Give us back our TEACHER status! This is a plea to all "Community Tutors" on this website. If you are like me, you strongly object to the change in the italki website in the summer of 2012, that took away our right to be called "Teachers" and changed our status to "Community Tutors". You may have noticed, as I have, that it has cost you some students. I am not opposed to those with earned teaching certificates being called "Professional Teachers". That is an accurate description. However, in truth, some of us "Community Tutors" can teach as well or better than some of the "Professional Teachers". A certificate does not make one a good teacher! Now, the italki website has further degraded us by posting an ad that says, "Learn faster from a professional teacher". This is extremely unfair and often untrue! I would challenge that statement and I have many students who would agree with me. Furthermore, I am dismayed that the website owners will no longer let me name the course(s) I offer. Again, this is unfair and degrading! I am asking all "Community Tutors" to copy and post this notebook entry as your own notebook entry. Let's put some pressure on the italki website owners to give us back our status. Some students have less confidence in a "Community Tutor" than they have in a "Teacher".