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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tutoring is just work, with another person present. No reputable tutor, student, or family, would hire a tutor to do the work FOR the student.

Seems to me the difference is whether your kid is helped by doing their homework alongside someone else or is happy to do it on their own. Congrats, I guess, if your kid does learns well enough on their own. But also not sure why it’s cheating to study and work alongside someone else. Just like if it was the child’s parent or a study group.

Obviously a lot of abuse, gray areas, and slippery slopes people can raise on this topic, which are fair. But the basic idea of doing your studies with another person - why is it objectionable?[/quote]

lol  how much you pay for "alongside someone else" and do nothing else?  I hope not a lot.

The most detrimental effect is that kids don't get to work through challenging problems on their own.  [b]If they got stuck on a difficult question or difficult essay, the tutor (or the parents) explains it to the kid.[/b]  Their brain don't get to struggle through this (sometimes painful) process.

Of course, if you are just paying for a body double, I think that's totally fine.  Nothing to worry about. [/quote]

Yeah, typically, the tutor explains the concept better than the teacher did to give the kid a solid understanding of the concepts, then assigns 10 equally or more difficult problems to drive home the idea.  Not really seeing the downside.  My kid’s (excellent) math tutor took note of the concepts that
my kid struggled with most, then quizzed them on those next time.

The notion that struggling to master poorly presented material (have you seen HS math books?) somehow makes you better at math doesn’t match my experience as someone working in STEM.  IME, what makes you better at math is really deeply understanding the concepts and how they apply to problems. Then solving the problem becomes just applying an algorithm.  [/quote]

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