As parents come to terms with the realities of helping their children from home, tutors servicing Tamworth and the surrounding areas are in high demand.
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While Term 1 provided a mixed bag, Term 2 has seen calls for help increase.
Kathleen Westbury, manager of Hunter Mobile Tutoring, said when the lock-downs begun in Term 1, she had actually had parents cancelling their tutoring as family incomes took a hit.
With many losing their jobs and businesses temporarily ceasing trade, she had some parents tell her they simply couldn't afford her services.
"We've got families where both parents had jobs and neither have jobs that week. People who owned business were facing horrendous losses of cash - and our hearts go out to everyone affected financially," she said.
"I had a lot of people telling me they would see how they go for Term 1, see if they could get used to the schooling at home anyway, rather than adding anything more," Ms Westbury said.
"Now with Term 2, this is when we are expecting to see those people potentially come back when the realities of it all kick in."
It is more a style that either parents might still know how to use but not how to transfer that knowledge ... or they haven't used it since they were in school themselves
- Joel Murphy
Their tutoring system has recently moved over to being 100 per cent online, using various applications like Zoom, Bramble, Microsoft Classroom, and applications that allow the lessons to be recorded.
"We prefer the ones we can record, for child protection. Where sessions cannot be recorded, we ask the parents remain. We don't muck around with child safety."
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For Tamworth Tutoring's Joel Murphy, who specialises in Mathematics, he says the past few weeks his phone rings almost constantly.
Since starting up his tutoring business in Tamworth in January this year, he says he can certainly see the difference a few weeks has made in demand.
"I have seen a lot of kids in early primary," Mr Murphy said.
"I have also seen a surge in Year 7 and 10 because with that kind of Maths, you start to move into fractions and Pythagoras Theorem.
"It is more a style that either parents might still know how to use but not how to transfer that knowledge.
"Either that, or they haven't used it since they were in school themselves," he laughed.