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浙江拟出台中小学生减负新规：超时未完成的作业家长签字可免做

Fourteen departments in Zhejiang recently introduced the guideline, which allows primary school students to leave their homework unfinished after 9 pm, and middle school students at 10 pm, with parents' approval.

The guideline contains 33 measures aimed at schools, after-school training schools, parents and education authorities to help reduce students' schoolwork. Besides limiting the amount of homework, the guideline also limits the time and difficulty of school exams, forbids schools from making grades and class rankings public and prevents after-school training schools from working on exam training or hiring teachers from public schools.

It forbids education authorities from evaluating schools based on students' enrollment rates in top high schools and stresses the need to improve high school and college entrance exam systems, which now evaluate schools only on test scores. Parents should form scientific parenting concepts and avoid blind competition with others.

However, the moves met with heated discussion on social media and mixed opinions from parents. While no parents want to see their children stay up late to finish their homework, many worry that if schools reduce homework assignments, make tests easier and downgrade the importance of scores, it is the parents who must provide their children with more extra learning to help them stand out from their classmates. This is because the all-important national college entrance examination, or gaokao, is not going away anytime soon.