At PCS, tutorial happens twice a week, unless there is a change in the schedule. Tutorial was created in order to give students time at school to do homework or meet with teachers for individual tutoring . Yet this is not what is happening–at least among the upperclassmen.

Students are, routinely, signing out of their advisory class and then standing outside or sitting in cars to talk. Clusters of people can be seen in A-pod, study hall, or a classroom doing more socializing than work. While many students look forward to tutorial during school because it is their free time to work on homework or projects with other students and teachers, many other people look forward to the extra long break it creates.

Yet is this a bad thing? For the most part, the majority of people do spend their tutorial time wisely and the people who don’t still get their homework done. And this minority of people not doing work isn’t disturbing people who are getting work done. So long as students do get their work done, using tutorial time to socialize is not bad. It gives students more time to bond with their peers and time during school to relax before class starts.