Should You Change Your Child's Tutor? 7 Signs It's Time
Changing tutors costs your child continuity, so it is worth avoiding. Staying with the wrong tutor for a year costs a grade. These seven signs mean the decision is already made.
1. You have raised the same concern twice and nothing changed
Once is a misunderstanding. Twice is an answer. A tutor who does not adjust after clear feedback will not adjust after a third conversation either.
2. They cannot say which chapters your child is weak in
After three or four sessions this should be immediate and specific. If it is still vague after a month, they are teaching the syllabus rather than your child — and that will not produce results however long you wait.
3. Your child has stopped asking questions
Watch for this one. A child who once asked and now sits silent has usually been made to feel stupid for not knowing. That is the most damaging thing that can happen in a tuition, and it does not repair.
4. Lateness has become normal
Fifteen minutes late once is life. Every week is a tutor who has stopped valuing the tuition — often because they have taken on too many, or travel too far. Distance is the usual culprit.
5. They cannot answer your child's questions
Occasionally saying "let me check that and come back to you" is honest and fine. Regularly deflecting harder questions means the tutor is out of their depth in the subject, which happens most when a general tutor takes on HSC Physics or Higher Maths. Match the tutor type to the subject.
6. Four focused weeks produced nothing
Give a specific target — *"able to do any vector question from the last three years' papers by month end"* — and if nothing moves, stop. Vague dissatisfaction is not grounds to change. A missed clear target is.
7. Your child asks you to change
Take this seriously and ask why, without leading them. Sometimes it is avoidance of a strict tutor who is doing good work. Often it is something you would want to know.
Before you decide
Rule out the fixable causes first — most "not improving" cases are diagnosis problems, not tutor problems. Replacing a tutor when the real issue was that nobody found the gap just resets the clock with a new person.
Changing well
Do not wait for the exam. Mid-term is a better moment than the week before finals.
Be direct and brief. "We are going to try someone else" is enough. Long explanations help nobody.
Pay what you owe in full. Bangladesh's tutoring world is small, and your child may need a recommendation from this person one day.
Tell the next tutor exactly what did not work. "The last tutor explained well but never made him practise" is worth an entire month of discovery.
Use the trial week properly this time — and compare candidates against the specific problem rather than on price.
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