myLot Topics| Why Chinese kids have to learn so much? | | it's a phenomenon in China that most kids are forced to take different classes by their parent since they're 4 or 5 years old. classes such as dancing,singing,writing,reading,drawing,piano, violin...they study all day long and don't have time to play.and some kids are only 6 or 7, they don't know how to play and how to get rest.i think these kids are really pitiful, they won't know how childhood can be so wonderful.can't those parents just give their kids a break? | |
| | 15-Year-Old from Germany Jailed for Skipping School. Isn't that crazy? | | A 15-year-old girl from the German town of Goerlitz will be jailed for two weeks as punishment for persistently skipping classes, the education ministry for the eastern state of Saxony has said.
The ministry said the decision was made by a district court and came after the girl's parents failed to pay a fine and the girl herself refused to do community service.
I think it is crazy. I am wondering how many days in jail would spend kids from some of american public schools? | |
| | The Second Lesson to be Learnt | | This is the second lesson President Obama learnt from his China trip.
The Chinese are obsessed with ensuring kids get the right education - English, Maths & Science. They made sure that the education system reached even the most remote rural areas - today the literacy rate in China is OVER 90%, surpassing even the USA 's 86%. According to American Educationists, the Chinese Kids are way ahead of the kids in the USA . Meanwhile in a third world country, the cranky devious politicians are determined to retract their education system to destroy the next generation and to bring them back into the stone age. So how does your country's education system compares to China's | |
| | Making friends with technology | | The average Chinese young person has 37 online friends he or she has never met, Indian youth are most likely to see mobile phones as a status symbol, while one in three UK and US teenagers say they can’t live without their games console. Globally, the average young person connected to digital technology has 94 phone numbers in his or her mobile phone, 78 people on a messenger buddy list and 86 people in his or her social networking community. Yet, despite their technological immersion, digi-kids are not geeks -- 59 per cent of eight- to 14-year-olds still prefer their TV to their PCs and only 20 per cent of 14- to 24-year-old young people globally admitted to being ‘interested’ in technology. While most of these kids are in developing nations such as India, Brazil and China, the people least interested in technology were the Danes and the Dutch despite saying they couldn’t live without it. Kids are, however, expert multi-taskers and are able to filter different channels of information. These are just some of the findings from a global study undertaken by MTV and Nickelodeon, in association with Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, into how kids and young people... | |
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