International Children’s Day [国际儿童节]
It is said that in every urban family of modern China, there is a little kingdom of its own — the king being the only baby of the family, with 6 adults (2 parents plus their own respective parents) watching over him or her. It certainly isn’t good for any society to have such a whole generation of single-child family, regardless of the country or culture or religion. But with a population quadrupled in half a century, there is no better way to put a break on this trend. If the population is allowed to grow naturally, not only will China be condemned to poverty forever, it might become a global problem eventually because of massive emigration and illegal refugees. So, during 1979 China leader Deng Xiao Ping imposed the single-child law which is still effective today, with a few exceptions. But even with that going on for more than 20 years already, I’m still stuck with more than 3 million people in the subway every morning, with no sign of improvement any time soon!
Jokes apart, kids here are really well taken care of by their parents and grand-parents and nanny. Parents will find the best school for their kids that they could afford, starting as early as kindergarden! I think Montreal parents are not making half of that effort to send their kids to the best school they can afford, luckly we have a relatively good public education system, but that is degrading over time with repetitive budget cuts and uncompetitive wage to attract qualified teachers, especially in the post-secondary schools. In addition, with all the new world immigration (mostly middle eastern) flooding Canada, public schools are focusing more on social education rather than pure teaching environment. Now people accept the concept that sending kids to public school is as much for them to learn to live in the society, as to learning math and sciences and language skills. But then, where and when are they going to learn the real sciences actually?
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