Poor parents in the world ~
A few days ago, a five-year-old boy in Shanghai posted a Weibo search on his resume.
ABC: a 15-page resume for a 5-year-old: Chinese parents spare no effort to get their children to a good school
The British Broadcasting Corporation: 5-year-old boy's 15-page resume explodes the Chinese network
New York Times: 's 15-page resume for a 5-year-old has attracted Chinese attention.
The reason why this resume attracted people's attention is because it is so "cow"!
For example, the resume says that the 5-year-old boy
Since I was 2 years old, I have come into contact with ancient poems and now I can sing hundreds of them.
Before the age of 3, we read 100 English books a year, and now we read more than 500 English books a year.
In addition, three English diary articles were written every week.
In addition to reading, his hobbies are also rich.
He started learning graffiti at the age of 2 and has more than 150 works
I began to learn to swim at the age of 3, and now I have learned to swim freestyle
Started playing football twice a week at the age of 4.
I started studying piano at 4 and a half years old, and now I'm going to take the second grade
Always studying hip-hop dancing, often performing in kindergarten
Has studied go for 4 months and won a level 11 certificate
At the age of five, he read not only ten thousand volumes, but also thousands of miles.
So far, I have visited many domestic and foreign cities, including Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Macao, Guilin, Xiamen, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou, Yangzhou, etc.
Of course, 5-year-old children can do this, can not be separated from the education of parents. It is mentioned in the resume that the parents of their children are highly qualified students who graduated from famous universities
Since the child was 2 years old, parents have maintained effective companionship 5 days a week, 2 hours a day, and 2.5 hours a day.
Let the child become a smart self-confident, curious dare to fight, resistant to frustration, strong, friendly and sweet little man.
At the end of the resume is a bibliography of the child's reading in English this year.
After the 15-page PDF resume was posted online, domestic netizens immediately blew up! Some people feel jealous and ashamed of themselves
Some people think: parents too hard, this deprives the child of a happy childhood
But some people think: who says that reading travel is not happy? And even if he's not happy now, 20 years later, he's going to thank him for what he's going through.
Australia's netizens, after seeing the report, are equally divided.
Some people thought, "this baby is so pathetic."
"he lost his childhood."
Some people think: "although a little too much, but I have to say, when I was 6 years old, I had read the entire children's edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It's not that hard if someone teaches you to read. "
"five-year-olds have a 20-year-old adult experience, isn't that what employers are looking for today? It seems that his family education is very good. "
"as a retired teacher, I once told such parents to make their children happy, but I would also tell the parents of white children that they had to make their children study harder. Balance is what we need. "
In short, we stand in different angles, each has its own point of view.
To go to a famous school, you have to be a cow.
It is understood that this resume is prepared by children in order to apply for admission to a well-known international school in Shanghai
In an interview with Australian ABC, Jiang Yin, the mother of an 11-year-old child in Shanghai, all said, in fact, a "glittering" resume like this 5-year-old boy.
It's so common, it's not surprising, because only such resumes will give children a greater chance of being admitted to well-known international schools.
In order for their children to have such resumes, many would-be mothers begin to prepare for the development of "cow babies" at the time of pregnancy, and the child is crazily trained after birth.
In response, Ms. Jiang said helplessly: "We are also forced to" other people's children learn a variety of musical instruments on a variety of remedial classes, do not do so will appear to be 'abnormal'. "
How did Niuwa practice?
Nine-year-old Bobby Zou is a cow. He is in grade 4 at a private bilingual primary school in Shanghai.
His mother said she had been teaching him English from the beginning of her pregnancy
By the time he was 6, he had read the entire Harry Potter series, and it was in English! at the age of 8, he had scored seven points in the IELTS exam!
This score is higher than the IELTS requirements of most Australian universities.
Most shocking of all, he said he would be able to complete one of the volumes of British Prime Minister Churchill's World War II memoir in less than an hour and a half.
Of course, these achievements are based on the efforts of ordinary efforts. Every weekend, Bobby's schedule is very full.
10:00-12:00: English debates and speeches
01:30: Taekwondo
3: 00-5: 00: Spanish
7-8: perform English musicals and dramas
In addition to learning Spanish, he recited 100 English words every day
"every child has his own unique life path," his mother, Joanna Wang, told ABC in an interview. "Bobby happens to be talented and has a good chance."
To better discover her child's talent, Ms. Wang also resigned as a multinational executive to accompany her child full-time this year.
Despite her confidence in her son's talent, three years ago, when Bobby took the entrance exam at a top international school in Shanghai, Ms. Wang was still worried that she was not sure if her child would be admitted.
"the school does not have public admission criteria, and I can only guess what the test might be through information shared by other mothers."
"in the exam, the examiner took the children into a classroom. There are different things in the classroom, books, toys and so on, and the examiner will observe what the children do. "
"Bobby loved reading, so he took a book and sat down and started reading."
In the end, Bobby and 20 other Chinese children stood out among 1200 applicants and successfully enrolled in the school.
Chinese parents' wish for their son Jackie Chan
Once upon a time, China's top bilingual schools accommodated only foreign children living in China. But in the past few years, these bilingual schools have become increasingly popular with Chinese parents
Especially in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, these big cities. With the increase in demand, the number of bilingual schools has increased.
The number of bilingual schools in China increased by 30% between 2015 and 2017 to 367
In bilingual schools, courses such as English, art, music, science and philosophy are taught by foreign teachers. Ms Wang says that putting children in bilingual schools is an attempt to broaden his international horizons.
"his goal is Ivy League University."
Dr. Hannah Soong, a sociologist at the University of South Australia, says Chinese parents prefer bilingual schools because they see them as future children in Australia, the United States and other countries.
A shortcut to studying abroad
In addition, parents also want to develop different ways of thinking through bilingual schools. Of course, the cost of doing so is also high. At top international schools in China, tuition costs more than 100, 000 yuan a year, not including extra-curricular classes.
So parents who can afford to go to international schools have to have enough money and energy. If not, then you can only hope to buy a good school district room
So are parents in Australia.
In fact, when it comes to children's education, Australian parents are as attentive as domestic parents, and they also allow their children to attend expensive private schools.
They will also try their best to buy a high-priced school house. They also line up all night in front of the school just to get a chance for their children to attend a prestigious school.
Of course, they will also spend money to enroll their children in various extra-curricular classes. In July, a Monash University survey of 1000 Australian parents found that 40% of parents enrolled in extra-school classes for their children.
And in the cost of extra-curricular classes, Australian parents are also very willing to pay for the money, some families spend 20% of their income on this!
These tutorials are not only football, swimming, music and other extracurricular interest classes, but also English, math classes.
The study also found that the more educated parents were, the more likely they were to enroll their children in outside classes
Dr. Francis, who participated in the study, said that if a child is unable to attend extra classes because of financial conditions or other reasons, they may face a greater disadvantage.
In other words, they could lose on the starting line.
It seems that the world's parents are the same in the education of their children. I don't know what people think about it.