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Tutoring kids who don't need it is a booming business in affluent areas where parents want to stack the deck

  • Written by Pawan Dhingra, Professor of Sociology and American Studies, Amherst College
Many families shell out $200 monthly on private 'learning centers.'Beanosity, CC BY-SA

Many relatively well-off parents drive their kids to special activities after school. On top of trips to soccer practices and games or piano lessons and recitals, they increasingly make one more stop: a trip to their local after-school tutoring center.

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