Rant Show: I Angrily Criticized a Million Parents

Chapter 152: Giving the students the choice!

Zhou Yang continued.

"When I was in junior high school."

"There are more than ten textbooks for regular classes alone, and more than ten workbooks. In addition, there are more than ten extracurricular reading materials and various reference books required by the teacher. The teacher made us have to buy them."

"I'm really curious, is everyone the same?"

“Perfect timing. I have a cousin who is the same age as me and is also in the third year of junior high school, but he doesn’t go to the same school as me.”

"Then one time he came to my house, carrying his schoolbag."

"So I opened his backpack to see if it was the same as mine, and sure enough, it was full of books too."

"And just like me."

"I noticed that many of the books were very clean, and it was obvious that they hadn't been touched much."

"However, unlike mine, I found that some of the regular course workbooks and exercise books were clean."

"I'm very curious."

Zhou Yang's brows furrowed at that moment, making everyone feel as if they could see his expression back then.

This makes the scene more engaging.

Everyone could feel his emotions and empathize with him, rather than it being just a speech by one person.

and so.

The viewers in front of the screen.

Listening to his words, I unconsciously began to ponder.

"After reviewing them, I found that much of the content in these books was repetitive, and much of it was material that wasn't tested or taught. So why should students buy them?"

"I think that having the most basic textbooks is enough; anything else just adds unnecessary burdens."

"Why not give the students the choice themselves?"

"Buying things that students don't read or use is not only a waste, but it also increases the pressure on students' shoulders!"

Hearing Zhou Yang's words...

Everyone was very surprised.

Parents, in particular, believed that every book the school required them to buy was extremely important.

then.

Parents who had just been weighing their children's backpacks quickly opened them to see if Zhou Yang was right.

After taking a look...

really.

Many of the books inside were brand new. The content was mostly irrelevant to the exams, or largely repetitive.

Parents also started to murmur among themselves.

Could it be.

Most of the weight in the heavy schoolbags that children carry is useless.

“Every day my daughter goes to school with a heavy schoolbag on her back. I even made her bring all her books so she wouldn’t forget anything. I never thought it would harm her! I’m such a bad father!”

“We were not crushed by life, but the children’s backs were broken by their schoolbags. Each generation of children suffers more than the last. It’s heartbreaking.”

"So what's the point of all those useless courses and books? Besides adding to the burden, I don't see any benefit."

"Yes, the burden of education must be reduced!"

……

Seeing everyone's complaints.

Zhou Yang remained calm and continued to speak as if he were having a casual chat with everyone.

"So I'm curious."

"Why do people keep saying that today's children are worse than the last?"

"But they learn more from a young age than people before them, and their vision and perspective are also more far-reaching than their older peers."

"They have heavier academic workloads and heavier schoolbags." "Yet, they are still considered not good enough by their parents."

"When I first went to Tsinghua University, I saw older brothers and sisters coming and going on campus."

"I am very confused."

"Why are our schoolbags so heavy and our time so limited in elementary, middle and high school?"

"And universities, where students should be learning even more, are filled with..."

"It's gotten smaller!"

"It wasn't until I talked to the professor and seriously studied the books he provided that I learned about them."

"I just realized that much of the knowledge we learned before university was not applicable at the time. Or rather, this knowledge was scattered and did not form a knowledge system."

"What shocked me the most was..."

"I asked my professor and found out that the vocabulary in elementary school English textbooks is actually at the level of College English Test Band 4!"

"I have a senior brother."

“He came back from studying abroad; he went abroad to study during junior high school.”

"He told me that he went abroad and always got the highest score in math in his grade."

"Because most of the math courses in overseas junior high schools are the same as those in our primary schools, he completely crushed everyone there."

"but."

"He told me that he hated math and was sick of it back home. Although he was always first in his class, he chose philosophy as his major in college, not math."

"Many of his classmates who did not perform as well in the exams chose mathematics. Moreover, they made great strides in university, and many of them published in top journals."

"So I don't understand."

"Why must children learn several times more math than those abroad in just a few years?"

"It makes everyone suffer, fear, and even want to escape."

"Is this for the good of the children?"

Hearing Zhou Yang's words.

The live stream chat instantly split into two camps, with some supporting it and others opposing it.

"The early bird catches the worm. Since we are not as good as others, we must work harder and study harder!"

"Yes, it's always good to learn more. If you can master the knowledge that others learn in junior high school in elementary school, you've already won at the starting line, which is a good thing."

"This shows that even our worst students have a higher level of knowledge than their best students. I suggest we continue to increase the amount of knowledge in the textbooks so that we can completely win in the future!"

"Does anyone upstairs have children? Is that something a human being would say?"

"My child is learning math, but because he can't understand the lessons, he can't keep up with the teacher's pace. He has to study until midnight every day after school, and he often cries from studying. Do you know how much pressure they are under?"

"That just means your child is stupid. Whose fault is that?"

……

Got to the back.

The two sides immediately started arguing.

A significant number of people believe that learning more is beneficial and harmless. The most important thing about a schoolbag is that it's good for the children's future.

not to mention.

The fact that there are so many useless books in the schoolbag also shows that students don't actually have much to learn.

You can even increase the amount of learning!
However, soon after, teachers from the teaching profession came forward to refute this claim.

"I am a veteran teacher who has been working in the teaching profession for thirty years. I am 52 years old this year."

"I have taught class after class and witnessed firsthand how textbooks have become more and more numerous, and how students' schoolbags have gone from light to heavy."

"For the first 20 years or so, I was almost always a homeroom teacher. I know every subject very well and I am also very clear about the amount of study for my students."

“I can say.”

"The workload now is at least twice as much as before!"

(End of this chapter)