Summarized from AsiaOne
18 November 2014
A tutor was recently revealed to earn a mind-boggling $830,000 – on average – a year, and the tuition industry is estimated to be worth about a $1 billion according to a recent report.
CATHERINE ROBERT and NG JUN SEN speak to parents who say they feel the pinch of paying for tuition, but have no plans to stop any time soon.
Mrs Jaclyn Chew’s son, who attends an all-boys school in north-eastern Singapore, was crestfallen after he asked his parents how he fared.
Mrs Chew suspects that his peers are having more tuition classes than her kid is. She feels guilty and wonders if she should have started him on extra help earlier.
Right now, she has two school-going children – the eldest, a 10-year-old girl, gets help for Chinese and science, while the boy gets help for Chinese.
Mrs Chew and her businessman husband spend about $900 on the kids’ tuition monthly.
She reckons that the expenditure on tuition will only grow as her third child prepares for Primary 1, and her fourth, at 10 months old, joins his siblings in several years’ time.
Although they live in a condo and her husband owns his own company, Mrs Chew says: “No matter how much one earns, you are bound to feel the pinch when paying for these fees.
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