Letting a Tutor Into Your Home: What to Check First
You are inviting a stranger into your home, to sit with your child, several times a week, for months. Being careful about that is not paranoia. It is the correct response.
Here is what is worth checking, and what is theatre.
What "verified" should mean
The word is used loosely. Ask what has actually been checked.
On BengalTutors, a verified tutor has submitted identity documents and proof of their education, and an administrator has reviewed both before the profile went live. That is what the verified mark on a profile means — not an automated tick, and not a self-declaration.
What it does not mean, and no platform in Bangladesh can honestly claim, is a police record check. Anyone promising that is overstating what is available.
Ask for these three things
Identity. A national ID, seen by you, matching the name on the profile. A tutor who hesitates at this has told you something.
Education. The certificate or student ID for the institution they claim. This matters twice over — it is a safety check and it is the qualification you are paying for.
A contactable reference. A previous family, or a current one. Call them. Two minutes on the phone tells you more than any document.
The household habits that matter more
Documents are the smaller half. What actually keeps a child safe is how tuition is arranged day to day.
- Teach in a shared room. The dining table, the drawing room — somewhere with a door left open and normal household traffic passing.
- Be at home, at least at first. You do not need to sit in. Being in the flat is enough.
- Keep the first weeks audible. Not to eavesdrop on the Physics, but because a room you can hear is a room where nothing happens quietly.
- Ask your child, regularly and casually. Not "is anything wrong" — ask what they did today, what the tutor is like, whether they understand him. Children volunteer far more to an ordinary question.
What to watch for
Trust the small signals rather than waiting for a large one.
- A tutor who wants the door closed, or objects to your presence
- Contact with your child outside session times that you did not agree
- Gifts, or a private arrangement suggested to your child rather than to you
- Your child becoming reluctant to attend, without being able to say why
Any one of these is reason enough to end the arrangement. You never need a better justification than not being comfortable.
Keep the money on the record
Pay in a way that leaves a trail — a bank transfer with a reference, not cash in an envelope. It protects both of you in a disagreement, and a tutor who insists on being invisible is a tutor with no accountability.
Ours works through a payment link with a reference on it, which is also why we can tell you exactly what was paid and when.
If the fit is wrong
Tell us in the first week and we replace the tutor at no extra cost, no argument, and no second placement fee. The replacement guarantee is written out in full here.
Most parents who tell us in month three say they knew in week one. If something feels wrong, act on it early — that is what the window is for.
Browse verified tutors, or tell us what you need and we will match you by hand.