Topic: news For Better or Worse: English Language Reform to Begin in China

Your opinion does not chaff me at all. But the Chinese students need something to differentiate from those who can go one university or another. When I was in high school I took a lot of tests in a lot of subjects that I have not used since. Since you are wanting to exclude English, don't stop there. The Gao Kao also tests history, let's get rid of that for no one needs to learn of their past. Might as well stop teaching trigonometry and other worthless stuff like that- very few will use it after graduation. The only things Chinese students need are maths (up to to arithmetic) and the Chinese language because that is all they will use after graduating school. On a serious note the central government can make English be worth 50 points and I would still have work in China. A lot of Chinese parents are becoming well off and they want to send their children abroad to study. They hate the Gao Kao just as much as students. I work in a very small town in China and I have so many private students that I have to turn some away. Training centers may suffer, but business has been better than ever for me.