It is not possible for every parent to teach and to give complete information about some particular topics the student seeks answers to. Secondly teaching in the schools is not that satisfactory. It is not aiding in making solid base of the kids and the only option left is to send the kids for tuitions. By joining tuitions the kids would become more free and courageous to face competition with their other friends. When they grow old, they would join coaching classes and come out in flying colours.

Omprakash Sharma: The practice of tuitions for kids is justified or not depends on many things. Different families have different backgrounds and atmosphere. The atmosphere and family backgrounds affects a child's mental level and logical abilities. Children who belong to illiterate families cannot get right assistance from their parents and they need a proper teacher for getting assistance in their studies. Often we see tuition going children in well-educated and rich families. The reason of this practice may be parents' job situations. Tuition is not a bad thing if children require it. But it is bad when we practice it only for fashion. I would like to put here an example of a scheduled caste 4 years boy belonging to a very poor and illiterate family from my village 10 years back. My brother used to teach him out of sympathy. He required right way on that time and due to tuition (Without Fee) he passed 5th class and secured 90 percent marks. He also passed his 8th with 92 percent and now he is in 9th class. If he could not get assistance from my brother, his parents may not have sent him to school.

I think if a child needs help in study through tuitions, it is justified and there is no evil in such practice.

Mansi Bhui: Gurukuls served as the storehouse of knowledge for the children in earlier days. They used to get practical as well as theoretical knowledge from the same place. With the passage of time many changes occurred in our society. We are now living in a so-called modern society where everything has been globalized. Professionalism, money- making and privatisation are elements of our hi-tech society. Even our education system does not lag behind. It too has become professional. The system of "tuition " is a demerit in our education system. The parents are solely responsible for this. They are living in a myth that if their children will attend tuition classes they would secure good positions in class. But it is not true. Tuitions are basically the extra classes taken by those modern teachers who are money-minded. Some even run their tuition institutes. They do not teach their students in the school but tempt them to attend their tuition classes. Why this bias in teaching? If they can teach properly during special classes, why not in school? Only to get huge sums of money. But what about the poor students? Now, it is time to change our thoughts. Parents should not give over burden to their kids. They must realise that only sending them to tuition will not help them to succeed in their life. Kids only need the moral support of their guardians. They just need warmth and care. After all people like Mahatma Gandhi, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar etc never attended any tuition classes in their entire life.

Smita: Parents want to give more knowledge to their children so that they may occupy good position and one day they'll see their children in high offices. That is the dream of every parent. But they forget one thing that every mind is not the same. Some have the power to grab the knowledge quickly, some children catch the materials after some time. So, tuitions are basically for those children who learn everything late. Many a time ambitious parents send their children to two or three tuitions in a day. This affects their all round growth and they gradually go downwards.

Tuition is not only the solution for improving in their studies. If they want to improve their children in their study then they have to give them guidance because nobody can care more but their parents. It is very necessary to avoid primary tuitions.

RJ Khurana: Most educationists do not endorse the practice of sending kids for tuitions as tuitions blunt spirit of enquiry and emphasize rote learning unless, of course, there are very valid reasons for indualized attention. Slow learners, children with special needs, those absent for long periods on account of sickness or some other family reasons and children studying in overcrowded classrooms are recommended tuitions. In such cases, the tutor has to be a specially qualified person. A peculiar feature of the rich and the famous in our country is that with them sending their children for tuitions is a matter of status symbol. It must be understood that a private tutor, however, good is not a substitute for a good school that has trained staff, small class-size, open and spacious classrooms and plenty of materials for indoor and outdoor activities and inculcates spirit of enquiry, concept building and life-skills.

Sushmita Shrivastava: The parents can send their children to tuition class if they are not themselves cannot teach the kids. But one must be very careful while sending small kids to tuition. The small kids shouldn't be overburdened, and the tuition teacher must be friendly and there should be family like atmosphere. The tuition class shouldn't stress the child, and he/she shouldn't be pressurised to learn too much beyond his capacity. On the other hand the tuition teacher should explain things in an entertaining way and the child shouldn't feel that he is away from family. For a little older kids, when they are constantly failing their subjects and the remedial lessons in school don't help to improve the performance, it is always better to get a one-on-one tuition or a small tuition class. The advantage of this tuition is the child has lots of opportunities to ask the tutor what his/her doubts are. The tutor will also assess how much the child has missed, and go through some basics of the subject. This is important because if the does not have an elementary aspect of a subject, he/she will find great difficulty to follow what the teacher in school is teaching. In a one-on-one tuition the child may confide in the tutor his special problems, which he may not reveal to his parents or teachers. The important thing is that the parents should not send the child to tuition where the main aim is to earn money rather than improving child's performance.

Aastha Sharma: Nowadays both the parents are working. They have a hectic day. In this situation they have no other option but to send their kids for tuitions.

In this fascinating world, the children however have to be adroit and acquainted with different happenings, facts, technologies etc. By going to tuitions a child acquires much knowledge.

By sending to tuitions the child is kept busy and his personality improves. However, children should study hard in schools too.

`A child is not a vessel to be filled but a lamp to be lit'.

Jayshree Mohan: Given the present day education system and the modern day life where parents and elders have less and less time for their children , "tuitions" have become more than a necessity than anything else. "Time" being a scarce commodity , modern day parents look towards "tuitions" as the last resort for their children for laying a strong foundation . Later coaching institutes take over. The concern for the "future" of their children and the awareness that they can't afford "time" & patience and the hope that the coaching institutes would churn out a good future for their children in the competitive arena make them send their kids to tuitions/coaching institutes.

What I feel is there is no harm in sending kids to tuitions and coaching institutes but it should be supplemented by parental supervision and guidance also. Rather it should be laced by parental affection and love. Only then it would work wonders. In a word, proper tuitions and coaching institutes would certainly equip our children with proper knowledge and guidance to face the "cut-throat-competition " prevailing all round us

Satish Kumar Singh: As far as my opinion is concerned, practice of sending kids for tuition is enormously justified. Just look at following points-:

1- Career enhancement is basic thinking behind this practice. In fact everyone wants to grow in his/her life.

2-By and by standard of education is mounting. Kids are not enough capable to tackle their educational problems themselves. Thus they need help and tuition is fulfilling their requirements.

3-Parents want to see their child on top echelon of society. Perhaps due to this, they are not hesitating in doing bad things. Nowadays they are creating problems for their children through act of pressurization.

4-In present circumstances, without hard work and guidance even kids cannot go a single step ahead.

5-Today kids are also aware about everything. They think about their wellbeing right from their childhood.

6-Tuition creates competitive environment among children which is necessary for their growth.

7-Nowadays parents have not enough time for looking after their children, because most of parents believe in micro family.

8-Our education system is faulty. At present too many lacunas persisting in our education system.

9-In school, teachers don't teach their students properly.

10-Due to huge population, in school, teachers are not able to pay proper attention towards every kid.

Obviously above points prove that practice of sending kids for tuition is absolutely justified.

Syed Zia ul Hasan Naqvi: Usually old persons are deadly against the sending of kids for tuition. When they see their grand children going for tuition they make wry mouth and say to their sons "You people are spoiling your children by sending them for tuition". According to these old persons students should study themselves and in case of problem they should consult their teacher in school or their elders at home for solving their difficulty.

But because of generation gap these old persons are not aware with the changed atmosphere of schools.Today schools and teachers are totally different from old times .Now a days in each class number of students is more, so the teacher is unable to give proper attention on every student.

Apart from this teachers are also not so devoted as they were in old times. Teacher and taught relationship has also now changed. Competition in students is very tough, sometimes even for one mark there is competition in students. So for students alternative left behind is only tuition. The high cost of living in urban areas has also forced women for service.

Now husband and wife both are very busy being in service.They are not in position to give time to their children for helping them in their studies. Hence parents in general are compelled to send their kids for tuition. With the flourishing business of tuition and coaching classes all over the country importance of tuition can be very well gauged. Now a days not only kids are going for tuition but the students of higher studies like engineering ,Medical and competitive exams are also going because of its immense utility.Tuition has become like an industry and part and parcel of education these days.

Wins Arocika: Thomas Alva Edison said, "I never did anything worth by chance nor did any of inventiotions come by accident. They came by hard work." Very often we speak of the success mantra which says, Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninty-nine per cent perspiration. In other words there are no short cuts for success. It is understood that the knowledge begins by questioning but if we block the psyche of the kids and restrict them not to think beyond tuition, are we doing justice, absolutely not.

I remember the days when tuition was considered to be the last resort of the helpless kids. But now it is more of a show off and a matter of pride. Problems are solved quickly and answers are simplified so there is no reasoning and personal effort, brains become dull and seek for constant guide. As a result we have tuitions for all the levels right from KG up to UPSC. It is said skill comes from practice but is there any practice in the tuition? We keep on telling "Mehnat ka phal meeta hota hai." But the fruit we seek by sending kids to tuitions is tasteless. Let us open our eyes and think of their psyche and not just marks and stop sending kids to tuition for every child has the potency and the brain. Life is full of wonders and mysteries, let us not restrict the child in unraveling these mysteries by sending them to tuitions.

Reeta: Today there is competition in every field of life. There is tremendous competition in studies as well. To get admission in a good reputed school, get subject of your choice and get selected for professional courses is demanding. And for this the efforts start at an early age. It is in this context that kids are sent for private tuitions, which is justified.

Most of the parents are working today, so they are unable to give adequate time for their children and help in studies. Hence they prefer private tuitions for their children. There is a lot of difference between school syllabus of the past and today. Parents are unable to teach it the way it is taught today with latest examples. Also, many fundas are cleared in private tuitions.

Some kids show brilliant performance in studies. But, they are sent for tuitions to sustain the position and for acquiring additional knowledge

Many children are brilliant in one field or the other; for ex. Sports, acting, singing etc. When they participate in a sport or take part in drama or shooting of films, their school is missed and to compensate the studies, or to keep pace with other children of class, the kids go for private tuitions.

Firoza Visal: Educational Institution is something instituted, especially an authoritative rule or precedent and is a digest of the principles or rudiments of a particular subject, especially a legal abstract. An organization founded to promote a cause.

Educational institution is especially for the preplanned instruction by trained teachers of subjects. Infrastructure is usually short, intensive workshop or seminar on a specific subject to train student is a standard form.

It is the duty of a student to take full advantage of all environments to learn seriously with total attention in the class room itself. We realize that each student is unique and has his or her own set of difficulties, good institutions have introduced the "Scope -up" sessions.

Sessions are special difficulty-solving and revision sessions held in all subjects for the average and the below-average students. Good students learn seriously and attentively in classroom itself whereas the poor neither learn in class nor by tuitions.

Tuition is a fashion and is a luxury of rich ones, instead wasting time in tuitions, students may utilize that costly hours in completing their home work, revising the subjects and solidifying the courses at home, also parents must attend kids to help them for their difficulties in the subjects and other affairs. It is not justified to send kids to unplanned institutions for tuitions in remote areas of risks.

Subodh Shrivastava: No. The practice of sending kids for tuitions is not justified. Most of the parents today are literate and have good qualifications. They can teach up to primary or even middle classes very well. For this they will have to be sincere. But, as a symbol of high status family, they send their kids for private tuitions.

Parents have the opinion that by having tuitions from the same school teacher, their kids will come up with good results. Sometimes the kids are sent for private tuitions to keep them away from home for some time because the kid at home will play and make noise.

Private tuitions add extra expense on parents and at many places the kids are suspectible of being misbehaved. Because of tuitions, the kids are missing their childhood. They do not get time to play or participate in social happenings around them.

SN Patra: Kids are already overburdened in the school. Sending them for tuition makes their life more stressful. They should be allowed to receive instruction from school and do their home work with the help of parents, if required. It is always wise to make the kids do home work independently for their mental growth. Spoon feeding at this stage is bad.

These days there is an entrance examination for any professional study beyond +2. The tests are objective in nature which require tremendous practice. Therefore, students from the X class onwards have to undergo coaching from reputed institutions. There is no alternative to coaching.

Alka Dixit: The present day competition in schools and colleges, ignorance of parents all on one side justify the practice of sending kids for tuitions.

Subjects like science, maths and computer are difficult to teach at home because the courses have changed and parents are not trained, fathers can take out some time and do this at home.

For working parents it is not possible. I would like to notice this point that in schools the teachers cannot handle a big class. The syllabus is vast and has to be completed in time before exams. The other outlook of the student is that it takes tuition place as a meeting ground for chit-chat and time pass. Those who do not want to study will not study either at school or in the tuition class.

On other hand, the tuition classes are also overcrowded. The organizers also take coaching as a business. They also take large batches. Again it is a matter of balance between a good tuition class and a good school. I feel that when schools fail to help the students in his studies, they are forced to go for tuition classes.

SS Chitwadgi: The domestic circumstances as they exist today compel parents to send their children to tuitions. Schools are already fully loaded. The ratio of students to teachers is invariably so large that an average teacher is so confused and worse confounded. He is incapable of paying his required personal attention to his class individual student. He can't make out whether any student has correctly understood the lessons imparted. The Parents are equally so much busy that none is in a position spare time and patience to teach, although they are educated. The life of average family has become such that both parents get often busy. While men wok outside, women mind kitchen to cook. At times both are employed leaving children to babysitters and further to tuitions. Of late the housewife who since upon a time carried out house keeping including children education are now adverse to the old order since there working hours interfere with house keeping as also employed women already tired work outside their homes. At the same time unless both work to earn they can't meet their family expenses. The cost of living is so expensive that average man on any job looks for a working wife. Now household works have made daughter in laws to Divorce. Most of the courts of law are fully occupied to dispose of the divorce cases. Equally divorced couples lead miserable life. More often children of a bit advanced age become hostelites since houses have become divided. Unless so called inflation comes down they may not be expected to lead a peaceful life. It appears there are many more reasons for pushing children to tuitions including a little time at home for peace when children are outside home for tuition thus it is justified at the present times.

RK Kutty: Kids and tuitions, nevertheless, sound as utopian as it shows the fast track mode on which this world is heading on day by day. As I wrote earlier and re-iterate that once-again, the first university of a child is its mother. Howsoever illiterate a mother may be, she only can pass on the first alphabet to it in whatever way the child likes it. Alas, in modern times, when the hard pressures of life, specially in metros and other mega cities, made parents so tied up that they hardly find time to spare with the kids and in such cases mostly parents prefer to send kids for tuitions. And the tuitions become all the more necessary as the schools where the kids study are so crammed where the teachers too find it difficult to pay enough attention to individual child/children. Parents sometimes even do not care to find the progress chart of the child and only in exceptional case when the schools, by force, calls them to see for themselves the downhill journey of the kids and demand them to pay more attention, lest they won't be held responsible. And this, after making such hefty payments to reputed schools, only shows the level of their schooling. The modern concept of certain schools where they even provide the whole facility of day board/lodging, including home-works at situ and only the parents have to send the kids without lunch box, bag and baggage, provided they part with a hefty sum every month, is a big solace to most high-profile parents. But how many parents can afford it is the big question. For those who cannot afford, the alternative is to send kids for tuitions to make up the studies to cope with the growing demand of hitting the bull's eye by scoring 95+. Alas, there was time in our school years when the question usually asked by friends, near and dear ones whether one got through in the exam in first attempt, no matter whatever may be the percentage. How disturbingly the time has changed, today's children, even after scoring 85+ in the CBSE, yet a failure in some or the other professional entrance exam upset them to stoop to the level of ending their life. And that is perhaps the reason most parents send even kids to tuition. God only can save our children, provided the children are committed to God and His ways first and foremost.

Jaskaran Singh Dhami: Tuitions seem to have become an integral part of studies especially school studies which indubitably, is a negative development. Study during school hours does not suffice the needs of the students and they are sent to private tutors. Large classes in schools, especially govt schools with inadequate teacher-pupil ratio and lackadaisical attitude of teachers do not allow much scope for the individual attention by the teacher to the students especially students with specific needs like slow learners, delinquent, gifted and differently-abled children. To make up for this deficit parents feel compelled to go for what they think is a viable option, in the form of pvt tuitions.

These days there is stiff competition in the field of academic achievement and fractions of points make or mar one's career. It necessitated private tuitions which parents think will give that extra edge to their kids. Tuitions experts make students learn by the methods which extinguish the flame of creativity and students are made to memorise the facts which they reproduce in exams to get good scores. Heuristic way of learning is fast becoming a thing of past.

I personally feel that private tuitions should be discouraged but at the same time we have to ensure that schools cater to the needs of our children. Teachers should be made more accountable. Schools should not be wanting in qualified dedicated staff and educational infrastructure. Heuristic way of teaching learning is to be revived and encouraged. Education is not accumulation of facts. Trial and error method results in lasting knowledge. A good teacher is he / she who teaches the students 'how to learn'. Spoon feeding and excessive memorization weigh down students' originality and inventiveness which is to be kindled and nurtured. Therefore overburdening the children with school work and tuitions is to be avoided.

There is need to start awareness campaigns to make the parents realize the importance of self effort in learning on the part of children. Private tuitions should be arranged only in special cases and not as a routine practice. The tendency to jump the bandwagon is to be curbed.

This discussion reminds me of Muriel Spark's remarks. He said "To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion." (Spark) So we have to be careful that the 'tuitions' that we arrange for our children do not result in 'intrusions'.

Rajeev N: Cut throat competition, inadequate infrastructure in schools, discontented but ambitious parents; No surprise, the school children of today end up in tuition centers. From Mummy- Papa masters to school masters, from school masters to tuition masters; again from tuition masters to Mummy- Papa masters. This catch 22 never ends for the children. The question 'whether school children be sent for tuitions?' serves eye opener towards the multifaceted problems the present day education system suffers from. The population explosion resulted in overcrowded classrooms depriving of the individual attention the children of yesteryears enjoyed. The information explosion, on the other hand demands us to be updated and abreast. The mismatch of these makes the present day class room teacher and his/her conventional methods of teaching outmoded and inadequate .This feeling of inadequacy compels the parents to send their wards for tuitions.-Does it serve the purpose? Certainly, No! The demanding parents, overload of text books, no time to play will surely take its toll on the mindset of these future brave hearts. Will they ever in the future be mentioning of 'the good old days' about their school days? I have doubts.

Krishna Chander Mouli: Our academic time-tables do not provide adequate teaching hours for the teacher to impart absolute knowledge about the subject of the study. There is no system of paying any additional remuneration to the teacher by the management of any academic institution to cover up the course and enrich the scholar's knowledge by conducting extra classes.

This compulsorily necessitates the students to look for good teachers for tuition after their school, college and University schedules.

Ordinarily practice of sending kids for tuition is not justified. At their age kids do not really need any tuition, and if at all, the best tutors are the parents besides the teachers and the course books. One may question, if the parents are illiterate? Yes, but for apprising of oneself and accordingly discipline children sit for studies regularly and ensure completion of their homework. Parental concern about the kids and their responsive attitude is more important than literacy.

Yet if the parents are abnormal and their kids too are equally so, then tuition may be a helpless compulsion.

In any case as a rule sending kids for tuition should be discouraged even by the teachers also as the very concept of driving the kids at that tender age out of home in the name of tuition to spend time not with an icon perceived of warmth, love and affection but with an icon perceived of harshness, discipline and punishment (the teacher), pushes the kids towards a psychological trauma. There are any number of such kids who while growing became indifferent, disrespectful and violent towards their parents because of such traumatic childhood years. The practice of sending kids for tuition does not thus seem to be any meaningful.

RK Gupta: The national curriculum framework 205 is self-sufficient in itself. There is no need for sending kids for the tuitions.

Although in actual field situation during the implementation of the education comission reports, a lot of impediments come on the way. Some parents are poor and illiterate, some parents are very busy and cannot spare any time for their kids. In such a situation sending kids for tuition is justified.

The educational institutions which are mushrooming in every nook and corner of the city are flourishing by the dint of fees and huge donations collected during the admission of the kids in the name of development fees.