Tuition - Necessity vs Need vs Want

Tuition is a not necessaity
A teacher should be one that makes himself progressively unnecessary to their students by empowering them with the proper thinking tools and techniques.  Many of our past PSLE students told us that they are performing well independently in secondary Math as the techniques taught by our teachers remained applicable and useful.

Tuition is a need for those needing help
Tuition should be for those who are clear in what they are lacking and having the need to seek help in filling the gap. 

Tuition as a want
Most people want perfect score.  Excellence is an attitude.  Is excellence a skill?  Yes!  Through mastery, a skill is developed and excellent performance becomes possible.

We have school top scorers attending lessons at our centre.  These students are eager to learn and willing to master effective techniques that help them perform even better.  These are the students that possess the right attitude, as such whichever tuition centre they attend they would be among the school top scorers nevertheless.

It is known from newspapers reports that some premium enrichment centres require students to perform well on a test for entrance qualification into the centre.  This move assured the centre with continuous pool of good quality students and top scorers adding on to their impressive track record.
This is indeed a good business model.  However, our mission at Scharff-VIP is to coach all students, regardless of past grades, to better performance.

Almost every year, we have parents that feedback that our centre's approach of teaching is meant for only good students.  Most of these parents chose to leave our centre with the common reason that their children were unable to follow the lesson.  Often than not, thoe were the parents that our teachers have already been updating periodically about their child's unsatisfactory homework delivery.  Root causes for such cases are mainly :-
1. Student's unwillingness / laziness to follow-up with the concept taught within the 1 to 2 days following the lesson ,
and / or
2.  Parent's high expectations of improvements within 1-2 terms.

Teachers are responsible for teaching, but they cannot learn for the student.    It is important that students have to take charge of the own learning.

You see, this is how unintentionally, Darwin's natural selection has come into force at Scharff-VIP.  Students with good learning attitude achieving good results academically stayed on, while students with unhealthy learning habits and no patience continue producing the inevitable underperforming school results disappear from Scharff-VIP.  Sigh...