Hazirliq is why 10th and 11th grade classrooms are almost always empty at my school. With the impending university exams after the completion of 11th grade, students who intend to go to college must go to private tutoring lessons in all of their subjects in order to pass.
This explanation is spot on. From mainstream education not being available any longer without supplemental education, dependency on private tutoring, its direct impact on citizenship and resulting socioeconomic divide, to teachers losing authority and feeling the need to supplement their meager public school teaching salaries, to nostalgia of the "good old Soviet days" and perhaps most striking of all--most people not recognizing this as injustice. This is how it works.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8Vx48KtnWI
That's really interesting, Peasey. So, if students begin to get private tutoring in the last years of school (10/11th grades), then is the teacher's prestige and authority maintained in the lower grades, or has that affected the overall system (as the video suggests)? Do you think this divide in students with/without private tutoring will continue to spread to the lower grades too, creating even more of a socioeconomic split in the education system? Miss you mang!
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