文：联合晚报 29/7/2012
自称是高才生 – 补习4堂课 收费1000元教育部拆穿补习教师谎言
自称是高才班出身，曾在高才班执教，4堂补习课敢敢收费1000元，红牌补习教师谎言被教育部拆穿，还被爆伪造学生的感谢信，事迹败露后慌忙删除所有相关资料。
36岁的AristoCare 补习中心老师王炜龙(洋名Kelvin)， 多年来自称是英华小学高才班学生，也曾在高才班教书。他宣称对指导学生进入高才班及教导高才班学生有一套，补习班的学生甚至得经过他“精挑细选”才能进入。
今年6月3日，在一则关于昂贵补习费的报道中，提到王炜龙4堂补习课竟收1000元，引起教育部注意，对王炜龙的资格进行调查。
调查结果显示王炜龙其实是“吹牛”，他跟高才班完全扯不上关系，也没有合格的教师资格。
教育部发言人告诉：“根据教育部记录，王炜龙从未是高才班学生，也不曾是高才班教师。教育部已警告王炜龙，不得再做出虚假声明。”
至少有两名学生的家长要求王炜龙从中心网站删除他们孩子的感谢信。这些家长表示，他们的孩子从未针对“数学奥林匹克”比赛中优越表现感谢王炜龙的指导。
王炜龙已经从网站删除这些感谢信，及任何有关他的“高才生”背景的资料。
谎言被拆穿辩称：我妈说我是高才生
谎言被拆穿，王炜龙慌忙辩称：“我不肯定，说我是高才生的是我妈！”
针对“假高才生”身份，王炜龙接受询问时辩称，是他的母亲说他毕业自高才班。
“我不肯定，当教育部打给我时，我设法查，但我没有过去的记录。”
王炜龙声称，他小一至小三就读锦文小学，小四转读英华小学，过后升上英华中学(巴克路)和英华初院，之后报读国大数学系。
他现在宣称，曾在2002年至2003年，以代课老师的身份，在英华小学“协助”教导高才班。
小学的高才班从小四开始，而英华小学则是开办高才班的学校之一。
英华小学声明与王炜龙没关系
英华小学郑重声明，王炜龙与该校毫无关系。
该校副校长表示，翻了学校记录及询问服务多年的教职员后，发现王炜龙与该校完全没有关系。
“ 王炜龙不是英华小学的普通班或高才班学生，也从未在英华小学担任普通班或高才班的教师。所有服务多年的教职员皆表示，王炜龙从未在本校担任过代课老师。”
王炜龙曾在2010年在补习中心网站售卖2009年高才班入学考卷，过后被教育部发现所谓的入学考卷是假的。
除接到警告，暂时还不清楚教育部会否对他采取其他行动。
本报今早联络上王炜龙，但他不愿受访。
文：联合晚报
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“Private tutor who charges high fees: I was in gifted education programme. MOE says : No He Wasn’t.” 29 July 2012, article by Jane Ng, Sunday Times
私人补习老师征收高学费声称自己是前高才班学生。教育部证实：他不是。 二零一二年七月二十九日
A private tutor charging high fees to help children get into the Gifted Education Programme (GEP) has been warned to stop telling lies about himself. Mr Kelvin Ong Wee Loong, 36, has long claimed that he was admitted into the gifted programme as a child and went on to be a teacher in the programme as well.
Now the Education Ministry has refuted those claims, saying it has checked and found no record that he was ever a pupil or teacher in the programme. Nor is he even a qualified teacher. The ministry has told him to remove the lies from the website of his AristoCare centre, and he has complied.
Mr Ong, who handpicks children for his sessions and charges $1,000 for four lessons, had previously told The Sunday Times that he was in the gifted programme at Anglo-Chinese School (Primary). In media interviews as far back as 2007, he also said that he used to be a teacher in the programme.
The ministry decided to check after Mr Ong appeared in The Sunday Times on June 3 in a story about parents sending children for costly tuition to prepare them for the gifted programme selection tests. A ministry spokesman said: ‘Based on MOE’s records, Mr Kelvin Ong was neither a student in the GEP nor a GEP teacher. MOE has spoken to Mr Kelvin Ong on the matter, and warned him against making such false claims again.’ It also checked but could not find any record of Mr Ong’s teaching qualifications.
This is not the first time that the ministry has taken issue with Mr Ong.
In 2010, it was alerted to AristoCare’s website after it advertised the sale of the 2009 GEP Screening and Selection Test papers. The ministry checked and found that those were not the actual papers. It subsequently alerted parents that there was a website giving the impression that it had past GEP papers for sale, but they were not genuine.
It is not known if he will face further action.
Asked what he had to say about the ministry’s latest checks, Mr Ong told The Sunday Times it was his mother who had told him that he had been in the gifted programme.’I’m not very sure. According to my mum, I was from GEP. When MOE called me, I tried to check but couldn’t because I don’t have records from the past,’ he said.
He said he attended Clementi Town Primary from Primary 1 to 3 before transferring to ACS (Primary) in Primary 4.The primary gifted programme starts at Primary 4, and ACS (Primary) is one of the schools offering it.
Mr Ong said he went on to ACS (Barker Road) and Anglo-Chinese Junior College, before studying mathematics at the National University of Singapore. As for being a teacher of gifted pupils, he now claims that he was a relief teacher for two years from 2002 to 2003 at ACS (Primary) and ‘helped out’ with the gifted classes.
But this has been disputed by the school. After checking the school records and speaking to long-time staff, ACS (Primary) vice-principal Grace Khoo told The Sunday Times: ‘Kelvin Ong was not a pupil of ACS (Primary) – GEP or otherwise. Neither has he taught in the school (GEP or non-GEP).
‘All the long-serving teachers in the school say there was never a Kelvin Ong who taught here as a relief teacher.’
The parents of at least two children have also asked him to remove from his website ‘testimonials’ purportedly coming from their children saying they had done well in the Maths Olympiad after attending his sessions, and would recommend others to join.The parents said their children never wrote any such thing.
Mr Ong has cleaned up that bit of his website too. He also no longer claims to have been a teacher in the gifted programme.
‘Please say that I’m a GEP trainer, not GEP teacher,’ he said.
胆子真够大的！脸皮真够厚的！
更新联合晚报的报道
教育部应该直接去警察局报警，让这骗子坐牢打鞭！
这都可以么。。。
“This is not the first time that the ministry has taken issue with Mr Ong. In 2010, it was alerted to AristoCare’s website after it advertised the sale of the 2009 GEP Screening and Selection Test papers.
The ministry checked and found that those were not the actual papers. It subsequently alerted parents that there was a website giving the impression that it had past GEP papers for sale, but they were not genuine.”
原来以前王炜龙还卖过假GEP试卷。。。
好象存在很久了， 如果不是声称是前GEP老师，估计他是没生意的， 受骗家长如果是要讨回钱的话可以通过新加坡小额法庭， 现在证据确凿，讨回的可能性相当大。 如果要绳之以法还得有家长或教育部将其控上初级法庭才行。
还真有这样的斯文败类，毁人不倦啊！
他真的不是斯文人。他曾在医院工作过，做出了很多违反医院条规，欺骗病人的事，被医院查出后，24小时把他辞退了。处于嫉妒，和他一起工作过的人，都有被他诽谤过。他是个真正的骗子。听说他的老婆是老师，可能和他一起开的补习中心。
秀文，我说的那个人就是他，我查过了
这吹牛不打草稿啊，不惭愧吗？这样的话找老师不是没有信任度可言？谁都可以吹牛啊
1节课250;P
好贵啊。
问题是吹牛学生也得出成绩阿，不出成绩伪造才是问题的关键。
我有一个客人，也是某补习班校长兼老师，是这个人的大学同学，听说他的一些外国文凭证书也是假造的。
不过新加坡某知名大学数学系毕业是真的啦。
其实好好做补习，这个学历其实也够了，吹牛来干嘛呀。。。
他真的是脸皮太厚
还好当时你做出了明智的选择没有去。不然太亏了。
他原来是南洋理工学院毕业的物理治疗师。按他的年龄应该没时间去上名牌数学系。
国大踢爆学历造假 “吹牛”补习老师没念过国大
日期:05/08/2012 新闻来源:新明日报
王炜龙连番谎言被揭穿，许多家长因为受骗而非常愤怒
“吹牛补习老师”再被踢爆，连学历也造假，他从来未曾在国大就读，只在国大医院担任过物理治疗师。
媒体日前报道，AristoCare补习中心老师王炜龙（36岁，洋名Kelvin），自称高才班出身、曾在高才班执教，4堂补习课竟收费1000元。
后来，他的谎言被教育部拆穿，事迹败露后，慌忙删除所有相关资料，还辩称是他的母亲说他毕业自高才班，他自己并不肯定。
《海峡时报星期刊》今天报道，王炜龙的谎言原来不仅如此而已。他长期以来都自称是新加坡国立大学的数学双主修毕业生，他所撰写的课外作业簿，也在序中提到自己的大学学历。但国大发言人证实，王炜龙从来没有在国大就读，更不是国大的毕业生。
事主：已关闭中心 不再教补习；一家长过去一年付1万5000补习费。完整报道，请翻阅05.08.2012《新明日报》。
谁给我扫盲下，其他同类补习班收费是多少？
4堂补习课敢敢收费1000元。。。 真贵啊。。。我辞职在家自己教娃算了
岛国出了这样的骗子，这么明目张胆一骗再骗，太令人震惊了！
这里有一篇几年前的“新闻”，那时候有些GEP补习中心的学费就达到每8个小时1500元了。
Oct 28, 2007
Should kids really be coached for gifted programme?
There are parents who spend hundreds of dollars on courses to prepare their children for the Gifted Education Programme. But these courses can do more harm than good
MADAM Varsha Abdullah spent over $700 when she enrolled her eight-year-old son in a preparation course for the Gifted Education Programme (GEP).
To this mother, it is money well spent.
‘The only reason I sent him for the course is for him to be challenged,’ said the 45-year-old chief operating officer of an insurance company.
‘He gets bored with the usual stuff but is excited with new things. And he comes out happy after every class.’
Madam Varsha sees no harm in putting her child through such enrichment courses.
But some parents, such as Madam Teo Wei Ling, 42, would never dream of it.
The stay-at-home mum was going through the papers earlier this month when she came across advertisements by private learning centres peddling preparatory classes for the GEP selection test.
Her younger son, Edwin, an Anglo-Chinese School Junior pupil, was among 3,000 Primary 3 pupils shortlisted for this test – which took place two weeks ago. He had already made it through the first round of a screening test in August, which is open to the entire Primary 3 cohort.
Out of curiosity, she called to inquire. One centre, which claimed that half its pupils make it into the GEP, charged $1,500 for an eight-hour preparation course. Another advertiser charged $1,200 for eight hours.
‘It’s even more expensive than a business course. For that price, they said they would teach them how to tackle the questions.’
That angered her enough to write to The Straits Times’ Forum page questioning whether the naturally talented required such courses and whether the rich who could afford them had an unfair advantage over those who could not.
‘Why push them? If you can make the cut, you can. If not, never mind. There are so many more things in life,’ she said.
Her letter drew several responses, all in support of her view.
At least three private learning centres and a handful of private tutors offer GEP preparation courses that aim to get these Primary 3 pupils into the programme in Primary 4.
Experts will say that giftedness cannot be taught and these centres are merely training kids to be ‘exam smart’ in preparing for the GEP tests.
Private tutor Kelvin Ong, who said that he was a former GEP teacher, is unapologetic about his coaching courses.
‘You expose them to the type of questions they’ll be tested on. Then they won’t freak out. It’s about being exam smart,’ said Mr Ong, who gives his pupils past papers to practise on. As a GEP teacher, he used to invigilate the screening tests.
He coaches his pupils – whom he charges between $250 and $400 per two-hour lesson – throughout the year in English Language and Mathematics and is ‘very focused in getting them through the tests’.
‘If you’re willing to pay, that’s the objective you’ll meet,’ he said, adding that he screened the children before deciding if he would accept them.
He claimed that all 10 pupils he coached this year got through the first round of the GEP screening.
Each year, all Primary 3 pupils are invited to take a screening test in August, which comprises an English and a Maths paper.
About 3,000 pupils will qualify for a selection test in October, where they will sit for an additional paper, General Ability, which will test their problem-solving and reasoning skills.
Only the top 1 per cent are invited to join the programme in Primary 4. Most pupils take up the offer. Currently, there are nine primary schools that offer the GEP.
The GEP comes with certain privileges, which explains why parents are eager for their children to get in: Class sizes average about just 25 compared to the usual 40 in a class. Pupils would also enjoy a more enriched curriculum.
The Education Ministry also specially selects the teachers for the GEP.
But not all parents want their children to be in the programme.
Madam Sharon Lee Sui Yi, 37, whose son just sat for the selection test two weeks ago, is against preparing her child for these exams.
‘Sometimes in our eagerness to give the best to our children, we lose perspective of what education is all about and the spirit of what this GEP is,’ said the stay-at-home mum.
Even though her son, Jeremy, is keen to join the programme, she has spent a lot of time moderating his expectations.
‘The reality is, it’s not going to be easy being in GEP. If you’re the last few to squeeze in, you’ll have a tough time.’
The Education Ministry and school principals echoed this concern and said that parents should not ‘hothouse’ their children.
‘Giftedness cannot be trained and preparatory classes cannot enable a child to perform at a level beyond his capacity,’ said a ministry spokesman.
By sending their children to these prep classes, parents may actually be doing more harm than good, since a child who gains admission into the GEP through intensive coaching may not be able to cope with the programme’s demands, she said.
While there have been cases of children who have asked to leave the GEP for various reasons, those who do because they cannot cope with the enriched curriculum are ‘very few’, said the ministry.
The principal of Morris Allen Study Centres readily admits that while he cannot increase his pupils’ intelligence, he can make them more confident and improve their scores.
Mr Morris Allen, who teaches a two-week GEP prep class every June, exposes the kids to all sorts of IQ puzzles – words, pictures, numbers – to prepare them for the General Ability paper, which tests their problem-solving aptitude.
He also teaches them about time management, so that they do not panic and stumble or waste too much time on questions they cannot answer.
Of the 22 pupils he had last June, almost all got through to the second round. Eleven of them returned three weeks ago for a revision course.
He charges $30 an hour for the 20-hour course.
‘It’s just familiarising them with the unfamiliar,’ said Mr Allen, who sources cognitive ability tests from other countries for his pupils to practise on. He has been running his centres for 15 years.
But former Raffles Girls’ School principal Carmee Lim does not believe in private enrichment programmes because they are geared towards academic excellence.
‘Giftedness applies to many areas, not just in academics. Unfortunately, in Singapore, we define giftedness purely by academic standards,’ she said.
Rather than stretch pupils in every subject in the gifted programme, she prefers that children grow up in a more holistic manner, exposed to music, art and other such pursuits.
Being labelled a high-flyer at such a tender age may not be a good idea too, said Associate Professor Lee Wei Ling, director of the National Neuroscience Institute, in a letter to this paper.
She wrote: ‘Some develop a superiority complex feeling that the non-gifted belong to a lower class of the human race.
‘Well-designed IQ tests are fairly accurate in predicting academic success. But success in real life depends on many more characteristics: determination, resilience, forming healthy interpersonal relationships and ability to notice and seize the opportunity when it comes.’
Dr Simon Siew, a psychologist in private practice at Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre who has seen several teenagers for stress-related illnesses, cautions against stressing out children with such enrichment courses.
‘Young children are already very stressed by the achievement system and these additional classes might become another source of pressure for them.’
那些年，有些GEP补习中心就是这样干的！
谢谢版版。真贵啊。本坛的GEP爹妈们都有补么?
没听说谁去补的，只看到有人到处在找这类补习中心。。。
版版再给我扫盲下，我常看到本版家长说小学一个月补习费用1000块。那是补什么的？
假如就补一门是多少银子？ 比如英文。然后这个一门是算几个小时的？一星期一小时？谢谢你呀
我家两个孩子小学期间都没真正补习过，因此不太了解具体情况。
据我所知，有些补习中心的收费是每4节课100多元，每节课1.5到2小时。 我儿子小学时的一个同学同时补六门（华文，华文作文，英文，英文作文，数学和科学），这样的话每个月也差不多要1000元了。如果找一对一的话，费用会更多。
其实我觉得小学期间如果所在学校的老师有能力又尽心尽责的话，实在是没有必要花钱去补习。
版版，真好， 再问个问题，psle分数怎么算的？ 考几门？ 一门几分？ 满分300？？
这里有个帖子：几种PSLE分数计算经验公式，哪个更准？
还有一个更详细的： http://road-to-psle.blogspot.sg/ … d-t-scores-are.html
great. 奖励您一朵小红花。
应建立验证补习教师资历机制 （2012-08-07）张丽萍
近日，一名补习中心教师的多个谎言一一被拆穿，令人惊叹补习界原来存在着补习教师资历造假的问题。
这名补习教师长期自称（包括网页宣传与所著的练习作业序言）是高才班出身，曾在一所小学的高才班执教12年，并曾参加过高才班遴选试的监考工作，能协助80%的补习学生成功通过高才班遴选试，每堂两小时的补习课收费250元。他在上个月底被教育部拆穿谎言后，删除相关的履历资料，辩称是他母亲说自己毕业自高才班的，之前并不晓得自己原来不是；也表示他的确曾在高才班任职，不过属协助性质而非全职教师。另外，他也长期自称是新加坡国立大学的数学双主修毕业生，但国大发言人刚在近日证实他从来不曾在国大就读。
其实，这名补习教师曾多次接受媒体访问，而且几乎每次都虚报自己的履历与教学经验，两年前也曾因为售卖伪造的高才班遴选试卷而被教育部警告。不知道是什么原因促使教育部在今年6月初一份类似报道见报后，立即“出手”揭发。无论如何，当局或许应该考虑建立验证补习教师资历的机制，免得让家长和孩子们受害。
尽管教育部不断重申，基于因材施教原则，家长不应该为孩子参加高才班遴选试而进行任何预备。据说，还是有家长愿意砸下1万5000元让孩子参加预备班。笔者女儿在小学念高才班，常有亲友打听考入高才班的“秘方”，对于我们不曾预备的事实不甚相信。
女儿曾经不经意地透露，好些同学从幼儿班起便开始到一家补习中心为三年级的遴选试进行训练，笔者观察与留意到，那些同学后来在学业上几乎都应付得颇为吃力。每个孩子都有自己不同领域的优势，千方百计地让孩子挤入不符自己能力与优势的高才班课程，饱受信心打击的煎熬，受苦的可还是孩子啊！
—-来源《联合早报》
这确实也说明新加坡的管理水平问题，象国内是有教师证，有各种教师的分级制度，新加坡就没有， 象美国有个人的信用等级制度， 新加坡就学不来。