And electricity, and capital expenditure, and accounting costs, etc. There is more to running a business than "books and supplies". Problem definitely not solved.
Not to mention that it's no longer "$250 a week" now for parents...
No, you charge a flat rate that includes operating costs. You don't hound your customers with microtransactions for everything.
People can run their business however they want, for starters, and I believe you're over exaggerating the costs.
Of course costs need to be considered when determining profit. Nobody's arguing that.
Laserjet printers which can print thousands of copies very cheaply can be had for pennies on the dollar if you buy used. It's all you need to print quizzes, tests, and short reading selections. Paper can be bought in cases at a discount and one case of paper is enough for 10 students easily.
Nothing's stopping a homeschool teacher from going with used textbooks, which are plentiful online. McGuffey Readers and anything else on Project Gutenberg are open source and are absolutely free for use by anybody.
And if you want hardcover books, an entire set of McGuffey's Readers can be purchased for under $40 and willing to purchase used. $400 would cover 10 students and you only charge the parents if the kids destroy the books.
A brand new set goes for around $100-$140, so $1000-1400 for 10 kids.
Those books would cover every single grade for English.
Also people donate or sell cheaply their used sets, when their kids outgrow them. Local businesses can help with simple supplies and printing (they might put their names on stuff).
How can I be over exaggerating the costs when I gave no estimation of cost? My comments addressed that the meme doesn't account for the cost of running a business, which is misleading. You've then listed a bunch of stuff that cost money, thus proving my point. In fact, from my experience, people who have never run a business before grossly underestimate the cost of running a business; which would be the target audience of this meme.
"People can run their business however they want". No they can't. You have to run your business in a way that best serves your customers, or else you won't be running a business for long. I for one wouldn't be paying you $250 a week to use a set of McGuffey's.
You're sounding illogical. Schoolrooms used to have only little chalkboards and some reference books. Good teachers like Socrates needed little else. We are talking about good teachers being allowed to do what they do best, after all.
How can I be over exaggerating the costs when I gave no estimation of cost?
You mentioned electricity, capital expenditure, and accounting costs as if these would be substantial.
I tossed out the fact there's plenty of open source free resources and laser printing is super cheap.
You're obviously not familiar with McGuffey Reader's as they are an outstanding resource for teaching reading. One will be at a college reading level by the time one finishes them.
Calm down, Karen. Sessions only have to be half-days, meaning you could have another set of students in the afternoons. Book learning at first grade is only about an hour a day, then add 15-20 min per day per year after that.
Bad math? No math has been presented except for that in the meme. I said that it doesn't take into account expenses. I don't see what's so controversial about this. You even admit it in your statement "expense model is totally different", thus implying that expenses exist in both services and factories (don't know why you are even bringing up factories in the first place as this is off topic).
Service business have heaps of expenses. Hospitality is an obvious one. Regarding tutors, they need extra space for kids, tables, chairs, computers, etc. If they tutor on location they need to pay for transportation.
And electricity, and capital expenditure, and accounting costs, etc. There is more to running a business than "books and supplies". Problem definitely not solved.
Not to mention that it's no longer "$250 a week" now for parents...
No, you charge a flat rate that includes operating costs. You don't hound your customers with microtransactions for everything.
People can run their business however they want, for starters, and I believe you're over exaggerating the costs.
Of course costs need to be considered when determining profit. Nobody's arguing that.
Laserjet printers which can print thousands of copies very cheaply can be had for pennies on the dollar if you buy used. It's all you need to print quizzes, tests, and short reading selections. Paper can be bought in cases at a discount and one case of paper is enough for 10 students easily.
Nothing's stopping a homeschool teacher from going with used textbooks, which are plentiful online. McGuffey Readers and anything else on Project Gutenberg are open source and are absolutely free for use by anybody.
And if you want hardcover books, an entire set of McGuffey's Readers can be purchased for under $40 and willing to purchase used. $400 would cover 10 students and you only charge the parents if the kids destroy the books.
A brand new set goes for around $100-$140, so $1000-1400 for 10 kids.
Those books would cover every single grade for English.
Also people donate or sell cheaply their used sets, when their kids outgrow them. Local businesses can help with simple supplies and printing (they might put their names on stuff).
How can I be over exaggerating the costs when I gave no estimation of cost? My comments addressed that the meme doesn't account for the cost of running a business, which is misleading. You've then listed a bunch of stuff that cost money, thus proving my point. In fact, from my experience, people who have never run a business before grossly underestimate the cost of running a business; which would be the target audience of this meme.
"People can run their business however they want". No they can't. You have to run your business in a way that best serves your customers, or else you won't be running a business for long. I for one wouldn't be paying you $250 a week to use a set of McGuffey's.
You're sounding illogical. Schoolrooms used to have only little chalkboards and some reference books. Good teachers like Socrates needed little else. We are talking about good teachers being allowed to do what they do best, after all.
Oh that's nice. The world used to have the horse and cart and almost everyone used to be a farmer. Shocking how technology changes isn't it?
You don't just sound illogical, you are being illogical.
You mentioned electricity, capital expenditure, and accounting costs as if these would be substantial.
I tossed out the fact there's plenty of open source free resources and laser printing is super cheap.
You're obviously not familiar with McGuffey Reader's as they are an outstanding resource for teaching reading. One will be at a college reading level by the time one finishes them.
Don't forget that the government gets a cut.
Child care licensing can be expensive, then you need a business license, insurance, taxes, etc.
No you don't. No child care, that's on parents.
Teachers are counselors, mentors, tutors. Remember back in the day all the rich people hired private tutors for their children?
Calm down, Karen. Sessions only have to be half-days, meaning you could have another set of students in the afternoons. Book learning at first grade is only about an hour a day, then add 15-20 min per day per year after that.
This comment doesn't address my argument that businesses require other expenses to run. Not sure who this was intended for.
General bad math I suppose. Tutors are services, not factories. Expense model is totally different.
Bad math? No math has been presented except for that in the meme. I said that it doesn't take into account expenses. I don't see what's so controversial about this. You even admit it in your statement "expense model is totally different", thus implying that expenses exist in both services and factories (don't know why you are even bringing up factories in the first place as this is off topic).
Service business have heaps of expenses. Hospitality is an obvious one. Regarding tutors, they need extra space for kids, tables, chairs, computers, etc. If they tutor on location they need to pay for transportation.