Work

Here at work, we've been working summer hours. For us, that means longer hours, as the students are out of public school and want courses during the day. The good news is that I'm working longer hours, so that's a little extra money.

The bad news is that our enrollment seems a little down from last year. Yah, actually.. this is bad news. A lot of our students are traveling this summer. With the US dollar down, their money is going farther and they're going farther and longer... A lot are also visiting Korea this month. Ah, well, there's always next month.

Good news is that we're still getting one or two new students every day. (We'd like to get 5 or 6, but we'll take what comes..) Another piece of good news is that we've got some super new tutors. They know their stuff and are working out well with the students. We've got a super new math tutor and two new Reading/Writing tutors who have taught SAT courses.

We'd like to expand our SAT courses, and want to do it with some quality teaching. SAT course preparation is big in the community we serve and if the older child in the family is enrolled, we can get the younger child in, as well.

I never took the SAT...I took the ACT. I'm not sure, given the amount of stress involved with this test, and how VERY important it has become in determining which schools a child can get into, that I didn't get really lucky. There seems to be some advantages to being born in the middle of the 20th century....

There are a lot of good online sat prep courses, that use real teachers and lots of practice. I'd sign up for them, if I didn't know a good real life tutoring center. I suspect, given the emphasis on performing well, I'd probably sign up for both the online courses and real life courses. Any way that you can address as many modalities as possible for learning has got to be to your benefit.

Have I mentioned, however, that I'm glad I don't have to take the SAT? And I LIKED taking standardized tests!