The Tutoring Underground is primarily a school of the English language, though it offers classes in many subjects. All classes have a 7 person maximum. The Tutoring Underground's schedule is flexible; as the number of students increases, this may change. The rate is 20 dollars per hour. Classes are two hours long, with 15 minutes before and after class for arrival and departure. 

        When I first thought of opening a school, I went to Dr. Blanford Parker for advice.  He told me that the key to success as an educator is reverence for the subject at hand above all other earthly matters.  The focus of the educator must be absolute; every conversation, every anecdote should be a furtherance of the day's topic.  In this way, by putting the focus of the class upon the object of study rather than upon the one communicating the information, the attention of the class gravitates to its proper point.  Because the subject at hand for me always has been the English language, and because I saw no place with such a culture, I opened The Tutoring Underground in May 2009.  The Tutoring Underground is a school of the English language, though other subjects are taught there, and, as a school of the English language, it has a single, unifying objective: that all become skilled in English, giving them the tools with which they may think.  It is held to be self-evident that this is for the Good.

        The current scholastic structure focuses on the students within the system, and therefore divides the classes by the ages of the students.  The Tutoring Underground, with its myopic design, focuses solely on the student’s skill and knowledge.  This allows for the creation of a single, universally applicable curriculum for all those under its tutelage.  In this way, all students follow the same path toward the same goal individually, and this pace is far easier to track, adjust, and perfect.  In short, the English language program at The Tutoring Underground behaves as a perpetual English class, one that any and all may join at their convenience.  It is learning for its own sake.  Life is busy and complicated, and students need to be able to miss classes for weeks and come back without their having to play an impossible game of catch-up.

        Because it is impossible to be skilled with a language unless one is skilled with all of its facets, the English curriculum has six interacting and interlocking parts.  Each week, the students perform exercises in Reading, Essays, Grammar, Vocabulary, Poetry, and The Roots of the English Language.  Specifically, this means the student will read something at home and answer questions about it, write an essay in which he will prove his opinion using evidence, record one poem each week and play the recording for the class, study vocabulary and roots each day in preparation for a weekly quiz, and, finally, review grammar in preparation for yet another weekly quiz.

        This is not revolutionary change; no one is here attempting to reinvent the wheel.  This is the way language had been taught for ages; it is a testament to how far our education system has fallen that parents are surprised at a system that allows nothing to supplant the teaching of the subject.  The Tutoring Underground does not merely train for a standardized test or simply help a student through a difficult class, though it does do both; the goal is to create humans proficient in the English language.  Christopher Hitchens has said that what is most important in education is to teach how to think rather than what to think, and the thesis of The Tutoring Underground is that the surest path to this goal is a revival of the English language in our world.