Did you have tuition when you were younger? I had tuition when I was in Pri 3 to Pri4. Coz my mom took care of a pair of sisters attending the same school as me, I joined in the tuition class for free. To me, it was fun coz we did Maths sums in workbooks which I considered extra reading materials. and the tuition teacher was a very nice lady.
Fast forward to today. Yahoo users who answered the above question have the following responses in an article "Beware the education arms race" in Yahoo News:
- an ”education arms race” fuelled by anxious parents
- such classes were a “necessity” in today’s highly competitive school system
"Roughly half of the respondents believed private tuition was indispensable in getting an edge over other students."
From the article, I could see that most of the people who took the survey are parents. How do STUDENTS themselves feel about tuition?
Look back at the question again...the operative word is "Excel". Not "survive".
My friends in Singapore have these on their minds:
- Getting the kids to their school of choice (but closer friends are careful not to stress their younger kids too much, but to let them have fun)
- exposing their kids to Chinese coz they seldom speak Chinese at home
- sending kids for classes they like (like violin, piano, fencing, swimming, etc).
Kids like a lot of things, but do they have to go for all these extra classes. I have seen friends shouting at their son coz he didn't want to practice his piano violin for 10mins each instrument. Not stressful, just 10mins. Do all these extra classes allow the kids to have play time?
Why must children excel?
How about a survey for schooling children "What changes would you like so that you can ENJOY school?"
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