The issue of Tuition classes has been quite a a talking point among the public as well as in the media for some time now and I thought that I should air a few of my thoughts and my own analysis regarding this from a purely student’s point of view which fortunately or unfortunately I seem to posses as a 17 year-old just after his Local Sinhalese, English mix O/Ls.

One of the main reasons behind writing this is that most, if not all, of the literature concerning this issue has been created by journalists and other professionals who were educated way before the “Tuition Revolution”.

The following are just some of the demographics involved and an attempt to analyze how they contributed to TR.

Tuition Teachers

The tuition teachers themselves are one segment to be discussed under this issue. Most of the teachers who conduct tuition classes have now officially created an industry for themselves through effective marketing and publicity, etc. Brainwashing too comes into play here. Yep. A Maths Tuition master whose O/L classes I attended kept on telling us that the teachers we get at school are too old for teaching and that most of them memorize the lesson the day before and teach us the next day. How one memorizes a Math lesson is beyond me but this Master kept on harping on it and no matter what our own personal views were, some of the students in the class started to actually hate their school teacher and never took notice of her during school hours. These tactics are very unethical in nature but in the absence of any regulating body for these classes anything whatsoever can be said and done during tuition classes.

So we can definitely agree on the fact that around 90 percent of tuition teachers have capitalized on the boom of the industry and have quickly adapted at increasing the numbers of students in their classes.

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