“Although, the school had impressed me on my initial visit I was beginning to question the academic quality of the school now that I could see the students not only Jacquelyn where struggling with even the most basic concepts.”
I had some of the same feelings of disappointment with Turning the Page. Their philosophy seemed great, but the reality was the program was too focused on parent workshops and ignored the children who were the ones the program was meant to help in the first place. The tutors were free to determine what they wanted to do with the children and often all they could do was keep them under control. Getting a children to sit down and read a book was an accomplishment. Then for the second half of the community night the kids would color. While I support the arts, this type of unstructured activity was clearly not helping them. It was even more frustrating when I was reading with a child and others would start coloring and they would want to keep reading…and then they felt they had to color. I had expressed these concerns to some of the employees but ultimately nothing changed, it got worse actually, and it led me to find a new organization.
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