Parent Expectations of Tutoring Programs

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"What are the parent expectations of tutoring? A lot of parents will expect, of course when they make an initial call to a tutoring company, they want to improve their kid's grade or at least give their kid more confidence in their abilities to go ahead and get their own good grade. That is what they start out with. A lot of times, in high school, the student does not want to put that much effort into it, and so of course it becomes more of a game of discipline or babysitting, and at that point, you are just trying to at least get an improvement and at least a passing grade. Of course, no one wants to work that way, they want to work, you know, you want to get as much as you can done in the least amount of time possible, you want to be efficient and get them A's, they want to get A's. Theoretically. So a parent's expectation is that their kid's grade is going to improve, generally. A lot of times certain tutoring companies will guarantee that, some will not. But it is by and large, it is not something that always happens. You cannot, you cannot go ahead and tutor someone and then not get paid for the time that you spent while the kid was off smoking pot in, you know, homeroom. There is nothing you can do about that. If they have got a bad kid, they have got a bad kid. They owe you money for your time. That is something that usually I will discuss with the parent beforehand, and definitely the student, saying I do not want to be disciplinarian, you have got to discipline yourself if you want this good grade, you are going to do the good job, that you are going to pay attention, you are going to ask me questions, you are going to synthesize your own picture of what this concept is, and that is going to be the extent of it. And the same thing with the parents. I am not going to be the disciplinarian, you have to be the disciplinarian. If your kid is not doing their homework, they are not going to get good grades, that is not my fault, they need to put in the effort, I can only meet them so far, half-wayish. Those are the parent expectations. Those are how I deal with the parents' expectations of tutoring."