Aristocare
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BeContented:
Lynn2010:
So he attended Clementi Town Pri from P1 to 3 and transferred to another Pri school. If ACS's records showed that he was not a student, that means, it must be his mother that told him the school he transferred to was ACS Barker.
Doesnt he have a PSLE cert? I thought the PSLE cert will show which Primary school one was from? Or perhaps his mother has kept it in the safe deposit box and refused to give him.
And if he claimed that he did relief teaching in ACS and the records showed otherwise. Perhaps there is some problems with the database. Or perhaps his name was \"Ong blah blah\" and after the feng shui master say he must change name, he changed to \"Kelvin Ong\" that's why no records of \"Kelvin Ong\". I'm sure ACS has at least a \"Ong\" in the entire school.
I'm just helping him to give excuses!!
Are you the mother?? :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao:
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MOE could have checked more thoroughly back in 2010 when they first checked on this centre
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BeContented:
Dont like that leh...... he must now be so stress \"bi chiak lo bang\"..... i help him mah..... :pokeeye:Lynn2010:
So he attended Clementi Town Pri from P1 to 3 and transferred to another Pri school. If ACS's records showed that he was not a student, that means, it must be his mother that told him the school he transferred to was ACS Barker.
Doesnt he have a PSLE cert? I thought the PSLE cert will show which Primary school one was from? Or perhaps his mother has kept it in the safe deposit box and refused to give him.
And if he claimed that he did relief teaching in ACS and the records showed otherwise. Perhaps there is some problems with the database. Or perhaps his name was \"Ong blah blah\" and after the feng shui master say he must change name, he changed to \"Kelvin Ong\" that's why no records of \"Kelvin Ong\". I'm sure ACS has at least a \"Ong\" in the entire school.
I'm just helping him to give excuses!!
Are you the mother?? :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: -
iLoveChubby:
Sounds to me he is telling one lie to cover another and I bet that includes the claims abt his mum saying he is from GEP.
If he is a man of integrity, the last thing he should do is to push all the responsibilities to his mother. What kind of man is this? -
Just read the ST report and went into the aristocare website.
The fees for GEP prep is $1050 for 4 lessons with additional $50 materials fees every 4 lessions and $200 annual registration fees.
Thats about $275 per 1.5 hours session, and almost $200 per hour for a group tuition. If he teaches 5 in a group, thats $1375 for just 1.5 hours of work.
Is this a record tution fee in S’pore for a P2-3 kid?
With his credentials in question, perhaps time for fee revision? -
Zeng:
Probably we'll see 2 reactions.Just read the ST report and went into the aristocare website.
The fees for GEP prep is $1050 for 4 lessons with additional $50 materials fees every 4 lessions and $200 annual registration fees.
Thats about $275 per 1.5 hours session, and almost $200 per hour for a group tuition. If he teaches 5 in a group, thats $1375 for just 1.5 hours of work.
Is this a record tution fee in S'pore for a P2-3 kid?
With his credentials in question, perhaps time for fee revision?
1. Those who swear by him &
2. those who withdraw & may even ask for refunds -
This is no different from those selling ordinary stones as "magic stones".
Wonder whether and when would police take action?
Do they need some victims to make a report first? -
\"Private tutor who charges high fees: I was in gifted education programme. MOE says : No He Wasn't.\" 29 July 2012, article by Jane Ng, Sunday Times
A private tutor charging high fees to help children get into the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) has been warned to stop telling lies about himself. Mr Kelvin Ong Wee Loong, 36, has longclaimed that he was admitted into the gifted programme as a child and went on to be a teacher in the programme as well.
Now the Education Ministry has refuted those claims, saying it has checked and found no record that he was ever a pupil or teacher in the programme. Nor is he even a qualified teacher. The ministry has told him to remove the lies from the website of his AristoCare centre, and he has complied.
Mr Ong, who handpicks children for his sessions and charges $1,000 for four lessons, had previously told The Sunday Times that he was in the gifted programme at Anglo-Chinese School (Primary). In media interviews as far back as 2007, he also said that he used to be a teacher in the programme.
The ministry decided to check after Mr Ong appeared in The Sunday Times on June 3 in a story about parents sending children for costly tuition to prepare them for the gifted programme selection tests. A ministry spokesman said: 'Based on MOE's records, Mr Kelvin Ong was neither a student in the GEP nor a GEP teacher. MOE has spoken to Mr Kelvin Ong on the matter, and warned him against making such false claims again.' It also checked but could not find any record of Mr Ong's teaching qualifications.
This is not the first time that the ministry has taken issue with Mr Ong.
In 2010, it was alerted to AristoCare's website after it advertised the sale of the 2009 GEP Screening and Selection Test papers. The ministry checked and found that those were not the actual papers. It subsequently alerted parents that there was a website giving the impression that it had past GEP papers for sale, but they were not genuine.
It is not known if he will face further action.
Asked what he had to say about the ministry's latest checks, Mr Ong told The Sunday Times it was his mother who had told him that he had been in the gifted programme.'I'm not very sure. According to my mum, I was from GEP. When MOE called me, I tried to check but couldn't because I don't have records from the past,' he said.
He said he attended Clementi Town Primary from Primary 1 to 3 before transferring to ACS (Primary) in Primary 4.The primary gifted programme starts at Primary 4, and ACS (Primary) is one of the schools offering it.
Mr Ong said he went on to ACS (Barker Road) and Anglo-Chinese Junior College, before studying mathematics at the National University of Singapore. As for being a teacher of gifted pupils, he now claims that he was a relief teacher for two years from 2002 to 2003 at ACS (Primary) and 'helped out' with the gifted classes.
But this has been disputed by the school. After checking the school records and speaking to long-time staff, ACS (Primary) vice-principal Grace Khoo told The Sunday Times: 'Kelvin Ong was not a pupil of ACS (Primary) - GEP or otherwise. Neither has he taught in the school (GEP or non-GEP).
'All the long-serving teachers in the school say there was never a Kelvin Ong who taught here as a relief teacher.'
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.
Mr Ong has cleaned up that bit of his website too. He also no longer claims to have been a teacher in the gifted programme.
'Please say that I'm a GEP trainer, not GEP teacher,' he said. -
It’s a pity. His book "Exam Smart - Maths methods" is quite good.
Or… perhaps… he paid someone to write & put his name -
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