A Controversial Chinese School in Shaanxi: Disputes and Declining Grades Spark Outrage among Parents

2023-07-28 09:08:46

A dispute erupted between a school in Shaanxi, mainland China, and parents. (Picture / flip from Weibo)

The tuition fees of noble schools, the teaching quality of cattle herding classes? A parent in China complained regarding transferring his child to a school in Shaanxi, but his grades failed instead of improving. Some students only scored 8 points in a single subject, and some students even scored 5 points or even lower. They questioned the one-year tuition fee of RMB 4 million (approximately NT$170,000) for the teaching capacity of the school.

According to comprehensive land media reports, the Yan’an Peiwen Experimental School has started to recruit high school students since 2021, but it has been reported that the students’ grades have continued to decline. A male parent complained that his son’s grades were among the best before transferring to school, but following transferring, he only scored 8 points in a single subject in high school , and said that his grades were much better than other students with 5 points in the test, and scolded the school for charging 40,000 yuan a year in tuition fees, “Your fees are the highest in Shaanxi, but it is the worst school in Yan’an.”

Another female parent said that the school is divided into “Qingbei Class” and ordinary class, and the materials and test papers of the two classes are different. However, her daughter in the ordinary class “math 17 is considered very good in the class”, because there are three points Second, the students all take single-digit exams, and the school “ranks last” in several joint exams. However, the daughter’s annual tuition fee is not 40,000, but 37,000 (regarding NT$160,000).

In this regard, a teacher Zhang from the school admitted that the students’ grades were indeed not high enough, but emphasized that the students in his class did not take the single-digit test, and “Sunlian’s test covers all the scope of the college entrance examination. The sophomore students have just started a round of review, and they must do it. It is quite difficult.”, “There are echelons for the entrance examination in various places, and our school is quite the second echelon. There are three in the top ten in science and two in the top ten in liberal arts.” He also insisted that “I have not seen the school ranking data.” , Deny the ranking and respectfully accompany you to the bottom.

After the news was exposed, mainland netizens said, “Say the most outrageous words, and you will be beaten the most,” and “The child’s 8 points in the test are not just the school’s problem.” Parents also revealed that at the time, the school recruited students under the name of Beijing’s elite teachers. How did they know that “all the teachers in Beijing left their jobs” shortly following the children entered school, and the quality of teaching dropped dramatically as a result.

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