all for the children
This is common slogan– all for the children — here painted on a kindergarten wall (what Americans would call pre-school).
Playing simple games with rope.
This child's dirty face made me laugh.
Digging in the dirt.
Doing homework in the late afternoon on a makeshift desk.
studious concentration
hard work
Weekends bring extra English lessons, dance lessons & music lessons.
There is very little time to play. In fact, many children really don’t know how to play. They have few toys and few opportunities for free play.
asleep on the bus
This picture shows how hard life is for young Chinese students. This is the after work and after school traffic. See how the mom holds her son’s head up? He’s totally exhausted from staying up late at night doing homework and getting up early for classes. The mom accepts it as part of life. This is how her son must work to get ahead, to go to a good college, and to gain a good paying job to support his parents when they retire at the early age of 55.
When Chinese people ask me why we homeschool, it’s actually not hard to show them the benefits. They all realize the difficulties of their current educational system.
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