Dear Teacher #101,
Thank you so much for getting back to me. You have a habit of seldom returning my emails or of returning them weeks later when it is no longer useful and you never fail to deliver. You may find this hard to believe but I do not have access to your curriculum, which I would need in order to best help your student. Being that they are not the best students they usually do not bring home books or homework on a regular basis so I essentially have very little to go on aside from what you can provide me with. I can find some of the materials you use via the school website if it is any good but even then I am limited as I need a teaching license to access complete texts. I also have no idea what chapter you are on either, causing me to have to guess. Not that it makes that much difference though as your student was so far behind when I started with them anyways.
I understand some of you may want to address the problem via the parents yet, if you really think about it, they hired me for a reason. For whatever reason, they are unwilling or are unable to successfully assist their child and therefore believe a tutor is the best solution. Therefore, it behooves you to include me in the loop since I am the one who will be working with them one on one multiply times a week until they understand the concepts.
It would also be nice if you did not repeatedly complain about the student's progress to the parents when you have basically given me no information. If this is indicative of how you convey concepts to your students then perhaps you do not have time to contact me because I am just one of many tutors on your list. I cannot help but think how much more effective it would have been if I did not have to spend countless hours and more money than I make creating lesson plans. Also, if I am not correct, by the end of the year, the student ended up going from failing to passing with high marks. I guess not having your input worked better after all.
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