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[Sweetsee]

Not you Ali, I was referring to the previous poster, you know, the one who has students beating his door down, throwing money at him.

[moot point]

I use two systems.

One is to charge per lesson, regardless of the number of students. In this instance it is 5000yen/hour.

Another is to charge per student. Here I charge 3000/month with a minimum of six kids per class for a 45-minute lesson.

My adult students, and childrens' parents feel it is low. Those that have chosen to take classes at ECC Junior with a non-native and apparently unqualified and unappeasing Malaysian woman are paying more. I've also had students who have moved to the city and are completely dumb-founded by the fees they are paying at the larger chain schools.

I have fellow acquaintances who are teaching juku to jr. and h/s students. They are retired English teachers. They charge 30,000yen a month per student for two weekly 90-minute classes. They usually have about 8 students enrolled in their sessions. Do the math.

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