Starting from the fall term, students in primary and middle schools will have at least one lesson every week to learn simple but necessary housework skills. Labor lessons mainly cover housework chores, productive labor and services. The lessons are good for students' character.
Primary school students in first and second grades need to do simple but necessary cleaning, wash vegetables and peel fruit, and learn to raise one or two kinds of plants or small animals. Third and fourth graders should clean their classrooms, wash their underwear(内衣)，socks and shoes, and know how to make cold dishes. Fifth and sixth graders should know the skills of cooking two or three common dishes.
For middle school students, they are encouraged to cook three or four dishes by themselves, learn how to make one or two kinds of traditional handicrafts(手工艺品)，and experience one or two types of new technologies, modern service or volunteer work.
People welcome such lessons and say it's necessary to teach young students housework skills. Yang Jianping, a mother of a first grader in Beijing, says she supports teaching students such lessons, because they can help students learn some necessary labor skills. Her son's head teacher asks the students to clean the classrooms. She likes it very much.
