Saturday, December 11, 2010

Does Your Kid Need Tuition?

Home tutor -

Gone are the days when devoted teachers taught within the class room and that was adequate for that pupils to prepare for examinations. If a kid had questions, the teacher would certainly spend more time clearing up those doubts in class or at home.

My better half often talks about her teacher. The teacher recognised my wife as an extra intelligent girl when she was just in primary school. He started giving her extra coaching and provided her with good books to read. After wards the teacher saw with it that she got a scholarship for even more studies from the Government. Such was the dedication with the teachers of those days.

Since a child gets admitted in to a school these days, parents start debating on if they should send the child for tuition or otherwise. After every test result, this problem raises its head. With promises of more effort in the child and the parents resolving to invest at least two hours daily with the child reviewing her or his class work and homework, the matter of tuition is shelved.

When the two parents are employed, an excellent chunk of money visits the tuition teacher of these child. Parents believe that they can't concentrate on their children's education from a tiring day at a cubicle.

An educated mother who opts to remain at home for the sake of your children tries to take on the role with the tuition teacher. But her classes result in arguments and tears and "You do not know anything!" comments from your child and finally mom gives up.

A teacher who can handle a category of 50 today is vulnerable to emotional blackmail by their smart kids in relation to studies. They extract promises from other parents of costly gifts and have them without themselves keeping the promise of scoring good marks. And they're having the cake and eating it too!

Once the parents finally realize that their very own kids are taking them for the ride, the search for a tutor starts. Sometimes, it is the other way round. On the parent-teacher meeting the teacher's suggestion that this child needs help lands the mother and father at the door of tuition classes. Value of ranks and the embarrassment in the parents flaunting the ranks of the children at social gatherings push the oldsters of average children in to the rank race. And also to achieve ranks tutors are looked for.

Parents feel that the tutors is capable of doing miracles so that the youngster can score the very best marks. They feel that academic intelligence can be purchased. Even when the child scores perfectly and doesn't need any extra coaching, they are pushed into tuitions only to go up by a few ranks.