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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the posters saying get tutors, hasn't the school system failed if that many students are needing tutors? Whether it's $8 or $100 an hour, how is this okay? Equity??[/quote]

Oh, my dear, you know nothing. I live in Bethesda, where half my friends and neighbors send their kids to privates and half send their kids to MCPS.

100% of the kids end up having a tutor at some point. Some to get ahead and stay ahead, and some for remediation.

As I've explained many times before, tutoring and supplementation are mostly correlated with family wealth. Not whether the family is in private or public. Except now in recent years, there's a growing industry of remote tutoring, as posters have mentioned, that brings down the cost of virtual tutors considerably. But near my house, there's Prep Matters where you can get a senior tutor at $250/hr. I paid for one of those for my kid with severe ADHD and dyscalculia! Worked out well, actually ;-)

Public school cannot make wealth differences disappear, PP. That's impossible. This happens in every country, even ones in Europe and Asia with much better social services than the US.

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