“Better Choices, Better grades .”-Do Commercialization of education lead students to success?

By Ken Yuan Lin, Taiwan .

As soon as the regular school classes end, most Taiwanese students head to cram schools.

↓Students waiting in line for cram schools..

Spending more than $140 dollars per month, they try

to improve their academic performances to compete with peers. A cram school advertisement in Hong Kong. ↓

“What causes students spend much time and money studying so hard? “

You might ask.

Students in most Asian countries, such as South Korea, Japan and Taiwan , are under a lot of study stress.

One of the most significant reason is the education system .

However, with high expectations from their parents and the whole society, it’s extremely competitive for Asian students.

To get into a good college, students make every endeavor to do their best on their exams.

How about children’s dreams and futures?

“That’s not the point. “All we have to do in the ages is to do get the best grades on every tests. The Education system doesn’t even care about what we want.And that’s why cram schools can become so popular.With fabulous teaching skills , cram school teachers try to showtheir attraction to students.

It’s uncertain that students spending much money on tutoring can get better grades than those who don’t, though.

1996 2009 20130

10

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Students spent more than HK$1000 a month on tutoring

1996 (survey conducted by Hong Kong Federation of Youth)

(Per

cent

age)

)

$400dollars per subject

But with no doubt, this phenomenon indeed influent many Asian education system.With more chances for students to choice to be educated, cram schools has become an important part in many students lives.

Referencepictures: Google search and myselfInformation:

From Youtube: https://utube.com/watch?v=dDfGFe7TY24 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXswlCa7dug

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