Foreign Perspectives

The prices for the Kip McGrath tutoring are incredibly confusing and quite off-putting but it turns out that they’re substantially less than I had expected.

Basically what it says is that it’s £25 per student per subject which would mean £100 a week for our two little guys or around £400 a month. In fact, it’s £25 per student per day but as we’re only running with one day and are getting a 20% discount it’s working out at £40 a week for both little guys which is actually around £1.50 a week cheaper than Kumon. Thus, although the original plan was to run with Kip for James who definitely needs it and Kumon for John who’s just sailing through it all, we ended up signing them both up for it and they start this Friday.

Although the website implies that the classes are always five in fact our little guys will be in a class by themselves to begin with at what’s currently the perfect time too. By going right after school on Friday afternoon, they’ll be finishing relatively early which, hopefully, will mean that John won’t be as exhausted as he was sometimes after the Kumon classes.

According to the tutor, James should be where he should be school-wise in around a year or so although I suspect he’ll get there sooner with the Kip McGrath plus all the extra help he’s getting in school. I’m rather dubious about her assessment for John and I’d say that he’ll be way ahead of the rest of his class before the school year is finished.

We’re already getting withdrawal symptoms from the Kumon though. It’s peculiar not to be doing the worksheets every night.