Chinese parents boast on children's CVs for school admissions

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A selection of 60 out of 8,000 kindergarten graduates has attracted a group of outstanding nursery school students who “understands nuclear reactors” and “learns calculus.”

These are prodigies who are jokingly “superior to Einstein.” As parents are eager to accumulate advantages for their children's smooth progression to school, “stunning learning” and “advanced education” are already common among preschoolers.

However, experts pointed out that "advanced education" causing children to "lead" is only a temporary illusion. Imposing the knowledge and skills that are ahead of the child's development process on those who are not yet fully prepared may instead lead to "destructive development" and serious consequences.

Parents engage in a “writing competition” to create the best resumes for their children, mimicking their tones and exaggerating their abilities.

In the resumes, parents wrote things like “inheriting the linguistic ability from mother, who has a Master degree from Fudan University, I started talking at three-and-a-half months, very skillful in expressing my wishes. I would also take the initiative to chat with American tourists in English on Medusa and Curie...”

Or “my Dad has a PhD degree from Tsinghua University and with his powerful mathematics gene, I can sort out complex maths problems within a short period of time, and also knows decimals, scores, and negative numbers..."

The parents’ “higher education” and the children’s highlighted advantages are great selling points among fierce competition, a vivid illustration of how desperate parents are to have their child come out on top early on. But this boasting may not necessarily be much help in the long term.

“It is not easy to see that the CVs of these outstanding kids are exaggerated, but it is easy to see that behind those kids is a group of worried parents who are afraid of the children 'lose at the starting line' and want to 'run first',” said Professor Ding Jiayong of Hunan Normal University.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency