Ninoska Valverde, 13, who goes to a junior high school in Brooklyn that is classified as failing, said she did not know about the free tutoring program. "I'm interested in anything that would help me," she said.
You saw the problem in the teacher's post above. She wants to tutor the students in her class. Sounds reasonable, right? It might be in her case, but teachers unions are opposing the development of other ways to provide these services. They want to maintain their monopoly. In reality, those students who do not get it from her may profit more from help from another person with a different approach.