I had a similar experience as a tutor! I thought it would be a fun experience helping local students pass math classes... ended up assigned to a middle school student who was a recovering drug addict. Both her parents were also addicts, so she and multiple siblings lived with their grandma. Grandma was not a very nice lady :( I had no idea how to support that girl and the stories she told me every week just broke my heart. I stuck it out for the semester and hopefully she did better in school for it (they never gave me any updates), but dropped the community tutoring after that. I did not at all feel qualified to work with a student like that... I'm just a math nerd.
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I had a similar experience as a tutor! I thought it would be a fun experience helping local students pass math classes... ended up assigned to a middle school student who was a recovering drug addict. Both her parents were also addicts, so she and multiple siblings lived with their grandma. Grandma was not a very nice lady :( I had no idea how to support that girl and the stories she told me every week just broke my heart. I stuck it out for the semester and hopefully she did better in school for it (they never gave me any updates), but dropped the community tutoring after that. I did not at all feel qualified to work with a student like that... I'm just a math nerd.
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