Instructors For Hire: How The Pandemic Is Fueling A New Side Business

Photo caption: Nick McGreivy, a Ph.D. student who moved to Honolulu earlier this year, is offering STEM pandemic pod learning. Article by Suevon Lee.

The pandemic is allowing private instructors to offer small group lessons to parents who are wary of children returning to school campuses — and who can afford it.

A new cottage industry is forming in Hawaii around private instructional services aimed at filling in the educational experience for students whose schooling may be disrupted by the pandemic.

Nick McGreivy is one such individual looking to plug the gap. A fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in plasma physics at Princeton University, McGreivy is marketing “Pandemic Pod Learning Oahu,” a small-group academic service to be offered at a family’s home. […]

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