VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi Education and Training Department
has applied drastic measures to prohibit official teachers to run after-school
hour extra classes. This has given more job opportunities to tutoring centers.
Nguyen Thi Hien, whose child goes
to the Yen Hoa Primary School in Cau Giay district in Hanoi, complained that
she has to move heaven and earth these days to look for a tutor for her child.
Previously, the boy went to the
extra class run by his teacher after the school hours. However, the class has
been closed following a decision by the city’s education department to tighten
the control over private tutoring classes.
While many other parents don’t
want to let their children to attend extra classes, because hard learning would
make students overloaded, Hien has been insisting that her child needs to be
tutored by someone.
“There are 60 students in a
class, which makes it unable for the teacher to take care for all. Therefore,
my child needs to attend extra classes, where he can ask the teacher about the
things he still doesn’t understand,” Hien explained.
Pham Hong, a parent in Dong Da
district in Hanoi, also said he is looking for a tutor for his son, a third
grader.
“Students nowadays have to
compete fiercely with each other for the seats at star schools. If your child
doesn’t attend extra classes to practice exercises, he would not be able to be
admitted to such schools,” Hong said.
Giving private tutoring after school
hours has been criticized as an “evil” in the society. In many cases, students
are forced to attend the classes run by their teachers, or they would get bad
marks for school works.
However, the decision by the
Hanoi education department to prohibit teachers to run their own extra classes
has not been applauded by Hanoi’s parents.
A woman whose son goes to the Den
Lu Primary School in Hoang Mai district, said students have real demand for
attending extra classes after school hours. She said the education department
needs to take action to control the private tutoring, but its latest decision
is not a perfect measure to settle the current problem.
She went on to say that it would
be better to apply technical solutions to ease wrongdoings instead of banning.
Tutoring centers prosper
Since teachers are not allowed to
run extra classes, students now go to tutoring centers which have been
mushrooming in Hanoi.
The tutors working for the
centers are mostly the university students, who give lessons after the school
hours to earn their living.
Thu Hien, who runs a tutoring
center on Chua Lang Street in Dong Da district, said that the center has
received more orders from parents recently. The requests from parents are
diversified: they need tutors not only for secondary or high school students,
but also for second or third graders as well.
“Since the demand is very high,
our tutors have a lot of jobs to take,” Hien said, adding that urbanites all
want their children to learn with tutors to improve their knowledge.
However, since the demand is too
high, the quality of tutors remains problematic. Tutoring centers now tend to
recruit workers in masses, without the requirements on the qualifications and
pedagogical degrees.
A student from the journalist
school said that she has found a part time job as a tutor from a center. “I was
told that I should introduce myself as a student of a pedagogical school, not
of the journalist school,” she said.
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