Saturday, May 23, 2009

After so long... I finally told my student's mother that im not teaching him anymore. I said I need to work for my major project and internship so I probably wouldnt have time to tutor him. Which isnt a lie. Because I will really get very busy this year. But the main reason is I had enough of them exploiting me.

If that kid is truthfully hardworking and keen in learning, I may endure his family's stinginess and pressures. But that kid himself is a horror. He didnt do my work, argue with me, give me attitude, didnt listen to my lesson and make me shout at him every lesson. It makes me wonder why im working so hard to help him. His family just gave me a pay rise starting of this year. But it's not as if it's a lot. It's seriously below market price. For goodness sake, he just had a new laptop, new TV and his mum go to facial , manicure and pedicure every now and then. Yet, they paid me $150 for four lessons. 2 hours each lesson. Teaching a Sec 2, 2 subjects - English and Maths. Plus some complimentry giveaways:
- last minute inform tuition
- knocking at my door as and when to ask questions
- 3 tuition lessons a month (they saving the tuition fees) and expect me to cover what his teacher covered
- the- day- before- exam- tuition and expect passing
- that kid's craziness (Im gonna kill Mas Selamat!)

Im a human. Not a god. Even god help those who help themselves. What's more a mere mortal like me can do to help a family who doesnt wanna help their son. His mum told my mum on Thursday that he passed all of his subjects except maths. Which is a no surprise and a joy to me. I expected him to fail all and I said before that he doesnt deserve to pass. But I suspect his mum said that to hint to me that im doing a lousy job. It angers me. Nobody will know the amount of work I put in to truthfully help him. That's it. Im giving up. Their money are too hard to earn and I dont even give a damn to that pitiful amount. 

Okay. I give a damn to the money but im not enduring their overbearing attitude anymore. Even my mum who always give in to them because they are our neighbours burst out scolding in anger. What's for making me and my mum angry for that useless bum and his notorious family.

So I told them im not teaching anymore. Soon after I said that, I heard from my house that they were arguing and scolding that kid for chasing me away. His father shouted at him and asked him what he wanted to do from now on. Though I know it's mean to said that, I felt goody good to hear that. I wanna see if they could get another good package deal + a fool who truly wanna help like me to tutor their crazy kid. 

The only minus point is - im going to miss my $150. On the bright side, I dont have to face that crazy, useless kid anymore.

2:01 PM