1,001 reasons to send your child to extra classes

If you don't study more, you won't feel secure.

Ms. Huong registered her daughter for extra classes for a simple reason - she could not leave work at 4 p.m. to pick her up. "I don't expect my child to learn anything new in extra classes, but at least she can draw, color, write dictation... I have a safe and useful place to leave my child while waiting for me to get off work. It's better than letting my child sit around with her phone or watch TV all day, and I can't finish my work for the day," said this parent.

Waiting to pick up my child from school at the tutoring center on Trieu Quang Phuc Street, District 5 (HCMC)

Sending their children to extra classes to have a place to leave them after school is one of the common reasons for parents in big cities today, especially those families who do not live with grandparents or other relatives. Many other parents choose to register their children for all extra classes, from Vietnamese, math, English..., even though their children are only in elementary school. A parent with a child in elementary school, living in Nha Be District

(HCMC), said: "My child only studies 3 afternoons a week, much less than other families. Many families have children studying 5 days a week, and on Saturday and Sunday mornings they also go to English, piano, drawing, and swimming classes. Seeing other people's children studying while my child just stays home and plays makes me feel uneasy."

Notably, contrary to what people think about only public school students taking extra classes, students at non-public schools, including international schools, still take extra classes. A parent whose child attends an international school in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, said that every month he has to spend tens of millions of VND for his child to take extra Vietnamese classes to speak and write fluently in his mother tongue, learn mental math, learn Japanese, Spanish, etc.

IS THE PRIMARY SCHOOL PROGRAM HEAVY?

A teacher who has been in the education sector for more than 10 years, is working as a homeroom teacher at a primary school in Ho Chi Minh City and does not participate in extra teaching, pointed out the reasons why parents let their children in primary school "run around" to take extra classes. In addition to not having a place to send their children after school hours, it is also the disease of achievement. Many families do not accept their children getting a 7 in this subject, an 8 in that subject, but must be perfect, every subject must have a 10. Parents put pressure on themselves when they look at each other, seeing that everyone is taking extra classes, and their children are "noticed" by the teacher if they do not study. Another reason comes from the disease of achievement from the teachers themselves. At the end of the school year, any homeroom teacher whose students have to retake the test will have their competition points reduced, affecting their classification, some will be "impatient" so they have a way to urge parents to let their children take extra classes...

Students were picked up by their parents at noon on August 25, at a tutoring center in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City.

"The 2018 General Education Program is within the students' ability to absorb. As long as they study hard in class, complete learning tasks, review and evaluate students' assessments, it is not difficult to be assessed as "passing", this teacher frankly said.

Le Hoang, a former student of Phu Nhuan High School, one of the two valedictorians of the D01 group in Ho Chi Minh City with 27.85 points; the runner-up of the D07 group in Ho Chi Minh City with 29.1 points; with a math score of 9.8 - the highest math score nationwide in the 2024 high school graduation exam, said that in addition to taking extra English classes at the center, he studied at home throughout his primary and secondary school years, and only started taking extra classes to focus on preparing for university in grade 10. "The friends around me took extra classes very hard. But in my opinion, during primary and secondary school years, it was completely possible to learn by yourself through textbooks, review materials, and ask teachers and friends," said the valedictorian of the D01 group in Ho Chi Minh City.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/1001-ly-do-de-cho-con-di-hoc-them-185240825233035216.htm