Board believes that by maintaining a high quality instructional staff and
providing for a rich, varied curriculum the need for individual tutoring is
minimized.
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Should, however, individual
tutoring be recommended in exceptional cases, the following rules have been
established as to protect both the school system and the teachers from charges
of conflict of interest:
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A teacher may not arrange to
tutor any child enrolled in her class for pay.
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No tutoring for which a
teacher receives a fee will be carried on in a school building.
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Teachers who accept outside
tutoring engagements should make their own arrangements with the parents for the
fees to be assessed.
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Tutors must be certified in
the areas served if the Board or its agents are involved in arranging the
tutoring.
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Music teachers engaged in
providing private lessons to students in their own classes or classes of other
District music teachers shall be allowed to provide such instruction and to make
their own arrangements with students or parents.
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Revised 12/1/05