Homework help isn't learning support
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If sessions only get tonight's sheet done, your child learns to need a tutor in the room. Here's what to ask instead.
There's a version of tutoring that parents love on busy Tuesdays: child walks in stressed, walks out with the maths finished. Peace restored.
The problem is what happens next Tuesday when you're not paying someone to sit beside them.
Homework help gets tonight done. Learning support answers a different question: what can my child do next week without you in the room?
The question worth asking
Before you sign anything:
"What should my child be able to do alone after five sessions that they can't do now?"
If the tutor hesitates or talks about "confidence" without naming a skill, you're buying dependency.
What good looks like
Session three might still feel hard. But by session five you should see something concrete — factorising without prompting, writing a paragraph with a clear argument, reading a passage and summarising it in their own words.
The tutor's job is to fade — show, ask, step back — not to become a permanent crutch.
Where the Diagnostic fits
Our $110 Diagnostic is designed to find that starting level before anyone asks you for a term. One session, clear read on fit — not a sales pitch.