About 3 weeks ago ( on July 30th ) we launched my new Digitizing QuickStart Course.  Since then more than a dozen people have signed up and begun learning to digitize.  That was with one advertisement on Facebook!  We stopped running the ad after 2 days because I wasn't sure how I would handle it if more people signed up than I could take care of at one time. 

Amazingly, I am pretty well up to date with grading papers for them.  Well... not actually "papers" since they turn in their lessons electronically, but "virtual papers". 

I remember from my years of teaching kids how they would sometimes tell me the dog ate their paper, etc.  That doesn't happen with the DQS course, because the students don't HAVE to turn in their work for review. It is their choice to do so or not.

That reminds me of something that happened when I was teaching about 30 years ago.  It was a "public" school - but the students all lived in a very wealthy suburb on the lakeshore a little north of Chicago.  It was ( probably still is ) the second wealthiest zip code per capita in America, just behind 90210. A student came in without his homework one day and when I asked him what happened to it, he said the maid must have moved it.  I said "did you ask the maid where she put it?"  He said "No.  We're not allow to talk to the hired help."  That was when I realized where I ranked as a teacher in their community.  I left a little while later and moved on to a new job.  LOL

I have openings now for a few more students...