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Tuition

  • 27-08-2009 7:28pm
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    WinstonSmith
    Closed Accounts Posts: 191 ✭✭


    Hey all,
    any advice on the following would be appreciated.
    I am a NQT (Newly Qualified Teacher) and have been trying to get as much tuition as I can as I am trying to fund a MA. I have been tutoring about six months and have the chance to tutor my THIRD pupil. The problem is that I was approached about him, not by a relative of his, but by somebody who is working with him on something else. I presume if I accept the offer then I would be paid as normal (probably doesn't matter where the money comes from so long as I receive it), but the person who asked me to tutor him offered me a less than a third of my normal rates for somebody of his age, unawares of what my normal rates would be (and presuming that I would work for the amount that I get paid on my part-time Saturday job, which quite frankly I hate and I consider to be a pittance given that I'm twenty grand in debt and spent my life working hard so that I wouldn't have to accept such wages). So far everybody who reads this would be thinking that there is not a chance that I would accept the offer but it is not as if I have offers flooding in and beggars can't be choosers. I would be receiving around thirty pounds a week more than if I refused, and there is always the possibility that word of my work with this person could spread. By my reckoning I have two options:
    1) Accept the deal as it stands or;
    2) Tell the person that I can't because the money is too little. This will result in one of two things:
    a) Ok. Bye bye! Or;
    b) well how much do you want etc...etc...
    What Should I Do? Any and all advice, no matter how trivial would be welcomed.
    Many thanks in advance,
    Winston Smith

    P.S. The person also has suspected learning difficulties (not even confirmed difficulties, so before I can even start, I have to test for them myself), which I am trained to work with but have no experience of and has mental difficulties due to a sever accident in his youth.


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