My daughter is in the tenth standard. The pressure on her is ten times more than the pressure I experienced. Even about ten years back, attending coaching classes or going to tuitions was considered to be for weak students and those who were unable to cope. But now it is more of a necessity, which of course, is made to seem so by the parents. They think that it is good for the child to get all the extra help, to score more marks and get admission into prestigious colleges. But from the students' point of view, it is sheer stress and nothing else. The teachers at school often complain in PTA meetings that children are always sleepy in the classes after running to various tuition classes till late evening and then doing the school homework till very late in the night. Children are exhausted with 8 hours of classes at school and another 4-5 hours at tuition classes. They hardly ever relax or play games to de-stress.
I strongly feel that with few hours of rest after returning from school and studying for a couple of hours would be more beneficial than attending these extra classes. So I have not put my daughter in any extra class and she is absolutely fine with it. But I have to admit that I have started feeling left out in the conversations among parents which is, of course, centered around the analysis of various tuition centers and how the school doesn't care about this subject or that exam etc. Let me wait and see, how this no-extra-classes decision of mine and my daughter's helps her in the Board exam. But even if she scores an average percentage I can vouch for the fact that I will be a proud mother of a daughter who has done it all by herself.
2 comments:
Don't worry about not putting your daughter into tuitions. i think children can cope up with the pressure if the teaching and the guidance in the school is good. i still do believe that the tuitions are for students who are unable to cope.The best part of the parents is not to be anxious and take the things as they come!!
I too agree with you, in this aspect. These days schools also have changed the keep test every month and revision every now then.
I guess that is more than enough.
I have an example"In my neighbor hood there was a girl how wrote xth exams previous academic year, she had school from morning 8.30- 5.30 pm in the evening, she will go again for a coaching class by her teacher in @ home for Maths @ 6,00 pm , she will be back only by 9.00 pm in the night. After which she has to read other subjects and of course homework. Even on some Sunday's she used to go to school saying extra or coaching class. She never had holidays and study holidays. After her exams were over she said a word for which I felt bad(" They had torched me, if they had little relaxed I could have done better than what I performed in the exams).She had scored 85%.
Post a Comment