Members of the "NBK" suggested confronting it by increasing teachers' salaries and allocating low-priced reinforcement groups

Private tutoring drives “dependency” generations who are alienated from schools

• Members of the Federal National Council have proposed increasing teachers' salaries and allocating low-priced tutoring packages.

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• The school curricula in the country are well developed, and there is no urgent need to resort to private lessons.

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“Private tutoring” is an old, renewed issue that haunts every home throughout the school year, and its frequency increases with the approach of all exams.

Parents who complain about the growth of the phenomenon and its damages, and at the same time accept it and push their children and push their children to receive it from private teachers, forced under pressures of anxiety about the children’s future and the level of their academic achievement, and to get the highest grades, at the same time parents are forced to resort to a private teacher to reduce the educational level of their children, Although they attend private schools that charge annual fees of tens of thousands of dirhams.

How long will this phenomenon continue?.. The question was posed by "Emirates Today" to school principals, who acknowledged the dissatisfaction of parents with the level of support provided by the school and the level of poor achievement, stressing that these lessons may cause a decline in students' levels, especially among unreliable teachers. with their efficiency.

They emphasized that the solution is to return to school, enhance classroom learning skills, provide equal learning opportunities for all students, and that the school monitor the actual progress levels of the applied remedial programs.

On the other hand, members of the Federal National Council suggested confronting “private tutoring” by increasing teachers’ salaries and allocating low-priced tutoring groups, stressing that private tutoring removes “dependency” generations that are alienated from schools.

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Members of the Federal National Council have unanimously agreed on the importance of not obligating children to take private lessons, especially students who attend schools with a long school day, stressing that forced private tutoring creates dependent generations, and affects the absorptive capacities, and the psychological state of students with what may reach them. To the point of hating education and schools, they identified four practical proposals to confront this phenomenon, most notably taking measures aimed at increasing the salaries of private school teachers, and directing schools to allocate “low-priced” school reinforcement groups for students who complain of shortcomings in study materials.

The Second Vice-President of the Federal National Council, Naama Abdullah Al-Sharhan, confirmed that the phenomenon of private tutoring among students has many negatives that outweigh the expected positives, most notably that it instills unkind qualities among most students, such as dependency and the inability to focus and exert effort during school lessons.

Al-Sharhan said: "Apart from the fact that I see private home lessons as not scientifically feasible because of my long experience in the educational field, but unfortunately they represent a societal phenomenon that cannot be overlooked, and today it has become a source of livelihood for many individuals who are not even sure that parents are real teachers or That this teacher has the experience and the ability to communicate information to students or not,” stressing that the private tutoring market includes a large group of people who are not qualified to teach, mainly from inside and outside the country.

She added: "With the passage of time, the phenomenon of private lessons has become more like a fait accompli. Talking about their problems has taken a different direction. Instead of monitoring their educational and behavioral effects on students and teachers, the worrying matter for parents has become the exaggerated prices of these lessons, which have become time-controlled, meaning that An hour has an amount and two hours is another amount, and it has become a business to raise money, costing parents additional sums because the children are in private schools that charge large amounts of money.”

Al-Sharhan pointed out that the societal response to the phenomenon of private lessons starts from the home and parents, who should not obligate their children to obtain them, since obligating them to obtain these lessons after the school day affects their absorptive capacities and their psychological conditions, which may reach them to the point of hating education and schools.

This was supported by a member of the Federal National Council, Obaid Khalfan Al-Ghoul Al-Salami, saying: “Most students do not have any time for private lessons, and therefore the insistence on them by parents in this case has an adverse effect on the student, because the ability to absorb students who They spend so long in school that it is impossible.”

He added: "Whoever thinks that private lessons will raise the educational level of the student is delusional, because it pushes the student to rely on others, which is something that will remain with him in the future, and there are parents who resort to giving their children private lessons only with the aim of the teacher completing homework and homework for them, in addition to The school curricula and the educational system in the country are highly developed, and therefore there is no urgent need to resort to private lessons.”

For her part, the Rapporteur of the Committee on Education, Culture, Youth, Sports and Media Affairs in the Federal National Council, Shatha Saeed Al-Naqbi, stated that despite the fact that the law prohibits private lessons and all forms of “prayer lessons” in homes, private places and education centers, many parents consider these Lessons are necessary and in the interest of the student and parents, especially those who are not familiar with the curricula and find it difficult to help their children, stressing that these lessons affect the student’s personality, thinking style, and his ability to research and innovate.

She said: "Private tutoring is a financially stressful phenomenon, and represents a burden on the family budget that is difficult to overlook. It has become a parallel educational system that shuns development, modernization and creativity, and instills the values ​​of negativity and dependence among students."

Al-Naqbi called on the Ministry of Education to exert more effort in cooperation with the concerned authorities in order to change the society’s culture regarding private lessons, by adopting four main practical proposals, foremost of which is working to increase the salaries of teachers who work for private schools in line with their profession and importance, as well as The economic conditions prevailing globally, stressing that this matter greatly helps to restore the leading role of the teacher within the school.

She stated that the four proposals also include the necessity of agreeing with all private schools to organize reinforcement groups for students in various subjects with not exaggerated fees, in addition to paying attention to teacher training and developing their skills, and reducing the non-teaching burdens imposed on the teacher to allow him to teach better.

She pointed out that the school teacher's giving of private lessons affects the educational process itself and has negative effects on it, and affects his position and prestige in the community and in the school because it affects his leadership role.

New market for private lessons

A member of the Federal National Council, Obaid Khalfan Al-Ghoul Al-Salami, pointed to the emergence of a new market for private lessons controlled by individuals from outside the country, and achieved great popularity before the start of the final exams for classes as a season, explaining that many parents resort to people who claim to be teachers from countries Various, Arab and foreign, promote themselves with advertisements on social media, that they are education experts in all subjects and for all classes, and are fully aware and experienced with the state's curricula, and they provide educational services at reduced amounts.

Obaid Al-Salami: "Whoever thinks that private lessons will raise the educational level of the student is more important because it pushes the student to rely on others."

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