BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Top Chinese legislators are proposing a ban on schools' exposure of students' examination marks and rankings to lighten the burden on them.
He Keng, a member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, said he strongly proposes a new clause to be included into the compulsory education law, which is under revision, to stop teachers from ranking students' examination scores and announcing the exam results.
Ranking students by their examination performance has long been a practice in Chinese schools, and many schools take the scores as triumph and advantage in teaching competition with others.
"Examination scores should be kept as students' privacy, and the ranking will cause hurt to those young hearts," said He, a retired statists.
Pang Lijuan, another NPC Standing Committee member, said severe competition at school also causes health problems to students.
She complained that school children are spending too much time on school work without enough rest and sleep.
China began to underline school's role in promoting students' all-round development, rather than their examination performance, in recent years, but schools remain "enthusiastic" on pressing students for good scores.
The shortage of enough education resources, noted some NPC deputies, is to blame for the existence of so many "demanding" teachers. Only when the problem of imbalanced distribution of education resources is solved, can school children have easy days, they said.
The Fourth Session of the Tenth National People's Congress opened in Beijing on Sunday morning with the presence of more than 2,900 deputies from all over the country.
(2006-03-05 20:09:22 Xinhua English) |
