School business. Good or Bad idea?

[chocolatedaddy]

Ok here is my idea. At every school there is a group of students who are the "best" in their respective fields.. E.g. Mr X always gets 100% for Maths tests. So if someone was to round up all the best students from each subject and get them to rust student-run classes of 20. Would you go to the classes at lunch-time /free periods/study periods for $1. I know I would go to a student run class to learn new stuff and get tips. What do you guys think? Any ideas/criticism welcome.

[Greatness]

I dont think it would be a good idea, mainly because these students would probably help you out for free and i believe that everyone has the right to education. Anyway if you're at school why not ask your teacher for help it is their job or alternatively become friends with these students and ask them questions on msn/fb etc

[Phy124]

Good intentions - don't think it would work

I'm not sure that Mr. X and co. would have time to be running tutoring services when they should/could be studying for themselves during study periods. Likewise, lunchtime and recess are the times that people usually try to socialise and take a break from studying, so I'm not sure they would want to take that time to be doing it. Additionally, I'm not sure that students would want to take the time out of their recess/lunchtime to be learning what they are take a break from.

Also, I noticed many of the high achieving students at my school were quite shy and probably wouldn't feel comfortable teaching a group consisting of 20+ fellow students (obviously not always the case)

With this being said, that doesn't mean it won't work... only one way to find out

[sodapop]

Ok here is my idea. At every school there is a group of students who are the "best" in their respective fields.. E.g. Mr X always gets 100% for Maths tests. So if someone was to round up all the best students from each subject and get them to rust student-run classes of 20. Would you go to the classes at lunch-time /free periods/study periods for $1. I know I would go to a student run class to learn new stuff and get tips. What do you guys think? Any ideas/criticism welcome.

That sounds like a great idea to me, I'd go if anybody at my school could be bothered making one LOL. The only problem I see is getting permission from your school. As far as I know, my school doesn't allow any "businesses" to run, but your school rules may differ, so I'd suggest checking with your teachers first. If the school doesn't, you could always just have a free study sesh. Personally, if you're only thinking of charging $1 per person, I would not bother charging at all. For the students running the classes, the opportunity to teach would already be highly beneficial in terms of allowing them to reinforce and extend their knowledge of the course, so there's the gain there already.
Just make it a free lunchtime group, and maybe that would encourage more students to come, and maybe some teachers would chip in with free lunctime sessions as well.
That's my two cents, but anyway, I think this is really innovative of you, I wish people at my school did it too.

[86]

Good intentions - don't think it would work

I'm not sure that Mr. X and co. would have time to be running tutoring services when they should/could be studying for themselves during study periods. Likewise, lunchtime and recess are the times that people usually try to socialise and take a break from studying, so I'm not sure they would want to take that time to be doing it. Additionally, I'm not sure that students would want to take the time out of their recess/lunchtime to be learning what they are take a break from.

Agreed - something like this would tip the work-life balance wildly. Everyone who's been through it knows well how stressful it can get, recess and lunch become much, much more important.

[chocolatedaddy]

Ok the sessions would have to be free I guess. I just thought that Mr X would like some compensation for the work he/she put in but I guess the best way to learn is to teach right?

[Special At Specialist]

At my school, some of our maths teachers run an after school maths thing for all students years 7-12. They put the years 7-9 in one room and the years 10-12 in another room. It's not a proper class or anything, you just sit in the room and do any work you choose and the teacher walks around and ask you if you need help with anything. They also supply us with big M milk and cookies which motivates people to show up

If you did it during school hours, it would probably be even more successful, since a lot of people can't be bothered arranging a different time to go home after school.

You should try it and see how it turns out. But make it free. No-one wants to pay to spend their lunchtime working and most students that excel at a certain subject kind of enjoy it. They wouldn't mind teaching it for free if it means helping out a fellow student and gaining popularity 

[taiga]

Thought about this before. It's sort of like tutes in Universities, some schools actually do it.

Problem is schools won't want to allow it because there will be some instances where students explain things better than teachers, and teachers reallllllllllllllyyyyyyyy don't like that. Not for the greater good I know, but that's how it works unfortunately.

[paulsterio]

I was gonna do one of these for Software Development, but even if all the SD students in my school attended, I still wouldn't have made substantial profits (this was last year btw)