Why do children of the wealthy and successful need tutoring ?
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Anonymous
| Someone on this forum said that the biggest predictor of IQ was a parents educational level and HHI. So, I'm curious, why all the tutoring before the private school entrance exams ? Is better the enemy of good ? |
Anonymous
| It's just trying to be in the top 1%, and it's hard work staying there. If tutoring helps to keep the kid at the top, then it's money well spent. |
Anonymous
| The wealthy and successful get that way by always stealthly looking for any advantage over another. Check out Darwin's theories. |
Anonymous
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The wealthy can afford to hire the best tutors for their kids. Ergo, their kids score higher.
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Anonymous
| OP -- there are a lot of wealthy people in this area. Tutors are needed to keep up with the Jones...not everyone can get into an Ivy. Tutors are needed to get the kids the most points possible. |
Anonymous
| To keep up with the redshirted kids. |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous]Someone on this forum said that the biggest predictor of IQ was a parents educational level and HHI. So, I'm curious, why all the tutoring before the private school entrance exams ? Is better the enemy of good ?[/quote]
How do you think those kids get improved IQ scores? It doesn't just happen. If a kid isn't performing, tutors can help the kid perform better. |
Anonymous
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Because both parents work and don't have time to help with
Homework? |
Anonymous
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Nice. Is it possible that there are children of the wealthy and successful who have learning challenges? Or health problems that cause them to fall behind? Or are transferring from a school that had a different curriculum and so they need to catch up? I'm not wealthy and not particularly successful and find this thread, as is often the case here, to be a simple invitation to be mean to kids -- after all, you are bashing the kids.
Or working parents. Though I'm sure 15:19 welcomed the opportunity to feel all superior. Why do you even care? |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Someone on this forum said that the biggest predictor of IQ was a parents educational level and HHI. So, I'm curious, why all the tutoring before the private school entrance exams ? Is better the enemy of good ?[/quote]
How do you think those kids get improved IQ scores? It doesn't just happen. If a kid isn't performing, tutors can help the kid perform better. [/quote] Tutoring doesn't improve IQ scores. It improves performance in a given subject area. Someone can have a very high IQ score and still have learning disabilities. I believe they are called twice exceptional or e squared kids. My nephew is one (although my brother and his wife would be merely middle class by DCUM standards). My own child is tutored currently in reading. I can promise I am not doing it to improve his IQ score. I am doing it so he can learn how to read (shocking, I know). If a parent learned to read easily and was well ahead of grade level starting in first grade, it strikes me that the parent, who does not have a degree in education and has not read up on the latest theories of teaching reading, may not be the best one to supplement what the school is doing. I do work, but that is not why my child has a tutor. |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous]Someone on this forum said that the biggest predictor of IQ was a parents educational level and HHI. So, I'm curious, why all the tutoring before the private school entrance exams ? Is better the enemy of good ?[/quote]
OP, you need to get off this thing you have about private school entrance exams. It looks like you're confusing the SSATs (an achievement test for middle and high school entrance) and the WPPSI (an IQ test for elementary school entrance). Sure, lots of kids get tutoring for the SSATs (Secondary School Achievement Test for middle and high school entrance), and this is analogous to the SATs (Scholastic "Achievement" Test for college). Note the word "achievement" in both acronyms. To be very clear: these test for what math and english/vocab/reading comprehension you've learned. This can be tutored. You can't really tutor a 3-year-old for the WPPSI, though, because this is an IQ test. You keep posting here about how it's possible to raise IQ. It may, under some circumstances, be possible to raise the measured IQ of a teenager or adult. But this has absolutely nothing to do with the 3-year-old taking the WPPSI. The bigger question is why tutoring is needed for english and math, after the kid is already IN the school. Maybe you should focus your energies on something relevant, like this. |
Anonymous
this. |
Anonymous
This too. Although OP is obsessing about admissions/entrance tests, not about tutoring for classes one you're in the school. And because she also mentioned IQ, she must be obsessing in particular about tutoring for the WPPSI. |
Anonymous
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At my school, a vast majority of the children of the wealthy have tutors and work with the in-house reading specialists because they can't read or write.
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Anonymous
| I don't think people with kids in private schools have them tutored to boost their IQs. Once a child is accepted at a school, nobody is ever going to ask or care what their IQ is again. Except here on DCUM... |