Comment by ada1981
7 years ago
At my high school the teacher advisor of the school store also taught social studies.
In his class you could buy snacks, passes to get out of homework or pop quizzes, rights to sit on the couch, etc.
He also made us pick stocks and bring in cash so he could buy them for us and said we’d get the $$$ + any profits back when we graduated.
When we were seniors and asked for the cash from all those stock picks he acted like we didn’t know what we were talking about.
Years later he got fired for accidentally stabbing a student during a very realistic wagon train history unit.
This guy was really amazing. Before being a teacher apparently he owned a strip club in LA but claimed to be converted by evangelical christian protesters outside his club so he packed up and moved to Erie, PA to become a HS teacher.
This is the kinda guy you want handling your club finances. ;)
Sadly bad actors still exist everywhere, we haven't managed as a society/culture/race(as in the human race) figure out how to eradicate bad actors yet.
That said most public schools now are required by law to have a bunch of checks and balances and it's probably fairly rare that teachers are allowed to directly handle money much anymore. In my schools every employee has to go through a training every year about how the district handle's money, and your role in it (as a teacher/employee/etc) so it's at least now very clear what you are allowed and not allowed to do.