09-24-2025, 09:28 AM
(09-23-2025, 05:51 PM)SophiaPrincess Wrote: AskRose.org provides free tutoring in math and science from engineering students at Rose-Hulman University in Indiana. Tutoring is only available in the evenings.
My brother tried Tutor.com. It is provided free to YourPace students. It was terrible.
I attended UMPI 24-25. The professors in YourPace offered no tutoring. UMPI did offer online peer tutoring but all but one was unqualified. I was blessed to find a peer tutor in her mid 30s to proof read my essays. She was exceptional but has since graduated.
My brother is taking YourPace classes at UMF. The peer tutoring has been poor. He does receive one hour per week with an English professor because he has Dysgraphia, Asperger's and ADHD. Writing is a struggle for him and one hour per week is inadequate for his needs. He spends all day, every day writing and has only completed one milestone in three weeks. There is no way he will finish both courses by 10/24. He won't accept help from me or our parents. I don't know what will happen to him.
Does your public library offer tutoring services, either in person or through an online service that is better than tutor.com? Or is there a local literacy organization (obviously your brother can read, but depending on their mission they might offer advanced literacy services for people who can read but still struggle with reading fluency, e.g. dysgraphia)?
I get the impression that a lot of the online tutoring services have the same employee-rating framework as many customer call-in centers, where the goal is to get the issue "resolved" as quickly as possible. Which is frankly a terrible model for tutoring. But maybe there are some that are not like that, or it's a matter of disconnecting with an unhelpful tutor and trying again until you get one who is helpful.


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