Top celebrity tutors may not be the answer
I am concerned about the trend of many secondary school students joining tutorial classes.
Senior form students join them because they are under pressure to do well in the Diploma of Secondary Education (DSE) exam, but they and their parents should think carefully and ask themselves if the classes will really help.
Some of these celebrity tutors are very expensive and there is no guarantee youngsters will achieve their intended goal of scoring high marks in exams. They spend a lot of time and money with no positive results.
They go to celebrity tutors because of their status, but what they are offering may not be what a particular student needs and is not getting at day school. It may be that a less fashionable tutorial school offers a better alternative.
Some students will attend a celebrity tutorial class and just play with their smartphones, but if they do this, they will not gain any advantages when they come to sit the DSE exam. At the end of the day, they will just have wasted thousands of dollars.
If more teens are joining tutorial classes, then we have to look at teachers in day schools and see if it is necessary to raise standards. Also, tutorial colleges should ban the practice of some teenagers queuing up late at night to sign on to the most popular classes.