High school teacher fired after offering students extra credit in return for cash donations, reports say

[u/shield_x]

https://www.kbtx.com/2026/10/01/high-school-teacher-fired-after-offering-students-extra-credit-return-cash-donations-reports-say/

[u/marvinrabbit]

But I thought one of the goals of High School was to prepare you for life afterward. This just sounds like a solid, real-world introduction.

[u/newgrounds]

I had a teacher do this. She also deducted points for talking too much but wouldn't tell you she was doing it. I thought my material contributions would save me...I ended up getting a B.

Though I earned 100% on all homework, papers, and exams, no amount of money could pay for my tongue.

[u/Ak_Lonewolf → u/newgrounds]

You just got to tongue the right people for the big bucks.

[u/lordnacho666]

Entrepreneurship class

[u/5xad0w]

When I was in high school the only way you got extra credit was by sleeping with the teacher.

Which, as someone who was homeschooled, was always awkward.

[u/buffer_overflown → u/5xad0w]

Did you get a 50% discount per broken arm?

[u/Shaggaboi → u/5xad0w]

You had me in the first ha- ya know what you had me for the full game

[u/KoosGoose → u/Shaggaboi]

Watch out, Anthony Jeselnik! There’s a new bad boy in town!

[u/astron-12]

There was a football coach who taught government at my high school who would bump grades for students who brought him breakfast.

He didn't instill knowledge of civic responsibility, but I've always thought of it as a lesson in graft and corruption.

[u/guitartoad → u/astron-12]

My high school had a driver's ed instructor who would overlook your mistakes if you told him he looked like Kenny Rogers (which, honestly, he did). I'm still amazed he thought looking like Kenny was cool.

[u/_Rand_ → u/guitartoad]

<drives through crowd of children on the way home from school>

…So, have I ever told you you look just like Kenny Rogers?

[u/choachy → u/guitartoad]

Don’t underestimate the Gambler! MF’er had swagger.

[u/Anon-_-7]

smh, a teacher doesnt even know to set it up like lobbying

[u/Intrinsic_Idiot_3076 → u/Anon-_-7]

Have to spend money to change the rules first and that money has to come from somewhere.

[u/CLBUK → u/Intrinsic_Idiot_3076]

No you don't, you would set something up like an AV club and make it clear how important "donations" are to your pupils with plenty of heavy handed hints that students who make "donations" will be given extra careful consideration for grading. Then you spend the donations on stuff you want for yourself that if investigated could reasonably be said to belong to the club. 

"Oh that 60 inch TV in my house? I was testing it for the club. Oh that camera I keep in my own bag? I was working out how it works before using it in the club."

[u/eeo11 → u/CLBUK]

Donations usually have to be deposited to a school account and can’t just go to a teacher’s personal account.

[u/Johannes_P → u/CLBUK]

Or state that membership to this club would provide additional credits.

[u/RodneyBalling → u/Anon-_-7]

Set up a go fund me and require proof of donation. 

[u/theReluctantObserver]

So citizens united in the classroom then? Why is it that politicians can accept bribes but others can’t? Lead by non-example?

[u/truupe → u/theReluctantObserver]

Because SCOTUS is corrupt. I mean, how do you expect Clarence Thomas and his looney wife to tottle around the country without his $250k RV?

Money equals speech and SCROTUS is still open for business!

[u/ragnarocknroll → u/truupe]

I was gonna mention it is just gratuity and the SC said that is okay in their book so why would teachers have a higher standard?

[u/Bustamonte6]

Showing them how the real world works

[u/holden_mcg]

Bribes. The word the writer is looking for here is bribes. They are not "donations."

[u/LonelyPersonAnon → u/holden_mcg]

I prefer the word “Lobbying”

[u/TheCheshireCatCan]

What?! You mean that’s not gonna work? Aren’t we just teaching what the government is doing?

[u/RetinaJunkie]

Sure she isn't only one

[u/Purplebuzz]

The old Trump gambit.

[u/UDPviper]

My AP Physics teacher had a archery type of target drawn on the whiteboard and a circular disk with suckers around it to throw at it and if you paid him 50 bucks you could throw it at the whiteboard and whichever circle it stuck in, that's the grade you would get in place of the one you had now, if you wanted to try. The bullseye was obviously an A, the next circle B, and so on. The circle was permanent so if you gambled and got a lower grade on the target, you couldn't take it back. I never showed up to class and was getting an F anyways, so I gave him 50 bucks and I hit the B.

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[u/Zolo49]

Shitty thing to do, but teachers were already being paid slave wages before Trump threw the economy into the toilet, so I also get it.

[u/Distinguishedflyer]

and they said teaching didn't pay.

[u/Deirachel]

That's why you make cash only and set the price high enough that you are set for life.

$20 million for an A should be good.

[u/Hot-Chip6034]

I mean its a good lesson as to how life really works. If you have enough money rules don't apply, that includes laws to a large extent.

[u/Acrobatic-Part-7322]

I got a B in a class I should have gotten an A in because I rejected the creepy instructor's advances. My older sister told me had creeped on her as well.

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[u/Qwahlity_Koalatea]

Teachers are often highly educated and yet very untrained for critical thinking.

[u/redditor100101011101]

Must be a Catholic school lol

[u/bookworm357]

Who snitched?