Sending your children to academies is good.

Nowadays a lot of parents are sending their children to afterschool academies. It is especially hot potato in Korea, since in Korea there are lots of academies. According to Korea National Statistical office’s statistic at 2011, more than 80% of children in KyungKi-do went to afterschool academies. It is result of certain region, but in other regions proportion would come out similar as well. (Link1)

         Afterschool academies have many good aspects, but on the other hands, it also has bad aspects. Some people say sending their children to academy is good, and some people say bad.

   

         People who are with sending children suggest that send their children to academies have positive effects. First of all, children can get education of higher quality. Some of famous academies have great teachers with great career. They even have teachers who made the Suneung( the biggest test of all). So with help of great teachers they are sure to improve.

         

          Secondly they can have place to study. When it is hard to study in home, children have place to study. There is even academies specialized in study rooms and group study like the picture.

Lastly, academies teach children according to their grades. So child who is better can improve their knowledge. Also children who are inferior in class can catch up with help of academies.

On the other hand, people who are against academies claims that sending their children to an academy can cause many problems. First of all, Academies can make children do not participate in school. Because many academies in Korea tend to teach children not only their own age’s stuff, but also the upper grade’s stuff as well. If someone is in middle school, but already learning stuff of high school, then he might get bored when he enters the high school. Since all the things teaching in there is already taught by academies. So there is even needs for law to stop early learning (Link2 according to 8^th it is forbidden to study early)

Unfairness could be problem, too. Actually the fee for academies is quite expensive. So people who are very poor can’t afford money to go to academies. It is really unfair since rich people can attend as many academies as they want and get great education. But on the other hands poor people can’t get education compared to them, so they have higher chance of being inferior to them.

Another problem is that concentration to English, language, math. Parents tend to send their children to just academic ones. Ones that teach stuff that helps children to go to University. So children don’t get chance to play with their friends and can’t get developed in field like art, or music.

(It is pictures of empty playground. No one plays there because of academies)

For conclusion, I think going to academies is much better. I think positive effects of it overcome the negative. Especially getting education according to grade is really helpful. Few years ago, I was really doing well in high school. When I go to class in school I get easily bored because teachers keep teaching same thing over and over for children who didn’t get good grade. So It wasn’t good environment for me. But When I went to academies children who I had class with were just as good as myself so we could study efficiently. 

I think that academies can have better teachers. I don’t mean that not all teachers in school are inferior, but there can be a possibility. When I was 11^th grader my math teacher in school was a unexperienced freshman who just graduated from school. So in fact, she didn’t teach well. But my academy teacher was really great. It can’t be general idea, but just saying that there can be a chance. 

Also academies provides educational videos and fun techniques to study. So I recommend sending your children to academies for better education
( It is very fun video but it actually teaches how to memorize historical event easily)

(This is  documentay film contains more information about after school academies)