What r/TutorsHelpingTutors is talking about this week

Guys, raise your rates! I encounter so many people On Here who are charging like $20 an hour. Before you explain that you can't possibly, go fire up taskrabbit. Look up how much it costs per hour...

I swear, sometimes teaching is more entertaining than anything else. You can prepare a whole lesson, spend ages explaining something, and then your student suddenly says something that leaves you...

A student told me she would like to take classes from me with another friend of hers. So they would like to split the cost amongst themselves - exactly 50% each. I found this proposal ridiculous...

Hello everybody, I started private Math tutoring at the end of last year as a way to pay bills while applying for jobs post-college. Honestly, things have been going pretty great so far. As of...

How do you handle the gut-wrenching awkwardness of reminding students to pay? Looking for hacks...

Hello all, I'm new here. I'm a math tutor and have been since about 2019. Recently I took on a new student who is taking high school geometry. However, their basic math skills are well below what...

They reached out via one of my ads, then they agreed to a time and even sent me study materials before suddenly abandoning the interaction because their plans supposedly changed. They had even...

Hi everyone! I'm an Italian language tutor and I've been teaching online for several years mainly through tutoring platforms such as italki. Lately I've been thinking about taking the next step...

I have a student who caused me a lot of issues with blatantly disrespectful and boundary pushing behavior. They pushed for a same day trial, ignored time zone differences and demanded immediate...

According to Google, the average student retention among Wyzant's top 100, highest-earning tutors is approx. 20 hours per student. It also says that the algorithm acknowledges that test prep often...