How much to pay a pod teacher?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pod teacher will do all the teaching, lesson planning and extras. She will not be required to make lunches or “babysit.” Kids are 4th grade (4 kids all AAP so close in ability level). We are paying $1000 a week. That breaks down to $250 a week per family for 20 hours of instruction and 5 hours of planning time for her. She is a former teacher who didn’t feel like returning and taught 4th grade in FCPS for 15 years.

Her fee is set and if a family pulls out they are liable for paying for the rest of the semester. We are re-evaluating then. We have all unenrolled our kids as well so no need to keep up with zoom lessons.

What's your plan for if she gdts sick or quits?

Great Point! What about leave and substitutes? The more I process these “Pods” teachers, the more ridiculous it seems. No more loves teaching over a screen but it makes more sense financially to just follow suit as a teacher.

*No one

[Anonymous]

Good tutors are paid between $90-150/hr.

HOWEVER this is for one off hours NOT a consistent 20+ hour a week job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pod teacher will do all the teaching, lesson planning and extras. She will not be required to make lunches or “babysit.” Kids are 4th grade (4 kids all AAP so close in ability level). We are paying $1000 a week. That breaks down to $250 a week per family for 20 hours of instruction and 5 hours of planning time for her. She is a former teacher who didn’t feel like returning and taught 4th grade in FCPS for 15 years.

Her fee is set and if a family pulls out they are liable for paying for the rest of the semester. We are re-evaluating then. We have all unenrolled our kids as well so no need to keep up with zoom lessons.

Curious how you are handling taxes? Everyone paying off the books? It would be very hard for most professional teachers to have only 4K a month in income if they are paying tax on that income. Of course, you may find someone but this seems like a low price to pay if you are doing it legitimately.

These teachers may not have better choices if they don’t want to teach DL.

But yes, taxes and the rest is complicated. Don’t do this under the table.

What if you were paying a college student to basically babysit your kids? Do that under the table?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our pod teacher will do all the teaching, lesson planning and extras. She will not be required to make lunches or “babysit.” Kids are 4th grade (4 kids all AAP so close in ability level). We are paying $1000 a week. That breaks down to $250 a week per family for 20 hours of instruction and 5 hours of planning time for her. She is a former teacher who didn’t feel like returning and taught 4th grade in FCPS for 15 years.

Her fee is set and if a family pulls out they are liable for paying for the rest of the semester. We are re-evaluating then. We have all unenrolled our kids as well so no need to keep up with zoom lessons.

Curious how you are handling taxes? Everyone paying off the books? It would be very hard for most professional teachers to have only 4K a month in income if they are paying tax on that income. Of course, you may find someone but this seems like a low price to pay if you are doing it legitimately.

These teachers may not have better choices if they don’t want to teach DL.

But yes, taxes and the rest is complicated. Don’t do this under the table.

What if you were paying a college student to basically babysit your kids? Do that under the table?

For an occasional date night with a rotating cast of babysitters, yes. With a five day a week sitter all school year - basically a nanny - heck no. That needs to be on the books for both your protection and for the sitter's benefits.

[Anonymous]

DCPS teacher here. You couldn't pay enough for in-person teaching at the moment, so if you want to get a teacher, be prepared to pay for it. Doing online help/tutoring after school hours is a differnt matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our pod teacher will do all the teaching, lesson planning and extras. She will not be required to make lunches or “babysit.” Kids are 4th grade (4 kids all AAP so close in ability level). We are paying $1000 a week. That breaks down to $250 a week per family for 20 hours of instruction and 5 hours of planning time for her. She is a former teacher who didn’t feel like returning and taught 4th grade in FCPS for 15 years.

Her fee is set and if a family pulls out they are liable for paying for the rest of the semester. We are re-evaluating then. We have all unenrolled our kids as well so no need to keep up with zoom lessons.

I congratulate you on being so perfect. You just sound so smug and I hope you get thrown out of your pod for being so awful.

[Anonymous]

just saw a zoom presentation from a local company charging a flat rate of $5k/month for up to five kids. the "tutor" is not a teacher and will only manage your kids other online classes and then provide some kind of "enrichment" actiity. They provide no lesson planning on assistance with homework. 9-4 five days a week. Parents have to form their own pods, 5k is flat rate even if you only have one 2 kids in the pod.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our pod teacher will do all the teaching, lesson planning and extras. She will not be required to make lunches or “babysit.” Kids are 4th grade (4 kids all AAP so close in ability level). We are paying $1000 a week. That breaks down to $250 a week per family for 20 hours of instruction and 5 hours of planning time for her. She is a former teacher who didn’t feel like returning and taught 4th grade in FCPS for 15 years.

Her fee is set and if a family pulls out they are liable for paying for the rest of the semester. We are re-evaluating then. We have all unenrolled our kids as well so no need to keep up with zoom lessons.

Can see why she's a teacher and not in another line of work. Negotiated a terrible deal for herself.

[Anonymous]

I’m the “smug” pod parent back to answer questions.

The teacher is teaching half her normal workweek. She is getting paid to teach 20 hours and plan for 5. Most teachers spend more than 40 hours a week at school so the payment seems fair and she agreed to it. She was also already looking to take a year or so off due to Covid. This is just something for her on the side.

We have a legal contract drawn up for all parties. We are doing it on a semester basis. All children have withdrawn from school. If one family chooses to pull their child out prior to Jan 1, they are liable for paying their share.

If the teacher is sick she can take the day(s) off. There won’t be a substitute. If she requires more than 2 weeks off we can reevaluate per the contract.

All students will meet at the same house for the same hours 4 days a week to create structure. Location will also be reevaluated at the end of the semester.

I view this as a small business transaction.

[Anonymous]

I just saw a post of someone offering their 'services' to run a POD- no identified teaching experience, but was asking $60 an hour, wanted 30 hours a week, and planned to bring 2 of her own children with her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just saw a post of someone offering their 'services' to run a POD- no identified teaching experience, but was asking $60 an hour, wanted 30 hours a week, and planned to bring 2 of her own children with her.

LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the “smug” pod parent back to answer questions.

The teacher is teaching half her normal workweek. She is getting paid to teach 20 hours and plan for 5. Most teachers spend more than 40 hours a week at school so the payment seems fair and she agreed to it. She was also already looking to take a year or so off due to Covid. This is just something for her on the side.

We have a legal contract drawn up for all parties. We are doing it on a semester basis. All children have withdrawn from school. If one family chooses to pull their child out prior to Jan 1, they are liable for paying their share.

If the teacher is sick she can take the day(s) off. There won’t be a substitute. If she requires more than 2 weeks off we can reevaluate per the contract.

All students will meet at the same house for the same hours 4 days a week to create structure. Location will also be reevaluated at the end of the semester.

I view this as a small business transaction.

OP this sounds more than reasonable.

Average FCPS teacher with 5 years experience makes $58k and likely works 50 hours a week. That’s about $1100/week. Your role has lower standards and fewer hours. Seems about right. I would think it would be slightly higher, maybe $1200/week which means you all would only pony up $50/week each.

[Anonymous]

As a veteran teacher with experience in upper-income communities, my personal tutoring rate is $100/hour.

However, with requests being received for POD teaching, which means multiple hours a week, I am charging $75/hour for one on one or $50/hour for groups of two to four students ($50/hour per student).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m the “smug” pod parent back to answer questions.

The teacher is teaching half her normal workweek. She is getting paid to teach 20 hours and plan for 5. Most teachers spend more than 40 hours a week at school so the payment seems fair and she agreed to it. She was also already looking to take a year or so off due to Covid. This is just something for her on the side.

We have a legal contract drawn up for all parties. We are doing it on a semester basis. All children have withdrawn from school. If one family chooses to pull their child out prior to Jan 1, they are liable for paying their share.

If the teacher is sick she can take the day(s) off. There won’t be a substitute. If she requires more than 2 weeks off we can reevaluate per the contract.

All students will meet at the same house for the same hours 4 days a week to create structure. Location will also be reevaluated at the end of the semester.

I view this as a small business transaction.

are you paying taxes and getting workers comp insurance? sure hope so!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a veteran teacher with experience in upper-income communities, my personal tutoring rate is $100/hour.

However, with requests being received for POD teaching, which means multiple hours a week, I am charging $75/hour for one on one or $50/hour for groups of two to four students ($50/hour per student).

for how many hours? are you doing lesson plans, or helping them on and off devices?