Is it legal for a teacher to invite a student over to study?

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Is it legal for a teacher to invite a student over to discuss material she missed beacuse she was out?? the teacher stated from day one that if you are abscent it is your resonsibility to get the information from another student. It's mighty funny this girl got an "A"????

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

I would guess the professor felt the student is worthy and had a good reason to be absent. My take on it would be that not only is it legal but it is a nice gesture. A classmate of mine lost her Mom while we were in school and she got some extra help for time she missed that I don't think anyone begrudged her.

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A teacher asked the student into their home?

Nowadays, even helping a student at school needs to be done with the classroom door wide open.

steph

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I would guess the professor felt the student is worthy and had a good reason to be absent. My take on it would be that not only is it legal but it is a nice gesture. A classmate of mine lost her Mom while we were in school and she got some extra help for time she missed that I don't think anyone begrudged her.

Well, actually she got into it with another student..and that's why she did not come for 3 days.

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Specializes in Med-Surg.

Sounds like the gossip mill is getting started. Is this a battle that's worse getting involved in?

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Specializes in Psych ICU, addictions.

Legal? Yes.

Ethical? Big grey area.

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Specializes in NICU Level III.

In their home? Odd. At school? Okay.

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Specializes in LTC, Acute Care.

I had a teacher in college who let me come to her apartment to take my final in Spanish class. She recognized something was wrong with me long before anyone else close to me did. The past few weeks I had started sleeping through her 9:30 a.m. class and actually slept through my final test. She let me come over to take the final on one condition--I had to go to a doctor to get screened for depression. I did well on the final, believe it or not, but I owe her so much for her insight. She was absolutely right about the depression...I slept 20+ hours a day and cried the rest of the time I was alone. (This was well before I was a nurse and before I was surrounded by people who "believed" in depression, so I didn't recognize the signs, either.)

Maybe there is more to the story...who knows.

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Specializes in Emergency.

As Tweety can attest to about every time you turn on the news here in the Tampa Bay area they are hauling another teacher off to jail for "inappropriate" behavior with a student. So while probably not illegal there would be no way any child of mine would be going to any teachers house. What's worse is that now the have a school system investigating a school resource officer for the same thing.

Rj

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Are we talking adults in college?

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Specializes in Family Nurse Practitioner.

I had a big enough job worrying about Jules' business during nursing school to be too concerned with what others "might" be doing.

:D

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Unless the instructor is certain that the student is over 21, he/she is taking a big risk. Much easier to do the appropriate thing. Meet the student during office hours at school. Just too much at stake. Strange that someone would even think about doing something like this.

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