Zhou, the father of a student in Nanjing, was sitting at home one day. All of a sudden, he realized he (很少) spoke to his son's teachers all term. He wasn't even invited to a parents' meeting!
Zhou decided to ask his son. The answer his son gave him was a big shock. Zhou's son paid a man 50 yuan and asked him to be his "father" at a parents' meeting!
"I did badly in my (考试) and I didn't (敢于) to tell my father about that," says the boy. " My father is always (骄傲的) of me. I didn't want to make him feel angry.
This boy is not the only student to do that. Six of his classmates have used their money to do that, too. Most of them played the trick because they were afraid of being punished for getting bad (得分).
Teachers say that parents are to blame (对……负有责任) for kids' buying "fathers". "Parents are (要求) too much of their children," they say. "Sometimes many students (未能做到)，and they don't know how to face their parents then.
Students should make friends with their parents. Experts on teenagers say that is (确切地) the best way to ( 对付) with this problem. Then students will be able to have heart to-heart talks with their parents. These talks will be (有帮助的) to solve the problem.
