China passes law to reduce pressure on children from homework

[discocrisco01]

Source: AFP

The government has imposed several rules in recent months aimed at combating activities it considers harmful to the development of China's youth.

Beijing has already banned minors from playing online games for more than three hours a week in an effort to tackle addiction. It has also launched a crackdown on private tutoring companies, ordering them to go non-profit.

Read more: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211023-china-passes-law-to-reduce-pressure-on-children-from-homework

[jimfields33]

1. I'm torn. Kids in Asian countries are so advanced compared to Europe and the US

I’d hate for them to slide back to our education system.

[harumph]

3. There's no way they'll "slide" that far.

[IronLionZion]

8. In math and science and computers

and stuff that requires rote memorization. There's less education on creative thinking, arts, literature, etc. over there

[HUAJIAO]

15. "Over there?" I think it disengenious to lump all "Asian' countries together.

South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are very strong in education in the arts, literature, etc., just for starters...

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. Chinese education is just as bad as ours just from a different direction

Being a good test taker does not mean you're a good student. I taught in the system for 12 years.

[McKim]

2. Homework is Not Good for Families

Homework does not equal more and better learning! The large amount of homework in our high schools ruined our family life for four years. Our daughter had no more time for family life and the majority of her free time was spent doing homework. No fun times and it left us a legacy of alienation that continues to this day. The long term consequences of the homework craze to "get ahead" produces workaholic kids who are then way behind on social skills, real life lessons learning and most of all the value of JOY, FUN and THE ARTS.

[orleans]

11. +1 nt

[HUAJIAO]

16. I had PLENTY of homework when I was in public back in the 1950s and 1960s.

I don't feel I lack social skills, real life lessons, joy, fun and I have been a professional classical musician pretty much my entire life...

I had plenty of 'play' time as a kid, and used it...

Of course my experience is also anecdotal.

[BigmanPigman]

18. I had a former 6th grade student come back and visit me

years later. He told me I gave more homework than his Middle School teachers. I asked him if he knew why and he didn't. I told him the truth, the parents wanted me to and basically forced my hand. This was a Gifted and Talented Cluster class with mostly high achievers and a few average achievers. This particular student was more interested in skating than school. I remember speaking to his mother who complained that she didn't have time to check up on his schoolwork and was not aware he was 6 weeks behind in his research paper and somehow that was my fault.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Hope the Homework Reduction Act Notice goes better than

the Paperwork Reduction Act Notice.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. my late mom who was a teacher for 27 years @ glendora ca unified sd

felt that all school work should be completed at school.

[keithbvadu2]

6. Dennis

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[usaf-vet]

7. Doesn't this sound exactly like the path we have taken in America. China's current rules have...

... consistently produce some of the smartest university graduates in the elite U.S. Universities.

As a former school board member, I remember the demands to "let kids be kids". Let kids play in sports regardless of their academic scores. Lowering the standards was the common demand. Rarely did we hear demands to require more academic excellence.

In this case why would China now seem to follow our example?

[IronLionZion]

9. They should reduce pressure on children to work at home

child labor is very common among poor rural families over there. Some of it is OK but some is abusive and dangerous work that leaves kids burned, maimed, or killed.

[ripcord]

10. I don't think kids in grade school should get any homework

Once they hit middle school they should begin to get some and it should increase for high school, they are going to need to do homework to be prepared for college.

[Texin]

12. Smacks of the gov't trying to dumb down the population starting with kids.

Then remove whatever social media information they might be obtaining. Makes it easier to control them.

[pecosbob]

13. The one they stress over is the GaoKao, their college examinations

As for the private tutoring companies, all the foreign ones have already been chased out of China in recent years. There is a wave of nationalism and xenophobia being stoked by the Chinese government. All the China bloggers I watch have declared that the party is over for westerners in China for the forseeable future.

[Dystopian Optimist]

17. Protecting Kids from Perverted Thoughts

Such as, "Maybe Daddy shouldn't have been taken away because of that Winnie the Pooh joke."

[twodogsbarking]

19. Homework is getting in the way of phone production.