Moves by Zhejiang Province to make teaching students at home legal has stirred up controversy with the Chinese National Education Department.
Teachers commonly take extra classes with students for extra money, but the department is opposed to a new initiative to make it legal.
The department does not want teachers to take advantage of students to make profits for themselves through this kind of teaching, a department spokesman said.
Recently, the government of Zhejiang Province proposed a legal bill to allow this teaching mode, which makes this controversial topic even heater in the society.
Student
Li, a student is continuously taking extra English classes twice every week at present, each lasting for two hours and costs 50 Yuan (5 pounds).
The class is held in the teacher’s house, and is made up of two sessions, review and exercise.
“She finds specific ways to solve my problem, my study has been visibly improved,” says Li, “She deserves the pay due to the useful knowledge she offers in her spare time.”
Teacher
Mr. Zhou is an experienced maths teacher in a senior high school doing "home teaching" for nearly 10 years.
As he is popular, he takes it every other day, and around five students every time. So the income is really considerable.
“Some people say harsh words behind my back,” says Mr. Zhou.
He thinks he is treated unjustly. He doesn’t influence school teaching, and he has to do more research on diverse exercises based on every individual student coming to him.
“There is all hard-earned money, but receives all criticism,” Mr. Zhou says.
Bureau of Education
A director in the local Bureau of Education says that the proposed legal bill is still under deliberation.
Before that, the bureau has several prohibitions on school teachers, for example, teachers cannot use this kind of home teaching on the students from his teaching class, and asks the public
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