Yesterday, as I walked down the street, I saw notices all over the place about tutoring during the summer vacation: Olympiad math intensives, English crash courses, essay writing improvement classes, art lessons, electronic organ training sessions and more - truly a myriad of colorful offerings! Many tutoring centers even set up recruitment booths on both sides of the streets, and there were indeed quite a number of children and parents gathered around the tables asking for information.
What has the summer vacation become? Looking at the innocent, childlike faces of these kids, thinking that they've just been released from school for the holidays, but tomorrow they may have to enter another "school" for tutoring. During the summer vacation, they don't have the right to play; they can only study, study, endlessly shuttling between various tutoring classes, undergoing rote learning. It really makes me feel uneasy. Has the summer vacation become synonymous with tutoring for this generation of children?
Thinking about this, I don't know whether I should be happy for them or feel sorry for them. This generation of children has no worries about food and clothing, their living conditions are many times better than ours when we were young. But they don't have summer vacations anymore; they don't have the chance to get close to nature; they don't have the right to play. For them, summer vacation equals tutoring. At this moment, I suddenly remembered our summer vacations when we were little. Yes, we didn't have tutoring during our summer vacations when we were little!
When we were little, our summer vacations weren't filled with tutoring! When we were little, the summer vacation was our own time, a wonderful period that we could freely allocate!
I remember those days, we always counted down with our fingers in school, eagerly waiting for the summer vacation day by day. To us, summer vacation meant freedom, wild playing, embracing the arms of nature...