Will Teach For Food
Sep. 2nd, 2005 02:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dr_pretentiousDan and I want to send something to the Red Cross, but before Katrina hit, we'd already emptied the coffers for the ACLU and the birth of my niece.
It'll be a while before the Gulf Coast refugees rank tutoring among their high-priority needs, but that's the thing I have to give.
Do you think anybody would take me up on it if I did a one-day or one-weekend teaching benefit, charging my usual rate of $50/hr, all proceeds to go to the Red Cross? I've taught 4th graders their parts of speech, coached doctoral candidates through their dissertation endgames, and done at least some teaching of writing or literature at every age level and stage of schooling in between. Triage pedagogy for walk-in students is nothing new to me. All I need is a dictionary, a writing implement, a jar to collect cash in, and a table in a public place. The table in the public place is the only thing I don't already have. Possibly one of the coffehouses where I do most of my writing will be up for this plan.
I'm trying to figure out whether I'm in the throes of idiocy or inspiration. Well, okay, I spend a lot of time trying to figure that out, but this time the answer actually matters.
It'll be a while before the Gulf Coast refugees rank tutoring among their high-priority needs, but that's the thing I have to give.
Do you think anybody would take me up on it if I did a one-day or one-weekend teaching benefit, charging my usual rate of $50/hr, all proceeds to go to the Red Cross? I've taught 4th graders their parts of speech, coached doctoral candidates through their dissertation endgames, and done at least some teaching of writing or literature at every age level and stage of schooling in between. Triage pedagogy for walk-in students is nothing new to me. All I need is a dictionary, a writing implement, a jar to collect cash in, and a table in a public place. The table in the public place is the only thing I don't already have. Possibly one of the coffehouses where I do most of my writing will be up for this plan.
I'm trying to figure out whether I'm in the throes of idiocy or inspiration. Well, okay, I spend a lot of time trying to figure that out, but this time the answer actually matters.
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Date: 2005-09-02 11:20 am (UTC)otoh, you could try a similar approach with your normal clientele -- donating all the proceeds for a random period -- since they're already interested, and demonstrably can afford your rates.
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Date: 2005-09-03 07:41 pm (UTC)Don't be too quick to discount tutoring as something that'll be necessary. The refugees are scattering throughout the country, and I wouldn't be too surprised if some of them show up in your neck-o'-the-woods. Their school plans have effectively been shot to hell, as many of the schools are either flooded or destroyed and the teachers are scattered as well. I suspect that there may soon be some people who have lost almost everything who could use your services.