Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader must say that in the crush of people complaining about jobs going overseas and everything being outsourced, he hasn’t heard much complaining about e-tutoring. Indeed, until a recent news wire article, he’d never even thought about e-tutoring. According to Reuters, some e-tutoring services start at $2.50/hr and go up to $100/month for unlimited tutoring. Many of the tutors have advanced degrees, and most of the tutors are themselves briefed on specific US educational requirements as well as American slang and colloqui.

Frankly, your Maximum Leader can’t see what there wold be to complain about in a market driven solution like this. Of course he can see how some might complain because the service uses voice-over-IP technology and requires computers (two things only middle and upper class kids are likely to have). But who wouldn’t want to have a competent person with an advanced degree provide tutoring help to their kids? (Well… Assuming the parent doesn’t have the ability themselves to help.)

Your Maximum Leader would be very interested to see how students in the US who avail themselves of these services might do as a result of the tutoring.

Carry on.