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[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.

[Flowermonaster]

Liarliarpantsonfire:

Dear Moderator,


Please do not delete this thread. Enough Parents have been conned by this fraud. Please let the world know his name and face and let there be no more. Hope parents will now check all their tutor education certificates and back story before we entrust our children in their hands.

Just curious, are you a victim?

[fightingmom]

FYI


The moderator did not delete your earlier posts. They are merged into here:

http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=72&t=38592&start=20

The above thread was already created before you. Please post all comments there in future.

[auntieM]

.. ..amazing he can 'survive' so many years lying.. :mad:

[sleepy]

He's not that smart le. Why bother telling lies that can be easily found out?


That reporter is sharp. A quick check with ACS and MOE and he blew his cover :lightrod:

[onemore]

Surprise that this con artiste is still happily operating as usual….nothing wrong to be deceitful and cheats?? :mad:

[Zeng]

onemore:

Surprise that this con artiste is still happily operating as usual….nothing wrong to be deceitful and cheats?? :mad:

Whether he is providing value for the amount of money charged probably has to be determined by the parents who buy his services.

With questions raised on his integrity, one is not sure about the other claims made on the website (such as success rate, success stories etc)

For the benefit of many others, perhaps the reporter can investigate and others can help to verify (other than asking his mother??).

[tankee]

Zeng:

Whether he is providing value for the amount of money charged probably has to be determined by the parents who buy his services.

With questions raised on his integrity, one is not sure about the other claims made on the website (such as success rate, success stories etc)

For the benefit of many others, perhaps the reporter can investigate and others can help to verify (other than asking his mother??).

According to the Straits Times article

\"....The parents of at least two children have also asked him to remove from his website 'testimonials' purportedly coming from their children saying they had done well in the Maths Olympiad after attending his sessions, and would recommend others to join.The parents said their children never wrote any such thing.....\"

[Imami]

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:

:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:

[Zeng]

tankee:

Zeng:

Whether he is providing value for the amount of money charged probably has to be determined by the parents who buy his services.

With questions raised on his integrity, one is not sure about the other claims made on the website (such as success rate, success stories etc)

For the benefit of many others, perhaps the reporter can investigate and others can help to verify (other than asking his mother??).

According to the Straits Times article

\"....The parents of at least two children have also asked him to remove from his website 'testimonials' purportedly coming from their children saying they had done well in the Maths Olympiad after attending his sessions, and would recommend others to join.The parents said their children never wrote any such thing.....\"

From front page of website, 80% get into GEP, 50% topped their schools, and interestingly, they have Kenneth Ong and Brandon Ong quotes as MD of Aristocare and Director of Aristocare, perhaps the reporter should interview them, coincidentally both are also Ongs.