[Wang Guoqing: Reducing the burden on middle school students is a heavy topic, and the homework time after class is three times higher than the global average] At today's press conference of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wang Guoqing said that reducing the burden on primary and secondary school students has long been a heavy topic in society. From 195 1 to 20 17, the state issued dozens of documents on reducing the burden of primary and secondary school students. However, for decades, children's schoolbags have become heavier and heavier, their extracurricular burdens have become heavier and heavier, and their time for sleep and rest has become less and less. Statistics show that primary and secondary school students in China spend 2.82 hours doing homework after class every day, which is more than three times the global average.
First of all, with regard to students' homework, it should be said that children in China spend more time on homework than children in other countries, while children in China have less free time after class. This is of course an objective and true situation, and the feedback from people who have been abroad is roughly similar to our impression.
Secondly, China students spend more time doing homework than foreign children, but it cannot be generalized. Some students do have a lot of homework and can't finish it at eleven or twelve in the evening. However, some students just don't want to do it. They just sit at their desks from morning till night, wasting time. For example, there is a naughty boy in my family.
In a word, China students' homework time far exceeds that of foreigners, but is it really more than three times? I think this data needs further investigation and verification.