Does anyone have experience with tutoring or similar school intervention?  I don't know much about Oxford & Sylvan tutoring.  I have a bit of experience with a private tutor, but I'll say that I'm not blown away by it.  What options exist?  What works?  Anyone know of an "ON-switch" for my kid?

I recently heard a high school teacher tell his class that these high school years would be he happiest of t heir lives. I smiled. The class was less polite.

They aren't necessarily happy at all. but, it occured me they are perhaps the most intense years of our lives.