Boleh-Land Story vol.1

Many students, in fact most of them, are attending tuition classes. The time they spend on tuition classes are way more than the time they have for leisure as well as other extra curricular activities!

I still remember when I was in Primary School. I attended tuition classes for Bahasa Malaysia, English Language, Mandarin, Mathematics. I have no time to play but my results for UPSR is superb!

I took up Malay, Mandarin, Maths (Additional Maths and Modern Maths), Physics tuition when I was in Secondary School. I remembered I asked my mom if she ever when for tuition classes when she was studying. She said, "No" and yet, she was the top student back then.

I wonder what happened? I was too busy going for tuition classes, I had no time to think.

When I was in college, I had no tuition at all. Why is that?

I read this article on TheStar Online today.

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Tuition raids affect students

PETALING JAYA: Public examinations are around the corner, but there will be added strain for many students nationwide when schools reopen this week because of the sudden closure of their tuition classes due to a clampdown.

Read more here... http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/8/26/nation/18700064&sec=nation
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I once thought that teachers that conduct tuition classes and earn big money doesnt really perform well in school as they are only getting "that much" of money from the Gov. Teachers that conduct tuition classes make big money. Yes, my tuition teacher changed his car once every 3 years. Believe it or not! How can one, that is depending on Gov's salary, get so much money to buy new car, if not because of extra tuition classes?

Why parents send their kids for tuition? That is helluva extra money to pay. I read this article today from TheStar Online too...

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Counting on the tutors

Is tuition a necessity? Is the hassle worth it?

“We don't want them to be left behind. Tuition helps,” she replies.

While many have criticised teachers for giving private tuition at the expense of their duties at school and for commercialising education, there are also many parents who depend on tutors for their children's grades.

Caroline Ong, who questions the competency, if not dedication, of some teachers in school, shares that her son’s teacher is incompetent.

“My son did not complete some exercises in his school workbook. I asked him why he did not ask his teacher for help and he replied that he did ask but the teacher said she didn't know how to do it either.

Read more here... http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2007/8/26/focus/18698628&sec=focus
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See? Caroline's son is not lazy. It's the son's teacher that is incompetent. A teacher that does not even know how to solve the student's problem? It's school work, not personal counselling?!

It's ok if you a family has only one child. It will be crazy if a family has 3 or more children studying at the same time. One family has to set aside a minimum of RM200 per month for a tuition fee of 3 children, for 3 subjects. Tuition fee can go as high as RM500 per month if more subjects are taken or personal tutoring is engaged.

Have you guys see the connection here?

a. Incompetence of a teacher will lead to parents sending their child(ren) for tuition classes.
b. Tuition classes needs money. Thus parents have to find ways to make more money.
c. When parents are busy looking for money to support their children's tuition fee, they have less time for family.
d. Children do not have time to play or learn other skills. Childhood wasted.
e. Children that have not much attention from parents will try to do things to get attention (drugs, gangsterism...)
f. Parents that cant find enough money to support the tuition fee will be frustrated and will be in bad temper.
g. Even if they are in good temper, they will have to withdraw their children from tuition and thus cause their children's results to be worsen
h. Children that has bad results will have low self esteem and thus making them anti social
i. This list can go on and on and on... never-ending consequences...

And who is the culprit here? Nope... the culprit is not the teachers. Yes, you got it right, it's the Government a.k.a. Education Ministry.

- MOE (Ministry of Education) did not allocate good salary for teachers thus causing good teachers to start tuition classes to make money.
- MOE hires stupid teachers and force parents of the innocent students to enrol them in tuition classes
- The education system, Examination Based System, is making every student and parent to fear that their examination results are bad and cannot enrol in any "good" universities
- And this list can also go on and on and on...

Point to ponder my dear friends... Have you ever heard of the children of our ministers that is in Local Universities? Even our very own ministers doubted their own... our country's... Education System.

Thanks for reading and Think Twice before you start to be proud of the Local Education Institution that you graduated from...