For the pass three years I have been working as a tutor for elementary and middle school children.I have tutored countless amount of students, and I have corrected homework and tutored them in subjects such as math, social studies, reading, and science. I have worked with a variety of kids that have learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, and kids who would not stop talking to their peers. The children have used many kinds of profanities again ts me, some were also racial slurs. They have stolen some of my personal property and some that belonged to the tutoring company that I work for. Yet with all the problems I face every Monday to Friday with the students, nothing upsets me more than their unappreciative parents.
I understand that when a parent sends their child to our program they expect progress. Yet they expect a dramatic positive change in their child's understanding of the different subjects to come after only three hours of tutoring. Some of the parents do not see that learning takes time and will not come overnight. The parents forget that they hired me as a group tutor, not a personal tutor, so they forget that I tutor around ten to twelve students in a three hour session. They want me to focus on their child more than the others since they believe that their child is doing the worst in their classroom. Yet when they see that I am not paying attention to their child, they complain wondering why would I ever turn away from the task they want me to do. They treat me like if I was their teacher, expecting me to teach their child advance subjects so they will be ahead of their class. They fail to see that I have to tutor and correct homework of ten to twelve children, some who have learning disabilities, in three hours.
Some of the parents have time issues. They either drop off their child late around a hour and a half into the day and expect me to get their homework finished before they come to pick them up. Other parents forget to pick up their children and make me stay for an extra two hours, with out pay, calling them to pick up their child. Others even take advantage of me and my fellow tutors by dropping their child off with us after hours expecting us to help their child with the homework the parent assigned to them and lying to us by calling it school work that is due by the next day.
With all the things these parents put me through, I would like to thank the appreciative parents. The parents who smile and say thank you for tutoring their child. The ones who know the difficulty in working with children and know that I have more than one to deal with. Most of all I would like to thank the parents who drop off and pick up their child on time or at the least say sorry for coming in late.
