Why do parents let their children take extra classes?

For many reasons, parents, although sometimes frugal with their meager income, mostly have to send their children to extra classes.

It is a need due to many reasons.

Parents may send their children to extra classes as a way to feel secure when parents are too busy with work. It may be because their children come home from class and beg them to "let me go to extra classes". It may be because when parents look at their children's books, they see that they are still weak. It is also possible that some teachers "hold back" the lessons in class, teach half-heartedly and then force the children to take extra classes...

Following the press, the comments under each article or social networks, you will clearly see the myriad of extra classes and the thoughts of parents.

Parents waiting to pick up their children at tutoring and extra-curricular facilities. A common sight every evening in many provinces and cities.

But these stories, whether falling into this situation or that situation, are "as old as the earth". Regardless of the time, regime, or country, extra classes are a need. Without a specific format, but here and there, at this time and that time, in this form or that, it is still a common phenomenon of a society that values ​​education, and even if it is prohibited, it still takes place with the purpose of educating people and absorbing knowledge.

This explains why in recent days, many parents have been running around asking teachers about extra classes for their children, why many teachers have registered their businesses to teach extra classes or "attached" themselves to centers to teach extra classes... To the point that many newspapers have used the phrase "extra-curricular tutoring market" to stir up or describe the "restless" state from many sides: teachers, parents and especially students.

It is undeniable that the significance and efforts of educational administrators in arranging and managing Circular 29 were made, with the desire to create a healthy environment for education, eliminating the long-standing chaotic factors in the issue of extra teaching and learning.

But, if we look at it from the parents' perspective, the reactions of the parents are also something to ponder, with many aspects. Is it because the education reform program is too heavy, not suitable for the progress of society? Or is it because teachers have not met the desired requirements in terms of pedagogical training methods, about their lives being too narrow, about the way of seeing tutoring as an essential and humane need?...

And sad stories teach more, learn more from reality

I have a friend who has 3 children, the first 2 need to take extra science classes to prepare for exams, but the youngest daughter does not go to extra classes. Because of this little girl's story, she sometimes has a headache.

The thing is, when I was in 9th grade, every month I was invited by the subject teacher. Every time, my friend and her husband would dress up and show their papers at the supervisor's office and then wait. When they met, the teacher gave a chilling sentence: "This student is at risk of being expelled", followed by a long list of things like talking in class, not studying, or protesting to the teacher... Every time, my friend calmly explained to the teacher that it was because he was busy, that he wasn't diligent or still wanted to play... and then promised to cooperate with the education. After that, the child tried hard and passed 9th grade with heavy trauma that he only recounted later.

My friend said: "When I was in high school, my daughter suddenly showed me a bunch of photos from more than 3 years ago, showing dozens of her friends having to go to extra classes at that teacher's house after school in the evening. And she said that at that time, the teacher tried every way to force her to go to extra classes, but she refused, so that's why she forced her like that." My friend added: "She also repeated something she said that surprised me so much, that the teacher affirmed: 'If you pass the university entrance exam, I will go headfirst to the ground'!".

Luckily, the child entered high school safely. With his own efforts, even without taking extra classes, he passed the university entrance exam with a high score. However, the haunting story of "forced extra classes" in the 9th grade is still there.

Of course, when I heard my friend's story, I still believed and wanted to believe that it was just an isolated phenomenon, that only a minority of teachers behaved like that. But looking at my friend's joyful eyes at that time compared to his distant, sad eyes when he told me about his child's studies a few years ago, I thought of many things. How can we fix the situation of forced extra classes in schools?

Students leave school at a tutoring center in Ho Chi Minh City on February 19, when Circular 29 on tutoring comes into effect.

Solutions to rectify negative extra teaching and learning

Teachers' salaries have been gradually improved, especially in the public system, so the most important solution is that, for public schools, teachers who teach extra classes must register (with a list of reasons for teaching extra classes), and the management and handling of cases where teachers who teach extra classes show signs of distortion must be assigned to the school board. Of course, there must be sanctions for school leaders if negative situations occur in extra classes.

The same applies to private schools or private school systems, but there is an equally effective measure: if such a situation occurs three times, the operating license will be revoked (in the next most recent school year).

And third, for freelance teachers with a teaching degree, specializing in tutoring or tutoring for exams, they only need to register with the education department (or office) and notify their income along with receipts from parents. Set a monthly income level that must be taxed (it can be equal to the average income of a public school teacher).

Of course, to enhance management effectiveness, the inspection boards of the education sector (public inspection boards, private inspection boards and tutoring supervision units, including those in the education sector and tax, for freelance teachers) must be extremely close, strict and work impartially, with the high duties and responsibilities of those holding the scales of justice.

These solutions aim to help teachers with their vocation, not to be labeled as "tainted with money", which sometimes causes bias and deviation in the views and thinking of parents and society. That meaning, perhaps, has a positive and fair element, greater than a profession that is always respected and loved.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/vi-sao-phu-huynh-cho-con-hoc-them-185250221115920227.htm