Giving back to the community is the best way to describe the tutoring I did at Bessemer City Middle School. Bessemer City Middle is a school in a lower socioeconomic area and most of the students are from families who fall below the poverty line. I helped the students during the school day, but homework wasn’t the only thing we worked on. The tutoring sessions were also mentoring sessions, so I served not only as a tutor, but also as a mentor to the students. Once or twice a week I would meet with students who needed extra help in school. Tutoring made a definite change in the grades in the students I worked with, furthermore being a mentor to the students changed their attitudes toward not only the subject but school. The students I helped
