No -- Sylvan runs a battery of tests on students before placing them in programs. Dyslexia would've come up. Of course, it's possible the kid just lazed his way through the tests and that's how he got in a program reserved for kids age 4-6.
No word of a lie -- I was working with another beginning-reading student who's in FIRST GRADE. I could hear her whispering under her breath the answers to the questions I asked Problem Child.
Eventually another teacher had to come over and help with Problem Child because he literally was not getting any work done without someone on his ass constantly.
Oh -- and because this came up in a few IM conversations: he's not from a low-income area school, and his parents are far from low-income. The Sylvan programs Are Not Cheap. I'm talking hundreds -- thousands -- of dollars, here, depending on how many subjects the kid's signed up for, and how many hours of tutoring they're signed up for. Fact is, I'd have more patience with the kid if he WAS from a low-income area school.
His attitude is ROTTEN, too. We're supposed to chat up the kids when they first arrive. Break the ice, you know? Stuff like, "So, how was school today? Did you do anything fun? Hey, Monday was your day off -- what did you do?"
Me: "Hey, [name] good to see you again -- how was school?
His reply? "I dunno. Okay." (Mumbled, of course, while looking bored the whole while.)
"Well, Monday was a day off, right?"
"Yeah."
"What'd you do?"
*long, long, ridiculously long pause* "I dunno. Watched TV."
"What'd you watch? Anything good?"
*shrug and incomprehensible answer that might've been "I dunno."*
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No word of a lie -- I was working with another beginning-reading student who's in FIRST GRADE. I could hear her whispering under her breath the answers to the questions I asked Problem Child.
Eventually another teacher had to come over and help with Problem Child because he literally was not getting any work done without someone on his ass constantly.
Oh -- and because this came up in a few IM conversations: he's not from a low-income area school, and his parents are far from low-income. The Sylvan programs Are Not Cheap. I'm talking hundreds -- thousands -- of dollars, here, depending on how many subjects the kid's signed up for, and how many hours of tutoring they're signed up for. Fact is, I'd have more patience with the kid if he WAS from a low-income area school.
His attitude is ROTTEN, too. We're supposed to chat up the kids when they first arrive. Break the ice, you know? Stuff like, "So, how was school today? Did you do anything fun? Hey, Monday was your day off -- what did you do?"
Me: "Hey, [name] good to see you again -- how was school?
His reply? "I dunno. Okay." (Mumbled, of course, while looking bored the whole while.)
"Well, Monday was a day off, right?"
"Yeah."
"What'd you do?"
*long, long, ridiculously long pause* "I dunno. Watched TV."
"What'd you watch? Anything good?"
*shrug and incomprehensible answer that might've been "I dunno."*
ARGH.