Re: AUT: The rise of the "tutoring industry"....

["Nate Holdren" <nateholdren@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael-
I'd like to see the stuff you've read about this. My mom is a high school
math teacher who tutors students with well-to-do families in higher math so
they can get good test scores to get into good universities. My mom tutors
in order to make ends meet, and I'm not sure if it's above-board work or
not. She has a friend who tutors for a living and this is definitely a form
of 'precarious' work, very little job security (only job security being
based on the continued income of the employing families as well as their
need for the tutor's services - can't be so good that the tutor is no longer
needed but can't be inadequate as who wants a rotten tutor) and no benefits.
Some of the university lecturers I know do a little tutoring on the side to
supplement their terrible incomes as well.

Nate


>From: Michael Handelman <mhandelman1@xxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: aut-op-sy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: AUT: The rise of the "tutoring industry"....
>Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2002 07:02:20 -0700 (PDT)
>
>I read somewhere about the growth of the "tutoring
>industry" (tutors, "Hooked on Phonics" etc). Speaking
>from personal experience, I can see much more of
>tutoring going on in this era (I have 2 TUTORS FOR
>CRAP'S SAKE!), than in past eras (although to be fair,
>my knowledge of past eras is of course based on what I
>read etc).
>
>What do you think is causing the growth of the
>tutoring industry? It seems to me a predominantly
>middle class phenomenon, where now even middle class
>kids can't keep up with school.
>
>However, does the rise of the tutoring industry also
>indicate a further breakdown in the more traditional
>forms of the reproduction of labour-power?
>
>What role does the "Spectacle" play in regards to the
>increasing crisis of reproduction of labour-power?
>
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