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Outsourcing Homeschooling for a Summer? Do you HS other kids?


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I was thinking about outsourcing daycare and homeschooling this summer. The job would be 7 hours a day, probably two of those hours schooling, the rest expected to be free play, beach, park, and/or at home. Five weeks. No ed degree required provided you have a homeschool portfolio to demonstrate your skills. Kids are active but behave for the sitter.

 

Would it be insulting to look for HSing moms and pay them $25 for tutoring hours and only $12 for the other hours? This is the Puget Sound area, so please reply with that in mind.

 

I'm looking for a secular curriculum but obviously not discriminating on the basis of religion.

 

I was thinking about placing an ad on Care.com, but I'm not sure what information it should include.

 

If you homeschooled someone else's kids, what was it like? What did you expect? I was thinking this would be effectively one unit. I would provide the curriculum or would rent the non-consumables from the teacher for the summer.

 

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How many kids do you have and how old are they? 

 

We pay our kid's teacher less than your tutoring amount but more than your other hours amount.  I'm in a pretty high COL area (NJ).  The amount was the same regardless of whether it was teaching hours, transporting hours or "babysitting" hours.  It would be hard to break down how many hours were spent doing what and I could see that leading to problems or arguments every week.  We even ended up switching to more of a weekly salary rather than hourly because  it ended up being easier for everyone.

 

I don't think you are likely to find someone with homeschool experience on Care.com.  You might get an Early Childhood, or Elementary Ed certification though (ours has Elem Ed but is also familiar with the local homeschool community - her brother is homeschooled).

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This is a great opportunity to tell you how much I love your blurb as a photo, Dot. :)

 

Two kids, 5 and 8, K and 2nd. K does 2nd grade math (she can do the math in her sister's school book), 2nd does 3rd-4th grade math. K reads at grade level, but in three languages, I only need her English solidified; 2nd is very advanced, reads high-school level but does not have the critical thinking skills to work at that level, and needs grammar and spelling to help her shine in language arts. Both very much love science and geography and history, but they get very little of that at school.

 

I need someone who can teach accelerated children and keep them challenged without expecting them to be all super-enthusiastic about it like a gifted child would be. In a way this should be easy: you don't need to know how to teach gifted kids, you can just up their level and expect them to catch on right away. However, they'd both rather be roller-skating.

 

In the past I've paid $15 hr but I felt it would be too low to advertise as such--just sounds low for tutoring. Interesting that you pay a flat rate.

 

Where would you go for homeschooling parents?

 

 

We even ended up switching to more of a weekly salary rather than hourly because  it ended up being easier for everyone.

 

What if you are late? Is there a set bonus? It's fear of being late that keeps me paying hourly though of course I write the check weekly.

 

 

 

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Glad you like my avatar - it seems appropriate way too much of the time. :glare:

 

Accelerated children who are not super enthusiastic about learning - sounds like my son. :lol:

 

We started off with an hourly rate that was about 1 1/2 times the typical babysitting rate for our area.  Dh worked far so we set the hours based on what I needed for work (45 hours a week).  Dh's work changed and he started getting home earlier (or off random days).  Since it wasn't fair to her to cut her pay when it was our "fault" we paid her the same.  After a while I asked if she was okay with us calling it a weekly salary and not worrying if we went a little over (very very rarely happens but it's nice not to have to worry about it) and she was fine with it.  She's probably usually here 40-45 hours a week.  She also plans all their school so I know she's putting in more hours at home.

 

We are EXTREMELY happy with her.  We've had her a year now (started Jan 6 2014) and things are going very smoothly.  She is a great teacher, but also amazing with my "quirky" son and wackadoodle daughter.

 

I found her by posting on all my local homeschool boards - on Facebook, yahoo, etc.  Someone who knew her and her mother passed along the request and then she contacted me.  We interviewed her right before Christmas and then had her come one day over the break to stay with them for a few hours to see how it went. 

 

When we started off I did all the planning but she took it over very soon.  Since she was working with them, she saw if they needed extra practice or could move faster, she planned field trips and activities so knew if they needed a light day.  

 

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