At present, in order to enable students to finish the homework assigned by teachers at school, most primary schools often ask parents to sign at the back after students finish their homework, so as to supervise the completion of students' homework. Recently, an experimental primary school in Zhejiang canceled the requirement that parents sign their children's homework. After the news spread, it aroused people's discussion.

There are different opinions on whether students need their parents to sign their homework, but the ultimate goal is to make students study better. The purpose of signing is not to force children to study, but to let parents participate in their education. Education is not only the responsibility of schools, but also the responsibility of parents. So how to combine the two organically?

Bian Xiao believes that more attention should be paid to cultivating children's autonomous learning ability: if parents' signatures gradually become a habit, it is actually unfavorable to children, and they will always lose their autonomy in learning in this habit. For example, when they encounter problems in their homework, they always ask their parents instead of exerting their independent thinking ability, which is easy to develop children's dependence, and even their parents' signature will become the standard of their success. Of course, from the teacher's point of view, it is also purposeful for the teacher to ask parents to sign "homework". They hope that parents can keep abreast of students' learning situation and even increase communication with their children by doing homework.

However, this should not confuse the difference between school education and family education. School education is a highly professional job, and the important contents of school education must be reviewed by teachers and cannot be handed over to parents at will. "Family education" cannot be replaced by school education. There are differences and connections between them. Parents should cultivate their children's autonomous learning ability, self-confidence and sense of responsibility while thinking about how to sign their children's names. You can't participate too much in your child's learning process, and you can't accompany or arrange some educational knowledge that your child should master.

So parents don't need to sign, which doesn't mean parents are independent. On the contrary, they should play an important role at home. After all, teachers can only better supervise and educate students at school, and they can't catch their hands at home, so parents can only do it themselves.