The rankings are released for the unified allocation of students in high school. Teachers in the allocation center will send flyers to solicit parents to keep the number of open classes. The decline in the number of schoolchildren is related to the fertility rate. However, many families have left Hong Kong to emigrate overseas in the past year. Parents of many families refer to immigration as the next generation education. They believe that the education system and socio-political environment in Hong Kong are increasingly worrying them. They have to choose to leave for the next generation.
The most convenient place to leave today is the United Kingdom. Because of the “BNO” convenience door plan, it has become quite easy for Hong Kong people to move to the United Kingdom. Therefore, in the past year or so, most families who chose to leave Hong Kong have moved to the destination. All of them went to the UK. Many of these families had children in primary or secondary schools. After they arrived in the UK, they went to different schools.
Many Hong Kong parents used to have a concept that Hong Kong education is a recitation-style education. Too much homework, too many exams, and lack of creativity stifle their children’s growth. Some parents think that if they go to the UK, their children’s education will automatically become better. . Immigration for the education of children is the philosophy of these parents. However, do parents with this mentality have a comprehensive understanding of the British education system? Whether the education system is good or bad can really be judged by whether the homework is heavy and the frequency of examinations is more or less? What is taught in British schools, including primary and secondary schools, do parents know?
Earlier this month, a British media conducted a follow-up report on secondary education, and the plot found in it was quite scary. One of the cases mentioned in the report involved a public high school. Some of the courses were regarding politics and sex education, but the content of the teaching and the behavior of some teachers who openly politicized the school were surprising.
How does this school teach students? There were art teachers showing children a painting of white and black people stabbing each other in class to inspire them to make their own Black Lives Matter posters, and children made a police station on fire and a girl shot The poster in the middle of the head, this poster was appreciated by the teacher.
As for sex education in schools, the new “relationship and sex education” has become a compulsory part of the curriculum since the previous year. In class discussions, students are told that they live in a “heterosexual” world, and they say it is a “heterosexual” world. a bad thing. The parents interviewed also pointed out that when their daughter was in elementary school, the school had taught their children that the world is not only of male and female genders, but also taught their children that historical figures are collectively referred to as gender-neutral “they”, not him or her. The school’s teaching materials also included cartoons depicting a girl who changed gender overnight, addressing her bullying.
How do Hong Kong parents feel when they hear the above-mentioned classroom situation in primary and secondary schools? Will everyone just regard it as the situation of individual schools and can ignore it? Or do they think it wouldn’t be a big problem for kids to get this kind of education, because that’s what the world is doing?
Different parents have different criteria for what kind of education their children receive, but if you are uneasy regarding the school situation mentioned in the above report, you should do a good job in collecting data to understand the teaching situation in British primary and secondary schools, and where is your child’s education? Educational decisions. Children’s education not only increases their knowledge in academic subjects, but also has important links such as cultural and moral education that affect children’s growth. To seek better education for children, one should not just look at the surface and not seek deep understanding, otherwise the child will fall into the education trap and it will be too late to regret it. British education must be good? It’s really a matter of opinion!
Huang Lijun