Real reason behind Singapore’s obsession with tuition

[Dreamaurora]

janet_lee88:

Dreamaurora:

My boy just turned 1 month old last week. Any idea what kind of tuition I can give to him now? I want him to has the best chance to be an ultra-mega-elite scholar in the future. :siam:

What about reading the ST to him?

Nah, ST is too easy, I plan to read to him Ulysses soon. :rubhands:

[buds]

I honestly won't mind if hubs wanna pay me specialist fee for all those enrichment lessons i've given my girls all these years...... :rubhands:


:rotflmao:

[Dreamaurora]

Funz:

Dreamaurora:

My boy just turned 1 month old last week. Any idea what kind of tuition I can give to him now? I want him to has the best chance to be an ultra-mega-elite scholar in the future. :siam:

Tuition to learn the diff between day and night. You know, at night mean sleeeeppp.

Learn time and intervals. 3hrs interval, cry to be fed only every 3hrly.

My boy already know how to use hand signals to indicate whether he wants breast milk or formula milk or want to be carried Good idea hor, if can have dog obedience course, why can't we have baby obedience course? :rubhands:

[Dreamaurora]

buds:

I honestly won't mind if hubs wanna pay me specialist fee for all those enrichment lessons i've given my girls all these years...... :rubhands:


:rotflmao:

Bring your DH to Chopard and give him the hint.

[buds]

Dreamaurora:

...... baby obedience course? :rubhands:

:rotflmao:

[buds]

Dreamaurora:

buds:

I honestly won't mind if hubs wanna pay me specialist fee for all those enrichment lessons i've given my girls all these years...... :rubhands:


:rotflmao:

Bring your DH to Chopard and give him the hint.

Yah.. back pay plus interest .... :idea:
Chopard here we come....

[jtoh]

Dreamaurora:

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"Dreamaurora\"]My boy just turned 1 month old last week. Any idea what kind of tuition I can give to him now? I want him to has the best chance to be an ultra-mega-elite scholar in the future. :siam:

What about reading the ST to him?

Nah, ST is too easy, I plan to read to him Ulysses soon. :rubhands:[/quote] Or Plato's The Republic?

[autumnbronze]

Dreamaurora:

janet_lee88:

[quote=\"Dreamaurora\"]My boy just turned 1 month old last week. Any idea what kind of tuition I can give to him now? I want him to has the best chance to be an ultra-mega-elite scholar in the future. :siam:

What about reading the ST to him?

Nah, ST is too easy, I plan to read to him Ulysses soon. :rubhands:[/quote]Waaaaaaaah u are ambitious!!!

I only started when DS1 was 3 :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[kitty2]

Imami:

janet_lee88:

I am disappointed, very disappointed that such vital info cannot be revealed.

Was told that heads will roll if compo marks are told.

Why would heads roll? Unless anyhow mark and Kenna discovered la... :siam:

May be never mark just scan through and grade :siam: It is very common that kids don't bring back their compo exam papers.I'm wondering whether the teachers mark them or just scan through and grade them.Alot of teachers dislike to mark compo as there're so many kids in a class.

[schweppes]

For whatever reasons we send our kids to tuition or enrichment centres, sometimes i think it boils down to survival. Be it to survive the system or to survive in society, we just want our kids to keep up with everybody else. True, there will always be some parents who want their kids to stay ahead of everybody else. But who are we to say otherwise?


Coz, we all know, that in Singapore, if we don't keep up, we lag behind and no one wants our kids to be left behind.

We compete for places - not just for P1 places in good primary schools, or Sec schools... but down the line in JCs and high demand courses in the polys and of course, a place in our local Unis. And when i say \"compete\", I don't even mean competing with foreign students (this is NOT meant to be another FT or govt bashing thread). As Uni places are limited, our kids will compete with each other's kids for places.

So, tuition becomes a need and want for many parents because they just want to help their kids to survive the system. Guess, call it what u will, be it kiasu, kiasi (or even kiabor... ), end of day, we just want the best for our children.

Which parent doesn't want their kids to enter the Unis and become a graduate, and be happy with their jobs and lives.

So... until that day comes, in the meantime, parents become desperate (some more desperate than others) to help the child survive the system.

Will having better textbooks, better trained quality teachers, holistic learning, smaller classroom size, et all make a positive difference? Definitely. Will it detract the need for tution? Doubt so.