Do I or Don't I Tutor!!
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 1:44 pm
Until I read the topics raised on this Website I was certain that I had no choice but to have my Yr 5 tutored for next years 11+ exams.
She is bright and willing, unlike her sister whom we knew would not cope at a Grammar School, but lays average in a very good school.
On speaking with local tutors no one will advise me of her starting ability, apparantly it is unimportant as they will improve -- of course they will!! I need to know how much time we need to put in and whether it will all be worth it. No one wants to put their child through unecessary stresses and see them fail, but how do you save her when she clearly feels that she has no choice as 27 out of 31 children in her class are already been tutored for the same exam.
Her natural talents will, as we have seen happen before, fall behind the rest in class and this will have an impact on her self asteem.
I feel as if I need to keep up with the 'Jones's' or else my daughter will be left behind -- for just being herself. But then perhaps that isn't a bad thing, at least she wont struggle for the other 5 years of her schooling.
Help!! What do I do.
She is bright and willing, unlike her sister whom we knew would not cope at a Grammar School, but lays average in a very good school.
On speaking with local tutors no one will advise me of her starting ability, apparantly it is unimportant as they will improve -- of course they will!! I need to know how much time we need to put in and whether it will all be worth it. No one wants to put their child through unecessary stresses and see them fail, but how do you save her when she clearly feels that she has no choice as 27 out of 31 children in her class are already been tutored for the same exam.
Her natural talents will, as we have seen happen before, fall behind the rest in class and this will have an impact on her self asteem.
I feel as if I need to keep up with the 'Jones's' or else my daughter will be left behind -- for just being herself. But then perhaps that isn't a bad thing, at least she wont struggle for the other 5 years of her schooling.
Help!! What do I do.