China News Service, Beijing, April 2 (Hao Lingyu) The Ministry of Education of China held a press conference in Beijing on the 2nd to introduce the "Notice on Further Strengthening the Sleep Management of Primary and Secondary School Students" (the "Notice").
The "Notice" clarifies the sleep time of primary and middle school students of different ages, and requires homework, off-school training, and games to make way for students' sleep.
According to the "Notice", elementary school students should sleep 10 hours a day, junior high school students should sleep 9 hours, and high school students 8 hours a day.
Provincial education administrative departments should coordinate school schedules based on actual arrangements. The morning class time of primary schools is generally no earlier than 8:20, and middle schools are generally no earlier than 8:00.
In response to external factors affecting students' sleep problems, the "Notice" puts forward three "interrupt mechanisms", requiring homework, off-campus training, and games to make way for students' sleep.
The first is the "interruption" of homework, requiring elementary school students to basically complete written homework in school, and middle school students to complete most of the written homework in school. If individual students have not completed their homework by bedtime, parents should urge them to go to bed on time and not stay up late to ensure sufficient Sleep.
The second is the "interruption" of off-campus training time, requiring off-campus offline training to end no later than 20:30, online live broadcast training no later than 21:00, and no pre-class preview, after-class consolidation, and homework Assign homework in any form such as practice, WeChat group clocking in.
The third is the "interruption" of games. Educational departments in all regions are required to use technical means to strengthen supervision in accordance with management rights and related departments to ensure that game services are not provided for minors from 22:00 to 8:00 the next day.
According to the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, the department commissioned relevant research institutions to monitor the academic burden of primary and middle school students in 10 provinces and cities last year.
The results showed that the average sleep duration of elementary school students and junior high school students were 9.5 hours and 8.4 hours, respectively, and there were insufficient sleep problems to varying degrees.
Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Director of the Children’s Sleep Disorder Diagnosis and Treatment Center, and the Children’s Sleep Medicine Group of the Sleep Medicine Committee of the Chinese Medical Physicians Association, Jiang Fan said at the ventilation meeting that studies have shown that sacrificing sleep time for learning does not exchange academic performance Improving, on the contrary, will cause extensive damage such as executive function, and affect the academic performance of children and adolescents.
He especially recommended that parents take appropriate measures to restrict children's use of electronic products, and at the same time set an example, consciously maintain a good work and rest, so that children clearly understand the importance of sleep.
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