Parents: Take Control of Your Child’s Education

Our school systems are in trouble.  Deep trouble.

The reasons are structural:

• the academic subjects – “why do we have to learn this?” – are increasingly anachronistic. This is from someone who enjoyed school and has enjoyed working with students to help them do better in school.
• the classroom structure – “I’m so bored” – this was always an issue but now, given the attention span of students, the classroom structure – beyond “seminar” level where students can interact -prohibitively disengages students
• homework – schools are either not requiring much, which is laudable related to busy work but also problematic because that’s how students learn – and/or the onset of technology, even beyond AI, has made cheating so rampant that students are not learning much at home

Structural reasons cannot be overcome easily.

Moreover, other factors such as teachers being overworked and thus not being able to provide individual attention, the zeitgeist of doom (no the world is not ending but a lot of kids do not see the future as being bright), and… yes… social media and other distractions have diminished your child’s education.

As always, the only one who can rescue the children: parents.

We have been working with caring parents who recognize these issues and the problems that will come in the future due to their children’s relatively poor scholastic experience.

We custom-design our educational programs to ensure (1) good grades – which still matter (2) actual learning – both in areas related to school and the child’s potential college/career interests and (3) increased overall motivation.

The results so far can be summed up in a recent e-mail from a client who lives in Massachusetts (yes, the virtual world has enabled us to work with students beyond our Connecticut borders).

“Daryl, thank you, thank you, thank you.  Dev and I feel like we owe you a debt that cannot be repaid.  When we met, Kevin was on the razor’s edge of drifting into bad habits related to school and social life.  We felt helpless and you helped us regain some sense of control.  Our battles were ruining our relationship with him. We could see him withdrawing from us. Two years later, we see that he is on track.  We are happy with his grades and SAT scores (THANK YOU!).  But more importantly, having an outside force – Uncle Daryl as you joke – has made a profound difference in his life.”

Given the more challenging world that we live in than when I first started this work, these are the thank you notes that matter.