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[quote=Anonymous]Really interesting article. Is DCUM mostly middle class orUMC at most? Because I haven’t really seen people talking much about this - poaching a former classroom teacher. While it seems that most people on in these boards are focused on the public vs. private school debate, the extremely wealthy are bypassing private schools altogether and starting their own pods with a couple friends or hiring former classroom teachers just for their own families. Why have your kid be in a class of 12-15 when they can be tutored one-on-one or with just a few friends? It reminds me of how the extremely wealthy routinely used to hire governesses and private tutors before heading off to boarding school. Has anyone on here actually done this or was invited to join a pod like this? What did it cost? What’s been your experience with it!

Affluent Parents Are Poaching Teachers for Their Private Pods in the Midst of Public School Shortages

https://www.parents.com/kids/education/back-to-school/affluent-parents-are-poaching-teachers-for-their-private-pods-in-the-midst-of-public-school-shortages/

Parents.com has heard that public school teachers across the country are being offered a lot more money to teach kids privately during the pandemic. While it can mean potentially safer conditions for teachers, education advocates are concerned about what it means for low-income students. 
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When school districts opened this year, some families gravitated toward a quickly-orgazined model of "parent-organized discovery sites" (pods) in which families—typically those within the same socioeconomic circles—merge their children together in small groups for socialization or to share a learning space. The concept is appealing to busy parents, exhausted by a spring spent working from home while simultaneously supervising their own children's e-learning. Frequently employing certified educators familiar with a district's curriculum, some independent pods exist solely as a supplement to a district's online teaching, while others may operate more like independent microschools. And these pods aren't cheap: ones in New York and California can cost about $2,500 a child per month.
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Earlier this summer, Bay Area tech investor Jason Calacanis—a venture capitalist for companies including ride-sharing firm Uber and relaxation app Calm—tweeted a job listing offering details of his search: "Looking for the best 4-6th grade teacher in Bay Area who wants a 1-year contract, that will beat whatever they are getting paid." Calacanis added a finder's fee of a $2,000 Uber Eats gift card.

Calacanis later tweeted teachers hired for these pods could receive as much as $240 a day for a 10-student pod for six hours, and that the instruction kids would receive would be supplemental to the remote learning provided by schools.

In July, Colleen Ganjian, an education consultant who works with high schoolers in the Washington D.C. area, told the Washington Post that families in her network were seeking an equivalent to a "nanny share on steroids." Ganjian noted that prices start at $25 to $30 per hour for a college or graduate student, and[b] $50 to $100 per hour for a trained tutor. As for poaching a teacher from a public school? She said that could cost as much as $100,000 a year.[/b]

In New York City, Aleta LaFargue is managing her 7-year-old's remote learning from a public elementary school while staging a campaign run for District 3 of the city council. During one Zoom class, LaFargue noticed another student was being assisted not by a parent, but by a hired teacher.

"And I thought, 'Wow, how nice,'" she says. "I know people in the Hamptons having actual classroom teachers coming to their homes. But I'm a single mom—this isn't an option for my child, or for the children of many, many other New Yorkers."[/quote]

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