American education reforms want to model the PRC. Check out this article
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/Metro/2012/08/28/Specialability%2Bclass%2Btaught%2Bkids%2Bto%2Bcheat/
A "special-ability" class is under police investigation as angry parents who paid more than 100,000 yuan (US$15,720) in tuition found their children were taught not to read without their eyes but how to cheat.
The training class held in a hotel in Qingpu District starting in mid-August and ending this past Saturday, convinced parents of 30 children, aged seven to 17, that they could teach special abilities by developing the children's right brain.
Dubbed as "Winning on Your Right Brain Training Class," organizers boasted that the children could learn to read books with their eyes covered and tell the pattern and number of a poker card with only a gentle touch on the card's back.
Talented children can learn even more such as "naturally seeing answers in their heads" when reading test papers, and learning the Chinese translation by only seeing a new English word, the organizer promised parents.
This is standard here. Work is for the poor. Princelings and their parents look to cheat and steal as much as possible, while producing as little as possible. And it's all about face-saving excuses.
Five years here. I could tell you stories of chinese education that would make your blood run cold. And this is what they want in our country? Because of Gaokao test results. . .make me vomit please.
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