Tiger Parents Do No Good to Kids’ Development

Digging through kids’ school bags, looking up all the assignments, sitting beside them going through each item, and finally【小题1】(have) all the homework checked with a name signed is a 【小题2】(day) routine for most Chinese parents, as required by teachers. A demanding task especially after a long day’s work at office, isn’t it?   【小题3】(luck), some parents in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, have been liberated. A local primary school has recently announced that parents will no longer have to sign their names on their kids’ homework, as students should be responsible【小题4】their own assignments.

Making mistakes is 【小题5】essential part of the process of understanding. Who cares how much you【小题6】     (score) in your homework after you have settled down in life and found your directions? The【小题7】(able) to realize one’s mistakes and learn from them is what matters, which is also the main purpose of education. Why not give students a chance【小题8】(find) out and correct their mistakes themselves?

It is by no【小题9】(mean)parents’ duty to go through the kids’ assignments.【小题10】 parents are supposed to do is to create a friendly studying environment for kids, and teach them to be an independent learner. After all, independent learning is much more important than high scores.

After a day’s hard work, Zhang Tian got back to his small room, feeling 【小题1】 (tiring). He had to prepare his lessons 【小题2】 the following day. 【小题3】 (come) to Guizhou Province to teach has been quite an experience for him. He 【小题4】 (graduate) from university and 【小题5】 (apply ) for a volunteer teacher in a village. He imagined all sorts of 【小题6】 (excite) things about living and teaching in a village. However, not everything lived up 【小题7】 Zhang Tian’s hope. Living in the village was more challenging than he had thought. He introduce more subjects to the school, making it full of 【小题8】 (laugh) and music. Besides teaching, Zhang Tian also brought changes to the village. The 【小题9】 (contribute) he made to the village was great, so he became very popular among the villagers and they treated him 【小题10】 one of them. He planned to stay for another year.

Tennessee in America is now providing free community college for the people of recent 【小题1】(graduate) from high school. But now, the state has managed 【小题2】(make) their program include everyone.

The government official Bill Haslam signed the Tennessee Re-connect Act(法案), making Tennessee 【小题3】 first state in America to provide tuition-free(免学费的) community college for 【小题4】(it) people. The program will not cost them a dollar —it 【小题5】(support) by the state’s lottery proceeds(彩票收益).

“We need to reach the working mothers that went to college but didn’t complete it, and the fathers who never went to college but are aware 【小题6】 they need to improve their skills,” Haslam said. “We are making a clear 【小题7】(state) to families: No matter who you are, no matter 【小题8】 your education was in the past, and no matter how high your income level is, you can participate 【小题9】 the program to go to college for free in Tennessee.” According to officials, the cost of expanding the program would be as 【小题10】(highly) as $10 million every year once it is completely carried out.