Why do so many high school students have tutors nowadays?

[Anonymous]

I have a middle schooler so I’m not there yet, but I’ve heard “everyone” has a tutor. Is this because the material isn’t being effectively taught in the classroom? Is it so students perform well on standardized tests? Is it to get ahead in a subject matter? It doesn’t seem limited to struggling students... Everyone & their mother has a tutor and it’s not cheap!

[Anonymous]

I think because in some subjects there are no longer textbooks. It is really hard to self-study with random worksheets. You can't look ahead and see where you are going on a topic or effectively look back and review.

Many tutors ask their clients about the tests they take. They start gaining knowledge about the types of problems on the tests. That benefits future clients the following year,

[Anonymous]

Because their parents can afford it.

[Anonymous]

Because competition is stiff.

FWIW - my kids don't have tutors. Never did, unless you count me as the parent.

[Anonymous]

More parents have more cash than time.
Outsourced parenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because competition is stiff.

FWIW - my kids don't have tutors. Never did, unless you count me as the parent.

OP here. That’s reassuring. How annoying to “have” to get a tutor in order to keep up with work. Unless there’s a academic disability, of course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More parents have more cash than time.
Outsourced parenting.

Ha, if you saw the material my kids are doing, and they are in 7th grade

[Anonymous]

Mine has one because I blocked out math after about 6th grade. He isn’t doing well in algebra and he needs help. I don’t have the money for a tutor but I also don’t want him to fail.

[Anonymous]

Everyone has fewer children so they can spend more per child on everything. Even kids who aren’t hardcore struggling. That’s part of it, anyway.

[Anonymous]

My kids have a Math tutor because I only got as far as Algebra II and then moved to Europe to finish HS and go to college where you guessed it, I didn't have to do Math.

And I'm 50 so I've long forgotten it.

They need help with their homework / sometimes things being explained better than the teacher and I simply cannot do it.

[Anonymous]

We got a math tutor (high school) because the math teacher doesn't teach. She just hands out packets and expects the kids to teach themselves in small groups. And, as a PP noted, there is no textbook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got a math tutor (high school) because the math teacher doesn't teach. She just hands out packets and expects the kids to teach themselves in small groups. And, as a PP noted, there is no textbook.

This is the norm nowadays.
The teacher explains for about 5 minutes and hands out packages.
Students either learn by online YouTube teachers or get a tutor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got a math tutor (high school) because the math teacher doesn't teach. She just hands out packets and expects the kids to teach themselves in small groups. And, as a PP noted, there is no textbook.

This is the norm nowadays.
The teacher explains for about 5 minutes and hands out packages.
Students either learn by online YouTube teachers or get a tutor.

That’s so terrible. -OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got a math tutor (high school) because the math teacher doesn't teach. She just hands out packets and expects the kids to teach themselves in small groups. And, as a PP noted, there is no textbook.

This is the norm nowadays.
The teacher explains for about 5 minutes and hands out packages.
Students either learn by online YouTube teachers or get a tutor.

THis terrifies me. My DD will absolutely fail if this is the case when she gets to HS. Please tell me its not like this at all FCPS high schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Because competition is stiff.

FWIW - my kids don't have tutors. Never did, unless you count me as the parent.

OP here. That’s reassuring. How annoying to “have” to get a tutor in order to keep up with work. Unless there’s a academic disability, of course.

I find it's not to "keep up", but to surpass because competition is stiff, especially if you are Asian American, although, of course, there are those who need the tutoring because they need the help to keep up whether it's due to poor teaching or SN.

I'm the ^PP, and I'm Asian American. My kids are fairly bright, one is in magnet, again never had a tutor. Sometimes I think I'm a slacker parent compared to some of these other parents who put their kids in all kinds of after school classes and activities, and my kids do just "fun stuff", except the one physical activity I make one DC do for health reasons, which DC absolutely loathes. Maybe I need to up my game. I feel like such a slacker myself, and I feel my kids might end up that way, too.