Let's face it, if you wish for private tutoring for your child, you might as well wish for a Ferrari. Teaching services can cost $100 an hour; and you can consider it a bargain if you get something at $50. With pricing standards such as these, what does $100 a month sound like - for all the one-on-one chemistry homework help your child needs, with all the questions she needs answered as she comes up with them? In my neighborhood in Tucson, it's made the greatest difference to all the children I come across. Parents couldn't be happier - their children come home with grades they never imagined possible; there is empowerment, a kind of clarity that comes from knowing that school work doesn't have to be an opaque mystery. When they know that there is always the place to go to where they can get an answer to any question, it shows. So where is this place that they go to for such magical results - why, to the same place your tech support call goes to of course - Bangalore, India.
These are tutoring companies that come with names like TutorVista, Educomp, Turbo Tutor and The Global Guru: in impoverished India, they are hundreds of thousands of graduates with master's degrees who are completely willing to tap into the $15 billion tutoring market that the US offers. And to kids in the US, paying for unlimited support what they would pay a local teacher every hour seems absurdly wondeful. It just seems wickedly great to them that they can suddenly have so much purchasing power where it really matters - chemistry homework help, math tutoring, geometry and integral calculus. India's teaching graduates with a list of qualifications as long as your arm are happy to provide this service in what would seem like slave labor wages here, but are in fact pretty good by their standards of pay - $400 a month; it's middle-class wages.
Why exactly does America not employ the thousands of American teachers who search so hard for a permanent teaching job and then give up teaching altogether, you ask? Taxes lowered for decades, have crippled school district budgets; to pay a teacher to US standards would just not be possible, if they tried it. Chemistry can be a really tough subject; students have trouble balancing chemical equations, and making sense of entropy or energy equilibriums. It doesn't have to be that way; with chemistry homework help that's this cheap, and an array of choices at your disposal, you really could turn things around for your child in an instant.
Of all the things that the Internet has enabled for children, social networking, online gaming and instant messaging, I'd put online tutoring right up there as the greatest achievement ever known. You have to remember the feeling of being lost in a class on advanced calculus or something; it is the loneliest feeling the world. If you had a way out of it for your child, wouldn't you jump at it?