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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone I know (myself included) has a tutor for their elementary MCPS student. Why? Because the curriculum is failing to teach fundamental basics (like basic facts, handwriting, and spelling) and because the topics they DO teach are like a foreign language to me. I'm a doctor and my husband is a mathematician. Sure, we can learn any math strategy and teach it to our kid but there's no guide, no textbook, no common vocabulary... I read my son's assignment and it says to solve using only the blah-blah-blah algorithm. When DS completes his HW and asks me to look it over, I don't know if he used the correct algorithm! Ask your tutor, I always say. (She's an MCPS teacher who tutors on the side; an insider!)
My reasoning (for now) is that paying a tutor $80/hr is a lot less expensive than private school. And then my kid gets help reinforcing the algorithms that leave me scratching my head AND he gets a little enrichment (or what they used to call "basics"). Friends and neighbors are all in the same boat. Isn't the school system failing our children if we ALL require tutors?

Do you have a tutor? If you don't, do you wish you did?
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REALLY??? Literally NO ONE that I know has a tutor for their elementary school student.  Not one.  But I only have a 3rd and 1st grader.  Maybe it changes in 4th grade?  But my 3rd grader was not greatly challenged this year, so I can't imagine he would need a tutor next year.[/quote]

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