Discussions

The school board has decided to drop the peer tutoring program at Crocus Plains. If you don't know about this program, it is a group of grade eleven and twelve students who are each assigned a student to work with for one hour a day for english due to the fact that they have a lower level of reading and/or writing. This one on one time is absolutely crucial for some of these kids and without it, it is not likely they would get their grade 9 english credit. Now that they've decided to shut it down, they are going to be putting kids into grade 9 english and pretty well set them up to fail. There are students in this course being tutored that started with grade 6 reading levels, most of which have already improved and reached a grade 9 reading level which is pretty substantial. The program has been very successful over the years and it is truly a shame to see the school shutting down a program that is in hindsight helping these kids graduate on time.  
 
Being a tutor myself, I get to see first hand the success of these students. Maybe if we had more teachers in the building, rather than stuffing 35 kids into one classroom then the kids could get more one on one time with the teachers. However this is not the case. This program has changed me for the better. I wonder if some of the people on the school board had a child who had a reading problem if they would feel the same about shutting down the program.