After it was limited to providing private lessons for students, the task of the private teacher has expanded to become "providing comprehensive educational services", which includes solving homework and implementing projects assigned to students.
Teachers offer their services for 150 dirhams, provided that the time of one class does not exceed two hours.
He told parents of students in government schools, especially «Emirates Today», that they use private teachers to solve school assignments and prepare student projects assigned to their children while they are in school, in order to maintain a balance in their social relationships, and allow their children enough time to practice their hobbies, asking school administrations that Emphasizes solving assignments and implementing projects before the school bell rings.
Others emphasized that they are the ones who undertake the implementation of these projects, and their children do not interfere in them, pointing out that students are not actually benefiting from the assignments.
For its part, the Ministry of Education confirmed that the only place to implement student activities is the classroom, stressing that no project outside the school will be implemented.
In detail, the father of a fifth-grade student, Abdullah Al Shamsi, said that "student assignments and projects are troublesome for families, because teachers are trying to link the student to the subject of the lesson by asking him to solve questions and implement projects while he is at home."
He continued that «the official authorities take decisions to reduce the students’ need for a private teacher, but the intensity of school assignments makes the need for it urgent.
He added that parents are surprised by assigning their children a huge amount of tasks, “which forces many of them to re-explain the lesson to their children, or complete what they missed from explaining the teacher while they were in the classroom.”
Al Shamsi stressed that “the intensity of school assignments for students led me to agree with a private teacher, because my son will not be able to implement everything that is required of him alone, especially since I and my wife are employees, and there is not enough time for us to continue his lessons.” He pointed out that “the private teacher solves the duties within two hours For 150 dirhams. ”
To the same opinion, the mother of a sixth-grade student, Leila Al-Saeedi, went on to confirm that she agreed to "this deal" after she was surprised by the number of lessons required of her to review with her daughter.
She explained, "I am an employee who spends many hours in my work, and I cannot continue my daughter's lessons, or re-explain the lessons to her, so I enlisted the help of a private teacher to perform this task, so that my daughter's attainment level does not decrease," and she said that agreeing with the private teacher is the only solution, If the school administration does not realize the "absurdity" of student projects.
The mother of two students in the third and seventh grades, Hala Hussam, stated that the school’s assignments in student assignments and projects are “exaggerated” and “there is no benefit from most of them”, explaining that “the student who spent a long school day will not have the energy until he enters (night school) At home, to do so many duties. ”
She added that «the intensity of the duties leaves a kind of social distress, in addition to its health consequences for the student, as a result of not practicing games and hobbies that he loves, which results in problems such as obesity, and the social relations are affected negatively due to the lack of exchange visits with relatives and friends.
The mother of a fourth-grade student, Khadija Ibrahim, demanded that "the time for review and the dissolution of homework for students at home not exceed 60 minutes per day, a maximum, and it is preferable that this period be for review only", adding that "the student arrives at his family's home from school, after four in the afternoon, Loaded with duties and projects that take him more than four or five hours, and the result is that he will not be able to continue to bear and store information for more than 12 hours a day ».
"What does a mother who has four or five children do at different educational levels, and each of them has a duty or project?" Certainly, you will not be able to follow all of them while performing this amount of duties, and then the mother will implement projects on them and write the duties. ”
For its part, the Ministry of Education stressed the need to implement student activities inside the classroom, and not to convert them into extracurricular activities, stressing not to implement any projects outside the school.
extra time
A school principal, who preferred not to be named, said that student assignments and projects are necessary for the student, because “the percentage of what a distinguished student benefits from explaining the teacher in the classroom is 80%. Hence, it needs additional time to achieve greater benefit, and collect more information, and here comes the role of homework. ”He called on the students’ families to provide an opportunity for their children to implement student projects themselves, and to play the role of supervisor or observer only, so that they benefit from the project that they implement in practice. .
"Education":
"The only place to carry out student activities is the classroom."
150
Dirhams for school fees, provided that the class time does not exceed two hours.