If there is one thing that transcends the differences in race, culture, religion, ideology and even the political system across Asia, patching children is definitely one of them.
In Haidian Huangzhuang, Beijing, a building is packed with training institutions that assist children to complete all of the 12-stage courses. The bright red promotional banners are printed against anxious parents and tired children, forming a strange scene.
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In South Korea`s famous "Nightnight City" Dazhi Cave, it is not restaurants or nightclubs that glow in the dark of the night, but rather cram classes. They opened their arms to the children who had just finished school, where they taught and mentored late into the night.
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At the Kota School in eastern Rajasthan, India, a class full of more than 200 students, all attentive to the lesson, dares not let go, just for a common goal-admission to the best universities in India.
The picture comes from the KBS documentary "people who learn."
Japan, Korea, China, India, Singapore. As long as a child lives in these time zones, it is extremely easy to become a member of the tutorial army, exhausted in the cram class.
With the Asian immigrants sweeping Europe and America, unknowingly, the unique characteristics of Asia are seeping into the land of western countries and integrating with the local education ecology.
Westerners tend to attribute this particular way of learning from the East to "Asian craftsmanship," except that it is usually prefixed with an adjective, "crazy." As tutorial is becoming a synonym for high scores and well-known schools, the gloom behind it is also worth rethinking.
The antidote to parents` anxiety, the stepping stone for entering a famous school
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I`m afraid any Chinese parent will look familiar when he sees the picture above. In addition to the characters are traditional but also mixed with English, this is clearly all over the country cram school signboards.
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In October 2017, New York Times published a report on the culture of Asian-American cram classes, drawing strong attention from Americans who do not know much about the "Asian culture".
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On the opposite coast, California`s Orange County, Santa Clara County and Los Angeles County, there are 861 such centers, and those counties, all of which have a high proportion of Asian families.
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When you walk into any of the centers, you can see something like this-
Inside the building, the triangle flag decorated the back wall of the office, with Ivy League schools and the words of the strongest local middle schools printed on the top; The entrance report on the glass door corresponds to the rate of advancement, and behind each success story, there is near-perfect standardization.
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Perhaps without having to boast about themselves, Americans have long since discovered that Asian-American students are unusual.
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Too bright behind the performance, can not be separated from year-round students in cram classes, as well as the Asian-American families who spend a lot of money on tutoring for their children.
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Ms. Zhang from Guangzhou, who emigrated to Los Angeles for just three years, longed for an "easy and free" education abroad and felt that he no longer had to be surrounded by a wide variety of tutoring topics between his classmates and parents at home. But before long, he became anxious.
She said: "before living in the Chinese community, children are in all kinds of computer classes, musical instruments classes, leadership classes, SAT classes. Move to Korean-American, Indian-dominated communities, much the same. "
Seeing a lot of people studying to get into a famous school, an inexplicable anxiety rose in Ms. Zhang`s mind. "you can`t be sorry for the child, you must give it the best", so she couldn`t help but set foot on the old way of shoving the child into a remedial school.
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The same is true of Mr. Wang`s family, who work in Silicon Valley. He and his wife are usually thrifty and reluctant to spend money. Ten dollars from the supermarket can wear clothes for a long time, but to give children a cram class is more than $1000, no frown.
As a matter of fact, Mr. Wang`s son has been among the best in school because of his good grades. But in order to get into the elite middle school smoothly and enter the famous American school in the future, it is like sending to the remedial class to be the last piece of "peace of mind" under the circumstance of everyone`s tutoring.
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What do the children think about the anxiety of their elders?
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The picture comes from the video interview of Guo Jie Rui Street.
Moreover, the idea of entrance examination has long been popular, they know clearly, whether at home or abroad, without remedial classes, grades will not be so good, may be defeated in the competition.
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For example, there must be Chinese restaurants in the Chinese-American settlements, and the Asian-American local tutorial culture will inevitably flow in, but the attitude of the westerners may not be as familiar to us as we do. Fairness and utility
All sorts of myths surrounding remedial study
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The picture comes from the video interview of Guo Jie Rui Street.
Asian-American cram classes with good grades and acceptance rates as the ultimate goal for exams and further studies are clearly very different from the "cram classes" expected by Americans. In the United States, even if there are "tutoring", it is to cultivate students` interests and interests, or to make up for their weaknesses.
In the eyes of Westerners, Asian-American patching, which emphasizes too much on "results", may have been tainted with a different color in the eyes of Westerners.
In June last year, the Senate Education Committee of the state of, New York voted by a narrow margin of 16 to 13 in favour of abolishing the entrance examination for elite high schools, clearing the first barrier for the reform of elite high schools in New York. It has also raised concerns among Asian parents.
Stevenson High School in New York is an elite high school with a high proportion of Asian students (images from the Internet, copyrighted by the author)
Originally, it was a "game" familiar to both tutorial institutions and Asian parents-to stand out in the entrance exam, get entrance tickets to high school, and pave the way for a good college entrance examination.
But New York Mayor Blasio insisted on cancelling the elite high school entrance exam, noting that preparing for the exam required additional counselling and training, which was unfair to families who could not afford it.
This statement is tantamount to putting Asian students who are accustomed to doing well through remedial studies to the opposite of "fairness".
Mayor of New York de Blasio (photo from the Internet, copyright owned by the author)
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The picture comes from the video interview of Guo Jie Rui Street.
Even for middle-class Chinese families, year-on-year tuition fees are a big expense, not to mention some ethnic minorities and other low-income families who live at the bottom of society and are struggling to keep up with their food and clothing.
Mr de Blasio believes the reforms are designed to save Latin and African-American students. If you just let the Asian cram school develop, then it is a kind of "cheating".
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Such arguments have inspired opposition and anxiety among Asian ethnic groups. Many people of Asian descent believe that ignoring the painstaking efforts and dedication of Asian students and parents themselves, they are simply using Asian descent as a "beneficiary" of remedial studies and passively placing them on the opposite side of other ethnic minorities. There is no doubt that there is another form of injustice.
Just as the American New York argued over the fairness of Asian-American tutoring, the confessions of an Australian Chinese girl caused people to reflect on the utilitarianism brought about by the prevalence of patching.
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As she emigrated to Australia with her parents, like many Chinese children, she experienced the process of being placed on high expectations and crammed into remedial classes. She knew at an early age that it was the goal of life to take a prestigious school.
"I had to go to cram classes every Saturday before. People there don`t care if you`re making progress or if you can keep up. They just want to make money from you. "
"I keep on taking exams in cram classes, but I always fail."
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As a result, during the critical period of the entrance examination, girls failed to get into elite schools as they wished, and the parents who learned of the results yelled at them on the spot, "go be a prostitute and pick up rubbish!"
Parents even humiliated the girl on the grounds that she had spent so many years in cram school.
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What about those elites who go through remedial studies and go to school smoothly? In the eyes of the girls, they have too strong a sense of superiority.
"when I got home, my parents couldn`t go to elite schools because I couldn`t go to elite schools. I fell in love, and my boyfriend just went to elite school. He and his classmates felt superior everywhere."
Moreover, according to the observation of the girl, those who had been deeply immersed in remedial classes and later went to elite schools tended to be more obsessed with social status and more likely to grow into "exquisite egoist", all of which, It is hard to say that it has nothing to do with utilitarian patching.
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Only emphasizing the "result" of learning, in order to achieve the goal of desperate efforts, from another point of view, is promoting a highly competitive, pressure-filled elitist culture.
Behind excellent academic performance, there is not necessarily no risk.
Threat fair? The hidden danger of utilitarianism? As long as the Oriental cram school exists overseas, all kinds of controversy will not rest.
After entering college, many people may think that entering a famous school is the end of a remedial study.
However, one of the recent revelations of a Canadian cram class tells us that the opposite is true and that Asian students` obsession with tutoring is not a good part of it.
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Even after successful college admissions, cram classes are still popular among Chinese and Chinese students, but their purpose has become less pure, according to Interface News.
Stealing test questions, stealing data, selling homework, virtually provide protection for those students who are not interested in their studies but are looking forward to not dropping out of school.
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University of Toronto mathematics professor Alfonso Gracia Saz calls this type of "cram class" a "thief" and a "crooked elder". In the course of a correction, he was surprised to find that the 52 students in the class had the same wrong answer in their homework. Once investigated, he realized that all this was caused by remedial work.
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Professor Alfonso said the students involved in the tutorial had violated the rules and regulations governing academic discipline-"access to and use of unofficial help" and "plagiarism" and would be dealt with.
How many academic integrity offices define the nine types of academic fraud that many Chinese students are willing to play, even though they are aware of the negative nature of such tutoring. After all, why not use a remedial fee in exchange for a "guarantee" of homework and exams?
Some people simply do not come to class, soon to test and then hurry to tutorial institutions, in Chinese to re-learn the main points of the course;
Other students are more "cost-effective": it is not as cost-effective to pay for a refresher than to pay for a one-time cram class.
Chinese students, who account for up to 75% of the total number of students in the school, provide a solid market basis for this unique Oriental tutorial model, which is mixed and pervasive, with Easy4.0,Talent Education, in the 18-year freshman group at the University of Toronto alone. Bluekey and so on more than 10 cram class "resident".
Of course, there are also students who think tutorial is a reasonable existence-Nikki, a student from Applied Statistics, says that when there is no clue during the review period, tutorial really helps to consolidate knowledge and improve grades. As she entered her senior grade, she also found a suitable learning method, no longer dependent on it.
Instead of putting many Chinese students studying in Canada under the hat of "academic dishonesty", she says, tutorial institutions should comply with industry norms and take on the responsibilities they are responsible for, rather than putting on the "academic dishonesty" that many Chinese students are studying in Canada as they do today.
Perhaps in the eyes of many Westerners, cram classes from the East are strange, crazy and suspicious, but in the end, tutoring is just a means and a tool wherever they are.
A good person is bound to add to the cake, so that he who is controlled by it will perish himself.
