Private tutoring
00: Tutoring the cheapskates
김여주
"Jihun, do you understand up to this point?"
박지훈
"Well? Actually, I stopped listening halfway through."
This bastard really... Hahaha. Even though the second week of tutoring is almost over, the guy sitting next to me doesn't even think about listening to me.
Yeah, I know you might hate me, but deep down, I also wanted a student who was kind, obedient, and did their homework. Sob sob.
Why did I start tutoring that no one in this room welcomes? The reason can be easily found if you ask me three weeks ago.
배주현
"Hey, Kim Yeo-ju. I heard you're planning to get a tutoring job?"
김여주
"Yeah, now that I'm a sophomore, I should give it a try to build up my resume. Honestly, I'm kind of looking forward to seeing what kind of person it turns out to be. But what if they don't contact me?"
배주현
"Hey, that's not the problem right now. You have no idea how hard tutoring is. If the kid's grades don't improve, you have to worry about the parents' reactions, and if the kid has a weird personality... it really isn't something a human being should have to do."
"Rrrrr- Rrrrr-"
배주현
"Uh, I think you got a tutoring call. Try talking on speakerphone."
Gasp, the real one is here. Judging by the unknown number, it's probably a mother coming for a tutoring consultation... What if she's super picky?
김여주
"hello?"
학부모
"Yes, I called to inquire about tutoring... Are you Ms. Kim Yeo-ju, a student in the Department of Korean Language Education at North Seoul University?"
김여주
"Yes, that's correct!"
학부모
Excuse me, my son is in his last year of high school. Would tutoring be okay?
As soon as Juhyeon, who was listening, heard that I was a senior in high school, she violently made an X shape with her arm, but I didn't care.
김여주
"Ah, of course, Mother."
학부모
Oh, thank you. Then I’ll assume we can do it right away. Could we adjust the exact time via KakaoTalk?
김여주
Yes, I will send you my KakaoTalk ID right now.
As soon as she finished the call with the parent, Bae Joo-hyun shouted as if she had been waiting for this moment.
배주현
"Hey, Kim Yeo-ju, are you crazy? Why would you accept a high school senior!?"
김여주
"Why? Can't you be a senior in high school? Your mother is really nice, too."
배주현
"Why would a high school senior about to take the CSAT hire a college student for tutoring? It's obvious they either have a terrible personality or their grades are abysmal, so isn't it just one of the two that everyone has given up on them?"
Now that I think about it, Juhyeon is right. But why would I dream of becoming a teacher? I didn't want to treat a student I hadn't even met yet with prejudice.
Even if everyone had given up, just like Juhyeon said, so what? There are still teachers for those kinds of children, I guess.
That is correct. Three weeks ago, I had the passion to embrace any student with love, in the spirit of Mother Teresa.
박지훈
Ugh, what a load of crap.
Even Park Ji-hoon.