What’s wrong with this picture?<\/p>\n
A recent newspaper article on our local library mentioned the popularity of its after-school tutoring program and cited the example of a woman tutoring a third-grader who was learning about clocks and money.<\/p>\n
This didn’t strike me as particularly noteworthy until I read the tutor’s comment that\u00a0sometimes “parents stay downstairs and read while their children are being tutored.”<\/p>\n
I certainly\u00a0approve of\u00a0parents reading at the library,\u00a0but for crying out loud!\u00a0 Any literate parent could teach a 9-year-old child about clocks and money with a $3.00 workbook from Wal-Mart!\u00a0 Why on earth is a\u00a0tutor needed for that?\u00a0 For that matter, they could skip the workbook altogether and use a real clock and a\u00a0few trips to the grocery store.<\/p>\n
This is an excellent example of how professional educators have brainwashed our society into dependence on their “expertise.”\u00a0 Most people just assume that they are not capable of “teaching” their children anything that is typically taught in school.\u00a0 How much they\u2014<\/span>and their children\u2014<\/span>are missing out on!<\/p>\n Mary Jo Tate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What’s wrong with this picture? A recent newspaper article on our local library mentioned the popularity of its after-school tutoring program and cited the example of a woman tutoring a third-grader who was learning about clocks and money. This didn’t strike me as particularly noteworthy until I read the tutor’s comment that\u00a0sometimes “parents stay downstairs … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}