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Amerikan schools grade you based on compliance, obedience, rote memorization and punish critical thinking or stepping out of line. How do grades in Chinese schools differ? (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In many regards it's worse. Chinese schools are extremely individualistic and competitive, as well as centered around teachers' authority. They're exam/test oriented, especially closer to the OG "first tier" cities. After each one of those exams the ranking of all students is published, and if you're outside of the top 20% you are pretty much considered a failure. This puts an insane amount of pressure on students. Since 2010 the suicide rates have been steadily decreasing for general population and for age groups 25+, while for younger people, and especially for the 5-14 group they have been rising significantly.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Another rare China L.