Breaking Good

Well my wife just got back from Bed, Bath, and Beyond, where she needed some thing for the shower or something like that. She told me how the store was full of parents and students from one of the private colleges in town. It was called “back to the dorm day” for some reason. The reason she brought this up is because she found several of the mothers, and I use that term any way you want to take it, were a bit on the aggressive side. She was pushed and shoved and glared at in line, as apparently these parents saw my wife as one more obstacle to over come. “Get out of my way” it’s back to school day in sin city.

There is some good news for this educational season. Many students may now be willing to explore Chemistry courses, in their educational travels. The series “Breaking Bad” showed a desperate and ill high school chemistry teacher turning to manufacturing Crystal Meth as a means to supplement health care costs and provide for his family. It was such a crazy premise that it worked very well. The show was a hit and more students are interested in chemistry than ever before.

Well parents welcome to the jungle of preparing your child/children for a new school year. But before you do the “kids are going back to school” dance, you will have to take them out for their supplies and new school clothes. Shopping with younger children can be an adventure, but taking older, college level kids out shopping can be a real nightmare too. One way around that is to give them a credit card with a strict limit to it and let them have at it. Because some of these stores, especially in the big city, with their back to school sales can be the survival of the fittest.

Another important aspect of getting ready for the new school year is to honestly ask the question “is your child ready for the next grade level?”. If they had a bit of trouble with some of their assignments or subjects last year, you can be sure they will have even more trouble this year. Many students from elementary age on up have trouble with math and sciences. My kids did, as did I, when I found myself going back to school. The weakest area of the typical American student is in these categories. I noticed, in my own experience as an older student returning to school pursuing a Computer Science degree, was the farther along I got in the advanced math courses, the smaller the class size. Not popular subjects in America I’m afraid. In fact the sad truth is that we have to bring engineers and scientist in from other countries to makeup for our lack of producing our own home grown ones.

So if your child has trouble with math, they are not alone. The main thing that saved me was, a tutor. I needed someone who could translate what the professor was saying into terms I could grasp. When I sat down with a quality tutor before class I had an understanding that I could not have achieved on my own. And at the college level professors do not often have the time for one on one work with students. You can find whatever you are looking for in a tutor at TutorZ.com. And good luck to all in this new school year.