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silkcity
Citizen
Username: Silkcity
Post Number: 134
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 17, 2003 - 4:51 pm: | 
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I'm doing tutoring, and I'm hiring a tutor, as well (different subject areas, of course). What do people pay for these services? What seems fair and appropriate to you? |
kathy
Citizen
Username: Kathy
Post Number: 577
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 3:10 pm: |
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I have paid CHS teachers $60-65 an hour to tutor my child in their subject areas. |
deborahg
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 621
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, July 21, 2003 - 7:39 pm: |
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Really?!! Whoa...I am in the wrong business. |
Carrie-Ann Khan
Citizen
Username: Cakhan
Post Number: 9
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 - 12:04 pm: |
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The CHS teachers likely could charge that much for tutoring due to teacher union regulations. You are better off going with bright students from nearby high schools and universities who can do an excellent job and, I have found, charge $15-$30 per hour depending on the amount of experience and complexity of subject matter. Look around for those more affordable free-lancers!!
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algebra2
Citizen
Username: Algebra2
Post Number: 1110
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 - 12:24 pm: |
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I just looked back through some "tutor" files and checked the prices which are charged for tutors in NYC ... hold onto your hats folks ... the least expensive was $100/hour the most expensive is $415/hour. The $415 is through a company called Advantage Testing, the owner is a lawyer who stopped practicing and now does test preparation tutoring -- his fees are $450/hour and he has employees who do tutoring more in the $275/hr range.
These tutors weren't for me, my son is only 4, they were ones I hired for children living in the city.
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viva
Citizen
Username: Viva
Post Number: 266
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 - 1:38 pm: |
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On the subject of tutors, I would like to highly recommend Priddy Learning Academy on Essex Street in Millburn. Michael and Fangjie are exceptional people who really care about their students and are passionate about their work. They tutor privately or in small groups at all grade levels.
http://www.priddylearning.com/ |
wharfrat
Citizen
Username: Wharfrat
Post Number: 774
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 23, 2003 - 1:58 pm: |
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Carrie-Ann,
"The CHS teachers likely could charge that much for tutoring due to teacher union regulations."
Do you know this for fact? I'm a teacher, who tutors, and I've never seen anything in NJEA/or local EA's that set a going price for after hours teaching.
Perhaps you are confusing tutoring rates with at home instruction. For many reasons students can't make classes and school districts provide at home instruction. Teachers bill a district, directly, because this instruction occurs after hours, and involves specific lesson preparation. |
Carrie-Ann Khan
Citizen
Username: Cakhan
Post Number: 10
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 12:11 pm: |
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Wharfrat,
The speculation about tutoring (as distinct from at-home instruction) and teacher union regulations was just an extrapolation of experience in Ohio, not NJ. My apologies for offering such a hypothesis--just trying to speculate about why some of the tutoring costs were so high when there are a number of highly qualified free-lancers with lower rates.
Best,
C-A
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wharfrat
Citizen
Username: Wharfrat
Post Number: 777
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, July 24, 2003 - 1:35 pm: |
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C-A,
My hypothesis is the freemarket.
Best,
WF |
Carrie-Ann Khan
Citizen
Username: Cakhan
Post Number: 11
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 11:29 am: |
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Warning: Possible thread drift imminent (though some of this is pertinent for silkcity's original query about rates for being and/or hiring a tutor).
Wharfrat,
As I am very sympathetic with free market analysis, I was suspicious that free markets were not the cause of some of the expensive tutoring rates. Truly competitive free markets (except for natural monopolies and industries that have a very high cost of entry, which warrant government regulation) are supposed to drive down costs and increase quality as entrepreneurs (including tutors) compete for customers. If some good or service seems to cost a lot, then it is often due to some sort of government regulation "protecting" the provider of the good or service. Of course, these principles do not always play out in practice--there are things called "status goods" that complicate the free market picture and the traditional supply & demand theories. For example, some parents think that if they don't spend a lot of money on extra stuff for their kids, then others will think that they don't really love their kids--it makes them feel better to say "It cost me a ton to get such-and-such for Bobby," the assumption/implication being that lots of money spent is equivalent both to a high quality good/service and to the status of being a caring parent.
All of this argument (and, yes, according to the "flame warrior" categories I came across under one of the other boards, I am "philosopher") is meant to help silkcity in figuring out how to set tutoring prices and in seeking out tutors. With respect to the first task, I personally keep my rates reasonably low, as do some of my friends, in the $15-$30 per hour range, and even do some free volunteer tutoring for indigent families. The rationale for this is that I think that education is so important that I do not want the cost to be prohibitive for individuals who really need extra assistance. Also, though, I don't want to undervalue the worth of my labor (which took many years of training, etc.), so I don't charge simply minimum wage or do only pro bono work. With respect to the second task, I will reiterate my original suggestion to seek out tutors from the pool of high school and university students/faculty. I teach at a university and know a number of individuals who are good tutors and have good rates. High quality can be had at a low cost!
Thanks for listening (well, really, reading) . . .
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