Real reason behind Singapore’s obsession with tuition

[limlim]

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…?

[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tuition centres/ enrichment centres as competitors to MOE, and felt the centres are doing a better job, I would have withdrawn my kids from MOE, state homeschool as reason, and just send them to study at such centre.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.

[verykiasu2010]

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…

[verykiasu2010]

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tuition centres/ enrichment centres as competitors to MOE, and felt the centres are doing a better job, I would have withdrawn my kids from MOE, state homeschool as reason, and just send them to study at such centre.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

[SAHM_TAN]

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.

[verykiasu2010]

tuition_czar:

verykiasu2010:

[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tuition centres/ enrichment centres as competitors to MOE, and felt the centres are doing a better job, I would have withdrawn my kids from MOE, state homeschool as reason, and just send them to study at such centre.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

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 technology

[SAHM_TAN]

Kids need to be taught abt the social skills in the virtual world too.

[verykiasu2010]

SAHM_TAN:

Kids need to be taught abt the social skills in the virtual world too.

good point

the problem is, in a virtual world, all manners are lost and virtually non-existent ......

[SAHM_TAN]

That’s not going to stop me from trying to make sure that my kids behave well in the virtual world.


A person must always be responsible for his/her words and action whether it’s seen by a thousand or none.

[limlim]

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.

All along, the context of my comments is the detrimental effects on MOE schools if teaching staff are allow to moonlight and teach at private establishments.

The competition for resources with regards to manpower and expertise/skills.

And you bough in your views on consumers

which is totally irrelevant to the context of my posts.

MOE enjoy monopoly for consumers.

But it doesn't mean it is immune to resource drain. And it could end up providing lower quality education to it's \"customers\".. while having the monopoly.

it should put a stop to by by disallowing any of it's employees from moonlighting, to maintain the quality of education it provides to it's customers. It is obligated to provide quality education as a national duty.