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BANGALORE, India — Six days a week in the wee hours of the morning, Saswati Patnaik logs into her home computer. The homemaker — and tutor for a Bangalore company called TutorVista — rises early to help American high school students write English term papers, prepare S.A.T. essays or finish homework assignments.
It will sound bad to some, but I think this is great! The more we can learn from the East Indians, the better. They are excellent tutors at a very low cost and Americans need them, badly.
It won't be long before the East Indians run everything folks, they truly out hustle everyone in the classroom.
It will sound bad to some, but I think this is great! The more we can learn from the East Indians, the better. They are excellent tutors at a very low cost and Americans need them, badly.
It won't be long before the East Indians run everything folks, they truly out hustle everyone in the classroom.
I agree. It's high time we quit trying to reinvent the wheel and started emmulating those who are successful at teaching. We're WAY TOO arrogant. We have it in our heads we can't learn from others. That's why we're falling behind them.
I am confused a bit. The title of the OP is that homework is being outsourced...insinuating that students are not doing their homework themselves. However, I understood the article to be saying that students were receiving tutoring.
So, I don't know how I feel about this.
If it is tutoring, then yay. That sounds good.
If someone is doing their HW for them, then I say, where are the parents? You know, those people who say things like, "What HW do you have tonight?" "May I see it please?"
I am confused a bit. The title of the OP is that homework is being outsourced...insinuating that students are not doing their homework themselves. However, I understood the article to be saying that students were receiving tutoring.
So, I don't know how I feel about this.
If it is tutoring, then yay. That sounds good.
If someone is doing their HW for them, then I say, where are the parents? You know, those people who say things like, "What HW do you have tonight?" "May I see it please?"
I think the title was poorly written, I didn't read anything about homework being done...only tutoring.
Most of the comments on that page are in fact the parents defending the Indian tutoring. So we are talking about parents who care that don't have $100/hr to pay for a local tutor. Smart move and probably better tutoring.
I think the title was poorly written, I didn't read anything about homework being done...only tutoring.
Most of the comments on that page are in fact the parents defending the Indian tutoring. So we are talking about parents who care that don't have $100/hr to pay for a local tutor. Smart move and probably better tutoring.
Yeah, that was my impression as well. It's great that this opportunity even exists. Also, it gets students comfortable with dealing with information and assistance through the internet. Most likely they will be doing this in their future career.
Personally, I wasn't seeing that TutorVista was doing homework for these students. Tutoring them for what is, to many Americans, a nominal fee -- $100/month for unlimited tutoring hours online -- yes; doing the work for them, no.
On this particular morning, Patnaik is working with students from Atlanta and New Jersey. She logs into the TutorVista portal, using webchat to greet her student. “Hello, Brittney,” she says. Her student responds back immediately. They switch to audio, and Patnaik asks, “How have you been?” A polite sentence or two later, she queries, “How may I help you today?”
The ninth grader has a quiz on Stephen Crane’s “The Red Badge of Courage” the next day. The two discuss the novel and its characters. Patnaik probes Brittney on a few chapters and asks her several questions. She writes the themes in the novel on the digital pad and they discuss as the words show up on their respective computer whiteboards.
The students are being coached on specific assignments from their American school. In the article, they're careful to avoid an example where the pupil comes to the tutor with a writing assignment.
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