louis vuitoon The No Child Left Behind act was a wonderful exercise in great intention

The No Child Left Behind act was a wonderful exercise in great intention. The law says that every child in the country can demand and get free afterschool tuition. The taxpayers pay for it, and children can catch up in subjects that they feel they aren't good enough at. But that's on paper; in most good-sized towns, there isn't enough in the budget to provide for everyone who needs it, and in villages, there is none at all. Extra afterschool tutoring costs $50 an hour and there just isn't enough in any school district budget for such luxury. But just as customer service that became too expensive was exported to India and other places, so is tutoring done with now. Consider a Bangalore organization called TutorVista. They typically hire applicants who hold master's degrees in a subject they seem to be interested in teaching. Fresh teaching graduates typically make no more than $200 a month in India; often, they make far less. Online teaching positions such as these can easily pay four times that. Not that this would help and live in luxury; teachers who work on local salaries here typically live on the edge of poverty. The tutoring companies train them in the culture of the pupils in America or Britain whom they will be training, and set them on the job teaching through the Internet.



The pupil on the other end of the line could be in Carson County Nevada, or in Crabapple Cove Maine - the teacher from India gets on the job with chemistry or math or even English grammar, with any student anywhere; this might come as a bit of a shock to American teachers who've been batting about the country desperately trying to get some kind of permanent work. Outsourcing online teaching positions can legitimately be seen to be depriving American teachers of what they are due; but who in America would be willing to work for $400 a month? To assuage these feelings, these companies usually offer to take up free classes for a couple of the poorest school districts in the country.





Children need individual help; while County budget planners may not see a problem cutting down on amenities and teachers in a school to balance their books, this actually does take help away from where it is desperately needed. Sitting in a class of 20 fidgety children, sometimes more, is hardly the way for any child to learn. If you need your child to do well in her SATs, if she needs help with a couple of sticky math problems, how could you possibly turn down personal tutoring at $100 a month?



Actually, people in India who hold these online teaching positions report that parents are usually so delighted with the quality of the teaching they see that they often sit down alongside their child to share her lessons in algebra. If you wish to investigate this possibility for your child, you need to understand that education standards across India are hardly uniform. It's buyer beware. And of course there is that old problem with the accent. These companies do what they can to take care of the rough edges; but it can sometimes come in the way. Most of the time, the child isn't even aware the teacher comes from halfway around the globe. Sometimes they learn by accident; and then it becomes a really interesting meeting of the cultures.
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