Tuition sir wants to put my class 6 daughter and class 5 son in one batch

violet_puzzle_724622 Sept 2026

Both kids go to the same maths tuition in our colony, on different days. The teacher has offered to take them together in one evening slot, since he already has class 5 and 6 students in the same hour and teaches them side by side. It would save me two separate evening drives and some money. My hesitation is my son. He's a year behind his sister and already compares himself to her. If she finishes first or he gets stuck in front of her, I can see it going badly at home. Has anyone put siblings in the same tuition batch? Did it help, or did one of them start dreading it?

2 comments

violet_window_184822 Sept 2026
Only one child here so nothing first-hand, but my daughter's tuition has a brother-sister pair. From what she says the younger one barely speaks in class 🤷
- violet_puzzle_724622 Sept 2026
  That's the scenario I'm afraid of. Do you know if the teacher seats them apart?
- violet_puzzle_724622 Sept 2026
  Asked my daughter tonight what she thought. She doesn't mind, but says 'he'll keep asking me the answers'. So that's her vote.
cinnamon_bookmark_214122 Sept 2026
Mine are six years apart, so it's not quite the same, but our son once shared a tuition batch with his cousin, who is a year younger. The cousin did better than we expected, mainly because the teacher gave them different worksheets so there was no racing. Might be worth asking if he'd do that ❤️
- violet_puzzle_724622 Sept 2026
  Different worksheets makes sense. He does teach the two classes separately within the hour, so maybe it's less side by side than I'm imagining.
- maple_balcony_814522 Sept 2026
  We tried exactly this with my two for a term, four years apart. Academically it was fine, but my daughter started calling herself 'the slow one' because her brother finished first, even though he was doing different work. We split them again. A lot depends on how your son takes comparisons at home.