Almost one in five parents (19%) reported having to tutor more than three subjects to prepare for the exams. These are the results of the Aktion Education service (part of the Aktion group), the results of which were reviewed by socialbites.ca.
According to the study, the school prohibits most teachers from tutoring: 81% of respondents responded that way. 19% of the respondents stated that there is no such prohibition. Despite this, one third of teachers (30%) give private lessons. Of these, 59% work with students at home, 28% teach remotely, 3% at the student’s home, 6% at school, and 4% indicated another option as an answer.
If the student is not going to a teacher, you can prepare for the exams at your own school. 79% of teachers confirm that their school has additional classes to prepare for the GIA. However, one out of every five teachers (21%) admitted that there is no such class in their school.
As part of extracurricular activities, 38% of teachers prepare their schoolchildren for the Unified State Exam. Almost half of the teachers (47%) provide consultation outside the training program. Lessons for 15% are included in the study program. Additional USE lessons are paid for by 60% of teachers, 37% do not receive any remuneration for the work, and 3% report using other forms of compensation.
At the same time, 61% of teachers agree that the school principal does not impose an obligation to give additional lessons in preparation for the final exams (79% additional education is not specified in the job description). 37% of teachers in Russian schools have this requirement. The remaining 2% reported that additional courses were recommended.
In addition, 60% of teachers state that children who do not receive additional lessons from a teacher fail the exam. 38% of teachers said that children did not pass the exam due to insufficient ability even though they applied to the teacher. 2% believe that the reason for not passing the exam in the presence of the teacher is because the teacher is bad.
To prepare for final exams, most parents hire a teacher (65%), 25% of children’s parents train school teachers, one in ten parents (10%) has a self-employed child.
Parents who do not hire tutors decide that it is too expensive (32%), that the child does it himself (34%), that they help themselves to prepare (26%), that the school provides everything necessary (8%).
Almost one in five parents (19%) reported having to tutor more than three subjects in order to pass the exams. 34% of the parents reported that the child had three private teachers, two (33%) and one private teacher, 14%.
The most expensive math teachers, according to 59% of parents, followed by foreign language teachers (40%), Russian (29%) and physics (21%) teachers third.
Previously reportedmost Russians spend 3 to 4 hours preparing homework with their children.