A dad who tutored his son for a year broke down when he heard that the youngster had only managed to get 6 out of 100 on his exam. The sobbing parent's emotional outburst was caught on camera as he found out the schoolboy's results.
In the clip, he can be seen reading over the report card before slapping his knees in upset and frustration. He is then shown raising his arms up in defeat before wiping away is tears with a towel. The strange video went viral on Chinese social media site Weibo this week as millions of children were handed their results from the notoriously tough June assessment season.
According to the post's caption, the dad - said to be from Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province - had spent many long nights attempting to improve his child's maths skills over the past year, the Mirror reports.
It is assumed his upset display was out of both disappointment and exhaustion. Viewers gave mixed responses to the short video, with some sympathising with the father while others took the boy's side.
One sympathetic user said: "I feel pain and sadness across the screen", while another agreed with his response as they said: "yes, there is more room for improvement in the future".
However another asked whether his reported score of 6 out of 100 in fact reflected most badly at his own tutoring, as one person wrote: "Could it be that what the father taught was wrong"
One raised the prospect that the failure was an act of teen rebellion, writing: "Is it possible that the child did it on purpose". Last July the Chinese government unveiled measures that banned the highly lucrative private tutoring business, in a move they claimed would stop middle-class families from gaining an unfair educational advantage.
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