Aristocare

[Lynn2010]

alng:

Lynn2010:

It's a pity. His book \"Exam Smart - Maths methods\" is quite good.


Or.... perhaps....... he paid someone to write & put his name

He can still write that book and be a very good teacher. One does not have to be a GEP student or/and GEP teacher to be a good teacher. But he chooses to lie. His lie will wipe out all his strengths....what's a waste! He has lied to charge high price...this tells a lot of his integrity!

Agree. You dont have to be a GEP student or GEP teacher to be a good teacher!!

Perhaps he's trying to be different, giving himself a unique \"branding\"

[jtoh]

He knows there are parents who’ll do anything to get their kids into GEP so he figures he can make a lot of money off them. If the parents weren’t that desperate, he would have no biz. Makes me wonder if Dr Peh is at fault for calling his tuition centre Dr Peh when he is just a Mr Peh. Hhmmm…

[Liarliarpantsonfire]

'Gifted' private tutor told by MOE to stop lying

AsiaOne
Sunday, Jul 29, 2012

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20120729-362053.html

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SINGAPORE - A private tutor claiming to be from the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) in order to charge high fees for his services has been warned by the Ministry of Education (MOE) to stop telling lies.

Mr Kelvin Ong Wee Loong, who is the owner of AristoCare centre and charges $1,000 for four lessons, also claimed that he went on to attend Anglo-Chinese Junior College and the National University of Singapore, before become a teacher in the GEP programme at his alma mater.

However, checks conducted by MOE revealed that Mr Ong was neither ever a pupil nor teacher in the programme. He is also not a qualified teacher.

Mr Ong was not even a pupil of ACS (Primary), further checks conducted by the school showed.

In response to the revelations, Mr Ong said it was his mother who told him that he was from the gifted programme and he could not verify it because he does not the records from the past.

He has since cleaned up his website and now claims that he was a relief teacher at ACS (Primary) from 2002 to 2003 and 'helped out' with the gifted classes.

However, this too is being disputed by the school, which said that a check with all its long-serving teachers revealed that there was never a Kelvin Ong who taught there as a relief teacher.

This is not the first time Mr Ong has faced allegations of misleading claims.

Two parents have asked him to remove positive testimonials supposedly written by their children, saying that their children never wrote them.

In 2010, Mr Ong also got into hot water with MOE for selling fake 2009 GEP Screening and Selection Test papers.

[Lynn2010]

jtoh:

He knows there are parents who'll do anything to get their kids into GEP so he figures he can make a lot of money off them. If the parents weren't that desperate, he would have no biz. Makes me wonder if Dr Peh is at fault for calling his tuition centre Dr Peh when he is just a Mr Peh. Hhmmm....

If only MOE banned all these GEP training centres and the parents just let the children be; if they are gifted, so are they and no need special training to be gifted.

This way, MOE will really get those really gifted ones and not those who are trained to be gifted......

[jtoh]

Lynn2010:

jtoh:

He knows there are parents who'll do anything to get their kids into GEP so he figures he can make a lot of money off them. If the parents weren't that desperate, he would have no biz. Makes me wonder if Dr Peh is at fault for calling his tuition centre Dr Peh when he is just a Mr Peh. Hhmmm....

If only MOE banned all these GEP training centres and the parents just let the children be; if they are gifted, so are they and no need special training to be gifted.

This way, MOE will really get those really gifted ones and not those who are trained to be gifted......

I agree. But if MOE bans them, they'll just go underground and the kiasu parents will all go underground to locate them too. When there's desperate demand, biz will find a way to fulfil that demand. Easy money.

[sleepy]

How do they actually ‘train’ the kids? IQ can’t be trained !


Actually, it’s cheaper to just send kids for IQ test than to pay such ridiculous high fees.

If found to be gifted through IQ test, then confirmed no need training.
If found to be not gifted, time to give up, no need to waste money on training either. 对吗?

[alng]

sleepy:

How do they actually 'train' the kids? IQ can't be trained !


Actually, it's cheaper to just send kids for IQ test than to pay such ridiculous high fees.

If found to be gifted through IQ test, then confirmed no need training.
If found to be not gifted, time to give up, no need to waste money on training either. 对吗?

But there are parents who cannot accept that their kids are not gifted, so if tested that their kids do not have high IQ, they will try their very best to increase their IQ.

[sleepy]

alng:

But there are parents who cannot accept that their kids are not gifted, so if tested that their kids do not have high IQ, they will try their very best to increase their IQ.

Oh, living in denial...

[Zeng]

His website states success rates of 100% and 80% for both stages of GEP screening/selection tests.


This is quite an astounding success figure. Not clear whether this refers to those who have 1 year of prep ($13k to $15K) or those who go for 2 day crash course ($1.6K). With this kind of odds, surely a number of people will buy into this.

[jtoh]

Zeng:

His website states success rates of 100% and 80% for both stages of GEP screening/selection tests.


This is quite an astounding success figure. Not clear whether this refers to those who have 1 year of prep ($13k to $15K) or those who go for 2 day crash course ($1.6K). With this kind of odds, surely a number of people will buy into this.

His figures are based on what his mother tells him lah. :rotflmao: