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1、Hard to help the elderly nowWhat will you do when you see an old person falling to the ground?Your first reaction may be helping him/her up.Hold on,you may get yourself into trouble.The old man or woman may grasp you by your arm and claim that you pushed him/her down.If the old person has broken his
2、/her arms or legs,you will have to pay handsomely.That is not a bizarre scenario one has made up.It happens often.Then,you may ask,who will dare to help a fallen old person in streets?Thats right.Nowadays,few will do.Take an event that happened not long ago.In a downtown plaza in Nanjing,a man of ab
3、out 70 fell to the ground,foaming at the mouth.He fainted several times while trying to call for emergency rescuers with his mobile phone.Passers-by watched but none moved to help.They informed an urban administrative officer nearby.People did not act to help the old man for fear of being accused of
4、 causing his fall.Once the old man or his relatives raised such an accusation,the helper will find it difficult to prove otherwise.This,again,is not exaggeration.People have learned a lesson from a case well known throughout the country.It happened in the same city of Nanjing.One day in July 2007,an
5、 old woman surnamed Xu broke her shin when getting off a bus.Peng Yu,a young man who was also alighting from the bus,helped the woman to a hospital and gave 200 yuan to her relatives for initial treatment.Xu claimed that she fell because Peng bumped into her.Peng said he did not collide with Xu,but
6、that he helped her purely out of fellow feeling.A passer-by,who had seen what happened,proved Pengs innocence in court when the case was heard.The court,however,ruled that Peng was partly responsible and ordered him to pay 45,876 yuan,or 40 percent of the losses the old woman suffered.The court base
7、d the verdict on said Pengs action went against common because he could have well left the scene if h not caused the woman to fall,but he didnt c to do so.The court said,Reasoning from logic,was most likely the one who collided with tl woman,for Peng admitted he was the fi descend from the bus and i
8、t was not possible culprit other than Peng to escape the scene eThe court said if Peng had been intent on doing a good deed,a more reasoned move would be catching the culprit rather than helping the fallen woman up.The second reason the court based its verdict on was that Peng had paid 200 yuan for
9、the medical treatment.If he had not collided with the woman,he would not have paid the money.Chen,the witness,was present at the court and insisted that Peng was innocent.But the court did not take his word for it.The obviously absurd ruling of the Nanjing court set an extremely bad precedent.It enc
10、ourages possible extortion by receivers of help in accidents and punishes people who help them,and scares away those who may be inclined to help.In fact,there have been many media reports of similar cases in other cities.The consequence is that few people would rescue a stranger lying on the ground
11、injured or in a coma.I believe that on-lookers in the case mentioned first in this article wanted to help the old man but they dared not.Many people,as is demonstrated by those who wrote comments on the abovementioned cases,have raised the question:What happened to our social ethics?Who will help ou
12、r senior citizens who may faint and fall on the street?A 75-year-old man apparently knows how to save himself under such circumstances.A few months ago,the man in Xiaguan,Nanjing,fell from a bus and collapsed.Before he lost consciousness,he yelled:I fell by myself.Nobody is responsible.On hearing th
13、at,several passers-by moved to help him.What an irony.Kids Should Study Less,Play MoreMy granddaughter,10,was very happy the day before yesterday because her mother and the mother of one of her classmates took them to a park and a Pizza Hut to celebrate Childrens Day.For a whole day,the two girls pl
14、ayed heartily no homework,no extra-curricular skills training.The happy life lasted only for one day.Yesterday,the routine resumed:doing homework till late at night and brushing up lessons learned at last weekends English and Olympic mathematics courses.Every time I went to my daughters house in the
15、 evening,I saw my granddaughter sitting by the small desk in her room doing math exercises or writing a composition assigned by her teacher.On the white wall behind the desk is some graffiti she wrote.One sentence reads:Why is the exercise endless?Poor girl!But she is not the only unfortunate kid.Ne
16、arly all schoolchildren,at least in cities,suffer from the heavy burden of studies.Although teachers have stopped giving after-school homework to primary school children-thanks to an order of the Ministry of Education,parents have been forcing their kids to attend various kinds of extra-curricular t
17、raining courses-learning English,painting,music instrument,weiqi(go),Olympic mathematics,and so on,every Saturday and Sunday.Are these extra-curricular courses really necessary in childrens education?The answer is definitely No.Take the so-called Olympic mathematics.These courses are very difficult
18、for the children to grasp.Often,they are difficult even for adults.4Early last month,when well-known Russian mathematician Andrei Okunkov visited Nanjing,a local journalist showed him a question from a local Olympic math course.The winner of the prestigious Fields Medal thought for quite a few minut
19、es before giving up.Sorry,I feel a little bit muddled,he said.In the past,there have been reports of university professors and doctors failing to solve such questions.These cases prove beyond doubt the absurdity of such courses for children.Parents know it,but they still want their kids to undergo s
20、uch courses.They have to,they say.When other children attend such courses,my child cannot be left out.That is the mentality of most parents.After the authorities banned schools from giving homework to children,schools started all kinds of extra-curricular courses.Some non-school organizations and te
21、achers also began running such classes privately.They urged the parents:Dont let your kid lose the race at the starting line.Though there is no unified examination for primary school students to enter middle school and the government has decreed that they should be admitted to schools near their hom
22、e,parents want their kids to attend better quality schools.These schools will test the applicants with higher-level examinations.And,whether a child can land a seat in a better quality school matters greatly for university admission.Most parents want their kids to study out-of-school courses to be c
23、ompetitive.In such a situation,it is unrealistic to urge parents to stop sending their children to such courses.The only effective way is to ban these courses by law.A few days ago,Wuhan,the capital of Hubei province,planned to pass a law prohibiting parents from tracking their kids Internet browsin
24、g for the protection of the minors privacy.Most netizens opposed the idea after it was reported online.Whether right or wrong,I think a more urgent and practical necessity is a law banning all kinds of extra-curricular courses.This is essential to free our kids from the ridiculously heavy burden of
25、study and allow them more time to play.Public Mood Is Never to Be IgnoredTwo incidents that happened recently have caused a sensation across the country.On May 10,three government workers of Yesanguan township in Badong county,Hubei province,visited an entertainment venue and asked for special servi
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