Real reason behind Singapore’s obsession with tuition
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SAHM_TAN:
How to judge that the std of teachers have dropped?
when the percentage of students having tuition increases.. (not 100% on teachers only, but relative mis-match between tested and taught.. MOE share part of the liability as they set the papers)
when you see more news of hidden cameras is school toilets.. -
I don’t view tuition/enrichment centres as competitors to MOE. Parents send their kids to tuition centre for a variety of reasons. Some parents have a choice.
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it’s like saying food court is not competitor to hawker centers…
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And the cook who learnt all his skills at the hawker stall has no conflict of interest to the hawker center when he moonlight or jump ship to the food court…?
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If I view tuition centres/ enrichment centres as competitors to MOE, and felt the centres are doing a better job, I would have withdrawn my kids from MOE, state homeschool as reason, and just send them to study at such centre. But I’m not doing that.
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you have a choice between hawker centre or food court or restaurant
you have no choice for primary school in s’pore, parents not sending their kids to school will be jailed, by law. not everyone will be approved for home schooling… -
SAHM_TAN:
If I view tuition centres/ enrichment centres as competitors to MOE, and felt the centres are doing a better job, I would have withdrawn my kids from MOE, state homeschool as reason, and just send them to study at such centre. But I'm not doing that.
part of the schooling process is learning to be a social being and how to relate with others / peers / authorities (teachers), doing and compete in group activities and sports - this is difficult to replicate in home school -
I’m not discussing abt home schooling. I’m only using it as an example as a reason as a way to withdraw my kids.
Relating and respecting others is not about schooling experience. If such values are not taught at home, no amount of school time will have an impact. -
tuition_czar:
With the advent of online gaming, smart phones, iPads, FB and Twitter......(list goes on), whatever real world socializing skills a child picks up in his early years, will eventually be decimated by the strong tentacles of virtual reality.[/quote]the curse of technologyverykiasu2010:
[quote=\"SAHM_TAN\"]If I view tuition centres/ enrichment centres as competitors to MOE, and felt the centres are doing a better job, I would have withdrawn my kids from MOE, state homeschool as reason, and just send them to study at such centre. But I'm not doing that.
part of the schooling process is learning to be a social being and how to relate with others / peers / authorities (teachers), doing and compete in group activities and sports - this is difficult to replicate in home school -
Kids need to be taught abt the social skills in the virtual world too.
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