Some parents want their good students to be better.A lot better, and they are willing to pay up to tutor their children for additional education.
The L.A.Daily News has the story about the triumph of private education:
Parents pay $3.5 billion annually for tutoring services that range from $15 to hundreds of dollars an hour - the median cost is $30 to $50. For the past three to five years the market has been growing 12 to 15 percent annually.
In areas of high demand, like Woodland Hills, the centers are popping up as quickly and as close to each other as Starbucks coffeehouses.
But,not everyone is happy, witness the comment by comrade Alyce Akers, department chairwoman of family and consumer sciences at California State University, Northridge:
The whole idea of taking a child who's doing fine and tutoring them to make them even better is a little disconcerting to me, because what you're saying to the child is it's not OK to be just the way you are and I think it will have a long-term effect on self-esteem
Where would comrade Akers be without taxpayers coerced to support her?
