Thursday, September 17, 2009

Starting The Year Off Right

Dear Parents,

Another school year is beginning, and it's time for some back to school reminders. Remember, if your child can keep up with the homework at the beginning of the year, it'll make getting the grades you want that much easier! To help your children get and stay ready for school, make sure they:

-Get plenty of sleep (at least 6 hours, preferably ~8)
-Eat a good breakfast (even just a bowl of cereal is better than nothing)
-Keep track of assignments on one calendar (a google calendar can allow them to get email reminders of homework)
-Read for 30 minutes a night. Nothing improves vocabulary like regular reading.

If you find your child begins falling behind in some classes in any case, don't let it get too far! Call a tutor as soon as you notice a particularly bad test, or hear your child complaining they don't understand something (if you can't help explain it to them). Once enough bad grades pile up, all the tutoring in the world can't change the past.

Along those lines, let me share with you a story of a student we currently have with us. This high school senior started working with H-bar after his junior year calculus class started to wear him down. He was used to getting math problems right, and finally hit the wall when during calculus when the operations piled one on top of another. He had fallen from being an A student to failing a couple of quizzes, and eventually his class average was down to a C. He came to us a little before Thanksgiving, and by Christmas, he was back to getting B's. By the end of the year, his class average was back to a B, and he was back on top of the material. He'll be getting credit for that calculus class at most colleges next year, giving him a leg up on many other students.

Please let us help your child. H-bar Tutoring hires only the highest quality student tutors from across the area. Our basic strengths are at our core: math and science. The majority of our tutors are math and science PhD students, and we work with science hands on every day. Why get a math or science tutor who is an out of work screenwriter (as is the case in some competing agencies) when you could get a math or science tutor who is a... mathematician or scientist?

Best Regards,

-Evans Boney
CEO H-bar Tutoring