April and May are normally a very busy time of year for educational personnel, what with finals and all. But for some strange reason, between April 20th and May 10th, I could count the number of new tutoring opportunities that showed up in my bin on one hand.
Yes— three weeks of a dry spell right in the middle of what should have been the busy season. Hell, there was an SAT on May the 4th, and I got NO new calls for SAT prepping in late April— none!
My tutoring company kept trying to say, when I asked for a reason, that it was just the time of year. And I kept on saying to myself: no way. This, if anything, was supposed to be crunch time. It wasn’t this way in late April-early May last year. Something, I think, has been up.
I suspect part of the reason had to do with people’s tax bills, having to spend money on Uncle Sam instead of Auntie Tutor. Teachers and school administrators on DKos: what might have happened in the educational universe in that time frame? Changes in school schedules? A dramatic lessening of homework to focus on big projects? A change in the standardized test schedules?
Because whatever was the cause of the slowdown, it was nationwide, NOT confined to Colorado— otherwise I would’ve gotten a lot of online opportunities instead of in-person ones.
Because of that, I expected to have earned enough money to pay my last portion of my tuition payment a month ago, and I was unable to. Now it’s about to go into collections, unless I can pay by June 7th. I’m going to need $400. My PayPal account is lucymontrose@gmail.com.
Thank you!