Y3K Tutor In Your Home was honored with the Best Science & Technology Programs Award. This was due to thousands of voters that acknowledged our STEM tutoring over the past year. To win a Family Favorite Reader’s Choice Award by the readers of Boston Parents Paper, one must be the best in their field. The magazine and it’s readers don’t just give out these awards to just anyone. It means so much to all of us here at Y3K Tutor In Your Home, that all the happy families that we did STEM tutoring for this year, went out of their way to vote for us in recognition of our science and technology tutoring.
Best Special Needs After School Programs Award 2023
Our work tutoring special needs students was honored by the Boston Parents Paper. They presented us with the Family Favorite Special Needs After School Programs Top 5 Award. Thousands of parents voted for Y3K Tutor In Your Home in each of two separate rounds. We are flattered that all you families chose us as your favorite after school special needs leader. Thank you for the award!
Lower Standards in Boston
90%-100% of graduates at most high schools throughout Massachusetts meet the minimum number of courses in English, math, science and other core subjects that state guidelines call for. However the Boston public school system has ignored those guidelines, called MassCore. MassCore standards include four years of English and math, three years of science and social studies, and two years of foreign language.
Instead Boston Public Schools have opted to keep lower standards for earning a diploma than the rest of Massachusetts. For example, Boston requires only three years of math instead of the four required at schools following MassCore. The reason for the lower standards is so they can increase high school graduation rates. Many claim that these lower standards de-value their diploma compared to most other communities that have significantly higher standards.
Lower Boston standards have some major consequences. In 2017 only 31% of Boston high school graduates met the state’s MassCore guidelines according to state data, putting the rest behind their peers at other Massachusetts schools. 50% of Boston high school graduates who enroll in college fail to earn degrees within six years, according to a report by the Boston Private Industry Council. Many of these students that have earned a high school diploma with lower standards, felt academically unprepared for college. A state report showed that nearly 75% of Boston graduates who went on to community college required at least one remedial course.
Underwood Elementary School Newton, MA
Y3K Tutor In Your Home recently donated tutoring and test preparation services to the Underwood Online Auction. Be sure to bid generously for the Newton, MA children. Our donation and your bids help the Underwood School PTO raise money to pay for teacher’s classroom supplies, project materials, important curriculum enrichment programs through the Creative Arts and Sciences program, technology purchases, and so much more. All of these items are integral to the children’s education at Underwood Elementary School. Without our donation and your bids, programs like these would not be available to the Newton students. It is our support that continues to make the Underwood Elementary School a special place.
History of Homework in America
Do you think your student receives too much homework? Do you complain that they get too little homework? Tomorrow we will look the history of homework in America.
Save Money End Dissection
It is way more expensive for schools to keep buying disposable dead animals for dissection year after year as opposed to buying one batch of computer programs like the ones the medical schools use. In fact these computer programs tend to be donated free of charge to schools from various charities.
Dissection Bad For Environment
Dissection animal formaldehyde is known to be a hazardous air and water pollutant and waste material according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency. When teachers or students dispose of the cut up animals with these toxic chemicals some simply throw them out in the trash and pour the liquid down the drain. Cities and towns have detected formaldehyde in their drinking water, rainwater, lake water, and other waterways.
Environmental Hazards of Dissection
Chemicals used to preserve dead animals for dissection such as formaldehyde and formalin (diluted form of formaldehyde) both cause cancer in humans and pollute the environment. Careless or irresponsible disposal of these preservatives or animal remains can contaminate water and soil and harm wildlife.
Harmful Dissection
Did you know that traditional middle school and high school biology animal dissections can do more harm than good for students? There are psychological, physical and environmental dangers associated with animal dissections putting your student at risk. Over the next several days we will take a closer look at the harmful environmental risks related to animal dissection. Check back here tomorrow!
Medical Schools Say No To Dissection
All of U.S. medical schools including Yale, Harvard, and Stanford don’t use animal dissection to teach medical students. The future doctors of America are using simulations, life-like models, and interactive computer programs to learn how to treat human patients. Y3K Tutor In Your Home maintains that there is a better alternative for every animal dissection assignment that any biology teacher might ask of a student.
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