{"id":198,"date":"2004-04-16T06:48:39","date_gmt":"2004-04-16T06:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2004-04-16T06:48:39","modified_gmt":"2004-04-16T06:48:39","slug":"chicago_schools_private_tutor_challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Schools: Private Tutor Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/16\/education\/16TUTO.html?ex=1397448000&#038;en=611fb3f217dc0cce&#038;ei=5007&#038;partner=USERLAND\">Sam Dillon writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Over several months, a string of novice tutors from a private company offering federally financed after-school classes had tried and failed to control Room 207&#8217;s dozen rambunctious students. A supervisor from the company was dispatched to troubleshoot. Effie McHenry, Wentworth&#8217;s principal, was clucking her tongue in disapproval.<br \/>\nI just don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re prepared to deal with challenging inner city children,&#8221; Mrs. McHenry said of the company, talking past the supervisor to a visitor. &#8220;I think they expected to find children who&#8217;d just sit down and wait for them to expound. These kids aren&#8217;t like that. They need challenging instruction.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Dillon writes: Over several months, a string of novice tutors from a private company offering federally financed after-school classes had tried and failed to control Room 207&#8217;s dozen rambunctious students. A supervisor from the company was dispatched to troubleshoot. Effie McHenry, Wentworth&#8217;s principal, was clucking her tongue in disapproval. I just don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}