For the 2016-2017 school year, the National Honor Society has allotted a night every other week for all students to attend and receive tutoring. The tutors include NHS members and other staff members, so students can get assistance in almost any subject. The next tutoring night will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 9.

“The peer tutoring nights doesn’t have a limited number of tutors,” Katherine Perks, NHS president, said. “It’s a central place for people to get help.”

Unlike the library late nights, which has a rather limited number of tutors each night, the NHS tutoring nights allow students to come and leave at any time and receive help from a variety of competent people, which include NHS members who have taken the classes the students need help in. NHS members can receive a vast number of tutoring points by helping those who attend the event.

“Our main goal with the peer tutoring program is to utilize the large pool of fantastic honor society students at McNeil to help their peers with their coursework right before the end of each marking period,” Spence Blood, NHS Vice President of Tutoring said. “Since our program is entirely student-run, we try to make tutoring a much more approachable experience for students.”

The peer tutoring program gives students the opportunity to meet and receive help from their own peers instead of an adult. Moreover, the program concentrates on providing students the environment and resources that contribute to their learning. The event is rather casual and students can drop in without a time limit.

“We just tutored anyone who walked in,” Sarina Zhou, NHS senior, said. “There were a lot of kids, but there was always someone for each subject.”

The tutoring nights are generally planned for Wednesdays. The system gives students the freedom to choose who teaches them in their difficult classes.

“I really hope that the peer tutoring program evolves into a more well-known and frequently utilized resource for our student body,” Blood said. “It would be great if we could partner with various athletics teams to help struggling athletes so that we can ensure that they’re succeeding off the field just as much as they do on the field.”

The peer tutoring nights are not limited to just core subjects. The events can expand to other extracurricular activities as well.

“Overall, I think that this type of program has a lot of potential to benefit McNeil,” Blood said. “We need students and teachers to push it as much as possible.”