Dear MEL School’s Topic Readers,
The army of parents behind China’s children
Why so many gaokao topic readings? Think of
the magnitude of expectations by unprivileged families in China. Over nine
million students took this year’s national college entrance exams while around
7.5million students have just graduated from college. Of the millions of
college graduates, no more than half of them had found a job before graduation
in 2013. So what is going to happen when these serious test takers graduate from
college four years later while economic growth is slowing? The question is if
they don’t try to enter good college, are there better or other options for the
only child those Chinese parents have in such a competitive society?
It seems that this controversial one-time
test is regarded as a better chance for most of the parents and students in
China to stay or join the middle class and enjoy modern and materialized lives
that those parents might have dreamed for.
Enjoy reading and thinking if you’d spend a
half of the day studying to prepare for once-a-year life changing exam or try
to develop unique strength to develop your own business or profession.
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