| Private School | Covenant Tutorials |
| Large classroom size: private schools average 19 students in a class - though this beats public schools, it is still WAY too many for individual attention. | We work one-on-one with your child, and occasionally will have two tutors with one student. |
| Huge student loads: a full day's worth of students for a private school teacher might be over a hundred students (we've had twice that many), so individual tutoring time is out of the question. | We only take on the number of students we can handle. We recognize that we cannot meet every need: we want to work with a small number of students, do well, and see these students succeed. |
| Real and perceived limitations on what can be said in class: policy, political correctness, and concerns about overstepping their position limit what a teacher can say in class. |
We recognize that this world is God's creation, and He is relevant to every discussion of every subject. While the task is to teach the subject material, we do so with humility and a deep understanding of Who authored "2+2=4". |
| Problems with authority and chain-of-command: in practice the teachers are ruled by headmasters and the editorial biases of the textbook publishers rather than the parents. |
In truth, the parents are responsible for their child's education, and we operate under the parents' authority. We're up front with our biases so a parent can decide if we're the type of people they want working on their behalf. |
| Lack of training: while many private school teachers are HIGHLY qualified, some schools are forced to place their teachers in classrooms based on course needs rather than teacher qualifications, and ongoing teacher training is rare. | We have earned California teaching certificates and have taught in the public school and homeschool environments (see About Us). Our credentials listed biology and related courses, health, and general science, and we have enough university education to tutor in physics, first-year chemistry, and math through algebra. |
| Lack of targeted teaching: classroom teachers are often forced to teach to the middle of the pack or to the calendar, when they would LOVE to work with the individual student. | We contact the teacher and find out what he or she would like us to emphasize: we're an advocate for the student with the teacher, and for the teacher with the student. |