It may be the end of the year but this is the time when 'tuition-hunting' is the norm. For the fear that there may not be places left, the mad scramble begins right after the public exams such as UPSR and PMR.
The popular tuitions would be fully booked even before school closes for the year...and mind you, these are for next year's. Tuition centres have their own jump start programmes. Form 4 students start their Form Five syllabus right after their final year exam. Then a month break in December. In January they resume. For other new registrations, some parents spend a small fortune registering their children at multiple tuition centers for the fear that their children may not get a place or that the kids may change their minds.
Then they have also the remedial tuition classes; the target is mainly those who did not do well (and kiasu also) in the final year exams, mainly the Form 4s. They are called intensive classes. These tuitions try to cram in work for the last one year in one or two months.
Tuition is a very lucrative business these days. Charging between RM60 - RM100 for 4 lessons, they cram in the whole year's work. So who needs school when you have such fantastic arrangements? Can skip school and still can catch up via such classes. Many seem to think that their children won't make it without attending such classes. And kids probably think...."nah! don't have to worry. Got tuition to back me up, woh?"
So are the tuitions making our kids any smarter? I dunno. Maybe, though I tend to think that if a particular tuition is good then all the students who go there will be acing their exams. But kids who go for tuitions also fall into the bell shaped curve. Are the tuitions good for our children? Again I dunno. All I can say is, with so many tuitions to attend, surely something must give. Some kids attend as many as 8 tuitions per week. Some kids attend tuitions from 5 p.m. to 10.00 p.m.....with a one hour dinner break presumably.
Parents busy...kids busy....now end of the year also filled with tuitions? Kids cannot work hard on their own? They need to be spoonfed for the rest of their lives??? If this is not a crazy existence, then what is.
BTW, who says teaching is not lucrative? If you build up a good name, the sky's the limit. Take out the calculators and go tekan-tekan and see...RM100...100 students per class. If you have 3 classes... of course you have to work hard-lah. So, for those who are still thinking of a career.... consider teaching. Got long holidays at the end of the year! (6 weeks at least) LOL!
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Well, tuitions are unecessary IF the teachers in school are doing a good job.
And I think that seems to be the main problem. For me at least.
Not saying all teachers are incompetent, I mean, my parents are teachers too, but a big chunk of em out there just cannot make it making tuition a necessity.
Not blaming the students....whole system sucks, yah? A lot of trade-offs. At the end of the day... everyone of us loses something.
do you send your children to tuition classes??? ;)
My teenage boy goes for one 2 tuitions...Bible Knowledge and Accounts, both of which he's taking as extra subjects; his school package does not include them. Other subjects, he makes do with what the teacher teaches at school as well as help from a teacher friend occasionally. So, I guess he qualifies as no goin for tuitions. We try to encourage him to learn on his own and so far, it's been encouraging. So, he actually has quite a bit of time at home.
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