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Except if you have Rural Hukou and can't go to public school in the city, even though you were born in the City, basically spend most of your early childhood in the city, and you parents live and work there, and its either go to a privately-run school or rural schools, both of which are shitty and don't have proper funding, you get subpar teachers and subpar education. (Privately-run schools are worse btw, its different from the west, these are typically only for children of migrant workers, or those without a legal papers, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heihaizi, these school don't have public funding.) I mean, even the US, prior to 2025, allowed undocumented immigrant children to enroll in public school, wtf is China doing, they're punishing children for arbitrary internal borders. Imagine if you go to another state and oopsie your kids can't go to public school. ?!?
I was born in Guangzhou, and had Taishan Hukou, they denied access to Guangzhou public schools. Thanks a lot, government!
Thanks for the info. As an American. I'm not really very knowledgeable about other countries education systems.
I can definitely see your perspective.
We have the same issues with poor quality public schools in rural areas because school funding is based on property taxes. You live in a poor neighborhood, you go to a poor school.
But you are right that at least everyone can attend public school. Or at least they could. Special education cuts are going to hurt a lot of kids.
And I was not aware that they were restricting immigrant kids now. That's pretty sad.
The only cheap private schools we have here are Christians backwoods schools.
Not a good place to send your kids. Not even taught by educated people.
Kind of sounds like the private schools you mention in China but minus the Christians.
That I'm not certain about.
They might still be allowed to enroll (federal government does not run schools), but what I'm saying is that ICE policies used to ban raids in schools, but now this admin changed the rules, so its now unsafe for undocumented children to go to school because ICE could raid their classroom and take them away.