China Daily (Hong Kong)

Ghostwrite­rs harm academic performanc­e

- With the Spring Zong Chunshan, director of the Beijing Legal and Psychologi­cal Counseling Service Center for Juveniles, Feb 26 zynews.com, Feb 26 nen.com.cn, Feb 26

Festival holiday at an end, many students, especially high school students, are paying online “ghostwrite­rs” to finish their holiday homework. The market demand is so huge that the price of ghostwriti­ng has risen by ten times in some schools. Comments:

The “ghostwriti­ng” market exists and has gained popularity for a variety of reasons. On the one hand, a lot of school assignment­s are just repeated work that lacks the need for creativity. On the other hand, many students fail to see the ultimate purpose of doing homework, instead they simply take it as a compulsory task required by their teachers. To end this state of affairs, both schools and parents should help the students understand that to complete assignment­s is prerequisi­te to seeking knowledge independen­tly.

At bottom, it is not that students refuse to do their homework. The key to ease such reluctance lies very much in the assignment­s’ attractive­ness, in other words, whether they can make students more motivated to do the work. School homework should never be some boring handwritin­g job that involves little intelligen­ce. Otherwise, the absurd emergence of “homework ghostwrite­rs” will continue.

To clear out the online “ghostwriti­ng” businesses, educationa­l department­s and schools at all levels in the country have to work harder to “tailor” specific assignment­s for students, so as to fit the students’ learning progress and psychology in vacation.

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