Tutoring - how does she manage?

[blaeberry]

I have recently got a tutor to support my dd in maths. She is a current primary teacher (in her 20s) but seems to tutor for at least 3 hours every night. (We asked to change day but she isn't free until nearly 8pm other nights). How does she manage this? Would her class suffer or just her social life? How common is this? It seems an awful lot on top of a full time stressful job.

[fatowl]

I'm not sure what your point is?
She might be a 20+ that thrives on being busy.
I only teach a 0.6 timetable, but I am also a parent governor (at a different school) and I am a Division Commissioner for Guides . I keep thinking I am at capacity, but I (they) have just managed to shoehorn another four hour teaching into my schedule.
I don't think my students suffer.
If you want something done, ask a busy person, is a mantra I hear again and again.

Or are you just put out she can't accommodate your requested day change?

[PeaceOfWildThings]

Just because she isn't free until 8pm on other nights, that doesn't mean she is tutoring. She might go out with friends one afternoon/evening a week, have one or two nights for marking and lesson prep, and schedule her meal times as being unavailable. That is entirely up to her and she is under no obligation whatsoever to tell you, she probably just does not want to discuss with you, or anyone else, how she manages her time.

[IguanaTail]

Why are you interested in her social life and the progress of her class?

[blaeberry]

Yes she is tutoring until 8pm. It is just all the teachers I know tell me how long hours they work dealing with their day job and how stressful it is. They seem to put huge amounts of prep time in so I was just wondering how you fit in another 16+ hours per week on a second job. I guess some people just have to do it/need the money/want to keep busy. You are right, it is not my business but I look at my teacher friends and think how? Perhaps I have just forgotten how much energy someone in their 20s without kids has.

[IguanaTail]

I would hate it. But then colleagues in their 20s can be out partying till 3am and still be bright and breezy the next day.

[PeaceOfWildThings]

She might say she does to parents, as a way to not have to negitiate her private timetable, but that does not mean she does.

Even so, if she is in her 20s, perhaps she has someone else doing her housework, shopping, cooking and laundry, and has no dependants, and is not senior enough to have to do whole school schemes of work. Perhaps she has a classroom assistant who does her displays and some of the classroom preparation, and another member of staff who teaches the same year and decides on their lesson plans.