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james_s:

--- Quote from: blueskull on July 18, 2020, 05:26:25 am ---A little dirty secret for you. In China, this kind of competitions are virtually all tailored for the richest to gain their kids competing advantage. So it doesn't matter how fluent and "standard (GA or RP)" your English is, what matters how much you know the culture and even the accent, which means you have actually lived there, which in turn means you have a richer daddy who can support your life abroad. We gave it a fancy name called language and cultural background.

It is a rich game, played among the richest and most powerful to get their kids to the very top of the society. That's why it is tolerated by the society -- average kids can't even compete even without all the money bought cheats. Even without all those competing gains, the baseline education among rich kids can allow them to easily beat average household kids, so this money game is literally only played among the richest and most powerful -- just Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have lots of them.

Similarly, I've known parents spending millions of USD on a mediocre house because its school zone is the best in town. Literally, a good school zone in Beijing can easily sell for $20k per square meter, and for a small 70 sqm house that is barely enough for a nuclear family (house space in China includes averaged common space outside your own room like elevators and even the shared garden, so 70 sqm is more like 50 sqm indoors), $1.4m is considered on the lower end.

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That's fascinating. So what do they do with this knowledge and experience? Return to China and then it has an advantage there? Or something else?

Rather than buying such an expensive house near a good school zone can't they send their kids to an expensive private school anywhere in the country or the world even? I know nothing about the educational system in China, this is all new to me. In the USA some schools are certainly better than others and some will pay a premium to be in the zone of a school considered to be very good, but I've never heard of people going to such great lengths, we have snooty private schools for those who really demand the best.
cdev:
Sure, it may not happen that frequently, but parents in the US sometimes get sent to jail for lying about where they live to get them into a particularly good public school. (or get them out of a particularly bad- most typically hideously underfunded one)   In the UK their GPS/phone tracking system is used to determine if parents are lying about where they live for school purposes. I'm sure that happens in the US too.


--- Quote from: james_s on July 18, 2020, 07:34:48 pm ---
Rather than buying such an expensive house near a good school zone can't they send their kids to an expensive private school anywhere in the country or the world even? I know nothing about the educational system in China, this is all new to me. In the USA some schools are certainly better than others and some will pay a premium to be in the zone of a school considered to be very good, but I've never heard of people going to such great lengths, we have snooty private schools for those who really demand the best.

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Its a determinative factor in getting into a good college. Some schools are deemed so mediocre that even students who get a near perfect GPA are deemed as not having gone to a rigorous enough school. Those students will likely have to have done some original research or something really spectacular for a child in order to get into a top college. 

The race to get into the top college starts with going to the right kindergarden.
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