Teacher Warns Parents: Anime Leads to Bad Grades!

[garyoak99]

Chinese students, like students across the world, have summer break: a time when they're free to pursue non-scholarly activities. Unfortunately for a group of students, their interest in anime and comics have been hindered by an overzealous teacher.

Sina Games reports that earlier this week, a text message went viral on China's twitter-like Weibo. The text message from the school "authority" reads as follows: "Greetings parents. Rumor has it that there will be an animation event happening at the Zhengzhou International Convention Centre tomorrow. I know that some of our students will be attending this event. I strongly urge parents to prevent their children from attending this event. Animation has been known to turn good students into bad students."



Animation has been known to turn good students into bad students...2

Sina reports that Chinese netizens are blasting the school and the school official that sent the message online. One weibo user wrote, "What do anime and comics have to do with good grades? Doesn't it all come down to self control?".3

Reporters who got wind of the story tracked down the school to Zhengzhou Middle School number 7. It turns out the message sent to parents wasn't from a school official per se, but rather from a homeroom teacher, who told reporters that he only sent the message because he received pressure from a small group of parents.

"The teacher didn't want to send out this message," said an unnamed staff member at the school. "The parents came and told us of their feelings, and then the message was sent."

Teacher Warns Parents: Anime Leads to Bad Grades

[xdivision_whitey]

Well stop being so boring!

[Juillet Matin]

I watched a lot of anime and read a lot of manga as a kid (Still do), and my grades were pretty good. So unless these kids are like those that use Hetalia and the like instead of their history book (or other research) or were getting distracted and not finishing their homework, they should be fine. Either way, if their grades are slipping, it's the student's fault and not the anime and manga's fault.

[Alice Allusion]

Bad grades usually occur due to the students personal choice not because they might be interested in anime etc.

[A mali]

Oh no. I need to go back in time and tell my old self not to watch anime or read manga. gonk

[Destined Savior]

What the hell?

[Euphonious Cantabile]

I was a huge anime fan back in high school, and my grades were usually As and Bs with maybe 2 C's.

[Chahklet]

My grades sucked but that's because I am lazy as ********. I still passed test but never did class work or home work.

[Yuki_Windira]

Pfff,was wondering when that "I blame anime for -whatever-!" was gonna come back. rofl

[Honey of the South]

I watched anime and read manga all thru high school and still managed to do my best to keep my grades steady. The only classes where my grades were bad were the classes where the teacher sucked (Algebra 1, which i had in 8th grade and had to retake in high school with a much better grade) or I absolutely hated (geometry). Otherwise I did my best to keep my grades up.

[Zered Heizien]

tired of using video games as a scapegoat so they switched to the next easy target?
just another episode of "blame everything except bad parenting"

[Alexander J Luthor]

[********]

Tell 'im, Senor Chang!!

[Lizzy Midford]

wtf I watch anime all the time and I get straight A's!

[Ame Yuki Kaze]

If I have to choose between anime and academics, it's going to be anime every time.

[Grace Gubreez]

The school authority that sent that message should be punched in the face, repeatedly.

I suppose she would prefer the students be out drinking or doing drugs. rolleyes