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Paranoid
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Although the topic seems to be suggestive of a disseration or a General paper essay of sort but don't worry it's not. I got the topic from one of my GP papers though. I'm just gonna share my own personal experience about whether children are growing up too quickly. You see, i have an elder sister and she has a son who's about to attend K1 next year. If you do the maths, you would probaly figure out that he's four this year. Is he growing up too quickly? I think so. My sister sends him for tuition classes that are meant to prepare him for K1 and he has spelling tests every week. It's just 3 words per test but i think that can be a tat too much for a kid that's supposed to be enjoying his childhood. The worst thing is not the test but the expectations parents have of their children just like the expectations of her child. She wants him to get full marks for his spelling. Sure, you may say that it is natural for parents to expect their child to do well but i still think it's putting too much pressure on the kid.
Her reasoning for what she is doing is basically just to prepare him for the future and that if he dosen't start now, then when? It's a question that we often cite to try to get proscastinators to start early. True it may be, but for children, can this hold? I don't know. My mum dosen't agree with my sister's style of preparing my nephew for the future. Ironically, my mum did that same thing to me. I was bulldozed with spelling a year before i started K1 and a lot of homework when i was in primary school. My tutor basically drove me crazy and of course she drove me so crazy that i got her to quit. I did something. Lol. Shhh... =P. Ever since then, i haven't really taken up tuition because i think it's a waste of time. I think, personally, very few people need tuition and for the majority of the people, it's a matter of attitude not ability.
Are parents to blame then for trying to bulldoze their children with homework? I think they are not the only party that should be blamed although they are usually the first to be criticized. Why can't entrepreneurs be the one to blame? Why not the tuition centres and tutors? As much as they are concerned about their living and work in the education industry, it is them that create this supply. It is with this supply that parents are able to send their children to these school although the reverse also applies i.e. there was a demand thus a supply. But if the supply never arose in the first place, it may not even be a problem today. Of course, that's not being very rational in practical terms because if there's an opportunity, the natural response would be to grab it and make the best of it. But being opportunistic may just be being selfish because these people fail to consider the larger picture, which is the wider implications. BUT THE WORLD IS NOT ALTRUISTIC.
Labels: Children, Growing, Quickly