Chinese children’s parents “I quit the parent group, what’s the matter?” Do you think it’s necessary for the parents group?

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4 min readNov 1, 2020

Recently, a father sent a short video complaining about the teacher, which became popular on the Internet and attracted hundreds of thousands of people’s praise
“I quit the parent group. What happened?”
“You don’t have to teach in class. Ask me to help you mark your homework after class. What do I want you to do?”
“I have time to receive group news, can’t I teach myself?”
“All day long, I have to go to cram school or ask me to help me change my homework. When I finish my homework, I have to say to my conscience that you have worked hard.”
“To tell you the truth, what’s the trouble? Teach me, teach me, change me, who is the hard work? “
As soon as this video came out, it was resonated with many parents.
Everyone said that the father said what he wanted to say, but he didn’t dare to say it.
It has brought pressure to parents and caused some contradictions
The parent group brings convenience to home school communication, but it also causes a lot of contradictions. Although the parent has spoken his mind, he will have a lot of trouble after quitting the group. I don’t know if he can hold on to it in the end.
As one of the main ways of communication between teachers and parents, parent group almost covers the whole education stage from kindergarten to senior high school.
The initial establishment of parent group is to strengthen the relationship between school and parents, and provide better education for children through home school contact. But I don’t know when, but the parents have brought great pressure to the parents.

Before the national day, a father suddenly broke down and cried at a parents’ meeting.
The cause is simple
It turns out that he often doesn’t reply to the parents’ group’s information. After being reminded by the teacher, he suddenly loses control. He cries and says that he works overtime, meets and stares at his children. How can he see it
Parents can make a gold man cry, which shows how powerful it is.
The father explained that the phone call is not not to answer, is the general meeting can not answer, said, a sudden collapse.
To make an adult man wail in public, “parents will be called” is probably the last straw to crush the camel.

Wang Han, a well-known program host, has publicly said that he does not add parents.
Like many parents, Wang Han is also faced with pressure as a parent, that is, from the comparison of “other children”.
In order to escape the pressure, he refused to join the parents group, even though his wife urged him to do so.
Nowadays, with the development of science and technology, the communication between teachers and parents becomes more and more convenient. I believe that all middle-aged mothers have experienced the panic of “calling parents” when they were children. Now “calling parents” has become a thing of the past. Teachers and parents can communicate through wechat. Only one parent group can convey the information of children to their parents in time. On this platform, teachers communicate with parents face-to-face, assign homework, and timely inform parents of relevant matters. However, it is precisely because of close communication that parents often become a “quarrel” place between teachers and parents.
As for the existence of the parent group, teacher Zhang, a post-90s class teacher, said that when he was a child, there was no parent group, and students would still study hard.
However, with the development of the times, the progress of communication equipment, as well as the change of young parents’ educational concept, the parents have the reason to exist.
Mr. Zhang said that when he was in charge of the class, he didn’t want to build a parent group, but he didn’t expect that many parents would ask about their children’s situation every day, and some would call every day. In addition, some parents would build some groups in private, which would lead to more problems.
Therefore, the establishment of a parent group, in a sense, is an expedient measure to satisfy the relationship between the school and parents, as well as between parents and teachers.
In fact, the parents group is a collision and running in between the “new education mode” and the traditional school education culture. Although the parent group is small, it is also like a concentrated small society. When there are more people, problems will arise. Whether teachers or parents, the original intention is for children. Only through the joint efforts of parents and teachers, mutual understanding and timely communication with each other in case of problems, can the contradiction be reduced and the parent group can play its due role.

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