Pupils: After five or six hours of make-up lessons a day, they are too tired to eat.
"Eat western food or go to the teahouse?" Seeing that her daughter Beibei was tired, Ms. Zhang, who has always been frugal, decided to cook something delicious for her daughter. "No, I want to sleep." This is the scene at the entrance of a tutorial school in Xinjiekou at noon 12: 30. "No, I have classes in the afternoon. I have to have lunch. " The daughter didn't know how to understand her mother's feelings and ran forward angrily.
Beibei is in the second grade of primary school. After the summer vacation, she entered the third grade, and her grades were among the best in her class. "Mom, you saw it in the newspaper. The Education Bureau said that summer vacation should not be the third semester for students, okay? " Beibei gave her mother a "vaccination" before the holiday, but her mother has spent more than 2,000 yuan to sign up for the remedial class. On July 7th, Beibei began to make up lessons, which was busier than going to school. "From 8 am to 12: 30, I'm starving, so I have to endure it. And I have Chinese, math and English in the morning, all of which are main courses, and my head is dizzy. " Beibei complained to reporters that she used to love studying, but now she is so tired every day that she doesn't want to learn what she likes. She eats too late every day and doesn't want to eat. In the afternoon, my mother arranged some activity classes for Beibei, such as aerobics and painting. "But there is homework in the remedial class in the morning and homework in the school summer vacation. I have to write late at night and get up at 7 am to catch up with class. Now it's really much harder than the last school! "
Although Beibei complains every day, her mother never lets her go. "I'm going to give her a composition class in August, and now the composition college entrance examination is 70 points. I won't worry if I lay a good foundation. " Ms. Zhang, who has become a full-time wife, sat at the school gate when her daughter went to the remedial class and completely lost her life.
Junior high school students: make up lessons every day without even a rest day
"I had a holiday on July 5, and I didn't make up classes at school, but I was not idle for a day!" Xiao Wang is a junior one student, and will go to junior two at the end of the summer vacation. "Chinese, Mathematics, Foreign Languages, Physics ……" Most of the summer courses are previews, and even the physics that I haven't studied is among them. Xiao Wang's class is arranged in the afternoon, 1 from the afternoon to after 6 o'clock. Each class lasts for one and a half hours, with only a ten-minute break in the middle and a half-hour meal in the evening. After dinner, it will last until half past eight. "I send him dinner every day, and it takes nearly an hour by car. It's really painful. " Xiao Wang's mother said that Xiao Wang asked for make-up classes by himself, because all the students in the class were making up classes. If he doesn't make up, he can't keep up, so he has to force himself.
"It's been almost a month, and I can't stand it." Xiao Wang said that although the remedial classes are air-conditioned and not too hot, they are inevitably sleepy in the afternoon. At school, the curriculum is reasonable. Even in the morning when there are many main courses, at least one activity class such as physical education will be arranged for adjustment, and school will be finished earlier in the afternoon, making it easier to get down from the whole day's class. But now the remedial class is the main course every day, and there is no rest on weekends. The whole person is very tired. But seeing that my classmates are insisting, I don't want to give up. The whole family had planned to travel, but Xiao Wang's class didn't take place until mid-August, so the plan had to be ruined.
High school students: Summer vacation is not as long as winter vacation.
"I just finished my class and am going to go again on August 10." Xiao Yu, a sophomore in new high school, said that this summer vacation is only over 20 days, almost as short as winter vacation. "In previous years, high schools in Jiangsu Province started their summer holidays in July 1. This year, the education department uniformly postponed the holiday time of senior high school, and the holiday was only in July 13, and the summer vacation was shortened to one and a half months. However, the school is still making up lessons, and few high school students can take a month's summer vacation. " The headmaster of a three-star high school told reporters. A few years ago, students in Grade Three, Grade Two and Grade Three spent at least half a month making up lessons during the summer vacation. Now, with more than ten days of extended holidays, summer vacation is almost the same as winter vacation.
Will it be easier to make up lessons in summer vacation than usual? The answer is no. According to the principal of a high school, the school's summer lessons start at 8 am and last until 4 pm, with no morning meetings, morning exercises and any activity classes. The content of the course is the review, preview and practice of the relevant subjects of the college entrance examination. Teachers of all subjects take turns to go into battle, and a lot of exercises will be arranged after class.
"Basically, they will come back to class at the beginning of the Olympic Games." A principal said that in view of students' great yearning for the Beijing Olympic Games, the school set aside time for students to rest in early August and return to school in mid-August. In this way, many high school students' holidays are actually only more than half a month, which is not as long as the winter vacation.
National primary school students
Most of them make up the "Olympic number"
[Reporter's investigation]
National primary school students
Most of them make up the "Olympic number"
A few days ago, a reporter conducted a survey of mathematics enthusiasts in China Youth Mathematics Forum held in Nanjing, and found that all primary school students in the country took extracurricular classes during the summer vacation, and "Olympiad Mathematics" was a compulsory course.
A teacher in Guangzhou said that the Olympics class of a well-known brand training school in Guangzhou can recruit four or five thousand people, and primary schools began to learn "one liter and two", sometimes opening more than 20 classrooms at the same time. Because the top local schools have entrance exams, many of which are Olympic Games, parents will send them whether their children like it or not.
Kuang is a junior one student in Lianyungang Xinhai Experimental Middle School, and also a "veteran" of the Olympic Mathematics. "I started studying Olympiad in the third grade of primary school and went for three hours every weekend." This summer vacation, Kuang is still used to starting her Olympic trip from July 1.
A Shanghai Olympic math coach admits that the Olympic math is not suitable for all children. It is right to let children cultivate the habit of mathematical thinking for life. However, learning Olympic Mathematics is only for competition and further study. As a utilitarian tool, it is biased, which may affect children's interest in mathematics and lead to their reluctance to learn mathematics knowledge in class.
In addition to "Olympic Mathematics", many primary school students also learn the so-called "Olympic Mathematics" and "Olympic Mathematics English" at the same time this summer vacation. A parent talked about why his son was a little confused when he was learning these things: everyone is learning, doesn't he suffer if he doesn't learn?
What's more, kindergarten children also make up lessons. Doudou children who are about to go to middle school should learn to draw for two hours every day for half a month in a row, and in addition, they should take Go lessons twice a week. And some children who are about to go to large classes should not only learn the same courses as Doudou, but also learn literacy and arithmetic in advance. There are many courses.