my charity idea
Jun 15, 2013 | 6:18 am
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my charity idea
I teach English on the weekends to rich kids and the money is good. But recently the kid at convenience store across the street from me asked me if I could teach him. I really can't but I gave him a computer instead.
Jun 15, 2013 | 7:26 am
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Not sure the kid in the convenience store really needs to have material-orientated stereotypes reinforced -- and if the idea was that he would use the computer to learn English -- you are very much mistaken. My lab is run in English, and some of my students speak really good English, but they still browse 90%+ of the time in Chinese -- very little curiosity about the outside world perspective.
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PS how much do you charge?
Jun 16, 2013 | 7:23 am
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Giving a kid a old computer (assuming you didn't purchase a new computer for the kid) - how is that charity......
What is the going rate for teaching right now? I get forced to teach children of guanxi and I charge 250 RMB or teach for free. (For parents with useful guanxi, I teach for free)