![]() However, Marketplace tracked down “Teacher Kristen,” who is a mom of three named Kristen Peele. The daughter’s American tutor is known to Zhang only as “Teacher Kristen.” Parents say they are given only first names to prevent private contact. “Sometimes my daughter puts her foot to the screen, which isn’t polite, but the American teacher will either pinch her nose and make a noise, or say the foot smells good,” Zhang said. Plus, VIPKid makes learning English fun for a 5-year-old. “It is a desperate attempt for my child ,” Zhang said, adding that there are no native English-speaking teachers in her area. That costs her nearly $12,000 - not far off from the average yearly salary in her tiny county. So we paid for another 500 lessons,” she said. “Existing students can still take courses if they bought them before Aug. She said it would be hard to find another job with the same pay in Utah. VIPKid’s Tina Delgado teaches a student in China. “I had no way to communicate with kids that I had taught and become close to for well over a year.” “It was something … like, ‘Starting tomorrow, there will be no more classes,’” she said. The policy also leaves at least tens of thousands of American and Canadian teachers of English as a second language in limbo, including Ross.Ī couple of weeks after the policy announcement, Ross finished classes and was writing student feedback in the GoGoKid system when a message popped up on her screen. U.S.-listed stocks of major Chinese education platforms - such as TAL Education Group, New Oriental Education and Technology Group, and Gaotu Techedu - dropped by 70% and have still not recovered investors lost out. On July 24, China’s government issued a policy to rein in the multibillion-dollar academic tutoring industry and turn it into a not-for-profit sector. ![]() “I never thought that it would end from one minute to the next.” Multibillion-dollar tutoring industry I received an offer that was better than I’d received at other companies,” she said from Peru, adding that the firm provided her with the flexibility to decide her schedule from week to week. Most recently, she was with the Chinese platform GoGoKid from ByteDance, creators of the short-video app TikTok. ![]() Minnesota native Hillary Ross has been traveling around the world thanks to the money she earns by teaching English online to children in China.
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