Apparently asking for help doesn’t do much anymore.

Here at Cerritos there is the Academic Support Center and it has signs that claim that it has tutoring for any class that a student is taking during the semester.

However, that claim is totally misleading because the fact of the matter is that there isn’t tutoring for every class.

My mom, who is currently enrolled in a computer class, has been seeking help. When it came time for her to find help in the ASC for the class itself, she received an e-mail that read: “Unfortunately, there is no tutoring for that class. You will have to seek help from your professor at (so and so time).”

Don’t come up with the lame excuse of not having the ability to find tutors. I am not just blaming those who are tutors but those in the ASC. Why do you claim that you have tutors for all classes?

What really bothers me is that it’s not something that is enforced. Sure, there is tutoring for Spanish, English and Math but there should be tutoring for every class! When I say every class, I mean classes from A to Z.

We as students have been told that we come to school to get an education. But the faculty has forgotten one more thing: yes, students come to get an education but we are also coming to get help from others.

That’s why tutors and instructors are important to us; to you; to everyone who walks in a classroom. You can’t claim that you were a genius when you were born. Every single student, whether it has been in high school or in college, has looked toward getting help in any area of study.

If we were so smart, why bother to come to school anyway? We as students might as well stay home and not come.

The only thing that I ask is for help from someone who is willing to help another person out. Is that too much to ask? There are days that I myself have sought help and it is not so much that I was born a genius, because I have never claimed I am.

The help that I received in elementary and high school is starting to look better than in college. No wonder more than 900 students at Cerritos are on academic probation. Those more than 900 students are the ones who do need the help. And where is it? It’s nowhere to be found.

So, are people in the ASC listening to anything that I am saying? Help out the 900 students that are on academic probation, but more than anything, help out the students who are seeking to succeed in a class.

As a result, the only thing that will happen is that students will continuously fail class and will never leave Cerritos. So, do something about it.

If you don’t, then don’t create flyers that claim there are tutors for every class.