{"id":50960,"date":"2020-08-21T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/parents-are-spending-70000-for-their-kids-to-learn-in-pods\/"},"modified":"2020-08-21T02:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T23:57:00","slug":"parents-are-spending-70000-for-their-kids-to-learn-in-pods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/parents-are-spending-70000-for-their-kids-to-learn-in-pods\/","title":{"rendered":"#Parents are spending $70,000 for their kids to learn in \u2018pods\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Parents are spending $70,000 for their kids to learn in \u2018pods\u2019<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Now that most NYC-area schools have released their plans for the upcoming school year, with a combination of remote and in-person learning, parents of elite students are scrambling to supplement what they believe will inevitably be lost if students aren\u2019t in the classroom \u2014 by hiring private educators.<\/p>\n

Known as \u201cpods,\u201d small groups of four to 10 students in the same grade led by a tutor or teacher, have become the solution for weary and wealthy parents who are paying thousands of dollars \u2014 on top of five-figure private school tuitions \u2014 for the extra help monitoring kids during their school\u2019s remote learning schedule.<\/p>\n

Christopher Rim, founder of the tutoring company Command Education, has been inundated with calls from \u201cdesperate parents\u201d demanding leaders for pods that they\u2019ve created with other families. He\u2019s already staffed four pods in the Hamptons with tutors and expects to close in on 10 by the time the school year begins, with kids expected to rotate learning at a different home each week. One Water Mill parent already volunteered her 13-bedroom manse as the permanent home base of her kid\u2019s 11th-grade four-person learning pod. He charges $3,500 a week per student, but offers a flat rate of $70,000 per kid if you pay the whole year up front, which covers 30 weeks of school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese days, nothing is off the table. It\u2019s about your child not falling behind,\u201d Rim told The Post of parents\u2019 decision to pod. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing too expensive in terms of education for their child.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rim, a 25-year-old Yale grad with a BA in psychology who started the company in 2015 out of his dorm room, trains his tutors, who are all Ivy-league educated and under 30 years old. Some have teaching degrees and are certified to teach in public schools but not all. Said Rim, \u201cThis is not a replacement for school. This is not an accredited program. This is a supplement to make sure the students are on track.\u201d All his tutors will be tested for COVID weekly, and will follow CDC guidelines for social<\/a>-distancing whenever possible.<\/p>\n

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Sara, a mom from the Upper East Side who declined to give her last name for privacy reasons, decided to hire Rim to staff a pod for her Trinity School middle schooler and pals. \u201cIt\u2019s a really critical time,\u201d she said. \u201cElementary school is one thing, but middle school going into high school is intense.\u201d<\/p>\n

She admitted feeling \u201csticker shock\u201d about the $35,000 cost for the fall semester pod. \u201cI already invested $50,000 in tuition [for school], but I think this is worth it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s an investment in my child.\u201d And it takes the pressure off her to keep up with home-schooling while she works full time in finance: \u201cI don\u2019t have time to police my child.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a big chunk of money, but we committed,\u201d said Stephanie, an Upper East Side mom of two high schoolers, who\u2019s shelling out $35,000 for each kid for a pod this fall semester in addition to the $55,000 she pays for them to go to Columbia Grammar & Prep. \u201cIt was just a s\u2009-\u2009-\u2009tshow in the spring,\u201d she said. \u201cI wanted consistency and I thought the pod would be the best thing.\u201d But the mom, who works in finance and is currently living in Sagaponack, insisted she\u2019s aware that their situation is unique.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI feel bad. I read the news<\/a> about these poor kids in Mississippi whose idea of PPE is a shower curtain. It widens the idea of the haves and the have-nots,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re lucky and super-fortunate that we can do this for our kids so they don\u2019t fall behind next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her older child, a rising junior studying physics and trigonometry, is growing anxious about college and feeling extra pressure to perform without in-person learning. \u201cIt\u2019s just part of going to a private school in NYC \u2014 the goal is to get to a top 10 school, with a Duke, Michigan or UVA in there somewhere,\u201d said Stephanie of the fierce college admissions process. \u201cIf you get a B or two B\u2019s, good luck getting out of that hole. We\u2019re just making sure they\u2019re trying to stay the course.\u201d<\/p>\n

She also underscores that by hiring tutors, she\u2019s paying for skills she doesn\u2019t have herself. \u201cI don\u2019t want to seem dense to the fact that what we\u2019re doing for them is extremely privileged, but I don\u2019t have the time nor the capabilities to sit and review an English paper or help with college essays,\u201d she says. \u201cIt\u2019s beyond my skill set.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even public school families who fear DOE disarray are plotting to pod. \u201cAfter the UFT [United Federation of Teachers] said they\u2019re going on strike, my phone blew up,\u201d said Frances Kweller of Kweller Prep in Forest Hills. \u201cMany parents don\u2019t trust how the DOE will operate, so they want a concrete program that will give them specific learning goals and objectives.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kweller plans to run her own pods of four to six kids each for about $750 per kid per month \u2014 two hours per day, four days a week \u2014 from third through eighth grade. She said her prospective clients are mostly coming from the magnet schools and kids in the gifted-and-talented programs in public schools.<\/p>\n

But regardless of where their kids go to school, there\u2019s a common thread among parents when it comes to going public about their decision to pod: They\u2019re keeping it quiet.<\/p>\n

Stephanie, for one, declined to provide her last name for this story and says she\u2019s not telling the school about the tutoring: \u201cI just feel like they\u2019ll just think we don\u2019t have faith in them.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a matter of pride.\u00a0 Parents aren\u2019t broadcasting the fact that they\u2019re spending $70,000 a year on top of the $50,000 private school tuition to friends, Rim said, because \u201cThey don\u2019t want other parents to gossip about them, that their kid needs a tutor in order to survive the school year.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea is to avoid looking \u201csuper-spoiled,\u201d he said. \u201cHiring a tutor is one thing, but hiring essentially a full-time tutor is another level of luxury. Thirty hours of tutoring a week (multiplied by the semester or year) is seen as the ultimate act of luxury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephanie admitted the wealthy NYC \u201cbubble\u201d she lives in is foreign to most people, including her family back in Florida, who don\u2019t know she plans to spend $70,000 on the pod.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not telling my family we\u2019re doing this. They already balk at what we pay for private school.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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