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Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math
nytimes.com — In a new wave of global outsourcing, personal chores are moving offshore, and this is leading to some daunting challenges, both economic and cultural.. Ramya Tadikonda tutors students online from Chennai, India.
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- aeinspruch, on 10/31/2007, -0/+0What is not apparent in the article is obvious in the photo. Parents and students take note. This is not about "outsourcing" your child's education--this is about carefully seeking an engaged, professional tutor who is going to provide the best help possible. If you are looking for tutors that are closer to the U.S. experience, check out http://www.ziizoo.com. There are tons of tutors online from schools like Penn, Stanford and Harvard and a bunch of them even tutor for free.
- jazzybest, on 11/01/2007, -0/+0Another industry "created" to take away more responsibility of a parent. If you don't have time to sit with your child and help him/her with basic math then you need to re- prioritize your life goals.
- jujiro, on 11/02/2007, -0/+1I grew up in India and have been living is the U.S. for more than two decades. There is no doubt that lower level schooling (Middle and High School) in the U.S. is a cakewalk compared to India. Though I admire the U.S. school system to encourage reading, writing, and public speaking. The U.S. schools simply do not do a good job teaching math and science. Indian schooling system on the other hand produces HORRIBLE readers, writers, creators, and listeners, who happen to be good in math and science. Here in the U.S., if I want a qualified professional tutor to teach my kids Piano or Drums, I will find at least 20 tutors in my area. Some of them would even be willing to come to my house to teach them. The amount of money they charge, I sometime wonder, how these guys pay their bills or even why they are doing this, when they could be doing something else and make higher wages. I finally learned that they do it because they are passionate about it. However, I don't think that I get the same amount of response when it comes to tutors in math and science, who would give the amount of time my kids need. Coming back to the off-shoring of education, yes, there are cultural and accent differences, but this does not make the tutor any less qualified than his/her American counter part. We (Now I am speaking as an American) have a chip on our shoulder. We used to look down upon Chinese made goods not so long ago. They were considered cheap and shoddy. Skeptics said that Chinese will never make stuff as good as America or Japan. Guess what, now many of Sony products are made in China (Please don't comment on lead paint incidents. Keep in mind Ford had recalls too). I think the same will happen for India as well. Overtime, they will get the accent and culture. We, as skeptics may create all the noise we want, however, in the end the market will dictate what is good and what is bad. It always has. The only difference is that the market now, is global!
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