Putting together a school pod? Be ready to pay up: a private teacher can cost $80,000 to $120,000 a year — plus a placement fee, of course.
With major school districts across the country offering limited in-person instruction this fall, parents who can afford it are scrambling to find ways to avoid another semester of balancing Zoom lessons with conference calls.From nanny agencies, to tutoring companies to teacher placement services, a variety of businesses are hiring extra staff and launching new websites and program offerings to meet the demand from parents.
But these are challenges that parents across the country share and, given the funds and space required for these arrangements, only relatively well-off families can make a very private in-home school work. That dynamic has implications for educational equity at a time when educators and experts were already concerned that the gap between students with access to various devices, high speed internet, and parents who are at home to supervise — and those without those advantages.
“Before COVID, we would place private educators a handful of times a year,” Provinziano said. Usually it was for musicians going on a world tour or parents shooting a film on location who wanted to bring their kids and make sure they still received schooling. Now, on a recent day, the company had 30 phone consultations about placing teachers with families.
“ ‘One put three families together from their private school and that family is setting up a school period.’ ” Swing Education, a company that connects substitute teachers with public school districts, launched a new service, called Bubbles, to meet families’ demand for at-home teachers. The company put up the landing page for Bubbles on Friday and by the following Monday it was receiving dozens of inquiries per day. Swing is matching educators with families in California, Arizona, Texas, New Jersey and D.C.
‘This is not a failure of individual parents’ decision-making’ Some parents have been thinking about how government infrastructure could help prevent a privatized pod system from increasing already wide gulfs between haves and have-nots in education.
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