Private School
In recent years, private schools in ever-increasing numbers are being set up in China, ending the state monopoly (国家垄断) of the country’s educational system. Although private schools are still on the experimental stage and are much more expensive compared with public schools, there is no lack of application for enrollment.
People welcome private schools for several reasons. First of all, those schools are relieving our government of part of the financial burdens. Secondly, parents are willing to send their only child to private schools because of their higher teaching quality, even if they cost more. Since the private schools provide higher wages for teachers than the government-funded public schools, they attract better qualified teachers, and they can also offer better environments, including superior living facilities and more advanced teaching equipments.
However, private schools bring bad influence at the same time. Adequate money doesn’t guarantee good education. If not well guided, and properly disciplined, the privileged young children might turn out to be new aristocrats, and therefore unfit for our highly competitive modern society.