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This is a true story about a boy who ran away to escape the stress of too much homework.
Boy Runs Away From Homework
Source: Ananova.com Pre-Reading Questions What would you do if homework became too difficult for you to handle? This is a true story about a boy who ran away to escape the stress of too much homework. Boy Runs Away From Homework A 10-year-old boy stowed away on a train and ran away from home in China - because he had too much homework. Xu Zhiqiang, 10, from Cili town, Hunan province, ended up thousands of miles away from home, reports Information Times. He said he could not cope with the amount of homework he was expected to complete during the one month winter holiday. Xu said: "Each of us has to finish two thick books of homework. Take the mathematics homework as an example, it has 100 pages with all kinds of questions." To make matters worse, Xu's mom found a mistake on one question and punished him by getting him to correct the mistake and copy the right answer 100 times. Click here to read the full Article
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![]() written by george allan, March 30, 2008 written by pintu mon, May 02, 2008
Itz not a big thing... first his parents should take a stick then beat him up2 this
level written by Mohan, July 04, 2008
As far as i am concerned nowadays education system should be changed and it must
improve the ability of thinking and creativity. written by anju, September 19, 2008
as far as i m concerned.teachers should not have given him so much homework because he started to think that how he can get rid of it and after sometime when he thought and taken out this solution to run away.
written by phiboonsak, October 02, 2008
Thank you for your kindness
written by Evan Jamal, November 17, 2008
I'm not agree with him this is not way to solve the problems like this situtions
thnx written by saad wisam, November 17, 2008
i think it is very crazy to act from each the boys and the parant of the boy
written by liza, December 15, 2008
I think that he is a little stupid, because his teacher and parents are trying to help him to become a intelligent, smart and have a really good job and position on his future, and he gone way. He's very stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am learning English. written by giang, February 02, 2009
I think that Xu' parents shound take care of him better . The shouldn't change their mind about education.
They could take Xu go out and shopping when Xu finished his homework. May be, that is a gool encouragement and Xu will feel excited and he will study better. I'm studying English. written by Saleh Alghanam, February 10, 2009
I wonder why he took this decision :-
written by Samiatu, February 11, 2009
the number of homework given to a child sometime depends on his her level.
So teacher should minimise the homework given to the little kids. Write comment
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may it be the reason of their incredible development??????????
I WOULD NOT HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THAT 'CAUSE I LOVE STUDYING VERY MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
KIND REGARDS
GEORGE ALLAN