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Sometimes the experience of young people in NYC with community service can have a cynical edge, more about resume-building than engagement. There are abundant opportunities for students to give back. So, here, we urge parents to encourage ways for their kids to give back, but we also offer a reminder that community service is a vehicle for ingraining real values and a spirit of civic ownership in our students.
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Balance is often the first challenge in the educational life of students across New York City. In places like Manhattan and Brooklyn, the vast increase over recent years in the volume of homework and extracurricular commitments for students at competitive schools has been seen to correlate to health and psychological effect. From our experience as in-home tutors, we offer advice to parents about monitoring their children's workload and the costs it might take on them.
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As in-home tutors and educational specialists, we witness daily the recent increase in school workloads, especially in New York City's competitive private schools. From Manhattan to Brooklyn, Queens to Staten Island, and across the Bronx, kids are working longer hours on homework and putting in more screen time. We often help provide tutoring and study skills support to manage the load, but we advise parents also to consider the psychical and mental costs.
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Partners with Parents prides itself on the eclectic interests and talents of our staff and tutors. On the one hand, it's an expectation working in New York that you'll encounter engaged and interesting people; but on the other, we consider it a critical part of our mission to seek out interesting and curious people to represent us at the homework table, in the classroom, and in every meeting with parents. Will Craig, who wrote today's creative writing post, is all of those things.
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It's the beginning of the holiday season, and we at Partners with Parents are thrilled to work with such interesting and engaged parents and students, tutors and coaches, teachers and school administrators as we find in New York City. We are lucky to be among you all.
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