Public schooling for students in California is underfunded
and for many students it is failing. The role of privatized pre-school, charters, and for profit
higher education is under examined.
Underfunding the public schools forces them into decline, assuring that
working families and their children will face increasing obstacles to improving
their lives.
Melody Gutierrez, writer for the Sacramento Bee, offers a
compelling description of the fraud and abuse in tutoring programs mandated by
NCLB in the Sunday, July 28, edition. The program stressed free market
competition with little accountability.
What they got was fraud and exploitation.
If you want to improve the schools, you need prepared and
credentialed teachers- usually not Teach for America interns. The best teacher in a tutoring program
is the child’s own teacher, not an unprepared person who has little knowledge
of reading and/or learning strategies. The best teacher is one that knows well what the
student needs to succeed in his/her classes.
Why then is tutoring needed? In day to day instruction the teacher faces a class size of
30 – 35 students. In tutoring,
he/she can face a class size of 3-5 students.
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