Ankang NewsAn article Ankang Gaoxin Sixth Elementary School: Flexible School Time Release the Educational Burden caught a large-scale attention recently. The report, once released on Ankang Daily, has brought itself up to 33th on Weibo hot search list, with a 5700 thousand plus reading quantities, and over a hundred media platforms reproducing it.
Ankang Daily as the very first publisher has paid close attention to this issue and the change in Gaoxin Sixth Elementary School for a long time. It all starts from March, when the school tries to give a beneficial shot for the flexible arrangement of students to come and leave school. The journalists of this article put it like this: addition in school, subtraction for parents, and multiplication to students. This reform’s original intent is to give students and their parents a large freedom both to arrange their time as they wish.
Flexible school time reflects in two periods of time: 7:00-9:00am, when parents can either send kids early for morning reading practice or postpone the arriving time to 9 o’clock to guarantee a sleep time; 4:50-6:00pm, , students have 25 clubs and other recreational and sports activities to choose, while their parents can decide whether continue overtime work or not, no worrying the kid’s thing.
Flexible school time is actually a first trial breakthrough among public primary schools in Shaanxi povince, intending to release educational burden by benefiting both sides and gaining a win-win.