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Essay / Tutoring at Grant Street Neighborhood Center - 1388
On 09/14/09 it was our orientation where I was responsible for tutoring children every Monday and Wednesday at the Grant Street Neighborhood Center. Since we were late on the first day, we only had ten minutes for orientation. Briana and Janice were in charge of the Grant Street Neighborhood Center. They explained the rules to us and told us that we would be giving private lessons to children aged nine to nineteen. This shocked us all because we all thought we would be tutoring children who attend primary and secondary schools. 09/16/09. Since we were late on the first day, we didn't have much time to take a walk around the neighborhood center, so our supervisors thought it would be beneficial for us to take a walk around the neighborhood. Most of the children were surprised by the west side. The area didn't seem shocking to me because I went to Grover Cleveland High School and am pretty familiar with Grant Street and the West Side. After the visit, our supervisor introduced us to a few children who came during our visit, but unfortunately they did not need tutoring because they had no homework. They were there to use the computers.09/21/09. The second week, we were tasked with making flyers for the neighborhood center where we had to present the center and the after-school program. At first we thought it wouldn't take much time to make the flyers, but we didn't realize we had to use Windows 98 and a dial-up connection. It took us two hours to finally create a flyer, and we didn't even get a chance to interact with the kids. When we arrived at the center on 09/23/09, there was one child who had science homework and who was the only one. with a major in biology, I have to help him. I tried to put him at ease; I asked... middle of paper... the answer to that question was that she sent us an email where she wrote the date and other details, but neither of us received this “email”. Briana was too much; I still don't understand why she had to embarrass us in front of kids when it was clearly her fault. The incident on October 21st was too big for us to ignore, we all decided we needed to tell Susan about it. We explained to him how we had been treated and that we were getting nothing out of the experience, and that it was still possible to change placements. Susan and Sheryl Bird went to the Grant Street Neighborhood Center and saw it for themselves. The center was empty and full of children, but none of them were doing their homework using computers alone. On 10/26/09 we moved to a new placement and I love it. This is an after-school program for refugee children to help them with their homework and improve their English..