介绍:
Heyang: A recent report shows that Chinese primary students spend three hours every day on average doing homework, twice as much as the global average. What’s more, it’s three times the level in France, four times that in Japan and six times that in South Korea. Most Chinese primary students sleep less than 7 hours every night. Why is it? Is it reasonable?
调查显示，我国中小学生平均每天写作业3小时，是全球均数的2倍，法国的3倍，日本的4倍，韩国的6倍，中国学生睡眠普遍不足7小时。三成父母会选择帮忙代写。小学生这么累真的好吗？
What is going on?
Doris: The report was based on big data generated by 20 million users of education app Afanti in 31 provinces over a year period. It shows that 26.4 percent of students spend at least two hours doing homework, while 28.7 percent will take as long as four hours.
Accordingly, most Chinese students sleep less than 7 hours every night, 1.5 hours less than their global peers. Besides, 46.3 percent of junior high students usually go to bed after 11, while nearly 90 percent of senior high students have stay up late. Some 8.89 percent of students in east China&`&s city of Nanjing go to sleep no earlier than 12 o&`&clock.
They must be very sleep deprived.
Luo Yu: Right, and according to the survey, most students will encounter very difficult and sophisticated questions, for example, usually, male students have trouble in math and basically with boys troubled by algebra and girls by geometry. Meanwhile, Chinese essay comprehension and composition, as well as English writing are all headaches for a lot of students. And this founding is actually quite interesting, despite the devotion of time, 30 percent of students report they have unsolved questions in their homework every day. And what they concerned to respond for the unfinished parts, 44.9 percent of parents saying that their children to give up, whereas 32.7 percent will finish the homework for their kids.
Heyang: Wow, Chinese parents are such loving parents that will do many things for their kids, but writing your kids’ homework for them doesn’t really help them. Here’s my question, is it all that necessary for primary students that the from the age 6-12, is that really so much homework to do? Shouldn’t they be out there playing soccer or playing a musical instrument, or doing something fun. Is that just too much? What’s going on here?
Doris: I played soccer and stayed on the playground all day everyday while I was in primary school so I shall hand it over to Luo Yu who’s born here.
Luo Yu: As I was born in a very remote area in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, so those days are really good old days for me, when i was in primary school, I don’t feel too much homework is a burden, and the reality is that we didn’t have too much homework. But now i think you know when it comes to reality of our modern society, there’s so many parents that is just afraid of their children failing at their starting line. 不要让孩子输在起跑线上。And so primary teachers are so demanding, and assign the students a lot of homework which i don’t think is a proper way because according to the scientific study,em…this researches from the University of Sydney Richard Walker Homework he said homework only boosts student scores in the final three years of high school, so if you give students too much homework in primary school or secondary school, it doesn’t add much value to the student education.
Heyang: Ok, and it’s obviously a downside when there is too much written homework and with the study that we originally talked about, i think it’s hardly scientific. I do have a big question mark, about the actual three hours that has been talked about here because it’s an app and it looks that the survey and it’s very difficult to actually determine how many hour these students are using on their homework.
Doris: Yes indeed. They should be learning life skills like cooking and sewing and woodwork and maybe piano lessons. (laugh)
Heyang : ok, well those things are recommended and if I were a kid I would rather go back to the homework and not interested in the cooking at all!
And that’s all the time we have for this edition of roundtable！
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