How much does tutoring cost in your area?

[♥ms.pacman♥]

WOW, i am just blown away by this..$100+ an hour?? Wow. Is this for someone who has particular background/degree in teaching children, and provides specific exercises, etc? Bc otherwise I just can't imagine. was thinking the cost would be more like what ang79 was describing (i am also in low col area). Especially for HS students...you think the cost should be higher for working with younger kids .

I have zero bkground in teaching, but I used to tutor calculus/physics courses (to other college students) when i was a college student and made a measly $11/hr and I thought that was a lot of money..lol.

[HannaAddict]

In our area, no one uses high school people but specialists. One mom was talking about this today as her entering second grade son is about to start tutoring and she said it was $110 for 50 minutes of reading tutoring. He doesn't have a diagnosed learning disability but isn't progressing as well as she'd like and she has signed him up for twice a week. The most inexpensive person I've heard of is $65 an hour for reading and writing and uses Slingerland and Spaulding method and most clients are in public school. We attend private school and well over 50% of kids see tutors and all I've heard of our $100 and up - from reading to OT and math is hard to find. We live in an expensive area based on this and how much sitters/nannies go for from a previous post!

[ett]

WOW, i am just blown away by this..$100+ an hour?? Wow. Is this for someone who has particular background/degree in teaching children, and provides specific exercises, etc? Bc otherwise I just can't imagine. was thinking the cost would be more like what ang79 was describing (i am also in low col area). Especially for HS students...you think the cost should be higher for working with younger kids .

I have zero bkground in teaching, but I used to tutor calculus/physics courses (to other college students) when i was a college student and made a measly $11/hr and I thought that was a lot of money..lol.

I'm with you! When I was deciding on majors in college, I thought about majoring in math to become a math teacher but my dad suggested that I do engineering because it's easier to transfer from engineering to math than math to engineering. Well, now that I've been a SAHM for 10 years, I'm pretty much never going to go back to engineering! So I really should have just gone into teaching and have the option to tutor while still being a SAHM.

[sunnyside]

I had no idea tutoring was so expensive! I considered tutoring math a long time ago and never did it... maybe time to reconsider!