should there be a complete ban on private tutions for teachers already employed in the same institution?

Question

It has been found more often than not that Teachers who are supposed tto explain each and everything in the classroom do not do so and advise the students or their guardians to take private tutions for better performance. Is it not abusing his or her position? Moreover those students who do not take such tutions score less. The compensation asked for such (must voluntary service) is quite high

Answer 1

First , need for private tutions comes when
->teachers do not play their part well ,when they teach a particular subject in class room
->and when student doesn't listen to what taught in the class properly..
If both of this is prevented then there is no need for ban.......

IF they are not avoided,then there should be ban on private tutions which are taught especially by same teacher who teaches same subject in classroom..
because..
1) teacher may continue with same way that what she taught in class room,
2)teacher may reduce her teaching areas so that she may continue in her private tutions ,which affect the students not coming to the tutions
3)teacher may show partiality to student coming to their tutions

so,finally i say that there should be ban on private tutions which are taught by same teacher who teaches same subject in classroom..

Answer 2

Only the richer children who could afford private tutions could do well in the school system.
Private tutions should be banned. That way the rich and more influential parents would attempt to make the schools function better.


Other side:
Government systems do not work efficiently and private tutions work. Banning tutions is denying a right to education. Students should have a choice of school. Teachers should be more accountable. It should be possible for parent-teacher committees to fire teachers.

it was felt that it was not right for goverment school teachers to give tutions because of (i) conflict of interest with their regular clasroom teaching leading to possible compromise of quality of teaching in the classroom (ii) inequality of opportunity between poor and rich children (iii)they set up a vicious cycle in which it becomes profitable for the teachers to maintain a low standard in school so that the parallel system of tuitions survives.

It was felt that banning tutions given by regular school teachers may be a good idea. This does not apply to teachers not teaching in regular schaool. It may not be good to regulate it in such cases. Regulation may be in the form of a tax and laws which prevent a shool teacher from giving private tutions to the children who are in his/her class in regular school.

Answer 3

My contract states that I cannot charge my own students for tutoring. I am honestly surprised that other schools allow teachers to charge their own students.
But back to your question.....There is no way any teacher, or any human being for that matter, could explain 'each and everything in the classroom'. When you have a group or 32 people with IQ's ranging from under 90 to above 140, 'everything' is undefinable.
Also, whether they pay the teacher or another person, students that receive tutoring should be making higher test scores..or it would have been a waste of money.

Answer 4

Teaching is an honorable job..even if the teachers do their job sicerely he may not be able to impart the knowledge to everyone because
1. all students are not of same IQ level
2. in a class room teacher cannot show individual attention
3.so the weaker students suffer
So I with my teaching experience of twenty years feel complete ban on private tutions is not good ..bec a teacher understands her own students well.

Answer 5

No. Do not ban private tuition completely. If ineffective teaching is the problem, get rid of the teacher instead.

Private instruction is beneficial for some people. And the tutoring does not need to come from the teacher - any individual with a knack for that subject and the ability to help others understand it should be able to assist.

Answer 6

I fully agree with you. There are few teachers who did this not following the ethics of the profession. They have to do justice while in the classroom. There are instituitions which prohibit their teaching staff from taking tuitions to their own school students after school hours. This will to a large extent help the students. The teachers are compelled to teach properly in the class and no means for extra payment.

Answer 7

Yes it should be completely banned , but the institution analyse the results of the unit tests and select the students who require extra coaching or tuition for their better performance and arrange the teacher in the institution itself for the student for extra coaching with out any extra charge of money from parent which will discourage private tuition and will not make it a fashion in society.It will also reduce the tension and extra burden on students.

Answer 8

Typically, in Indian scenario there are 60/80 students per class. If we consider that teacher allots 1 min of separate explaination of the subject matter to every student in the class it would take him/her about 1-1&1/2 hour more for each topic. However, a teacher has only about 30-50 mins to complete 2/3 topics(at times even more if she has pressure to cover stipulated portion). Thus its imperative for a student to be attentive in the class and absorb as much as he/she can. Secondly, if a teacher tries to explain more by borrowing 5 mins from other teacher's time he/she is often turned down, as this exact problem is faced by other teachers too! Hence, teachers prefer teaching weak/interested students separately where he/she has enough time to explain and experiment with the topic. Students too, are fresh and in all ears as its not a typical tiresome and noisy school day! As she allots this extra time for her students, from her/his otherwise busy schedule and after lot of study and preparation, he/she charges extra for that. Such students score high in tests and parents often mis-interpret it as teacher's 'perverse ways of earning'. Parents in such cases should not be influenced by school's brand name and search only for those schools which allow only upto 25/30 students per class.
But your opinion is not completely baseless. Some teachers do resort to such ways when they are underpaid or sometimes not paid at all. Its interesting to note that while some teachers are truly underpaid, some only pretend to be so.
Teachers interested in 'extra earnings' advertise about their classes in school. They are reluctant to disclose sources or books they refer, threaten that they would fail students who dont support their earnings, etc.
Often have your child's doubts solved from them, even if teacher complains that your child is weak in studies. Ask them to correct loads of answer papers(you can set the question paper, if the teacher doesn't) if he/she doesn't seem to improve her teaching quality. If he/she doesn't comply with, this time, YOU will threaten him/her of discontiniung the tuitions or of bringing his/her teaching a bad name.

Answer 9

yes Certainly. It should be banned not only for teachers working in the same institutions but in all cases also. It would be preferable to categorise the learners as slow, medium and fast. Then devise mechanisms and methods to impart learning according to the categories. The method " Co operative learning ' may be adopted and the services of fast learners may be utilised to facilitate the slow learners.

Answer 10

Teachers should be the highest paid professionals in any country. Imagine if the teaching community dies, there will be no doctors, no engineers, no managers, no administrators, no leaders ! And yes, private coaching must be banned for regular teachers.