Lunchtime Links: NYC teacher fined for selling homemade soap in exchange for 'no homework'

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on October 18, 2012 at 11:00 AM, updated October 18, 2012 at 11:01 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Officials say a New York City teacher has been fined $4,000 for selling his students his family's homemade soap in exchange for a "no homework" pass.

Marlon Scanterbury teaches 6th grade at Public School 66 in Brooklyn.

According to a settlement reached with the city's Conflicts of Interest Board, he started the scheme last year after the city introduced a "character incentive program."

The program called for teacher to promote good behavior by offering students stickers they could exchange for inexpensive items.

Scanterbury allegedly would sell a bar of soap for $3 or $4 apiece to his students for 10 stickers. After two months he would give them a "no homework pass."

He gave out one no-homework pass before the scheme was discovered. Scanterbury didn't return a call for comment.

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