Parents, not enrichment centres, are key to result

[Chenonceau]

buds:

tankee:

[quote=\"zeemimi\"]

likely most of the 45 students have tuition. so big class size also nevermind.

maybe they have more than 1 teacher assistant assigned to that class? :scratchhead:

Close to the number of children my girls' classes have.

My DDs classes have over forty. Still one teacher.
VP answered me this when I raised concern over the big class size.

\"Which classes are they in?\"

Followed by...

\"Oh.. your children are in the better classes.\"
\"The teachers assigned to these classes and
the children themselves can cope. Better
classes can manage with bigger class size.\"[/quote]Tuition?

[Champion]

janet_lee88:

Hey Champion,
From all your posts, I feel your daughters are in good hands.

Son's teacher asked him whose method of solving a problem sum is easier...tutor or his. My son told him the tutor's method is easier...bcos he has been practising that method for a while. I fainted when son told me about it.

My point is, why couldn't his school allocate teachers who can teach at helpful strategies earlier instead of P6 ? If he had this teacher in P5, I wouldn't have to get him a tutor at all.

:thankyou: Janet for the encouragement :hugs:

Somehow, my DD1 is able to grasp and understand the tutor's method better

[janet88]

Chenonceau:

Tuition?

I strongly think so.

Erm...MOE, are you reading this ? Is it possible for kids to be able to cope on their own ?

[Champion]

janet_lee88:

Chenonceau:

Tuition?

I strongly think so.

Erm...MOE, are you reading this ? Is it possible for kids to be able to cope on their own ?

I asked my DD1,\" In your class of 40 students, who has NO tuition / enrichment?\" Her reply,\" Mummy, where got people don't have tuition de? All have lah and the top girl has 6 altogether!\" :yikes:

[janet88]

Hi Champion,

I have no idea how my son did for his Math paper yest…but when I asked if he could get the problem sums done, he said he could use tutor’s methods although some sums are very tough.
Felt a sense of relief hearing that.

[mamemo]

Maybe we should change the title to ‘tuition teachers, not school teachers are key to result’

[janet88]

mamemo:

Maybe we should change the title to 'tuition teachers, not school teachers are key to result'

Yes, I strongly agree with that.
My son was revising tutor's methods during his break yest...after Paper 1.

[Singfrench]

mamemo:

beanbear:

[quote=\"blessed777\"]
are they going to be dependent on tuitions too when thry r in secondary ? Isn't ability to learn independently is more important than scoring high.. :?

This dependence on tuition will extend even to University. I've read in the papers before that some students continue to ask their peers to give them tuition in university. I wonder how they'll be able to function when they go out to work after being so dependent on tuition all their

lives. They will be at work holding a crutch and looking for colleagues to give them answers.

hmmm, maybe those of us who encourage our kids to be independent will be doing our children a favour because surviving school exams is really a very small part of their lives. What kind of adults are we really developing our children into?

Boss say, \" do this\". The staff say, wait I go ask my tuition teacher.
End up, boss feel that foreigners can do the job more independently, end up the staff get the sack... Hmmm.... Does this link to no future for our kids ?[/quote]I agree with all of you.

My niece who's very creative, used to be from an international school in shanghai, was asked by her P4 classmate if she had ART tuition. At first, we thought it was funny that a child would ask her that. Then it dawned on us that it was not really funny but in fact very sad...these kids think that they cannot do well in anything without tuition.

Neither my daughter nor my niece have tuition (call us bad parents if you like). They are not topping their classes but they do generally well in school, bands 1 and 2. I have no doubt that if they were tutored more intensively they would do really well. But i feel that it would be a waste of their childhood and it would have a negative impact on their self-esteem and confidence if they were too assisted. Education cannot be about getting all straight A* at any cost.

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mamemo:

Maybe we should change the title to 'tuition teachers, not school teachers are key to result'

But a lot of these tution teachers used to be school teachers so why suddenly they know to teach hor?

[CayennePepper]

My ds1 is only in P3; maybe I’ll change my mind when he’s in higher primary, but no tuition for him yet. He did attend Berries in p1 but refused to go anymore in p2, and i was happy to save the $. I’m a very lax parent and leaves him to do hw on his own. I don’t teach ahead/coach either, cos i have two younger ones… No time, no energy!


I know that my son conscientiously pays attention in class and that’s about it. He flatly refused to work on exam papers, assessment books etc, and I don’t like shouting matches so I don’t insist. He plays a LOT, because he has so much free time after school, even with cca 3x a week (syf lah). So far… we got to attend the prize-giving ceremony for both years, so to me, it’s possible to do decently without external help, at the lower primary level.