Cram School, Not So Much Creamy.
The excitement students feel when last class's bell rings was magnificent. But nowadays, teenagers can't feel the excitement. Because they still have to go to a cram school. Cram schools are specialized schools that train students to pass the entrance examination of high schools or university. It's almost impossible to find a teenager who doesn't go to a cram school. But spending too much time in cram school is bad for teenager for three main reasons;
First, Studying in a cram school can steal self-study time from students. In cram school students take lessons that have already covered by teachers in school. Even if the cram school teaches things a head of schools curriculum, students have to take same lesson in school. Either way students have to take same class twice which seems inefficient. What students need to get a higher grades is self-study time rather repetition of hearing another person's knowledge.
Next, going a head of school curriculum is physiologically wrong. There is a phrase written on the German school attendance notification. It says "You should aware disadvantages if your kids learn how to write before entrance into a school". Knowing human's brain develop by stages, German warns the bad impact of learning a head. Also teenagers need at least soled 8 hours of sleep to be fully functioning when they are awake. Generally Korea high school starts at 7a.m and ends at 10p.m. If they go to the cram school after or before the school, they can't secure the time to sleep.
Last but not least, teenagers need reflecting time which is hard to do when surrounded by yet another academically competitive environment. Teenagers go to the cram school to enter great college. But usually they don't know what they want to learn in the college. Without attentive reflecting time, it's easy to be swept away by what other people says. However that short teen period is a critical time to plan their life. Being overwhelmed by competitive environment like cram school will blind teenagers and make them think there is an only one goal going to the college.
There are three reasons why cram school can impact bad influence on teenagers. Cram school deprives teenagers of self-study time, ignores brain activity and interrupts self-reflection. When parents send their child to Cram school, they think they do what's best for their child. But sending child to cram school can have serious side–effects. So before consider enrolling in the cram school, parents should check how their child currently managing time and prerequisite reason for enrolling.
In body part 2, I can understand your intention but it's little hard to link the brain thing and sleep problem. Also, I'd suggest stating your final thought not only to parents, but students too.
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ReplyDeleteThe excitement students feel when last class's bell rings was magnificent. But nowadays, teenagers can't feel the excitement. Because they still have to go to a cram school. Cram schools are specialized schools that train students to pass the entrance examination of high schools or university. It's almost impossible to find a teenager who doesn't go to a cram school. But spending too much time in cram school is bad for teenager for three main reasons;
First, Studying in a cram school can steal self-study time from students. In cram school, students take lessons that have already covered by teachers in school. Even if the cram school teaches things a head of schools curriculum, students have to take same lessons in school. Either way the fact that students have to take same class twice seems inefficient. What students need to get a higher grades is self-study time rather repetition of hearing another person's knowledge.
Next, going a head of school curriculum is physiologically wrong. There is a phrase written on the German school attendance notification. It says "You should aware of disadvantages you would get if your kids learn how to write before entrance into the school". Because they know human's brain develop by certain stages, German warns the bad impact of learning a head of school curriculum. Also teenager’s brain needs at least solid 8 hours of sleep to be fully functioning when they are awake. Generally Korea high school starts at 7a.m and ends at 10p.m. If they go to the cram school after or before the school, they can't secure the time to sleep.
Last but not least, teenagers need reflecting time which is hard to do when surrounded by yet another academically competitive environment. Teenagers go to the cram school to enter great college. But usually they don't know what they want to learn in the college. Without attentive reflecting time, it's easy to be swept away by what other people says. However that short teenage period is a critical time to plan their life. Being overwhelmed by competitive environment like cram school will blind teenagers and make them see nothing but going to the college without clear reasons.
There are three reasons why cram school can impact bad influence on teenagers. Cram school deprives teenagers of self-study time, ignores brain activity and interrupts self-reflection. When parents send their child to Cram school, they think they do what's best for their child. But going to the cram school can have serious side–effects. So before consider enrolling in the cram school, parents and their kids should discuss about what is prerequisite reason for enrolling.