US Parents seek online help from Indian teachers

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US Parents are focusing on online classes as coronavirus fears shut down in-person classes in their school in the US for months, a report in the Wall street Jouanal said quoting parents.
Most of the parents have online backup for their children. They depend on experienced teachers in India.

Demand for online study support is fueling business for Indian teachers, who are tutoring American children on everything from calculus to computer programming. They are helping US high-school students get through their homework and college students better understand their economics and engineering readings,the wall street journal report said.

India’s economy has been hard hit by the virus, contracting almost 24% in the quarter that ended in June. But its booming education technology industry is hiring a record number of new employees, with many Indians doing more learning online as well,said the report in the wall street journal.

According to the wall street journal,online student-services company Chegg, based in Santa Clara, Calif., saw the number of its student subscribers surge 69% year over year to 3.7 million in the quarter through September.

One of the company’s more popular services—helping students work through difficult homework questions—depends on thousands of freelancers, largely from India, to do the answering. It added thousands more of them in recent months to respond to the surge in demand, the report said.