An educator accuses students of promoting the phenomenon

Discounts and offers for “private lessons” during exams

The current period is witnessing a great deal of activity for the “private tutoring” phenomenon, due to the exams at the end of the current academic year that students perform in the current period, and therefore the arts of attracting students to private lessons abound, whether with offers, discounts, free classes, or price reductions, especially for lessons via the “online”. , which amount to five dirhams an hour, and teachers use stationery offices to promote them.

Parents of students stressed that they are obliged to search for teachers to help their children in their lessons, especially during the examination period, and to raise the psychological pressure that students suffer during exams, in addition to the low prices of “remote” lessons.

While an educator emphasized that the phenomenon of private lessons is a scourge, the families of students contributed to its strengthening, because every parent of a student sees that it raises his son’s educational level better, calling for the need to rely on the school for education.

In detail, "Emirates Today" monitored publicity methods to promote private lessons, through stationery libraries, determine a free quota, and reduce the prices of the quota, and a doctor published on the “Group” for private lessons an advertisement to provide French language teaching services “online”, in exchange for five dirhams per share.

Its announcement was well received by the members of the "group", when it justified the reduction in price that it aims to help people with limited income, while a person commented that he had actually contacted the owner of the advertisement, and was surprised that the session did not exceed 10 minutes, and then the watch amounted to 30 dirhams.

An Arabic language teacher published that she has nine years of teaching experience, and can provide private tutoring services for 20 dirhams per class, and a third wrote that he is an English language teacher to establish children “online,” eight classes at 100 dirhams per month.

In contact with one of the advertising owners, who published an advertisement for private lessons in the Arabic language, 12 classes at 250 dirhams per month, she said that she is a university graduate, specializing in the Arabic language, and does not work, and does private lessons in the first classes, via the Internet, to help her husband with the costs of life.

She stated that the class includes three or four students, and the class extends to an hour, noting that the first class is allocated free of charge, so that the student knows how to explain it, and decides whether to continue lessons or not.

"Emirates Today" has monitored stationery libraries that attach advertisements to teachers who want to teach students, whether face-to-face or "online", at their entrance, and the students' families can communicate with the teacher, or ask the stationery employee to contact the teacher and specify with him the price of the quota and the teaching mechanism.

On the other hand, parents of students see that there are multiple reasons for resorting to private lessons, as it has become a necessary matter, to raise the burden of following up their children academically, and to help them study and prepare, especially during exams.

Fatima Jamal, the mother of three students in the second episode, said that there is no difference between virtual private lessons and distance learning, as the benefit in both cases is few, and that she relies on an “online” teacher to help her children, explaining that many families are going through a difficult period in Follow the lessons of her children, and therefore she is looking for solutions to support them in their lessons.

Othman Ismail, the father of a student, stated that he uses a private tutoring teacher who comes home daily to teach his son in high school, especially as he was finally convinced that receiving private lessons remotely is not useful for students, and receiving lessons face to face is more useful.

Sabah Khaled, the mother of a student, believes that many reasons prompted families to search for a private tutor for their children, the most important of which is the attempt to provide greater benefit to students, because educating children is the only investment for them, in addition to the fact that the teacher is more familiar with the curricula, and the private lesson also contributes to Raising the psychological pressure on the student during the examination period.

For her part, the assistant principal of a school, who preferred not to be named, stated that teachers are obligated to work with their students outside official working hours, to provide the required academic assistance to them, in addition to that schools are obligated to develop the necessary programs to support students and obtain the assistance they need, to achieve educational outcomes. required.

She added that "private tutoring" is a scourge, which the students' families contributed to strengthening, because the students' families see that it contributes to raising the level of the student, calling for the need to reduce this phenomenon, and to rely on the school for education, as the tutoring teacher may not be a specialist, which opens the door Giving students false information.

• Parents who resort to “private lessons” in order to relieve the psychological pressure on their children.

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