Extra teaching should not be banned .

                In Vietnam, teacher is not a well-paid job especially teachers at elementary or secondary schools. Moreover, teachers who teach "unnecessary" subjects like Geography, History or Biography might not earn extra money to meet their needs as ones of other “important” subjects do. Specifically, they might not take extra classes to have more money.  This leads to one issue that is received endless controversial about whether or not teachers should be allowed to teach students outside of classes. In my opinion, extra teaching is necessary for students to cope with enormous workloads and theories, even parts of them are impracticable.

                There are some reasons why there are some parents who disagree with extra classes? Firstly, with my own narrow knowledge about economy, “extra teaching” is so-called supply for the demand of students and their parents. Some who thought that “extra teaching” should be banned may look at my above argument in a reserve way which like “teachers are people who demand students who supply their money and time to show up at their classes”.

                What are the reasons lead to that perspective? Those may argue that the teachers impose unethical influences on students to come to class. These influences might be not conduct lectures fully in term of content, try to put too difficult questions in exam papers, etc. with the objective of making those poor students aware of the importance of attending extra classes. I have to admit that some teachers has applied those unethical strategies, but not all. Parents whose children are “victims” of those may make sweep statement that “extra teaching” is kind of the only way for their children to get through subjects. Moreover, there is also another part of parents who are subject to extra teaching -another way for teachers to make their living? The point in common of these parents is that their children are intelligent, hardworking and find no difficult to get through all the courses. Hence, those parents do not send their children to extra classes. So, what are the differences between students who join extra classes and who do not? They are marks and class performance. It sounds logical and common sense, does not it? However, it is not that simple. The point is students who attend extra classes perform better than ones who do not join extra classes but the reason is not rely on knowledge but in the way the teacher makes exam paper. Attend-extra-class-students take the better results because they are quite familiar with questions in the exam. This is unfair for students who do not attend extra classes.  Those teachers has damaged the positive side of extra teaching.

                So, why do I support extra teaching? Actually, my mother is a teacher and she also has students attending her extra classes. (You might think that this writing is bias because of my mother’s extra classes). When studying at high school, I had extra classes for four subjects which are Math, Chemistry, Physics and English. The reason was partly for  getting through the subjects and other part was preparing for the university exams. Many students might agree with me that without attending extra classes, high school students might not pass the university exams. The reason is not all about the students themselves. It is about the gap between what teachers are able to teach and the load of knowledge the exam papers requires.  Teachers cannot change the way they teach as they are not allowed. Therefore, extra class is the best solution for both teachers and students narrows the gap.

                The government has recently enforced the rule of banning teaching outside class with many unacceptable reasons. However, no matter how strong it is , extra teaching is still there because of the needs of students. The government should  manipulate and decrease the workloads in each grade to the level where students feel unnecessary to join extra class. That’s much better than banning. 

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