Can my teacher be sued for taking money to make grades higher?

Hello. I have a question reguarding an incident occuring at my school. I recently have been harassed about giving money to my gym teacher because she raised my grade. What happened was when it came down to the end of the quarter she read the grades aloud and i was un happy. I spoke with her after that class and she said if i gave her $100 dollars that she would use 20 for each class i missed to fix my grades. I then got a perfect grade for gym. However, i never paid her and she knew it would take me a while to get. The next day after i asked her about paying her(i thought she wasnt serious after this part) she assigned me 5 very large packets of worksheets about sports. I completed them in one night after working on it for hours. i handed them in expecting to be squared off. I apparently was not. She told me i still had to pay and still asks me every few days about it. I was wondering if this was against the law and if so what exact law. I live in pennsylvania. Thanks for the help

Also I would like to add that she threated to lower my grade if i did not provide her with money. I am 17 and i knew this was wrong and i felt like i should have just never did it but i discussed it with my mother who told me to tell her to go to He** and that if she lowered my grade or i had to pay her a single cent that she would see her in court and she would sue to the highest extent of the law and try to get her to lose her job. if you could direct me to a specific law of soem sort or a specific reference where i could find this because i need an actual legal thing to go by. not just a matter of opinion. thanks =]

WOW!! That is absolutely scandalous. This teacher will be in major trouble if she is turned in to the school board and will definetly be out of a job - forever (as a school teacher). It's called blackmail or extortion if she continues to insist that you pay her for maintaining a good grade. The fact that she even went for the idea would spell her end. You would have to speak to the school board and also speak to a lawyer. The place to find specific laws regarding this issue would be your State's Revised Statutes and they are available online in most states. Say for example your state was Colorado - you would enter CRS or more specific, Colorado Revised Statutes. Then you have to find public education, then narrow that down till you find how the law reads for teacher ethics, rules/laws. Just narrow it down. It can be daunting at first, but you'll know when you found the right passages. Good luck. Teacher is toast!

100%against the law,,,,,,,,,she will lose her job for that and it is extortion

Why not expose her here if your telling the truth

What are you going to sue for?? This is America, but we don't have to sue for everything. Plus, you are a minor. But, what you can do is turn her in for un-ethical practices. Go to the school board, principal or even police. Since this is a form of exstortion. Let them help you figure it out.

But again, what are you going to gain from sueing everyone. That is the problem with the US. Everyone is in a hurry to make an easy dollar and not earn it. Quicker to blame someone else for their own problems. And to think I served my country defending these idolistic ideas for that past 8 years. But, we are allowed our freedom of being a selfish person.