It is therefore important that the tutors live up to their commitment to the program. Metro Center Tutors work in teams, with school personnel, to establish tutoring and mentoring programs involving the provision of academic assistance and counseling to students. In some schools they have their own room and children are scheduled or drop by, in others, the Tutors assist in classrooms. Tutors typically work at the schools to which they are assigned 3-4 days a week for 4 hours a day. They help students with academic work, as well as with other issues and concerns.
Tutors attend staff meetings at the schools in which they work.
The schools may ask Tutors to focus their work on certain areas which they perceive as priorities. Tutors are allowed three sick days, and three additional absences per semester. Continued appointment during each semester, as well as receipt of their stipend, assumes satisfactory evaluation of their performance and attendance. Id. Tutors are required to punch time cards, and are entitled to lunch breaks when they work more than five hours on a given day. Tutors are responsible for being on time and prepared.