Believe it or not, homework, not smog or housing prices, is
causing nervous breakdowns for Chinese parents. Chinese social
media are full of stories about neighbors hearing parents yelling
while helping their children with homework.
Some parents literally get sick trying to help their children
after a long and hard day at work. In an extreme case, according to
social media, a parent suffered a heart attack due to the mounting
pressure of a child's education.
School homework, of all things, is becoming a pandemic,
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