{"id":105,"date":"2003-09-15T15:48:36","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2022-10-09T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T16:48:29","slug":"something-i-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"A Tutor You Would Do Well To Avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=77\">the family vaca<\/a> in August &#8211; I noticed a small sign by the side of the main drag in Yarmouth, a fantastically busy thru-way, with motels, beach shops, bike rental shops &#8230;  We would drive down this road to go grocery shopping, or get ice coffees.<\/p>\n<p>And every day I noticed a small yellow billboard, placed on two poles in the grass.<\/p>\n<p>The sign said:<\/p>\n<p><b>Tell your Mom you need a tutor!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>(The first thing I thought was the wrong-ness behind the entire idea.  Not in having a tutor, but in targeting CHILDREN with the sign.  Isn&#8217;t it a parent&#8217;s job to recognize: &#8220;My kid has no idea what he is doing.  He cannot read.  I should get him a tutor.&#8221;  Is it really the responsibility of a child to realize: &#8220;Huh.  If I don&#8217;t pick up on this whole fractions thing, I will be left way behind, and will never get a decent job, and my whole life will spiral downwards into a pit of hell &#8230; Mom!  I need a tutor!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>But this is just a tangent for the real problem.<\/p>\n<p>They listed their phone number.<\/p>\n<p><b>1-Tutors-Is-Us<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tutors <b>IS<\/b> us?<\/p>\n<p>You guys must just be MATH tutors then, cause I ain&#8217;t sure that &#8220;is&#8221; be the correct word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the family vaca in August &#8211; I noticed a small sign by the side of the main drag in Yarmouth, a fantastically busy thru-way, with motels, beach shops, bike rental shops &#8230; We would drive down this road to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=105\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177885,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/177885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}