Tuition System - A BOON or A BANE...!!
There have always been 3 types of students in the Education
system –
- The crème genius lot
- The average students
- The weak students
A few decades back “The Tuition System” had altogether a different
perspective. It was never a thing to be proud of. Infact, it was the thing to
be ashamed of. The crème and the average students always paid attention well in
the class and could cope up with the syllabus well. But since for the weak
student s it was difficult to cope up with the syllabus by just studying in the
school so it was mandatory for them to have extra coaching and thereby they
were being sent to private tuitions. The school teachers have always been
completing the syllabus in the school from that very time so that all could
benefit. But only those who could not cope up with the syllabus required an
extra dose of teaching.
However, these days the entire concept of “The Tuition
System”has changed. An entire new psyche has developed for this system. It has
just become a “Trend” in the fabric of education system.
More than education, The private tuitions are being used as
the ‘Status Symbol’. The system has rather lost its track and the actual values
and purpose has been lost. This system has become almost madness, a disease.
These days every child good, bad or very weak all resort to tuition, in almost
every subject. Infact, the heights is that the tuitions are being kept in languages
also which is a shameful gesture. English is an International language must be
known by the kid. Hindi being the National Language should also be well-taught.
And the third one is the mother tongue which each child speaks in his/her own
family for which tuitions are in vain. But still just because few other kids of
the same class are going, parents send their child too. So it turns outta be
never-ending cycle.
Let the subjects be aside, tuitions are being encouraged
irrespective of the age. I mean I myself being a school teacher I too had got
offers to take tuitions of students studying in Jr. Kg. and Sr. Kg. I mean what
the heck are the parents upto? And what
do this kiddos have in their curriculum? Sleeping line, standing line, slanting
lines, alphabets and numbers and colors, may be a few words and sentences. For
that, you require a tuition. And the parents actually beseeched me and were
ready to pay any amount of money for that. Although they were not ashamed of
what they were asking for but I myself felt ashamed coz I found it Hogwash.
And what’s the reason behind it??? U ask and they will not
take an iota of second to blame it on school teachers that the quality of
teachers is not the same any more. Teachers don’t teach properly and so on. And all this is utter flimflam.
I being a school teacher know zillions of teachers and have
worked with all reputed schools. It’s the fundamental duty or an oath of a
teacher to complete the syllabus and teach in such a way that a child develops
cognitively and every teacher does it to the core in her way. They are not
appointed just in any haphazard way.
Because they have it in them, so they are there.
So its not at all about the teachers. Its either about the
kids who are not able to cope up or its about the parents. Fathers have always
been working few decades back and even now too and its not gonna change coz that’s
what they are meant too. But housewives, they send their kids to tuitions coz
they want to sleep in afternoon, they want to attend kitty parties, they want
to gossip over phone calls and most importantly they want to see their daily
soaps. If “Anandi” (balika vadhu fame) was allowed to study, you could have
seen the happiness on these ladies’ faces. But when its about their own kid,
tuition teachers will do the needful. Howeva, there are exceptions of some working
women but they are expected to balance their personal and professional life and
take interest in the child’s academic progress too. Its highly shameful that a
child is being sent to ‘n’ number of tuitions just so that u have ur own leisure
time.
Parents don’t understand that its not we teachers who are at
loss, its they and their kids who are at loss. We teachers get our salary in
school also and if we do tuitions we are gonna earn from that too. But think
about the kids. They get exhausted at the end of the day when they reach home
after being thrown from one tuition to another. And think about the abundance
of money that u r throwing out impulsively in vain in the form of tuition fees.
The parents are restricting the cognitive development of
their kids by encouraging the tuition system since a child becomes used to
spoon-feeding. Moreover, a child’s
psychology is – In school thinks, if I don’t pay attention its ok because the
tuition teacher will teach it and at tuition , the child thinks school teacher
will teach. So ultimately the child gets distracted and doesn’t grasp as per
his/her true caliber.
Instead, encourage and inculcate the attentiveness and
concentration power in the kids so that they pay sufficient attention in the
class itself and grasp every single word of the teacher in the class-room.
These days there are various activities n teaching aids used in the smart
schools here and there. May it be audio-visual
technique or labeling or smart boards. The child can learn the best if
knows how to make use of every resource and pays active attention.
Howeva, I don’t blame only parents or kids. Even for few
Non-smart schools or inactive teachers, there is an urgent need to inject life
into dull classroom teaching before schools become a grotesque appendage to the
educational system. Once this is done, there will be no need for the student to
be tutored. If some of them still need it for one reason or the other, there is
a huge army of unemployed graduates and post-graduates who can take care of
them. This will not only enable the unemployed to earn a living but also
supplement what has already been taught in classrooms.
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The law has also been defined which says “Private tuition
imparted by serving teachers is a serious educational malpractice which deserves
outright condemnation by all the right-thinking individuals, most of all by
serious academicians”. Hence, being one educator I feel it would be good if the
other educators too discourage the tuition systems and infact create a better
classroom so that students don’t get diverted to this total “waste-of-time and
money” system.
Its lyk U are married to ur husband/wife just for the
permanent security else you can go ahead with ‘n’ number of extra-marital
affairs. Is that acceptable in the
society?? Same is the case with this too. U are committed to a school just for
the certificate and gradecard that u get, else you can go ahead with ‘n’ number
of tuitions. Can this be acceptable..
The parents and the teachers should together contribute to
discourage the tuition system and actively participate in the Cognitive
Development of the kids…!! That’s what I feel.
TUITION SYSTEMS ARE NOT A BOON FOR ME- THEY ARE BANE...!!
TUITION SYSTEMS ARE NOT A BOON FOR ME- THEY ARE BANE...!!
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