Military families offered free online tutoring paid by Defense Department

Pulaski County Daily News ^ | 11/20/2010 | Darrell Todd Maurina

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FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. (Nov. 20, 2010) — Children of military personnel already face educational challenges due to frequent moves, but what happens when dad or mom has been sent to Afghanistan and is no longer available to help with homework? Military parents who need help tutoring their children have a new option to help their child’s education. Anne Marie Laredo, Fort Leonard Wood’s school liaison officer, said she and library director Joyce Waybright had been disappointed that more parents aren’t using Tutor.com, an online tutoring program which is free to military parents. That’s changed recently, Laredo said. “I’m happy to report that you all are using Tutor.com. When we first started this program, Joyce and I would get the reports and we would see that there’d be five users, 10 users. When we finally hit the 50-user mark, we were like, ‘Yay, Fort Leonard Wood is using this!’” Laredo said. “Well, in the month of August we hit 163 users from Fort Leonard Wood, so thank you, thank you, thank you for taking advantage of this wonderful resource that has been provided to our military families.”