We started Monday morning with a visit to the Temple of Heaven. Besides being a place for tourists to visit and people to worship, all generations of local people come to "hang out" there. Children are playing with parents or grandparents, teenagers are walking around, and many senior citizens are playing cards, checkers, knitting, etc. Different age groups are doing to tia chi in groups. It was amazing to see such a large range of ages all hanging out together.
Our next visit was to The Great Wall of China. The Great Wall was remarkable and the view from the wall was also so beautiful! Long green mountain ranges extended in both directions.
Our tour guide talked a lot about education here in China while we were traveling to the Great Wall. A few differences he pointed out were that the teachers in China just present the information to students. Students sit and do what the teachers say. His daughter is in middle school and attends school from 7:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. She then has 3 hours of paperwork each night to complete. Parents are expected to check the work because the teacher has 70 students in her class and cannot check that amount of homework from each child. His daughter does not go to school on Saturday and Sunday but she does have 1 and ½ days of paperwork to complete each weekend. She gets ½ day of free time each week. On the weekday she gets about 5-6 hours of sleep at night. He said he does not feel it is good for the kids to have this much work but because of the population it is so competitive so they must work very hard to compete.
Third Grade
Eagle Point Elementary
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