I ever have a Teacher advising me to arrange Tuition for my kid
??!!??!!
I did not ask the teacher, but inside my head, "then what are
you doing?" ; "why do I need to get a tutor to do your
job".
It's not the fault of the teacher, it's the fault of the
education system.
When I was an MOE teacher, I once did suggest
to a parent that she find tuition for her daughter (who was
lagging behind her classmates) as an option. The parent
reacted angrily, as you (StriveOn) did. But what the parent failed
to understand, is that teachers are themselves the
exploited victims of the MOE education system, and that in
today's MOE education system, teachers are unable to focus on
teaching, but are instead burdened with non-teaching duties.
Every year, many of the best teachers leave MOE, because we
realize we can focus better on teaching, and therefore help
students more effectively, as tuition teachers rather
than as MOE teachers.
The shortcomings of the MOE education system (rather than the
individual teachers) are why good tuition teachers or
tutors, are arguably fulfilling an important and
necessary service to Singapore society. Do not blame the
tutors or the teachers, but the MOE education system.
