英语四级写作：作为学生需要家教吗

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　　A recent investigation shows that about 70 percent of middle school
students in cities have private tutors. Such a popular practice indicates that
parents are attaching greater importance to their children's education. However,
private tutoring has both advantages and disadvantages.
        　　On the one hand, many parents have not enough ability or time to help their
children in study. Private tutoring is a good solution to this problem. In
addition, private tutoring is usually one-to-one, so the teacher can know the
weak points as well as the strong points of the pupil, and thus teaching is, in
most cases, directly to the point.
        　　On the other hand, private tutoring has its own disadvantages. For one
thing, it takes up so much of the pupil’s time that he can hardly find enough
time for rest and entertainment. For another, some tutors, busy “shuttling” from
one family to another, tend to be unable to concentrate on their teaching duties
as tutors.
        　　Considering the above-mentioned, I think the disadvantages of private
tutoring outweigh its advantages. In my opinion, greater emphasis should be laid
on classroom teaching and practice, on the improvement of teaching quality and
on the tapping of the pupil’s potential. Only in this way can a new generation
be healthily brought up.
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