>Does your school have a policy about allowing private tutors to work
>with
>students on campus?
Yes, but tutors working on campus are vetted by our academic services
department and given a pretty thorough orientation as to what their roles
and obligations are. The financial arrangement is between the tutor and
the family, but to work on our campus there are hoops to jump through (see
below).
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>Are private tutors screened (CORI check or other)?
CORI--of course! See above, too.
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>Any sense (estimate/guess) of how many students have private tutors?
A bunch, I guess.
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>For what subject/reasons do your students seek private tutors?
Subject matter support; organizational support. We don't set tutoring up
here until every effort has been made to see that the student is using
other resources (meet with teacher, peer tutor, enrichment center) and
still seems to be struggling.
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>Does you school have an academic support center/learning center? If so,
>how many students are seen for tutoring "in house"?
Enrichment center, staffed by one person much of the school day. Kids can
and do drop in (kids of all strength levels, incidentally, from those who
are strugglig to those who want to really polish up an already good
thing), and there is a referral process. A few students are on "mandated"
referral because of serious academic issues (probation, "warning").
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>Does your school have part time/full time tutors on the faculty?
No, except the enrichment center person, if she could be called a tutor
(which we wouldn't).
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>Why might students seek private tutoring as opposed to using their
>school's in house learning center?
Time, schedule, availability.
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But here's what we think is the beauty part: Tutors working on campus are
under an obligation to also provide some tutoring here at pro bono or
heavily discounted rates in order to make their services available to kids
who might not otherwise have the means to afford tutoring. This changes
the arrangement from being something like valet parking to something that
can benefit all kids who need tutoring.
Hope this helps--Peter Gow
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Peter Gow, Director of College Counseling and Special Programs
Beaver Country Day School
791 Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
www.bcdschool.org
Tel. 617-738-2755
FAX 617-738-2701
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