The Ocean Gate Board of Education recognizes that the discharge of its responsibility to provide a thorough and efficient system of education for each child in the district may require special help for some pupils beyond the regular classroom program. Tutorial instruction shall be interpreted to mean individualized instruction additional to, and in support of, regular classroom instruction.

Wherever possible within the working day, each teaching staff member shall assist assigned pupils in the remediation of individual learning difficulties.

In certain cases where extra help is desirable and the parents/guardians request such assistance, a teacher or administrator may recommend that the parents/guardians secure tutorial services for the pupil.

To avoid placing a teacher in a position where he/she may have a conflict of interest, teachers shall not tutor, for a fee, pupils enrolled in their classes or upon whose evaluation or assignment they may be called upon to pass. Nor shall any employee of the board make a commitment to perform services for extra pay when he/she has been instrumental in recommending the need for those services.

Teachers shall not tutor any pupil for pay during regular working hours or on school premises.

NJSBA Review/Update: October 2008, October 2017
Adopted: January 21, 2009
Reviewed:

Key Words

Tutoring, Conflict of Interest

Legal References: N.J.S.A. 18A:11-1 General mandatory powers and duties
N.J.S.A. 18A:27-4 Power of boards of education to make rules governing
employment of teachers, etc ;employment thereunder
N.J.S.A. 18A:54-20 Powers of board (county vocational schools)

Possible
Cross References: *4119.21/4219.21 Conflict of interest
*4138/4238 Nonschool employment
6164.6 Tutoring
*6173 Home instruction

*Indicates policy is included in the Critical Policy Reference Manual.