Readers’ Forum

All for tuition

Parents are now more worried about their children doing well or bad in exams. Almost all guardians want that their children should always excel others in classrooms and this is where private tuition has come to play even at the primary level of education, with students being coached privately before and after school hours without having the time to play around or even just sit idle. This has become more so after the introduction of the Primary Education Completion Exams. Children excelling others in classrooms, even at the primary level, has become something for parents to boast of. But the merit list has always been populated by all students but the one who tops and parents should also consider this. Primary education certainly has a role to play in making the nation educated but academic excellence, or the forced academic excellence for that matter, rarely continues throughout student life.

Hussain Zaman
Mirpur, Dhaka