Many schools are push over by the government!!!
By dandan07
@dandan07 (1906)
China
September 1, 2011 11:10am CST
I have heard the news that many schools which are invested by the private capital are pushed over by the government in Beijing on August 26th, just severals days before the beginning of a new school year. So many children from migrant laborer families, can not have their eduction in Beijing now.
There are residence registration system in China. It is a system that separating people by their birth place. The residence registration limits the movement of people here, for it means you can not get any security in a city which is not your birth place. Farmers should be farmers all your life, worker should be workers too. There are few chance for people to chance the residence registration.
As know there are many migrant laborers in China, they have to live their hometown to another place to make a life. So the problems come out. If they take all their family out with them, how can their children receive education. As their workplace's schools will not accept their children for free, they have to pay a high fee for entering. While most of them can not afford that. So some of them set up a fund, and find some teachers teach their children. So it is the origin of the school for migrant laborers' children.
As the school for migrant laborers' children do not have enough money, so many of them are existed in a small and uncomfortale place. We know it is not good for a child have classes in such a place, but it is better than have no education.
But on August 26th, more than 30 schools for migrant laborers' children were pushed over by the government for the reason of lack of safety. Now more than 30,000 children lose their possiblity of receive a education in their parents' workplace. They have to go back to their hometown and lead a live without their parents.
How can a government do such things to their own people?
5 responses
@huilichan8 (1378)
• Singapore
2 Sep 11
Why did your govt do that? I don't understand the rationale behind this move. Why is it that farmers should be farmers all their lives? I am just very puzzled.
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@dandan07 (1906)
• China
2 Sep 11
It is like a identity, if the register book says you are a farmer, even if you do not work as a farmer, your are a farmer, you can get only farmer can get, while it is nothing to do with what you really work as. Is that funny?
So if the farmer, do not work in their land, while go to the city to have their jobs, they can not get what the city people have. So their children can not enter the city's school to have an education. That is the very reason for the school for migrant laborers' children existed in the city.
As the school for migrant laborers' children do not cost the government anything, so i do not think the government has the right to pull over it.
@huilichan8 (1378)
• Singapore
2 Sep 11
Why is there such a difference in how people are treated in China? Didn't your fellow countrymen protest against such differential treatment?
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@dandan07 (1906)
• China
6 Sep 11
I think we Chinese is a people lacking of action.
The register system began soon after the PRC was established. At that time, life was hard and there is no big differences between farmers and workers. But at that time, farmers can own lands while workers can own nothing. But farmers and workers were ruling classes at that time.
While if a person do not belong to that two classes, they were almost everything sometimes include their lives. The people in other classes has fighted against it, and some of them were killed, by the farmers and workers. And no one can change their class at that time, and the situation is still the same now .
But the changes since the 1978 make the farmers become disadvantaged groups. And the resources are concentrated in the city, and farmers moves into the city to have a job. While the local people do not want to share the resource with them. So they can not get their basic rights here in the city.
Though many people know that it is unfair to treat people in that way, it seems that we lose the ability to trust other people and help other people. And no action of protecting against that.
@aprilsong (1884)
• China
2 Sep 11
Well,as a Chinese, i feel shameful on what it did. Yes, as you put it, we Chinese are labeled from the moment of our birth. You know, many years before, there are still many ways for kids of farmers to take off the label of "farmer" and go to live a better life. If they study hard, they can go into college and have a job later, then they can live in cities and be citizens,not a farmer any more. But now, the situation changes, in nowadays society , money takes more and more important role in every parts of life in China. Which means even you study hard as kid of a farmer, but if you don't have enough money, you can't go to college, and which also means those kids whose parents are important persons and have lots of money can easily go to a good college, and even they are nothing by themselves, they can have better jobs. So the kids of rich are always rich, while the kids of poor will stay poor and have very little chance to make any changes in their life, or they must pay much more efforts to do the same thing as those kids of the rich.
@dandan07 (1906)
• China
6 Sep 11
After the Open Door policy took place, we once have a period to forget the label, and there are several ways for people change their identities. Students can change it through entering the university, and business men can change it by owning a house in the city.
But now, it seems that the door for changing is closed down, and people lose their hopes after that.
I hope we all Chinese can live in an equal and peace place, and have the same rights.
@Simon1223 (903)
• China
2 Sep 11
I also heard this news from the TV news. Of course I don't agree to the conducts of Beijing government, but after we express our discontented emotion, we'd better analyze this issue and find out why it happened. According to the Constitution, every Chinese children have the right to be educated in the school for at least nine years. In reality, the educational expenditure is assigned according to the household registration. Take those children of migrant workers in Beijing for example, the public educational funds are assigned to the schools in their hometown. If they receive education in public schools in Beijing, Beijing government have to spend additional money in public schools, which makes them quite reluctant to do so. So such children have to go to private schools which are found for them, the standard of which are much lower than that of public schools. For these private schools could not satisfy the requirements made by the government, they are teared down.
In order to solve the educational problem of these children, I think that a reform is inevitable. The educational expenditure should be assigned according to the actual residence instead of household registration. Then the government could acquire additional financial income to offer public education to these children.
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@dandan07 (1906)
• China
6 Sep 11
According the law, we Chinese can have the right to have free speech and parades, while in fact we do not have these.
I think laws in China, is use to treat common people, while the government can do anything they like never care about the laws.
Many things are really easy to solve, but our government do not want to anything for it.
