How can students dodge the pitfalls of a flawed education system? Mark Lopez reports.”I don’t get paid for results.” This was the dismissive reply of a high-school English teacher to a request by a concerned student for extra analytical material.This was witnessed by a student of mine who was in that teacher’s class (but who had had the foresight to contract me as his private tutor from the commencement of the year).A typical lesson from this teacher involved him briefly talking to the clas…
