For students who participate in the program, the dropout rate is significantly reduced. Out of 100 tutors, one dropped out. Tutors earn better grades. Better attitudes toward school, greater commitment to classwork and closer relationships with others were measured through the Quality of School Life Scale, an instrument developed by Johns Hopkins University. Attitudes, too, were signifiantly more positive for students who participated in the program.
Tutors show up for school.
Many students in schools today don t have anybody asking about them when they don t show up. Tutors develop an expanded vision of life. They see themselves in relationship to their surroundings in a different way. Tutors who participated in the program began talking about what they would be, what career they wanted. Many of them, not surprisingly, wanted to be teachers.