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ary Li enrolled her eight- “
year-old son in English,
Mdrawing, and Lego classes Children will fall behind
when he was four. When the boy
started to go to primary school, other if they do not take extra classes.
than 40 hours per week in school, he
had to spend nine hours on five after- ”
school classes including English and
Mathematics. RMB ¥1 trillion (US $0.15 trillion) by ing weekends, holidays, or after 9:00
“Every parent in Shanghai does 2025, according to a 2020 report by p.m. on weekdays. Tutoring is only
the same thing. Children will fall be- management consulting firm Oliver allowed on weekdays with a limited
hind if they do not take extra classes,” Wyman. number of hours.
Li says. China banned for-profit tutoring
Li’s family spends about RMB in core education to rein in the coun- After the “Double Reduction”
¥60,000 (US $9,282) a year on tutor- try’s private education industry and Policy
ing classes and has spent over RMB improve school-life balance for fami- Li signed up her son for English
¥200,000 (US $30,940) since her son lies in July 2021. The policy, dubbed and Mathematics tutoring classes on
started attending tutoring classes. “double reduction”, aims at releasing Monday and Friday respectively be-
Every year countless families fork out the burden of off-campus tutoring for fore the “double reduction” policy
for off-campus classes for their chil- students at the stage of compulsory was introduced. Each lesson lasts for
dren, contributing to the booming education and excessive homework two hours and ends before 9:00 p.m.
tutoring industry in China. assigned by schools. Her son also has calligraphy, street
The market size of China’s after- Under the new policy, all private dance, and basketball classes during
school tutoring for kindergarten to tutoring institutions are banned from weekends.
12th grade (K-12) students reached making profits by providing tutoring “All arrangements can remain
RMB ¥800 billion (US $123.7 billion) services of school curriculum subjects unchanged because they all meet the
in 2019, and was predicted to break such as English and Mathematics dur- time restrictions. But I still dropped

A private tutoring app provides tutoring classes for 5th grade students.