2024-07-10
26 分钟Discussion keeps the world turning.
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Coming up, when kids go off to college and parents pay tuition fees, do they have a right to know how their money is being spent on their child's education?
Therefore, should parents be notified the grades and transcripts by the university?
Or should the young adults preference take precedence over the parents?
And the reclining seats on planes has sparked heated debates globally.
It raises questions around personal comfort versus respecting others space.
Lets settle this debate once and for all.
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the practice of universities sharing students academic transcripts with parents has sparked a heated debate in China.
While some view it as a violation of student privacy and an infantilization of young adults, others argue that parents have a right to know their childhood grades, especially since they're paying tuition fees.
Yeah, because an increasing number of universities here in China are beginning to take such a practice.
And among them are really some of the really prestigious universities in China, like Zhejiang University, Sichuan University, Wuhan University, or Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Maybe they are facing some kind of pressure from parents that maybe some individual students among these universities don't perform well academically.
And I mean, in universities, if you fail in too many subjects in a semester or consecutive semesters, you face a risk of dropout.
Right?
So maybe after their parents learn about these dropouts, they will complain to the university administrators.