Chinese teacher running illegal after-school tutoring business caught in newspaper sting
- It is rare for teachers to get caught or receive punishment for tutoring outside school
- However new regulations to reign in excessive extracurricular academic classes could see this start to change
A middle-school teacher in eastern China has been caught breaking the law for charging students for tutoring, local media reported.
After receiving tip-offs from the public, inspectors from the Education Bureau of Huangshan, Anhui, went to a home in Tunxi District on Tuesday and discovered the teacher, surnamed Lu, was carrying out paid tutoring in violation of rules banning teachers form moonlighting as paid tutors for students, the Xinan Evening News reports.
The teacher, whose gender was not revealed, is from Tunxi No1 Middle School.
China’s Ministry of Education bans teachers of primary and middle schools from conducting after-school paid tutoring, but it’s common for many teachers to run tutoring businesses outside the classroom, partly because teachers’ salaries on the mainland – especially those at public schools – are generally low.
It is rare for teachers to get caught or receive punishment for tutoring outside school. The incident occurred against the backdrop of new regulations to reign in excessive extracurricular academic classes initiated by the central government.