300-word composition in the third grade of primary school [after returning to primary school]

2011In September, Lao Yu, who just started school and immigrated to Canada, and Mrs. Lu, who immigrated to the United States, talked about bringing their children back to China for primary school in recent years. It felt like a battle. Like a besieged city, people inside want to go out and people outside want to come in. By 20 1 1, Edmund will go back to primary school for five years and Yuanyuan will attend primary school for three years. The basic education in China made Lao Yu and Mrs. Lu hate and love each other. Anyway, as soon as they graduate from primary school, they will take their children out again.

America: Children are not encouraged to learn so many things.

In the summer of 2008, Mrs. Lu's daughter Yuan Yuan finished her first grade in the United States, but Mrs. Lu began to feel dissatisfied.

Mrs. Lu 1986 immigrated to the United States and lived in New Jersey in the eastern United States. In this typical American town, there are not many Asian families. Most American parents have no plans for their young children's education, but let them play. Many children don't start learning until the first grade.

Mrs. Lu grew up in a strict family education environment in China, just like a hot-fried "tiger mother". Of course, she also wants her daughter to receive roughly the same education as herself. My daughter started to study in a private kindergarten in China, which is far away from home, when she was very young. Yuanyuan had learned a lot before going to primary school and developed some basic study habits. Yuan Yuan himself likes this way very much, and feels that every day is "very interesting".

When Yuanyuan entered the first grade, the problem came. The teacher started teaching with 26 English letters-but these circles will be known at the age of two. She even stopped reading picture books and turned to story books based on words. Yuanyuan has been able to add and subtract two digits. Under teacher Lu's training, she can add and subtract 100 numbers 1 a minute. The number addition and carry taught in American elementary schools is a bit "chaotic". "American teachers really can't teach math," Mr. Lu said.

Yuanyuan suddenly felt that the first-grade course was not challenging. "Why is this school so boring?" She often asks her mother. Yuanyuan gradually became depressed and couldn't sit still in class. The teacher criticized her in front of the whole class and hurt her self-esteem. When Mrs. Lu arrived at school, the principal replied, "That's your fault. Why do you teach her so much? "

At the insistence of teacher Lu, the school gave Yuanyuan a test of learning ability. As a result, according to the American primary school syllabus standard, the round mathematics level has reached the level of grade four to grade five; English level is below grade three. Teacher Lu hopes that the school can upgrade Yuanyuan, but the school says Yuanyuan is really gifted, but we don't advocate that children learn so much when they are young, so we don't agree to let her skip a grade.

This made Mrs. Lu very angry and helpless. Mrs. Lu still has a lot of dissatisfaction with American primary schools. For example, primary school teachers in China will regulate primary school students' pen-holding and sitting posture, but American teachers clearly tell Mr. Lu: We don't care about these, as long as children are free. But in Mrs. Lu's view, this has caused many American children's words to be "ugly to death." To make matters worse, in America, parents can't ask their children's grades because it's private. Mrs. Lu doesn't want to control her daughter through her grades, but she still wants to know her daughter's specific learning situation.

Teacher Lu believes that a good basic education can benefit children for life. So, after discussion, the couple decided: Mrs. Lu resigned, took Yuanyuan back to her hometown in Shanghai, volunteered and took her children to primary school.

Parents: I don't want my child to have only one Chinese face left.

Mrs. Lu decided to let her daughter go back to China to attend primary school because of an important consideration: learning Chinese.

Although Mrs. Lu did not live and work in the Chinese community after immigrating to the United States, she always maintained the China complex: Where do I come from, and where does the language come from? "I always feel that we should have roots-my children should have Chinese roots."

Lao Yu and his wife insisted that Edmond return to China to attend primary school, which is also the reason.

Lao Yu's eldest daughter went to Canada after graduating from the sixth grade, and her Chinese remained basically. But most children who immigrated before the age of ten soon forgot Chinese. At every party, Lao Yu and his wife found that all China immigrants from Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and Southeast Asia wanted to learn Chinese. "Young people in their thirties also want to learn Chinese, but it is already very difficult."

Edmund was born in Canada. He is six years old. He can't speak Chinese. He can't figure out who his grandmother is. He can't figure out China's relationship. In Lao Yu's view, Edmund was faced with two choices, either to be a "Huang Xiangjiao" or to "totally westernize and forget about China". However, Lao Yu is unwilling to accept the second option. "The most important thing of a race cannot be lost or hollowed out, leaving only a Chinese face."

Of course, China's economic growth has strengthened their determination to return to China. Almost all banks in Canada have Chinese departments. If Edmond can learn Chinese well, he will have multiple choices in the future. Therefore, Lao Yu put Edmund in an authentic primary school in Xicheng District, Beijing, hoping that the children could learn "pure Chinese" from everyone.

Between a sense of accomplishment and frustration

In order to receive a formal basic education in China, Mrs Lu chose an experimental primary school instead of an international school with western education. This school has improved the traditional educational methods, but retained some essence of traditional education.

The education in the school, like teacher Lu, regulates children's habits from details such as holding a pen and sitting posture. When Yuan Yuan was in America, he was already a child who wrote beautifully. After returning home, the teacher still said that the word "8" she wrote must be changed. If 8 and 6 are not written well, there will be problems with the numbers. Mrs. Lu thinks this is exactly what she wants her daughter to learn. "Our education in China has many good places, not to say that foreign countries are good."

Yuanyuan has little homework. She usually does some at school and some at home. "The teacher stipulates that homework must be completed within half an hour, up to 45 minutes." Moreover, the teacher asked parents to stop their children if they could not finish their homework within the specified time. Yuanyuan feels a sense of accomplishment every time she finishes her homework.

The sense of accomplishment also comes from other aspects. Yuan Yuan became the small host of the school. The school also uses her fluent and standard American English to record English reading and lead students to follow suit. Yuanyuan also often helps students practice their spoken English. In order to adapt to Yuanyuan's learning progress, the school has also made some positive adjustments to Yuanyuan's curriculum. She has Chinese in grade one, math in grade two and English in grade four.

Edmund was not so lucky.

On the first day of primary school, Edmund cried because he couldn't understand the Chinese spoken by the teacher. A psychology teacher came to comfort him: "Why are you crying? You are a man! " "But it's no use. Edmund doesn't know what "man" means. No one has spoken to him like this.

In Canada, children don't have to sit upright in class, and Edmund has never seen a classroom with rows of tables and chairs. So when he first returned to China, Edmund often went to the podium for a walk after class.

Nevertheless, the first grade passed smoothly, and Edmund won the first place in the class in the final exam.

"Every child has a narrow escape."

But a few years later, Lao Yu admitted that he had initially underestimated the exam-oriented education in China, and he didn't understand what this mechanism was like until he experienced it personally.