With unemployment soaring, many families and individuals are finding creative ways to fill in the gaps of a shrinking budget. One article I read mentioned teachers and other individuals wokring as tutors, many of them working for schools, universities or online tutoring sources, such as TutorVista.com, which offers grades K-12 and college tutoring.
TutorVista offers Online Algebra tutoring. When someone signs up for their service, they receive help with homework, exam prep and algebra question banks and similations. Algebra tutoring, among other subjects, cost $99.99 a month. This package comes with assistance 24/7, unlimited usage.
Now, with school budgets tightening while competition for placement in college becoming more and more intense, I suppose such a service is useful. I find the $100 price tag a little off-putting and would have issue with spending that much on help. But I have no idea what an individual tutor would cost. I’m the sort of girl that has a hard time letting go of $40 for a shirt so I’m not sure I’m the best judge when it comes to judging the cost of this service.
What do you think? Is $99.99 too much to spend or is it a great value?
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I would say it’s a lot, myself. Do you have to commit to some time-period? And, is that a per-subject cost? So, if you wanted your kid to have access to help in, say, Algebra and Biology, you’d pay $200/mo? Wow.
Maybe one month of it would be good though, as a kick-start? If you don’t have to have some kind of contract.