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Parents seeking a coveted place for their children at top Chinese schools are being forced to take tests, prove their ancestor’s academic credentials and even show they are not fat.

At least two private schools in Shanghai, China’s richest and most modern city, have been admonished by authorities for testing parents and carrying out intrusive surveys, while applicants at a third school complained about a ‘fat parent’ criteria.

“They check parent’s body shapes,” a parent applying to Shanghai’s Qibao Foreign Language School bemoaned, according to a screenshot of social media published by thepaper.cn.

“The reason is that fat parents display poor self-management skills.”

Education officials rebuked Qingpu World Foreign Language School and the nearby Yangpu Primary School for probing applicants’ family histories and setting logic tests for parents.

China’s increasingly wealthy generation of parents often take desperate measures to give their children a good education in the hope that their offspring will land a place at a prestigious foreign university.

Although the one-child policy was abolished in January 2016, many families chose to have one offspring for cultural reasons and because of busy lifestyles.

That child will often be the sole breadwinner in later life.

Shanghai Municipal Education Commission said Qingpu and Yangpu schools had been forced to “apologise in public” and to “cut down enrollment plans next year,” without elaborating.

Private Shanghai primary schools sanctioned after setting IQ tests for students' parents during enrollment.

Qingpu apologised on its website, adding that “negative social impacts were caused because of our ignorance of regulatory requirements.”

Yangpu, meanwhile, said its tests were not related to the enrollment procedure, but were aimed at “relaxing” parents.

The “graphics-based reasoning” was said to be too difficult for most of the test-takers.

An official at Qibao school told The Telegraph that authorities had ordered the school to conduct a “deep investigation”.

The man, who did not want to be named, said allegations were based on a “rumour”, but refused to deny the school tested parents, saying: “We don’t take foreign media interviews.”

Qingpu charges 30,000 yuan (£3,360) a term for six-year-olds entering the school, while Yangpu charges 11,000 yuan (£1,230) and Qibao 12,500 yuan (£1,400).

While many parents took to social media to complain about the strict enrolment procedures, some were less critical.

“Just like some schools in other countries require parents to be Christian, I think the requirements from these private schools are reasonable,” a mother who is hoping to enroll her daughter at the one of the schools told the Global Times newspaper.

China has a catchment area system for public schools, and competition for places has seen desperate parents splurge on extremely poor quality property near elite schools.

The Telegraph last year reported on an insect-ridden alleyway in Beijing being sold for a price similar to plush homes in Kensington and Chelsea because of the desirable catchment area.

Private schools – which make up about six per cent of enrolments at Shanghai primary schools - accept students on the basis of interviews and are not permitted to test applicants.

Reports in March said a private school in the southern city of Guangzhou would only enroll students whose parents achieved college degrees or above.

Devils Affricate posted:

Education officials rebuked Qingpu World Foreign Language School and the nearby Yangpu Primary School for probing applicants’ family histories and setting logic tests for parents.

The “graphics-based reasoning” was said to be too difficult for most of the test-takers.

Known Lecher posted:

Devils Affricate posted:

To be fair, they were moderately challenging IQ test style questions. My parents would probably have a hard time too.

Devils Affricate posted:

To be fair, they were moderately challenging IQ test style questions. My parents would probably have a hard time too.

Outrail posted:

Ok what's the answer? I'm usually pretty good at pattern recognition but I can't see it.

Haier posted:

"Every country with an economy bigger than California"



Doing us proud, Xi. Doing us proud.

Barudak posted:

Merge the shapes bottom to top and right to left. Overlapping lines are removed, unique lines stay. Its box with a dot in the middle.

Devils Affricate posted:

I missed hot pot chat but I will weigh in nevertheless.

The only time I had hot pot in China it was Mongolian style. I think it was alright but to be honest I can't remember much about the food quality because we were getting completely wasted on baijiu. I drunkenly sang The Star Spangled Banner for everyone and they loved it, then I barfed in the restroom.

Hot pot here in LA county can be a mixed bag. There are lots of bad ones, but also good ones. It is complicated, I guess. But like others have said, the main point is to sit around and hang out with your friends while you eat and drink. What the gently caress is wrong with you if you don't like that?

You seem hyperfocused on the food itself and not the company around you, Haier. Slow down a bit. Have a rest.

Outrail posted:

Ok what's the answer? I'm usually pretty good at pattern recognition but I can't see it.

Ups_rail posted:

"Its my/their cutlure. Who are you to judge it"

Charles James Napier posted:

Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.

WarpedNaba posted:

hakimashou posted:

Imperialist Dog posted:

The time when Britain truly was great

Imperialist Dog posted:

The time when Britain truly was great

Devils Affricate posted:

To be fair, they were moderately challenging IQ test style questions. My parents would probably have a hard time too.

caberham posted:

The must wait until X has a child / X is married is the dumbest poo poo ever.

Blistex posted:

Great at laying smack down on the colonies.

oohhboy posted:

The AA gun hadn't been invented yet.

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I want him to understand, he used this kind of extreme method to provoke Chinese traditional culture, and will need to pay the price.

Haier posted:

I went to a restaurant and posted about the food. I can sit with friends in any restaurant, so that's not the focus when I want to talk about food from a restaurant in my posting. "Well, we had a conversation while eating" can be said about any restaurant or food.
As a food itself, I didn't like hot pot and didn't see the hype about how it is so delishurss. That's all there is to it. Goons getting upset about my dislike of a certain soup and acting like I am silently sitting there glaring at the pot of boiling water and ignoring the world are LMBO. "NO, ur supposed to get drunk and sit with people for hours!!!" like hot pot is unique in this. LOL

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Grand Fromage posted:

oohhboy posted:

The AA gun hadn't been invented yet.

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oohhboy posted:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/27/north-korea-executed-five-security-officials-anti-aircraft-guns/