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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ah, the tutor who hate SH has made their obligatory appearance![/quote]

I’m the PP and am not the tutor.

Do you seriously believe that someone is out to get SH??  Seriously.  Sounds like you are in denial.  Good luck with that.

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DP. Why is a tutor telling a parent negative stuff about other students he/she tutors? Sounds super unprofessional.[/quote]

Tutors can tell what the school is assigning because they usually help the kids with schoolwork. Let's focus on the deficiencies with the schools, not the students.[/quote]

I'm skeptical of the story altogether. It doesn't make sense for a tutor to be telling a random parent about other kids. And I would seriously question the professional judgement of any tutor who thought that was appropriate to do.

Happy to discuss actual evidence of S-H's deficiencies. This isn't it.[/quote]

I’m the PP.  I didn’t say the tutor told me anything.  I’m posting about generalizations that a tutor posted about his experiences working with kids from many middle schools EOTP and his recommendations.  It was objective and helpful.

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It's interesting, I read the same posts and I thought they were extremely unprofessional and didn't actually realize the skew in who hires him. The vast majority of normal families are not hiring a tutor for enrichment. BASIS is much more likely to attract the kind of family hiring a tutor for enrichment than basically any other middle school. On top of that, BASIS is harder than most other middle schools workload wise, so the average kid he sees struggling with BASIS is likely to be a better student than the average kid he sees struggling with another middle school. But SH, at least, has pretty good supports for differentiation especially via extracurriculars (seriously, between drama and an instrumental group and debate and History Day, + tracked math, my kid has what is essentially a challenging curriculum that she also loves... and then also the rest of school); but SH parents aren't hiring a tutor to achieve extracurricular excellence. The tutor who posted was completely unable to acknowledge this difference in his populations and essentially said parents are failing their kids if they aren't hiring tutors for enrichment. I frankly think that's insane and very obviously self-promoting, stopped taking him seriously after that and assume that we would probably have different views on what makes a good school. YMMV.

FWIW I have nothing at all against BASIS which seems like a great school for some kids and would probably be even better in a system that permitted some screening. One of my kids has it as a top choice.[/quote]

Why are you making BS stuff up?  The tutor never said anything about enrichment  and never said anything about Basis period.

Also we are talking academics and not EC.  EC can’t compensate for the lack of academic challenge or rigor..  BTW other schools also have all the EC you listed above. Big deal.

Lastly SH math is just on grade level and nothing special.  The other level is remedial.  They don’t even have a geometry class.

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