Posted on 06/29/2022 1:30:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
After receiving his son's mathematics results, a man in Henan, China, burst into tears — though not in a good way.
A 12-second video of this man surfaced online last Thursday (June 23) on Weibo, where he can be seen sobbing away while pacing around a room.
He then wipes off his tears with his sleeve, and grabs a towel off the bed to stop more tears from flowing.
It seems that this man found out that his son — whom he had been painstakingly tutoring every night for a year — had scored a measly six out of 100 for his mathematics exam.
According to the boy's mother, he would usually score either 40 to 50, or even 80 to 90 for his tests. Hence, the boy's mediocre results were a rather big blow to the man, who probably felt his efforts backfired.
Netizens sympathised with the man in the comments, saying that they understood how the man felt.
On the flip side, some also felt that it might have been the man's mistake instead of his son's, that everything he taught his son was wrong.
Last October, another Chinese man also experienced a mental breakdown because of his daughter's ineptitude for mathematics.
The man, who resides in Jiangsu, laid down in the middle of the road and begged police to detain him, as he did not want to return home after his daughter failed to solve a simple equation.
"My daughter subtracted 700 from 800. She said the result is 900," he told a police officer.
Math vely vely haaad
LOL
For the next year, the son should teach the father math every night.
“Let’s congratulate this father and son for defeating Asian stereotypes.”
LOL. Definitely. Follow Biden’s lead. Embrace losing.
Don’t know what the Chinese test looks like, but on most exams, it would take a real effort to score 6% (assuming 94% of the test wasn’t left blank).
The poor guy didn’t understand that there are some people who love and glory in math while there are others who loathe, despise, and abominate it. I am in the latter group while my mother was in the former, even though I am a male. That just proves that the stereotype of women being bad at math and men being good at it is nothing but a stereotype where there are always major individual exceptions. This poor guy just has to understand that his son is not now and never will be a mathematician and direct his son into some other line of work.
In Communist China, 2+2=5.
This is likely fake news intended to discourage parents from homeschooling.
LOL, you are a true pun star!
If you read the article, the some was doing much better before the tutoring.
BS propaganda from Beijing to cow the masses into sending their kids to government schools for a proper CCP indoctrination.
Sucks for him.
These tests are hugely important there.
he’s obviously good on subtraction...
In Basic Training, one of our lab-rat projects was to take multiple choice tests, trying to fail. They were trying to build a data base of how people try to flunk out.
See my #34.
Good.
To get a score of like 6% it takes one with smarts. Depends on testing layout of course. Multiple choice with 5 choices, guessing would get what — 20%.
Maybe kid is smart ass. Making wrong answers on purpose.
That's your dad isn't it.
Made me laugh!
No. My dad teached English.
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