It is no wonder to know that in point of commercial view, school is indeed in need of exposure and advertising to gain public attentions. It is done in many reasons:
- After gaining public attention, the school goes on exposing itself to show the quality and standard education the school could give.
- In the end, the school needs popularity.
There are actually extra activities that schools, especially those that emphasize on popularity, apply to support the education programs. This is always a good point that most of parents of the students in those schools agree and encourage their children to join the activities. However, there are also some extra activities which don’t seem to be functional and are just oriented in commerce. And this is not something that the schools actually need to do.
- Subject enrichment, for instance, is as a matter of fact an extra activity given by teachers to students after class is over. What is the point of this activity? Is it to give additional information to students on certain subject which actually is taken from the schoolbooks? Is it to manipulate the lesson during school time and emphasize it on the enrichment program?
- ‘Success Group’ is another activity teachers create to provide assistance for those students who could not get good score or could not pass final test (either the lessons are too difficult or just because of the students’ capability on receiving lessons). What kind of assistance does this group avail? How could this group assist the students? Is this activity including global education policy?
Nevertheless, it is sort of confusion where schools apply such things above on the other hand schools don’t want to lose their names and markets. Ironically, a lot of parents support those activities by the time their kids don’t seem to give good results of what they get from schools, at all costs.