Real reason behind Singapore’s obsession with tuition

[limlim]

tuition_czar:

I don't think children will be addicted to tuition would they? Most of them at least. They would still rather have fun than study.

how abt the parents..?

if the poor kids are burnt out from the tuition and enrichment classes.. it certainty isn't healthy rite.. the parents got emotional distress if their kids didn't receive enrichment or tuition.. it's a bit like withdrawal symptoms from addiction.....

[SAHM_TAN]

The teachers don’t need to be depressed.


I will ask dd1 to ask in such cases to ask the teacher again and to tell her she didn’t understand the explanation, could she explain it in another way.

I don’t know if dd1 will have a chance to ask a 2nd time, I will have to wait and see.

[jedamum]

SAHM_TAN:

The teachers don't need to be depressed.


I will ask dd1 to ask in such cases to ask the teacher again and to tell her she didn't understand the explanation, could she explain it in another way.

I don't know if dd1 will have a chance to ask a 2nd time, I will have to wait and see.

We have always impressed upon my boy to approach the teacher to clarify his doubts. Then feedback we get from teacher is he should have been more attentive. So now kids r judged when they asked questions in class when they not sure huh?

[BeContented]

jedamum:

SAHM_TAN:

The teachers don't need to be depressed.


I will ask dd1 to ask in such cases to ask the teacher again and to tell her she didn't understand the explanation, could she explain it in another way.

I don't know if dd1 will have a chance to ask a 2nd time, I will have to wait and see.

We have always impressed upon my boy to approach the teacher to clarify his doubts. Then feedback we get from teacher is he should have been more attentive. So now kids r judged when they asked questions in class when they not sure huh?

This one.....teacher wrong.
Unless....the child was really found to be not paying attention?? :siam:

DD is 'chairman' of class .....so often like to 'report' to me who & who & who & who & who & who is talking, giggling, not paying attention, reading storybooks under table while teacher teaching, drawing, doing other work etc etc etc etc....until I she would stop. Then I realised.....what the heck is she doing while Teacher is teaching???

[jedamum]

BeContented:

jedamum:

[quote=\"SAHM_TAN\"]The teachers don't need to be depressed.


I will ask dd1 to ask in such cases to ask the teacher again and to tell her she didn't understand the explanation, could she explain it in another way.

I don't know if dd1 will have a chance to ask a 2nd time, I will have to wait and see.

We have always impressed upon my boy to approach the teacher to clarify his doubts. Then feedback we get from teacher is he should have been more attentive. So now kids r judged when they asked questions in class when they not sure huh?

This one.....teacher wrong.
Unless....the child was really found to be not paying attention?? :siam:

DD is 'chairman' of class .....so often like to 'report' to me who & who & who & who & who & who is talking, giggling, not paying attention, reading storybooks under table while teacher teaching, drawing, doing other work etc etc etc etc....until I she would stop. Then I realised.....what the heck is she doing while Teacher is teaching???[/quote]Kids who pay attention do not mean they understand what is taught or how to apply what is taught. Kids who know their work do not mean they pay attention in class too. Week after week, we have list of inquiries on stuff we revised through the week n who do we approach if we do not have tutor? Yes, we can approach teachers but after a few times n especially if teacher is busy, won't the teacher feel a bit irritated? It is not easy to catch a teacher's free time to go thru the doubts we need to clarify.

Luckily this day n age, can rely on helpful souls here at KSP.

my ds2 is like your dd! Feedback
from his teachers. then he said he is monitor n they not paying attention so he must report! N he insisted he knew what teacher was teaching.

[BeContented]

jedamum:

my ds2 is like your dd! Feedback
from his teachers. then he said he is monitor n they not paying attention so he must report! N he insisted he knew what teacher was teaching.

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: same with DD. DH was so worried that she become public enemy & asked me to 'teach' her dun be sooooo kapo, cannot be too strict, must give chance to her classmates. Cannot go round :pokeeye: .

[limlim]

jedamum:

We have always impressed upon my boy to approach the teacher to clarify his doubts. Then feedback we get from teacher is he should have been more attentive. So now kids r judged when they asked questions in class when they not sure huh?

my experience is a little different..

Sometimes, my kid may not catch what the teacher is saying due to weak foundation in English. So I told them to just raise hand to ask the teacher to repeat, or spell it out so that she can copy it down.

But the teacher sometimes just ignore their request.

So I told her, after class end, go and ask the teacher again. Just to take down what she said earlier. But she told me that once the bell ring the teacher run off very fast, that she didn't even get a chance to ask...............

[jedamum]

BeContented:

jedamum:

my ds2 is like your dd! Feedback
from his teachers. then he said he is monitor n they not paying attention so he must report! N he insisted he knew what teacher was teaching.

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: same with DD. DH was so worried that she become public enemy & asked me to 'teach' her dun be sooooo kapo, cannot be too strict, must give chance to her classmates. Cannot go round :pokeeye: .

Off topic, but a bit too late for my ds2-he already lost his best friend, he said.
He even tries to be judge when 2 sibligs were fighting over a paper plane n he didn't even know them! He was just a by stander!

[BeContented]

jedamum:

Off topic, but a bit too late for my ds2-he already lost his best friend, he said.
He even tries to be judge when 2 sibligs were fighting over a paper plane n he didn't even know them! He was just a by stander!

A chief justice in the making
DS used to do that......after years of lectures from us telling him to mind his own business.....he has mellowed. See how the 'values' we instil.....自扫门前霜. Sometimes also dunno what's right or wrong to teach ......

[tutormum]

BeContented:

Oh one more thing......I hear parents telling their kids with tuition.


Dunno never mind. Go home ask your tutor explain again. So cannot say teacher never teach, sometimes students also never bother to ask them to explain again.

Agreed. I have students who admitted that they don't pay attention in class cos they told me that they learn from me liao. I explain that they still have to pay attention cos I may have missed out certain points and their teachers may present a different perspective to the topic. Also, I have some students who 'challenge' their teachers cos 'my tutor taught me differently' :sick: :slapshead: Got to keep telling them 'pls don't quote me' and your teacher is going to be :imconstipated: if you make him/her :frustrated: