"Come on," I said, determined to have him leave this tutoring session with renewed motivation. "I'm sure you can think of one way that Spanish will be useful in your lifetime." He could work as a translator, host a foreign exchange student, read a Spanish newspaper even have a basic conversation with any of the hundreds of thousands of Spanish speakers in Maryland, including the more than 2,000 who live in our current location, Potomac. He shook his head, still at a loss. I moved from Baltimore in fall 2005 to accept a job as a tutor and office manager of an educational company in Potomac, one of the wealthiest communities in the country. The position promised the usual rewards of working intensively with children, and it delivered. But I still found myself caught off guard by the advantages that students here had and the nonchalance with which they expressed them. Today was no exception. Driving north on River Road feels like gliding into a fairy tale. Curbside, relatively modest homes grow castle sized, adding extra wings, third floors, and even turrets. The median Potomac resident lives in an eight and a half room house that, at $450,800, is triple the value of the typical Maryland house. Nearly 45 percent of those over age 25 have a graduate or professional degree; the median household income is $128,936. I had heard that Potomac was a great place for businesses that charged a lot of money, but it wasn't until I arrived that I fully understood why the creator of Beverly Hills 90210 had used Potomac as his inspiration. Every turn I took off of River Road led to more custom built mansions on more custom built cul de sacs. Potomac looked like an inland, deciduous Malibu. I doubted I could afford to live here until I read an encouraging fact: In Montgomery County, single income earners making under $31,600 a year (today, it's under $34,450) actually qualified for low income housing. Also a plus: no crime. My copy of the weekly Potomac Almanac detailed only one criminal event: an overnight car burglary resulting in the theft of the owner's daughter's UGG boots. Before the school year began, I visited the Potomac library, where well dressed retired men chatted at round wooden tables and high schoolers pondered SAT practice problems at study carrels. I hoped to find a foreign language audio course to help me brush up on my Spanish in what I expected would be an impressively stocked library. Indeed, shiny new CD cases packed the shelves with instructional materials for students of French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Serbo Croatian, Danish, Swedish, Japanese, Cantonese, Arabic, Hindi, Greek, Swahili, and Indonesian. The reason the library didn't stock Spanish, the librarian told me, was due to lack of demand. As I gave the shelf one last, sad look, wondering if I should take up Urdu, I spotted something about Spanish no, in Spanish. From behind the newer items emerged the decrepit audiotape cover for Ingls Para Su Trabajo (English for Your Work), a two cassette program in which Jorge and Carmen taught the Spanish speaking "waiter, busboy, kitchen worker, housekeeper, houseman, and bellman" how to understand phrases he or she might hear in the hospitality world. I checked out the tapes to get a sense of what English phrases I might need to know when I tutored. I found that Sylvia might yell at me about getting the rooms ready and Miss Smith might misspell my name, that it would be very important that I learn to be both vivacious and obsequious, and that I never clear the table without asking first. I admired the patience Jorge and Carmen demonstrated as they restocked toilet paper and changed linens. I quickly found out many of my students lived in houses with more bathrooms than family members. I asked one middle school girl what was coolest about the house her family had just built, and the question seemed to stump her. Later, as an afterthought, she mentioned the movie theater in the basement. When her math assignment asked her to create a biased question, such as "Do you agree that Sally has a good lunch?" she wrote, "Do you want to come watch a movie in my movie theater, or do you want to go to Sally's house to watch regular TV?" To pay for a typical hour of tutoring in Potomac, a minimum wage worker would have to spend at least 12 hours on the job; the most expensive rates I saw advertised were at an outfit where appointments with certain tutors cost $350 an hour more than a week's minimum wage pay (before taxes!). When I started tutoring in Potomac, I proceeded tentatively, distracted by how much money went into each portion of our session. At my company, students paid $90 for one time only appointments, $75 for those who committed to a weekly session. Even at the cheaper rate, my nerves jangled over the $6.25 they paid for small talk (was I witty enough to be worth it?), the $12.50 for reading silently (I suspected I'd be fired), the $5 for the time the student waited while I went to ask another tutor for help with something I didn't understand, and the $7.50 for the time I sat around while my student took a slow trip to the bathroom. I did begin to notice, though, that almost no one ever questioned the cost of the sessions. Some parents even canceled appointments at the last minute, unconcerned that their eleventh hour decisions made them ineligible for makeup appointments. Later that year, when my preschool student spent $26.25 refusing to come out from under the desk, I hardly broke a sweat. Students came to tutoring for a range of reasons. Some needed remedial help, while others wanted to get ahead. For certain parents, working with their own children had become an ordeal. "I asked him to underline the subject," one unhappy mother said, enrolling her son in tutoring after an unproductive homework hour, "and he underlined the predicate just to annoy me." With all the graduate degrees the Potomac parents had, I figured they might have had an appreciation for the value of independent work and self reliance. But a surprising number of them saw tutoring as a necessity. One distraught parent, whose son had trouble getting on the appointment schedule said to me: "What, you want our kids to study for the finals themselves?" Another parent got us to return her call and I'm not making this up by leaving her number and a message saying there was an emergency. As it turned out, the emergency was that her kid needed a tutoring appointment. Once, I actually had to hang up on a mother who was furious that we had given away an open tutoring hour to someone other than her son. I was sure I had left her a message when the appointment became available, but because she never called back, I gave the time to someone else. When she called, venomous, I tried to be noble and apologize for the confusion. But nothing short of kicking the other student out of the appointment hour in my mind, not an option would placate her. "I guess you don't believe the customer is always right," she said. "I bet you are," she said and launched into a loud, frenzied diatribe that I wish I could reproduce but, quite frankly, have repressed. "You're welcome to call back if you calm down," I said loudly, over her yelling, and hung up, shaking. I wish I could say the mother disappeared, never to be heard from again. Instead she hopped right into her car and, in what seemed like moments later, arrived at the tutoring center to speak to the owner of the company (who, luckily, is a reasonable person and managed to finesse the whole situation). The parents need us. But many of them don't know us. Even those parents who had entrusted their children to a highly valued tutor for years of instruction and guidance hadn't necessarily learned the tutor's name. We had a tutor named Sunhee, yet I regularly fielded messages for "Sanhee" and "Soohoo" and scheduling requests for "Sooee." And he was one of the lucky ones. Most students referred to their tutors as nameless entities, "my tutor," or, when answering their cell phones, "I'm at tutor." Those tutors with the most success often owed it to a distinguishing characteristic. Parents loved distinguishing characteristics. One among us had it made: At 6 foot 8 and Malian, he went by "the really tall tutor" or "the African tutor." We also had "she's Asian," "he's Asian," and "the Indian." Every now and then someone requested not to have "the one we didn't like." Some parents went so far as to disregard gender. Those tutors with unisex names Sam, or, worse, something ethnic had no chance. 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