01. What kind of family invites a tutor to live in?
According to relevant media reports, recently in Shanghai, Guangzhou and other first-tier cities, some housekeeping companies have launched a home tutoring service, called high-end housekeeping or high-end nanny, but in fact, to the customer's home, mainly to teach children, do the work of the home teacher.
In the media reports, it is particularly prominent that the salary of the live-in tutor is generally 20,000 or 30,000 yuan per month, and it is obvious that the media believes that this income is relatively objective. It also takes out 20,000 or 30,000 yuan every month to give children a home-based teacher's family, basically it is not rich or expensive, not bad money.
The housekeeping company describes the work of the live-in tutor as follows:
Provide an immersive English environment for children, because children will go to international schools in the future; teach children life etiquette and develop good living habits; and accompany children to read and play, such as Lego assembly, puzzle games, bathing and brushing, painting, etc.
The requirements for candidates are also relatively high, want to get a monthly salary of thirty thousand, must be a bachelor's degree, English level six, have a teacher qualification certificate, can use English to tutor primary school general courses, have overseas study experience, and be under the age of forty.
In the specific work, the tutor also has to get up early to send the child to school, pick up the child from school, and also work part-time as the child's driver and purchaser, etc., these jobs can actually be imagined.
It can be said that if people with the above conditions can also find a teacher job in public schools, but the monthly salary may be less than 10,000, and doing a live-in tutor can get two to three times the salary.
02. Why do experts think that home tutoring is illegal?
When the media reported on the tutors, they also interviewed some education experts, and the experts' view is that the tutors are illegal, and the relevant departments are also inspecting and rectifying similar behaviors. But personal trainers are not easy to spot and difficult to check out. The reason for the rise of personal training is because students have a need to improve their scores, and the current education and training industry is in a rectification, so they have switched to hiring private teachers at home.
The prescription given by experts is that the quality of teaching in schools must be improved.
After listening to the expert's words, we felt that it made sense, but it was useless.
For example, everyone knows that if the school can teach every child perfectly, naturally, the child will not need extracurricular tutoring. But ten fingers are not the same, how can the school teach every child well?
There is a saying that stands and talks without waist pain, and is given to these experts.
At present, the education and training industry is actively rectifying, the social counseling class is strictly managed, before those counseling classes think of ways to render anxiety to parents, fool parents to spend money on their children to report for classes, so parents are sincerely supporting the strict management of social counseling classes.
But is a tutor like the one discussed in this article also within this strict scope?
In fact, no matter what it is, and whether you can take out twenty or thirty thousand yuan per month to ask for a tutor is more critical, it is estimated that the vast majority of families can not afford so much money.
03. Can the governess in the novel become a legitimate profession?
Judging from the current recruitment of tutors in Shanghai and Guangzhou, they are all sneaky, as if they are invisible occupations, lest they know more people, they will not be able to do it.
I believe that everyone has read a lot of European novels, and has also seen a lot of Republic of China TV dramas, in these novels and TV series, tutoring is a normal profession. And the heroines often started out as tutors.
Further ahead, in ancient China, it was all private school education, and the families of officials, eunuchs, and rich people all invited their husbands to their homes to teach their children, which can also be regarded as an educational tradition in our country.
From the perspective of market supply and demand, first of all, the requirements of the tutor are very high, the treatment is relatively high, which is also the price of the market, and then, there are some rich families with the demand for this tutor, then the two sides are fair trade, in line with the law of the market.
Tutors earn more, some teachers want to earn more money, as long as they are not teachers in schools, while being tutors, they can go to work, but also the way for people to support their families, and there is no social harm.
At the same time, families who can't afford to hire tutors should not be anxious, families that can afford tutors are after all very few, and at the same time, when they invite tutors, they also have to look at their children's talents, and it is not necessary that once there is a tutor, learning will suddenly become better.
Therefore, we suggest that under the norms of the relevant departments, can we make tutors a normal profession and protect the rights and obligations of tutors as a useful supplement to school education?