Verb conjugation of "débattre" in French

My wife an I have decided that as long as our children were small and would not have to go to school we need to take advantage of our freedom and travel as much as possible. Later this year we will go to Costa Rica.
Carl said that he would need a private tutor for his spoiled son. My opinion is that sometimes this is counter productive measure as it gives the pupil a feeling of being weaker then the others and may lead to discouragement.
Thanks for your help, I was on holidays in Galicia, it was just beautiful, I had a long weekend, and have taken off for a few days. And what did you do on last weekends? did you stay home?