How much on average do students pay per month to go to a language center? I've heard some sign up for a 10 week course and had to pay around 5 million VND...so like 1 million VND a month for 8 sessions...average like 200,000 VND per session ($10/hour). This may be on the low end in the urban areas (considering a native speaker teacher gets $15/hour even for a class of 10 kids, the Language Center is making a ton of profit).
Anyways, I wanna know how much I should charge poor farming kids to teach them what their English Teachers at the public school can't: how to speak English properly. Because you know, someday they might actually NEED to speak English (not just learn English to pass an exam).
$5/month sound fair? (100,000 VND/month for 8 sessions...so like a cup of coffee per session). Too much? Too little? I don't want to make it "free" because they won't feel a sense of sacrifice or the class has any value ("well, I'm just gonna goof off cuz there's no loss to me" vs. "oooh, my parents are paying for me to go here, I better pay attention").