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“We were invited. By your tutee, the most popular girl in our grade, no less.”

But every line tutor instructs tutee to repeat reveals a strange obsession with a toothy predator.

But, Mr. Duncan discovered, his tutee also was functionally illiterate.

Sometimes the tutoring can be reciprocal, with pupils alternating as tutor and tutee.

The 51-year-old Mr. Bernstein, clad in “Black Watch tartan slacks, a turtleneck shirt and a blue blazer,” was his eager tutee.