[summer]

Based on my experience as a teacher in schools with students in need of tutoring, I can offer several reasons why students are not getting this tutoring. And, my reasons were not mentioned in this NYT article.

See my post to come in this thread.

[Jim Noble]

Why isn't Bush out there reading that goat book he likes so much?

[Jim Noble]

I can offer several reasons why students are not getting this tutoring

Lazy, or stupid, or both?

[summer]

First of all, in school districts having poor students who are coming to school by bus: these kids do not stay after school for anything because they will have no transportation home if they do.

I don't why this is so. When I grew up, there was always the "late bus" which arrived about an hour after all the other busses had left. If you missed your bus, or you stayed after school for extra help, or some club, you could always get a ride home on the late bus.

In every school district I know of, I have never seen nor heard anyone mention the "late bus." Kids today have to rely on their parents for transportation if these students miss the bus, and some kids' parents either work, have no car or are not available.

In addition, many schools I have seen as a teacher literally go into "lock-down" at the end of the school day. They don't want students on the property at all.

This is very different than the old days when I went to school, and kids returned to school to play on the playground or play tennis on the tennis courts. Nowadays, every school property has a locked fence around it, due to insurance reasons I guess. But this is not the way it always was, as I recall.

[mpoulin]

This is like a government program to offer free health club memberships to fat people.

The people who want it don't need it, and the people who need it don't want it.

[Born Conservative]

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[latina4dubya]

largely private tutoring paid for with federal money.

now, why is this okay, but vouchers are not?

[joey'smom]

Let me guess...the kids all speak Spanish and the tutors only know English.

[VOA]

thanks for posting...
this should get a lenghty expose on major media, esp. FOX News Channel...

[P.O.E.]

So I guess that means taxpayers get their money back? Or am I to be so naive to imagine no bureaucrats scarfed up the funding anyway?

[VOA]

bump

[traviskicks]

that the program is allotted too little federal money,
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LOL! How unpredictable.

[SuziQ]

Proves the old adage, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink."

Some families don't value education enough to encourage their kids to take advantage of the opportunities offered to them. There is NOTHING the President or anyone else can do about it.

[moog]

I offer to tutor my own students for free. I'm tutoring half my class and the students have made quite a bit of progress in reading. BUT my 3 lowest students' parents were afraid of getting their kid labelled so they flatly said they didn't want it. Most of the students I tutor are my middle readers, with a few of them being my higher readers.

[tcrlaf]

Wifey is tutoring under this program, but WILL NOT DO SO NEXT YEAR, because of the nightmare it has become....

Each week a new set of rules comes down, and a new fraud is uncovered. Your Gub'ment at work......

The kids who actually GET the tutoring are doing much better in classes, and scores, but the district is so afraid of being sued over it that they have forbid almost the mere mentioning of the word "Tutor" for fear of a lawsuit....

[razorback-bert]

On education in general today, all I can say is look at the results.

Typical to me is the Xtreme athlete I saw in a puff piece. He was bragging that he had a degree in criminal justice and was getting a MA in something or other(sounded like a feel good thingy). He said he would never use it, but everyone should be able to say "they are educated."