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    Tuition centers should not force parents to accept digital learning at full fees.

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      2eclipse
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      I think e-tuition should be fine for older students, those in secondary school and JC. However, tuition centres should at least provide basic services. They should print out and send the tuition notes to the student’s house by courier.


      Which tuition centre is professional enough to provide such a service during this period? Only Mind Stretcher?

      I heard some still charge full fee and expect parents to do all the printing.

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        12mum
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        Yes online lessons are more suitable for secondary and jc students and perhaps those who have better self disciplined primary students.


        Busy bees do print and send out materials. We also have a 15% discount for the 3rd term course.

        Of course there were some teething issues in the beginning like late arrival of materials, calls or emails were either unanswered or took a long time to reply but after a week or two, things have more or less settled down.

        Feedback from my child is lesson is still ok. Doesn’t make much of a difference to him between online and physical lesson but that’s only his opinion. Others might have other opinion. No right no wrong.

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          MerlionInGermany
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          2eclipse\" post_id=\"1980578\" time=\"1592016227\" user_id=\"185689:

          I think e-tuition should be fine for older students, those in secondary school and JC. However, tuition centres should at least provide basic services. They should print out and send the tuition notes to the student’s house by courier.

          Which tuition centre is professional enough to provide such a service during this period? Only Mind Stretcher?

          I heard some still charge full fee and expect parents to do all the printing.
          Many centers print and send by post or courier. Mind Stretcher is not the only one.

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            2eclipse
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            I heard from a colleague whose daughter goes to a relatively well-known but small scale tuition centre for IP science and Math tuition. Tuition starts at 10am but only receive the materials 30min before start of the tuition and expect students to have the notes printed.


            Maybe smaller scale tuition centres = lack of professionalism. The bigger players are probably more structured except the one at Novena.

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            • zac's mumZ Offline
              zac's mum
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              It doesn’t take 30min to print documents on a home printer.

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              • phtthpP Offline
                phtthp
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                besides Mindstretcher, Busybee, which are some tuition centre that send out worksheets to students, by post ? Thank you

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                • zac's mumZ Offline
                  zac's mum
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                  TLL has started mailing out worksheets fortnightly. And they have relented and moved to Zoom.

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                    2eclipse
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                    zac's mum\" post_id=\"1980706\" time=\"1592039103\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1980706 time=1592039103 user_id=53606]
                    It doesn’t take 30min to print documents on a home printer.[/quote]
                    To many parents, this is additional cost and not everyone have printers at home. If charged full tuition fee, I think tuition centres should be the one doing the printing and despatching the notes to students’ house.

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                      2eclipse\" post_id=\"1980733\" time=\"1592047419\" user_id=\"185689:

                      zac's mum\" post_id=\"1980706\" time=\"1592039103\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=1980706 time=1592039103 user_id=53606]It doesn’t take 30min to print documents on a home printer.
                      To many parents, this is additional cost and not everyone have printers at home. If charged full tuition fee, I think tuition centres should be the one doing the printing and despatching the notes to students’ house.[/quote]
                      Yes, if print out worksheets every week, black ink cartridge run out fast.

                      The more tuition subjects one attend, the more worksheets need to print out, faster the ink need to replenish.

                      On the other hand, tuition centre may not want to incur extra additional postage costs. That's why some centre asked parents to go down to centre, collect worksheets for students

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                        zac's mum
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                        Which centre still charging full fee?


                        Anyway, just my opinion. I have printer at home, I don’t mind printing even though money is indeed tight for my family right now. I am thinking of whoever is that pitiful staff who “needs” to report to work at the tuition center, just to print out stacks and stacks of worksheets to mail out. When govt tells us all to WFH unless absolutely necessary. Is printing documents for customers really essential that you need to risk catching Covid when commuting to work? :?

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