recently seen post at the
hs-ont egroup:
I'm looking for a private tutor to work with 4 homeschooled children.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, from 8:30am-12:30am. Pay would be $300 a week.
We would want the core subjects covered - reading, spelling, grammar, math - with some history, geography and social studies included. We also want the curriculum to be non religious in nature. The ages of the children will be 5-10 years.
so let's price that out:
since a school year is 40 weeks, this family is willing to spend
$12,000 for a tutor. wow. maybe this seems like a large sum of money.
except it's not. 
private schools cost TONS of moolah - $12,000 might cover
one semester - and that's for one child.
this family expects
4 children - of different ages (that's important, you'll see later) - to be educated for a mere $12,000.
oh?
but all that yummy money goes straight to the tutor/teacher. surely, that's a good gig - 16 hours of work a week. that's $18.75/hr.
but wait.
what about prep time?
there's 7 subjects listed. and 4 levels of ability (dif ages - i said i'd explain why it mattered). that means you not only prep for grammar - but you prep for
4 levels of grammar!
i'm gonna be extremely generous and say 8 hours of prep time a week (but really, that'd be a miracle: what with the 28 permutations of subjects and levels). with 8 hours of prep: that makes it $12.50/hr.
slightly better than a babysitter.
except you're a babysitter that's supposed to teach all 4 of your charges reading, writing & 'rithmetic
and after all that - your employer will be monitoring you continually, and will likely provide input at the worst times (say, after you've already blocked 16 weeks of lessons in ancient rome, she'll decide that you should be studying medieval times because a new exhibit is coming to the ROM and
couldn't you just fit that in?) 
but hey - if you find that chump: bring her here!
