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How to handle nosy parents?

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Jasmine12 · 26/08/2015 14:33

My DS is starting year3 in september. He is quite advanced in Maths so we decided to get him a tutor to help reach his potential. Luckily, we found a local tutor who does group tuition - DS was assessed and we decided that he will attend classes with year4 students.

We are friends with a lot of other parents who have children of DS's age (from his nursery days, school friends etc). We meet parents at swimming lessons, football practice, birthday parties and social gathering (common friends, meet ups etc). This tuition thing will come up eventually and ppl will ask LOTs of questions. I find it very difficult to handle such situations, I am quite uncomfortable disuccing where DS is going / what he is doing. I dont want to explain to people why we have a tutor for a child who is already doing well. A lot of parents in that group send kids to Kumon, abacus, mental math lessons etc. I dont ask them questions. I dont want to know.

Can someone please suggest ways to manage nosy parents without being rude?

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longdiling · 08/09/2015 14:18

I can't get my head round how the conversation even starts. How do they even know he's being tutored? Do they just randomly ask? Surely if they ultimately ask who the tutor is you just say you don't think they have places?

I'm not getting this at all. Why are they asking? Why does it matter that they're asking?

Scobberlotcher · 08/09/2015 14:30

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Out2pasture · 10/09/2015 04:25

why not something in the lines of "my son really enjoys doing math so he is involved in a private math group, they work on equations just for the fun of it"

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