Zhou, the father of a Junior 3 student in Nanjing, was sitting at home one day. All of a sudden, he realized he didn't speak to his son's teachers all term. He wasn't even invited to a parents' meeting!
Zhou decided to ask his son why. The answer his son gave him was a big surprise. Zhou's son paid a man 25 yuan and asked him to be his "father'' at a parents' meeting! "I did badly and I was afraid my father knew it." says the boy "I didn't want him to be unhappy with me.''
The boy is not the only student to do that. Six of his classmates have used their pocket money to do that. Most of them played the trick(玩把戏) because they were afraid of the punishment(惩罚). A few just didn't want to make their parents feel angry.
Teachers say that parents are to blame(负责) for kid's buying "fathers'' "Parents are demanding(要求) too much of their children,'' they say .''Junior students often cannot meet their demands(要求). And they don't know how to face their parents when they do badly.'' Expert(专家) on teenagers say students should have heart-to-heart talks with their parents which will help to solve the problem.