Glimpsing my memory through wire fence

It has been a while ago, but I visited my middle school again after three years. I was planning on posting this earlier but I am still waiting for an author to finish his big post. So this will just serve as an appetizer. I talked to my advisor about my middle school, Chengdu No.7 Yucai Middle School (Shuijingfang), and I learned we already had seven middle schools under our name, and we also just started a high school (and a primary school). There was a baby boom around 2010 in China because the economy was great, and everyone was also encouraged to have kids after the one-child policy in China. As a result, more and more middle schools and high schools are being built now in China.

It was still a problem, though, because no one knew what these middle schools and high schools would be used for after this population boom. Right now, China has lost 70 million people net in one year because there were not enough babies, so how will these newly built schools be used? My advisor thinks China will eventually be like America, and class sizes will also shrink to 20ish (right now, it is 60, and there are 16 classes in one grade). He also thinks the high school entrance exam would be cancelled because there would not be enough students and too many schools. The government would just use the American public school system and randomly assign students to high school based on geolocation.

He also expressed his concern for Chinese education. Right now, Chinese literature, history, and politics textbooks are all under the National Department of Education, and everyone reads this same voice. He said he missed our student days, when schools could still choose their textbooks, because it allowed more perspectives. He shared his experiences because he was appointed by the Chinese government to check Hong Kong history textbooks. He said some of the events and perspectives are real: for example, a Hong Kong textbook tells a story where Chinese soccer fans behaved badly in Hong Kong. It is real and not fabricated, and he said students should know this and be able to reflect on this instead of just having one unified voice.

We also talked about the changes in our school and his classes (he is in charge of most of the renovations and buildings). Our middle school is much richer than BTA because it gets a lot of funding from the government, and they were once even considering building an indoor pool. Now they have an entire building dedicated to labs, music classrooms, art studios, several indoor gyms, and other technology multifunctional classrooms.