Often, parents request to me that they want committed tutors only. At Gradtutors.com, we want to recommend the most committed tutor to you. However, we cannot guarantee that tutors recommended by us will be 100% committed. From our experience, here are few factors you may consider when engaging suitable tutors for your child:
a) If money is not the most important, it will be second to most important. Are you paying enough to your tutor?
Often, tutors may take up a low pay assignment but they may not commit long. It is considered acceptable if you are paying a tuition fee $10-$20 below the market rate to your tutor. However, if you are paying about $50 less than the market rate, your tutor will most likely not committed very long. "If you pay peanuts, you will most likely get monkeys".
b) Is your tutor staying near your place?
Some tutors may settle for lower fee, if the place is near their house. Also, it makes perfect sense that tutors will be much committed if they are travelling to somewhere near their house.
c) Is your child difficult to teach?
Most likely, tutors want to commit their time to teach a child very keen to learn, and improve. If your child is extremely playful, lazy, unmotivated (very common!), not doing homework, it may not be the tutor's fault if there is no academic improvements.
d) After some time, tutors may be less committed if they are too busy with other commitments
At certain point of time, It will be common if your tutor intend to leave an assignment when they are too tied up with other commitments. (Eg. Full time jobs, children, school activities, their own examinations!). This is when you need to request a tutor from us again. =)
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