My international contact has not yet emailed me back about excellence and equality in China. This has surprised me because he has been emailing me every week. From reading our past emails I came up on what I think the issues on excellence and equality is in China. I am hoping that he does email be back later this week so I can get his insight about it.
From reading the past emails that we have been exchanging I think that the rich children gets a very high education and the poor children do not get a great education. The children who have rich families pay for a private school for the children to go to. Where the children in the poor families have to go to the public schools which sometimes are not the greatest in China.
Not only do the children who are in the low income families have lower quality schools but they also have a rough living situation. They are taught at a very early age to beg and sell things. I keep going back to the place where the family lived inside their store. All they had was bed with a curtain covering the bed.
Most of these families did not have running water. I can not even imagine not having running water. You would not be able to do simple things like wash your hands, or even flush the toilet. I have very high credit for those families.
Cheryl,
ReplyDeleteLearning about such drastic inequities in China is so upsetting especially knowing how many products here in the United States are made in China. I believe this inequity among the poor and rich that you mention is most likely correct. My son is presently attending college at Iowa State. Iowa State has several students from China. My son spent the last three weeks on a college class trip in which there are four or five students from China in his class. He said he believes they are all from wealthy families because they were able to pay for things that he himself has not been able to purchase. Now this may be speculation, but the mere fact that these students are able to travel across the world to attend college makes me believe that they must be among the wealthy families. This I believe also shows inequity because these students have been able to travel to another country to learn and will most likely take what they have learned back to China where they will raise an educated family.