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“Of course I knew it was illegal. But if you don’t pay, your child will go nowhere.”
But critics say China’s state-run education system — promoted as the hallmark of Communist meritocracy — is being overrun by bribery and cronyism. Such corruption has broadened the gulf between the haves and have-nots as Chinese families see their hopes for the future sold to the highest bidder.
“Corruption is pervasive in every part of Chinese society, and education is no exception,” Mr. Li said.
It begins even before the first day of school as the competition for admission to elite schools has created a lucrative side business for school officials and those connected to them.
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Obama’s America, thank you 50.8 % percent of the country.
rob verdi on November 23, 2012 at 8:08 PM
Corruption is an externality created by a state’s inability to run a balanced mixed-market economy with an emphasis on free markets and only so much “regulation” as required for certain markets to function regularly.
WeekendAtBernankes on November 23, 2012 at 8:14 PM
Boom. That ^^^
/meanwhile, O’Reilly has another snotty view of America & its soldiers on FOX right now. If ANYONE knows what it is to be a fighting American, its O’Reilly, amiright…
Ugly on November 23, 2012 at 8:14 PM
I started to watch that, but right from beginning O’Mouthy started interrupting his guest. He is so full of himself.
davidk on November 23, 2012 at 8:19 PM
I thought this was going to be an article about Ivy League schools.
chemman on November 23, 2012 at 8:23 PM
Good news if your child is both a brown-noser and a tattletale.
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 23, 2012 at 8:23 PM
Very strange collection of snippets. Hawkins followed by Chopra.
Ugly on November 23, 2012 at 8:25 PM
*Dawkins
Ugly on November 23, 2012 at 8:25 PM
Night Owl on November 23, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Heh-heh. It worked for me!
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on November 23, 2012 at 8:38 PM
Corruption and cronyism is everywhere in China. Everyone that i’ve met in China has been very nice. But the sudden expansion of the middle class and a shortage of quality goods and services, exposes the seedy side a system where people are appointed, not elected.
If anything is going forment a democratic revolution in China, it will come from the unfairness promulgated by the crony class.
Imagine this: You and you poor family farming a section of land, your equally poor neighbors another section and so on. Samsung needs property to expand production and your neighbor’s farm is turned into a factory. Well your neighbor has just won the lotto. He gets a small, but substantial percentage of the earnings from that factory, while you remain a poor farmer. He has the money for a home and bribes to send his only child to the front of the class.
There’s nothing fair in this system.
RINOs are people too on November 23, 2012 at 9:44 PM