Some children attend math tutoring from the fourth grade of primary school. Then come tutoring sessions in foreign languages, Polish, chemistry and physics. One gets the impression that students leave school to begin their real learning at tutoring sessions. At least those whose parents can afford additional lessons.
“Is it therefore worthwhile for teachers to teach children anything during lessons, when tutoring is such a lucrative occupation?” asks a reader who informed us about the price of paid math lessons. “Why should teachers struggle at school, in overcrowded, noisy classrooms, when they can quietly earn a second salary from tutoring at home?! Especially from math tutoring,” she adds.
We can also ask whether it is worthwhile for students to listen to their teacher during lessons when they go to tutoring after school.
Tutoring serves students not only to cover the material assigned at school, but also to deliberately obtain good grades for classroom participation. Students are known to study one lesson ahead during tutoring so that they can volunteer in class when a new topic is being covered. It is a risky way to obtain grades, but it is practiced. Teachers who catch a student displaying such excessive activity and excellent knowledge of a new topic do not react favorably. They may then make life difficult for such a student.
Tutoring prices in Bolesławiec vary, and teachers who provide tutoring make sure that no one undercuts the market or lowers prices. This leads to heated arguments in teachers’ rooms when teachers who provide tutoring learn that a colleague is teaching for a lower fee.
Additional work outside school should be reported to the tax office. However, this rarely happens. A tutor does not have to issue a fiscal receipt for lessons at home, but should settle their accounts with the tax office. Taxes in such a case are not high, while the earnings are enormous. Because PLN 140 per hour is really very, very much.