When Beijing banned private tutoring, attention went to how it’d stop rich kids getting ahead. Less was paid to kids who needed remedial tutoring, i.e. help just to catch up. Like my kid. He’s struggling badly in math, but hiring a tutor to help is now illegal, so he falls more and more behind.
Double Reduction was also meant to lead to less homework. It hasn’t. It’s exactly the same, only with less support. Officially the school holds catch-up classes to help but they’re more like detention where the slow kids are punished with extra work but little support.
He’s been doing HW for 3.5 hours already today and still has an essay to write out. More or less the same every damn night. So sick of this shit.
doing this illegally finding someone online perhaps?
Yeah, I might, although it will add to the workload he already has which is a worry. I want him to spend less time at a desk, not more.
I had to have tutors in physics and math, and the main good thing about physics was me getting hot sweet tea and a pie at a stall by a train station in winter (she lived outside of Moscow at an obscure ex-military town, and I went to her by local train).