COMBINED LOCKS, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – Empty classrooms will stay that way at some school districts when the first day of the fall semester arrives.
But private tutors expect kids to be learning in their classrooms instead.
“We’ve seen an increase in calls from late from primarily anxious parents,” said Mike Voet owner of Life Tools Tutoring and Coaching.
He tells FOX 11 interest grew after schools closed, and kids went virtual in the spring,
“Parents felt that the last quarter of the last school year was a loss for their students academically.”
Voet says now there is an increase in tutoring and a need to help students who have fallen behind or struggle with learning at home.
He says most parents he speaks with want to meet in-person.
Taylor Zellmer’s son has nonverbal autism. She tells FOX 11 he wouldn’t be able to do virtual learning,
“It will not be helpful, not even a little. It will keep his attention for maybe for 30 seconds and I can pretty much tell you that.”
Zellmer says she’s all for meeting up, “In person would definitely be beneficial but not the virtual.. but definitely one on one if they could come to me or we could figure it out to go to a location and be consistent with it is the big thing.”
Voet says they see a lot of working parents wanting help for the fall,
“Those parents will be out of the house and perhaps won’t have the time to assist their students academically.”
A Little Chute father says tutoring may help working parents who rely on the teachers,
“It’s a good avenue for parents to pursue because like I said they might not know exactly what to do and the teachers might not be available to help.”
“We are generally one on one with our students. We can customize our tutoring to those students’ needs, teachers on the other hand have 25 to 30 kids that they need to manage,” said Voet.
Voet says tutoring can give students the accountability they might be missing while school is online.
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