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Should I charge my friend for english classes where I teach?
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Hello my friend and his girlfriend want to learn english at the academy where I teach Should I charge them?
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I agree with what Dragonflymagic has written. If you are an employee of the school then you are most likely obligated to charge for your services in the school. What they can do is ask to be assigned to your class if your class is not full.
The only other way is for you to teach them at home and only if your employment agreement does not bar you from such an activity. Many employment agreements have such a clause in them. Read your employee agreement before you take this route. Of course if you go this route you would not be allowed to offer them any type of certificate of completion other than a letter from you that they did complete a course of study by you and that you are certified to teach this course.
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Besides teaching, is part of your job to sign people up for and take their payment for the class? If it's your own business that you own, you can do what ever you want and bend your usual rules for friends.
However, if you are employed by the academy, and expected to follow their rules guidelines, then you may not want to assume it is okay to offer the class free. If you intend to pay out of your own earnings to the academy for their attendance, then money being exchanged, it doesn't matter who pays, as long as someone does, whether it be a relative of theirs, themselves, or you.
If there is no rule forbiding the allowance of people you know to attend a class without charge because you are the teacher, there may not be such a rule because this situation has not come up before...so you can't assume that means its ok with the employer.
Ask your boss about it. Just say you have friends wanting to take the class and have you teach them. And you want to know if since they are friends, there is any special offer you can make to them.
If you choose to not charge them without checking first and getting permission...you are taking a change on the employer finding out somehow and either being reprimanded or losing your job.
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