Studying not rounded out with sleep

THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION recently published national standards for the management of primary and secondary schools, which has attracted a lot of attention as it says that schools and parents should work together to ensure primary school pupils sleep at least 10 hours a day and middle school students sleep nine hours a day. Thepaper.cn comments:

Studies show that primary school pupils need 10 hours of sleep every day and middle school students nine hours of sleep a day. However, we interviewed some pupils' parents and none of our interviewees said they could achieve that goal. And none of the interviewees believe other parents would be able to achieve that goal.

The reason of course is the academic burden on children. Many kids have ridiculous amounts of homework to do each night, while they also suffer from the additional burden of extracurricular courses. The brutal truth is that children have to work harder than adults.