There's a new girl at my school. My friends and I let her sit at our lunch table, and talk to her and such. She told me about how she doesn't understand parts of speech, like AT ALL. She doesn't know what a verb is, or an adverb, etc. She failed a test for grammar, so I offered to help her. She then decided to have me tutor her at recess (yes, our middle school has recess). Thinking it was a one day thing, I agreed, but now I'm stuck talking to her and helping her EVERY DAY. She won't play volleyball with our other friends because she's not good at it. The thing is, recess was my time to read and be alone for a half hour, and when she's talking to me, I don't get that time. I really don't have much after school time, I don't want to get up early, and my patience is running out. Also, she has me help her in gym class instead of doing nothing and she's ALWAYS asking me for help. I'm just not good at telling people no, especially her, since she's being so polite. What do I do? BTW sorry this was so long
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It is very kind of you to help her, you are to be commended for that. I can understand how you would feel that it is getting to be too much for you, and I also understand wanting to set healthy boundaries for yourself.
Is it posible that this young lady struggles to make friends and is using the tutoring as a way to be part of your group? My advice would be to offer to go with her to ask a teacher for some extra help with her work and let her know that she is welcome to sit with you at lunch to hang out.
