"Today is Thanksgiving Day, but we are very sad," one petitioner who went to the Beijing Letters and Calls Office on November 22 to advocate for her child to take the exam in Beijing, wrote on her blog.
Ding Jiaxi, chief partner at Beijing D&H Law Firm, who has been volunteering at the "Education for All" parents' league, told the Global Times that there were no words to describe his impotent rage.
"Social equality and justice will always be empty talk if the hukou system is not abolished," he said.
However, parents with local hukou in big cities insist the door should not be opened to migrant children.
"The competition to enter even a good primary school among Beijing kids is already very fierce, the city cannot endure more newcomers," argued Yuan Yi, a Beijing resident and father of a 3-year-old girl.
After years of reform, China's development has reached a stage where different interest groups are raising conflicting demands. Balancing these demands is a question yet to be solved by reform, Cao Baoyin, a commentator, told the China National Radio.
Xiong Bingqi, vice director of the 21st Century Education Research Academy, and Chu Zhaohui, a researcher with the China National Institute for Educational Research, told the Global Times that the only way to solve the dilemma is to abolish the current gaokao system and let colleges set their own set of criteria for enrollment.
"The seemingly fair national college entrance exam is not fair at all. A student from a bad school must make double the effort in order to have the same chances as a student in a good school," Chu said.
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