最近連續被“花式作業”刷屏了

Parents at a well-known Hangzhou primary school were outraged after it asked first-grade students to write a 12-page science report on fallen leaves.

杭州一所知名小學要求一年級學生寫一份12頁的落葉科學報告，這樣的家庭作業讓家長感到憤怒。

The assignment, set over the recent Golden Week holidays, asked children to collect fallen leaves from their local area “at different stages of growth” and measure their perimeter, color, size and texture.

在剛剛過去的黃金週假期，這所小學要求學生收集當地“不同生長階段”的樹葉，測量樹葉的周長，觀察其顏色、大小和軟硬等等。

“How would a first-grader understand the concept of a perimeter? This is clearly parents’ homework,” a furious father of a child at the unnamed school was quoted as saying. “The fallen leaves are all yellow; where will one go to find fresh leaves?”

一位憤怒的爸爸說：“周長這個概念，一年級的孩子哪裏知道，這明擺着就是家長作業嘛。樹葉都發黃落掉了，這是不可逆的，到哪裏去找新鮮的葉子呢？”報道中沒有提及這所小學的校名。

The children were also asked for two hand-written reports based on their findings, totaling 12 pages. Primary education normally begins at age six in China.

學校還要求孩子將觀察結果寫成兩份共計12頁的手寫報告。中國孩子一般6歲開始上小學。

The father, an engineer by profession who was not named, said that he completed the assignment and that it took him two days to do it. “I wrote 600 to 700 words for each report and I still had to make sure the text corresponded with the leaves, it was much more tiring than my usual job!”

這位工科出身的爸爸說，他花了兩天時間才把作業完成。“每份報告寫了六七百字，還要圖文結合，比我平時的工作累多了。”

He said his son’s only contribution was coloring in diagrams and collecting leaves.

他說，整項作業，兒子只參與了撿樹葉和給圖表上色，其他全是爸爸做的。

“It’s basically parents who are doing the 12-page homework, the children are not learning anything,” he said. “Also, if children are learning from this exercise that their parents will do their homework for them, it is not great for their values. In future, they might never work hard again.”

他說：“12頁的作業，基本都是家長在做，孩子根本沒學到什麼東西，而且，如果孩子從此知道，家長可以幫忙做作業，這對孩子的價值觀都是一個衝擊。以後，他們可能不會努力做事了。”

“They have only been in first grade for one month and a half and can barely write any words, but still have to complete a 12-page written assignment that the science teacher never explained to them,” he reportedly posted on his WeChat account.

這位家長在微信朋友圈裏說：“一年級才學了一個半月，字都寫不了幾個，要完成科學老師完全沒有帶過的12頁手寫項目學習報告。”

The private school’s principal told reporters that the project did not have to be completed within the week-long holiday and that students were allowed to use Pinyin or ask their parents to write the report if they did not know the exact Chinese characters for some words.

這所私立小學的校長對記者說，這項作業不是要求十一假期後上交的，孩子不會寫的字可以用拼音，也可以請家長代筆。

“The homework does not have exact answers, but it was designed to make the children participate more,” he was quoted as saying.

他說：“作業沒有標準答案，需要的是孩子們多參與。”

Teachers had also explained the lifespan of a leaf to the first-graders in class, one educator said, and wanted them to understand the concept through the homework.

一位老師說，樹葉在一段時間內從生到死的過程，這個知識點和孩子們上課時講過，希望通過作業讓孩子們理解這個概念。