After school programs have been a profitable enterprise in South Korea and China. I think they're still in the growth-phase in the United States with companies like Kumon, Eye Level, and Russian School of Mathematics. Competition to get kids to accel in school is high but it's also increasing the stress of these kids. Parents in South Korea, for example, have stated in numerous survey responses that they would delay having kids (among many things) because of the cost of after-school tuition.
It's a shame because education is viewed as that one normalizer which allows a child from a poor family to make it up to the top through hard work. Wealthy parents are simply gaming the system by putting kids through cram-schools and SAT programs which train you how to read between the lines and fill out Scantrons effectively.
Private tutoring is nothing new but now you're seeing tutoring becoming like a Subway's or a McDonalds franchise.
It's a shame because education is viewed as that one normalizer which allows a child from a poor family to make it up to the top through hard work. Wealthy parents are simply gaming the system by putting kids through cram-schools and SAT programs which train you how to read between the lines and fill out Scantrons effectively.
Private tutoring is nothing new but now you're seeing tutoring becoming like a Subway's or a McDonalds franchise.