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Chinese province to ban homework on mobile apps

published : 18 Feb 2019 at 19:11

writer: AP

Students line-up to get eyesight test at a primary school in Donglin Township of Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang province. (Xinhua via AP photo)
Students line-up to get eyesight test at a primary school in Donglin Township of Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang province. (Xinhua via AP photo)

BEIJING: An eastern Chinese province plans to ban teachers from assigning homework to be completed on mobile apps as part of efforts to preserve students' eyesight.

Zhejiang province issued a draft regulation last week and is seeking public comment.

Along with barring app-based homework assignments, it would limit the use of electronic devices to 30% of total teaching time and encourage the issuing of paper homework to be completed by hand.

Soaring rates of nearsightedness are blamed partly on screen usage.

The regulation would bar primary and middle school students from bringing electronic devices into classrooms without permission, restrict amounts of homework assigned and increase the time for breaks, sports and extra-curricular activities.

It says no written homework at all should be assigned to first and second graders.


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