Reply to Tutoring to give your child a leg up.

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Tutoring to give your child a leg up."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] 
It’s not only academics, as you suggest. Fine, if a kid adores math so much that he wants to go ahead in the book, fine, good. If your child loves reading mundane stories in the reading book provided, again, great. The issue is with the hiring of extra unnecessary help for the kids. As they say, you get what you pay for. If you pay for a tutor, even though your child is average and not struggling, you are guaranteed to see improvement. Your average kid will become above average. Miraculous :/ That can be said for anything, academics, sports, music, whatever. [/quote]

To me this just means these kids, all of them, have a whole lot of untapped potential. Why aren't we talking about how to tap into that?  Why isn't the discussion: hey, extra tutoring helps even mediocre kids get better, so seems like the schools should be improving their curriculum[/quote]
It seems people on this board have a very uninformed and myopic view of education in the US. Prior to maybe 2000? many school systems provided an adequate education for most. Parents had very minimal, if any, involvement in the school curriculum. Now, every parent seems to believe his or her child is superior and deserving of any and every opportunity to outshine everyone else. They denigrate the school systems and criticize many of the teachers. I think its a bad combination of a deteriorating education system and overzealous competitive parents who live vicariously through their children.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics