Tuition Nation by sarah an

Christine -- $1 billion spent on tuition in a year

ccst2025 — 2015-02-24 04:54:16 UTC

This is almost double the amount spent compared to a decade ago. This may result in poorer families. Parent may also be frustrated and stressed over making money.

Sarah

sarah_an_sivan1 — 2015-02-24 04:57:35 UTC

only 4 per cent of those in the lowest monthly household income bracket (S$4,000 — RM10,000 — and below)

enroll their kids for tuition

Nicole Teo

2015-03-01 07:32:56 UTC

Private tuition in singapore suggests that students cannot succeed without extra coaching outside school

Nicole Teo

2015-03-01 07:37:35 UTC

students who rely heavily on tuition may stop paying attention in class

Nicole Teo

2015-03-01 07:40:22 UTC

Students who go for tuition will get a "headstart" on learning new topics. This causes them to outshine others and may result in complacency

Nicole Teo

2015-03-01 07:42:23 UTC

Some tuition centres in singapore may not follow the MOE syllabus. Students may learn different things from there and would get confused when their school teacher and tutor tells them different things.

Nicole Teo

2015-03-01 07:46:43 UTC

A lot of money is spent on tuition. This will help in the country's economy

Nicole Teo

2015-03-01 07:47:56 UTC

As the amount of students who attend tuition lessons increases, the more "kia su" parents get.

Nicole Teo

2015-03-01 07:51:32 UTC

Tuition adds on to a students a student's workload, and this will result in more stress for the student.

Too much stress = high blood pressure & depression = may result in death

$1 billion spent on tuition in a year

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 14:30:55 UTC

More households also have sent their children for tuition with a rise of about 207,000 compared to a decade ago

$1 billion spent on tuition in a year

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 14:36:25 UTC

Tuition is now not only used to help students who are weak in certain subjects to enable them to be able to pass but has now become a necessity to be ahead of the rest.

$1 billion spent on tuition in a year

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 14:45:37 UTC

Parents have the 'kiasu' mentality that because everyone else has tuition, their children must also have it lest they lose out.

Christine -- Tuition is necessary

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 14:50:14 UTC

Parents' mentality is that the extra hours and greater individual attention provide students with a better edge in Singapore's competitive environment. Tuition has become especially important as the syllabus gets tougher.

Christine -- Tuition for toddlers

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 15:07:46 UTC

Half of the parents under the survey said that they would send their toddlers for tuition if they lagged behind.

Tuition for toddlers

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 15:11:10 UTC

Some of the parents even force their children to sit in for the lesson despite the fact that the children hate it

Tuition for toddlers

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 15:12:36 UTC

Some parents send their children for tuition as early as age 2 and tuition for toddlers has become increasingly popular over the pas few years as they advertise about the children having less stress in Primary 1 and would be able to cope better.

Tuition for toddlers

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 15:15:13 UTC

Even the school teachers pity the children for having tuition at such a young age

Tuition for toddlers

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 15:16:33 UTC

Some parents think that if they do not send their toddlers now, they might blame them if they do not do as well as their peers when they enter primary school

Polytechnic student goes for tuition

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 15:26:59 UTC

Some poly and universities think that this in unnecessary as they have their own programmes to help students who are lagging behind. However, this student feels more comfortable asking a tutor what he does not understand

Christine -- Parents go for tuition to help children

ccst2025 — 2015-03-02 15:40:20 UTC

Workshops are conducted to help parents to be able to solve their children's math sums and understand what they are going through. This has been a growing trend through the years.

Nicolle:)

2015-03-03 04:45:26 UTC

Many children in Singapore have many different tuitions which they attend and this increases their workload and makes these children more stressed and this is unhealthy for them.

Nicolle:)

2015-03-03 04:48:11 UTC

Some parents cannot afford to send their children for tuition as tuition now costs a lot of money and these parents may feel stressed or feel bad for their children who do not have a headstart or external help

Nicolle:)

2015-03-03 04:50:11 UTC

Initially, tuition was supposed to help children who were failing examinations to pass their examinations. However, now even those who are excelling in school attend tuition classes and thus school is extremely competitive and sometimes stressful.

Nicolle:)

2015-03-03 04:53:05 UTC

Tuition may be helpful to most children but sometimes, as tutors are not MOE teachers, what they teach may contradict what the child is learning in school and confuse the child.

Hannah -- Why is Singapore a tuition crazy nation?

hannahx — 2015-03-03 04:54:51 UTC

Parents in Singapore want to push their child beyond their means while other societies do not because they want to save face.They use their kids as trophies at family gatherings etc. Parents cannot accept the fact that some children become professors while others become cleaners.

Sarah (Tuition not necessary)

sarah_an_sivan1 — 2015-03-03 04:55:39 UTC

Tuition for children who are doing reasonably well is counter-productive, while weak students can get help through existing school programmes.

There are remedial and supplementary lessons in schools.

There are also comprehensive levelling-up programmes to ensure that students develop good foundations in English and mathematics.

Nicolle:)

2015-03-03 04:56:07 UTC

MOE schools may be short of teachers in future because tuition centres earn a lot of money and the pay is higher for tuition teachers and would attract teachers to tutor instead of teaching at a MOE school.

Nicolle:)

2015-03-03 04:59:13 UTC

Excessive tuition may cause stress to a child and the child would not be able to enjoy his or her childhood

Amount spent on tuition

sarah_an_sivan1 — 2015-03-03 05:02:43 UTC

Unsuitable ages for tuition

sarah_an_sivan1 — 2015-03-03 05:03:38 UTC

Is tuition necessary?

sarah_an_sivan1 — 2015-03-03 05:12:21 UTC

Christine -- Polytechnic student goes for tuition

ccst2025 — 2015-03-03 05:12:41 UTC

This student goes for tuition because he wants to score his first 'A' in poly

Effects of tuition

sarah_an_sivan1 — 2015-03-03 05:13:22 UTC

Parents

sarah_an_sivan1 — 2015-03-03 05:16:19 UTC

Nicolle:)

2015-03-03 05:23:30 UTC

Parents treasure their children so much and thus send them for many classes to help them. Some parents, however, do not understand how their children are feeling and think that what they are doing is really helping their child to learn.