Nice headline. I wonder what percentage of farkers will get the joke.

/I suspect it will be higher than average (not kidding)

The district released some of the student's exams. One one of them the student wrote "I paid coach $40.00 cash for this quiz. I paper clipped two 20.00 dollar bills to the quiz."

Unless quiz means something different in Florida (whar Florida tag, whar), those kids got ripped off. A test/exam maybe, but a quiz?

They were promised there would be no math.

No, subby, it all adds up.
Do the math.

When asked why he did it, Spires is quoted as saying, "Maybe I see the kids as desperate as I am." The investigator says Spires "went on to say that he was in financial straits due to bankruptcy, arrests, and jail time."

Arrests and jail time?! What kind of school board keeps a teacher like this guy around?

Here in Ontario, teachers have a police record check at the beginning of their employment, and must sign yearly contracts stating they still have a clean record.

What's wrong with that? They're just being prepared for their college experience.

The story doesn't add up. Hopefully, this person will never multiply.

Was it a business and consumer math class?
Cause I could see this as an effective teaching method.

Farking Canuck: Nice headline. I wonder what percentage of farkers will get the joke.

/I suspect it will be higher than average (not kidding)

That's just mean. Why do you have to be in that mode?

There are worse justifications.

Perhaps this is just a sine of bigger problems in our educational system. Rather than going off on tangents, we need to get to the root of the problem. Either way, this man ought to be fired from his cosh-y teaching position, cosecant do it, clearly. Fortunately, it should be a sinh to fire him at this point.
/cosine

Farking Canuck: Nice headline. I wonder what percentage of farkers will get the joke.

/I suspect it will be higher than average (not kidding)

You want to divide us up into different groups? That doesn't really seem functional.

Bbbut I thought all public school teachers were overpaid assholes just raking in the six figure checks!

I read that as grapes and I thought "so what?".

How can a grossly overpaid teacher not afford a dui fine? Maybe he shouldn't have bought that brand new kia.

they probably learned more about the way the world works from this then they did from the whole rest of their schooling together.

jrobinson6: Perhaps this is just a sine of bigger problems in our educational system. Rather than going off on tangents, we need to get to the root of the problem. Either way, this man ought to be fired from his cosh-y teaching position, cosecant do it, clearly. Fortunately, it should be a sinh to fire him at this point.
/cosine

Unimpressed:

Attractors spread 'round
Multipliers break down
Near that point outside Lagrange

Just let me know
Orbit Lissajous
Distribution in the range

They got a lot of Trojans out there...

/have mercy

If it was anything but DUI...

DUI doesn't just happen. You've got to actively drink, then drive a vehicle. An alcoholic may be compelled to drink; but, I've never heard of a car-oholic (someone who cannot live without driving his carohol)...

The DUI is a legal matter, of course, but I see no fault in selling grades in general. The Chinese have a thriving economy based on just that, and if we're expected to keep up with the Chinese, then I would hope for a level playing field. In college, I paid heartily for my CS degree. It wasn't that I couldn't do the work, I just didn't have time because I was working for a start-up that paid $175 an hour, cash. Me doing homework and studying at that time would be akin to Michael Jordan writing his own press releases in his heyday instead of playing basketball. On top of the students need for good grades, the majority of teachers, both in primary and secondary education, are struggling financially. They need money, they have grades. It's absurd to think that our Western mindsets would fail to link an obvious supply-and-demand chain such as that. I don't understand this country. They expect everyone to be cutthroat capitalists, yet they punish them for learning this basic skills.

What is the problem? He is providing some of the best training around on what the world is really like. Those kids should put it on their resume when they are applying for a lobbyist postion.

Additionally, how the hell is it one DUI brought a previously respectable teacher to this? Does fighting a DUI charge cost so much in NC that you have to resort to stuff like this?

spentmiles: I see no fault in selling grades in general. The Chinese have a thriving economy based on just that, and if we're expected to keep up with the Chinese, then I would hope for a level playing field.

And this is why I can't put you on ignore, no matter how often I threaten to

As a math teacher I'm getting a kick out of this.

jrobinson6: Perhaps this is just a sine of bigger problems in our educational system. Rather than going off on tangents, we need to get to the root of the problem. Either way, this man ought to be fired from his cosh-y teaching position, cosecant do it, clearly. Fortunately, it should be a sinh to fire him at this point.
/cosine

At least he did for the real numbers, but he should have stuck to selling pi.

All of you are imaginary.

altinos: All of you are imaginary.

It's more complex than that.

/Keepin' it real!

Well when I sold grades for sex favors everyone got all pissed off, I swear there is no pleasing some people.

Silly sillies.
1. sell Count for $$
2. Buy diamonds
3. Don't have to suck cork

I May Be Crazy But...: altinos: All of you are imaginary.

It's more complex than that.

/Keepin' it real!

I be at the root of the negative one, yo.

/does not approve
//but understands

shtychkn: As a math teacher I'm getting a kick out of this.

Pumpernickel bread: What is the problem? He is providing some of the best training around on what the world is really like. Those kids should put it on their resume when they are applying for a lobbyist postion.

Additionally, how the hell is it one DUI brought a previously respectable teacher to this? Does fighting a DUI charge cost so much in NC that you have to resort to stuff like this?

He got charged extra for being a teacher.

Terrible headline, subby.

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At least it wasn't pro bono like some teacher headlines on Fark.

I hope he gets the maxima sentence, serving in a tiny cube.

pueblonative: Bbbut I thought all public school teachers were overpaid assholes just raking in the six figure checks!

Nope. They are all super-intelligent, selfless paragons of virtue that shoot sunshine and smiles out of their asses and can never do wrong.

BurnShrike: When asked why he did it, Spires is quoted as saying, "Maybe I see the kids as desperate as I am." The investigator says Spires "went on to say that he was in financial straits due to bankruptcy, arrests, and jail time."

Arrests and jail time?! What kind of school board keeps a teacher like this guy around?

Here in Ontario, teachers have a police record check at the beginning of their employment, and must sign yearly contracts stating they still have a clean record.

And I'm totally sure that all Canadian teachers who get arrested don't just sign the contract anyway.

At my job, we also get a background check. And, we're supposed to tell our supervisor if we get in any trouble (even traffic stuff). I'm confident the compliance rate is 100%

abb3w: Epicedion: He should've been more discrete.

Well, doing it continuously is obviously a horrible idea....

I was going to point out that this is not nearly as funny as you think it is. The I recalled that this is a thread about a math teacher.

Carry on.