The way to fix it is to strengthen curriculum and improve the teacher quality. To do that, you have to purge entrenched liberal loons in educational establishment.
With decently challeging curriculum, it is difficult to manufacture grades with intensive tutoring, which, in many cases, inevitably concentrate on test-taking skills and mapping out problems which are likely to appear on the test, as time passes.
A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than a well educated family. - Thomas Scott
Let parents assume their rightful roles in the community by getting meaninfully involved in their local school boards.
They still haven't learned that thowing money at their children is a substitute for good parenting; any more than throwing money at government or lobbies is a substitute for good citizenship.
The upside of this is that, perhaps, some people will manage to learn something during their formative years.
Too bad about those who can't afford tutors. They'll have to work that much harder.
Okay, what's "Franz Kafka"?
Gee, I can tutor you about Franz Kafka. This will be painless. You won't have to read any of us utterly depressing stories.
The world is a bizarre, depressing, unfair place where you can be put into limbo at any time, whether in an unfair trial or by waking up after having been turned into an insect. Picture a nightmare that never ends.
See, wasn't that easy? And you didn't have to read a word of his hideously depressing novels. The great thing is, all you have to do to avoid the world he wrote about is to turn to Jesus.
If you want to experience his world first hand, go over to DU, the virtual world that Franz Kafka's ideas built. Don't stay there too long, though, boys and girls, or you'll be wanting to get that taste of gun oil in your mouth, if you know what I mean.
All you say is true; nevertheless, you will not ever cause people of means not to spend more money to try to give their own kids a perceived advantage. For some folks, $500.00 an hour won't even be missed.
We homeschooled, but starting in middle school we sent our son to a tutor, twice a week, for composition skills.
We knew he'd need to be proficient in that area in college (and since we were going to use dual credit, and he'd start Comp I at college in his 10th grade year) we figured it would be worth the investment.
Best money we ever spent. He whizzed through college compositions with no problem at all. I, personally, could not have done the job that needed to be done in teaching him composition skills.
"The way to fix it is to strengthen curriculum and improve the teacher quality. To do that, you have to purge entrenched liberal loons in educational establishment."
I respectfully disagree. The best way to fix the government schools is to encourage parents to homeschool, with assistance from other homeschool families and/or tutors.
Government schools should be the educators of last resort, not the first.
Ping.
No tenure. More money. More discipline.
I thought I was getting big money at $2.50/hr.
It is strange that they would hire some high paid tutor. In our school, the upper classman or smarter kids in our class would volunteer to assist the students who needed it if needed. I did have a tutor for Trig my senior year and it happened to be a kid in my class who was taking calculous. He is now a doctor but he did help me though trig. What a job that poor guy had. lol. It was run through the school and we did not chose who would be the tutors the school did. I thought it was effective and cheap especially since our parents were already shelling out a thousand dollars for our Catholic school education a year (in 1987).
My father has grad degrees in Chem & Business, IIRC. My mom has (barely) a high school education. They always had books, spent a small fortune on encyclopedias etc on us. It helped 3/4 of us boys (one isn't into reading- but is a brilliant man in fields of home repair, car repair etc - he taught himself). I am 42, wnet to a great suburban school district. They were allowed to spank kids, kick them out etc. We were expected to go to college, but if we had entered some kind of trade, they would have just as proud of us.
There are too many kids in college. Some could make more money, and prob be happier working with their hands - or getting married and staying at home with babies. I blame much of the problems on the ACLU & the teachers' unions. Last time I checked, there were more kids in my 1st grade class (1969-70) nationally, then there are now. Somehow, there are many more teachers, administrators & assorted other "educators" with less to show for it. I know a couple of teachers make $100,000+ in Pittsburgh... Complete waste of money. They are dumber than posts.