Parachute children should not be left behind

Pupils play games in their dormitory in Liuba county, Northwest China's Shaanxi province in July, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]

Maybe the Chinese government can do something to all the parents of "parachute children": if you send your child away, consider the child's interests! Parking your child in a boarding school is not ideal. But in China, parents believe boarding schools are better places than the home. Therein lays a cultural difference between the West and China. Chinese parents seem to shove their responsibility away from them in the hope that their child gets a public education from a boarding school. In reality, children in boarding schools suffer from home sickness.

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