A middle school gym teacher let children sit out his class if they paid him $1 a day, collecting perhaps thousands of dollars, officials said Thursday.
Terence Braxton, 28, took the payoffs between September and December, resigning after the principal learned of the scheme from a parent, authorities said.
The charges accuse Braxton of taking about $230 from six students, but Ward said the teacher’s take from the 250 sixth-to-eighth grade boys and girls was probably much greater.
“It’s not bad if you can make an extra $100 a day tax free,” said Ronnie Arnold, spokesman for the Escambia County School District.
Cash money is always best. The stuff at the heart of small business.
I can see why the kids would take that deal. WHen I was in High School I had a teacher that could get me out of gym, there seemed to be alot of computer problems in the computer lab 😉
No I am not worry about this teacher getting in trouble at all, 1) he was a very populare teacher, and 2) if he was still alive the school could not take action against him with out all the students rising up against them.
the real point of the story here should be that there are so many little fat as*** running around that school.
And an aside to Micheal P……if these kids won’t take gym, what makes you think they have the energy or ambition to *rise up* against the school……lol
Why didn’t I think of that? Bribe the teacher $1 to skip abject humiliation from peers? Not a bad deal. Heck, I would have gladly forfeited my lunch money to skip on the torture.
I’m an eighth grader, and I would pay up five bucks per class to get out of gym, if I could–trust me!