Chinese parents lament losing sleep over children’s homework
- Berated, named and shamed by teachers if they do not help children complete assignments properly
Chinese parents are complaining that they have too much homework to do, despite government guidelines to lessen schoolwork for primary schoolchildren.
The burden is falling on parents as they help their children print, bind and even check and correct their assignments.
One father of twins, surnamed Zhang, complained about losing sleep because he had to check his children’s homework assignments, according to a CCTV report.
The parents have to sign off on each completed assignment and are berated by teachers in group chats if they fail to do so, screenshots shared with CCTV show.
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Another parent said they were asked to just take a picture of the completed work and send it to their group chat.
The teachers often did not even mark the assignments, it was claimed.