USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
    China
    Home / China / Society

    Pupil workload should shrink in new semester

    By Zhao Xinying and Wu Ni | China Daily | Updated: 2013-09-01 23:38

    Many parents question if proposed guidelines go too far in eliminating homework and tests

    Primary school students should have a less-stressful new semester, thanks to new national education guidelines that aim to reduce students" workload. However, many parents question whether the proposed guidelines go too far.

    The ministry will release the guidelines soon after it reviews the 5,956 public comments on the new rules. The guidelines were open to public suggestions for a week from Aug 22, and will be revised based on the review of those comments.

    Pupil workload should shrink in new semester

    Students at Baochu Pagoda Experimental School in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, carry textbooks for the new semester, which started on Sunday.Ju Huanzong / Xinhua 

    More than 90 percent of those who commented voiced support for most of the 10 items, including improving transparency in enrollment, forbidding cram schools during weekends and vacations, and encouraging students to exercise for an hour a day.

    Hu Ruiwen, the former president of the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, said people have been calling for reducing students" workload for a long time, and the proposed new regulations are a good start.

    "In many other countries, students do not have any homework because for pupils who are 12 and younger, spending six to seven hours a day at school is already physically stressful," said Hu, a member of the National Education Advisory Committee.

    "They need more time to get more sleep and exercise, and develop their curiosity and their own hobbies."

    Cui Linlin, a college teacher whose daughter is a fifth-grader in Beijing, applauded the move to reduce the workload. "Although my daughter is young, she has always been busy with her studies as students have so much homework and so many tests," she said.

    "I hope these regulations can be well implemented, so that children won"t be overburdened and can have a carefree childhood."

    Although the public is generally enthusiastic about the regulations, some parents are concerned about particular proposals, including eliminating written homework for all primary school students, and reducing or even canceling tests.

    Yuanliu Yuxiu, 11, a sixth-grader at Beijing Huixinli Primary School, said she would like to have some homework, especially when a test is looming.

    She also would like to attend a vocational school in summer. "If I don"t go to a cram school during summer vacation, I"ll end up wasting my entire summer watching TV or surfing the Internet at home," she said.

    Liu Li, 40, a housewife whose daughter is a sixth-grader at a Beijing primary school, said that although she supports the government"s efforts to reduce children"s workload, she questioned the plan to forbid teachers from giving out written homework.

    "Compared with homework, going to a museum, library or cultural center sounds more creative and interesting," she said. "But we parents may not have the time to offer our children such empirical homework."

    Lu Hong, a mother in Shanghai, said that primary school students not yet in third grade should not do any homework, but older students need to consolidate what they have learned in class through homework as they face middle school entrance examinations.

    Lu"s third-grade son sometimes didn"t finish his homework until as late as 10 pm, and his parents had to tutor him. The boy also took extracurricular classes in English, math and Chinese.

    "In Shanghai, the competition to get into high school is very fierce, even stronger than the gaokao (college entrance exam). I am more than willing to see his school workload reduced, but what if other parents don"t do the same thing?" she added.

    Ren Zhikang, a math teacher at Caihe No 3 Primary School in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, said he worries that schools won"t be able to fully implement the policies, regardless of how well-intentioned they are.

    "Students" exam results are still an important yardstick to measure whether the teacher has done a good job and how good the school is. So we feel pressured. We will have to ensure the students are competitive in tests, but not give them too much work," he said.

    Hu said students should improve their work habits at school.

    "They should master knowledge and finish homework at school with their teachers" help," Hu said.

    Ou Hailin contributed to this story.

     

    Previous 1 2 Next

    Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
    License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

    Registration Number: 130349
    FOLLOW US
     
    免费看无码特级毛片| 日韩视频无码日韩视频又2021| 日韩人妻无码精品无码中文字幕| 高清无码中文字幕在线观看视频| 中文字幕日韩精品无码内射| 精品一区二区三区无码免费视频 | 狠狠躁夜夜躁无码中文字幕| 日韩综合无码一区二区| 免费人妻无码不卡中文字幕系| 日韩精品无码永久免费网站| 无码免费一区二区三区免费播放| 内射人妻少妇无码一本一道| 国产中文欧美日韩在线| 亚洲精品中文字幕无码蜜桃| 无码激情做a爰片毛片AV片 | 久久99精品久久久久久hb无码| 一本加勒比hezyo无码专区| 亚洲欧美日韩在线不卡中文| 最近2018中文字幕免费视频| 亚洲乱码中文字幕久久孕妇黑人| 中文字幕在线亚洲精品| 中文字幕无码毛片免费看| 日韩精品无码永久免费网站| 草草久久久无码国产专区| 狠狠躁天天躁无码中文字幕图| 精品国产v无码大片在线观看| 人妻无码视频一区二区三区| 无码无遮挡又大又爽又黄的视频 | 无码人妻精品一区二区三区夜夜嗨 | 少妇伦子伦精品无码STYLES| 无码人妻久久一区二区三区免费 | 日韩人妻无码中文字幕视频| 无码国产午夜福利片在线观看| 亚洲国产精品无码AAA片| 无码国产69精品久久久久网站| 人妻少妇偷人精品无码| 国产精品无码久久久久久| 人妻丰满熟妇A v无码区不卡| 忘忧草在线社区WWW中国中文| 超清无码无卡中文字幕| 日本中文字幕在线不卡高清|