This paper defines shadow education as private supplementary tutoring that is fee-based and parallel to mainstream schooling. The study focuses specific attention on the underlying determinants of this private tutoring. This research covers the costs, patterns, intensity, and scale of private tutoring. It also provides detailed insight into the negative and positive implications of coaching, and on the impact that private education has on the educational and social lives of learners in Bangladesh. The paper also analyses the different private tutoring patterns in English, as well as the amount of tutoring offered and not offered in Bangladesh. These key points lead to determining whether the shadow education system in Bangladesh is a curse or a blessing. According to the research conducted in 5 regions in Bangladesh using qualitative method and research design questionnaire 70% support private supplementary education, 30% do not support its development and 100% of participants stated that the emergence of private tutoring was brought about by the low salary of teachers and desires of parents for the academic success of their children. [For the complete Volume 17 proceedings, see ED596826.]