Tuition seen as 'necessity' for students to do well
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Tuition used to be seen as extra help for struggling students, but is increasingly being viewed as a necessity for students to do well in school - further fuelling demand for it here.
Parents and tuition centres said that the extra hours and greater individual attention in smaller classes in the tuition centres provide students with a greater edge in Singapore's competitive education system.
These have become especially important as the school syllabus has become increasingly challenging, they said.
At a youth dialogue about a week ago, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned against the reliance on tuition, saying: "We are doing too much tuition in Singapore."
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Tuition is for those kids who don't pay attention in class, don't do their homework, and are too shy or stupid to ask the teacher for help. Tuition more or less offers the same thing in school, but with less disruptions and forced studying at an unreasonable price
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yeah...but tuition also kind of gives the chamce to revise chapters and get more thorough with them. they also give you shotcuts ...so why not...
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Tuition ensures our A1 is secured well. Somemore some teachers can't control the class or can't teach well. So, saying tuition is a necessity is not an extreme view.
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In a place like Singapore where things are competitive I guess it's needed unfortunately