I am for tuition classes... but for those who need additional assistance, because in the limited class hours or school time, the students are not able to comprehend everything. And I think, the school itself should arrange these tuition classes - if at all they must. Because as a thumb rule, tuition classes are an open self-proclamation (by the school, its teachers, its management...) that it is incapable of teaching within the allocated time (school hours).
That said, I'm totally against tuition classes or extra classes for the brighter kids or those parents who wish to see that their children have the additional edge over their kids classmates or contemporaries. And I'm all the more against, tuition for such a group or individuals, being offered by the school itself!!!
Reasons:
- Such an arrangement is a declaration of discrimination, in favour of the already gifted and / those who can afford. As a person involved in deciding for such arrangements, I ask myself, why should only a section of students be given this extra help; why not all?
- It is also an acknowledgement that as a school, we are incompetent or unwilling to take the extra measure (which is very very minimal) to offer the students a little more than what is prescribed. In other words, we do not want to strain ourselves or give our very best to our wards.
- Every school is offering such additional classes or tutoring sessions is certainly no reason why we should follow the crowd. The same applies to the argument that even parents are asking for it.
- Another minor, but still important reason... why coop the children inside the classroom all day long?
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