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Re:Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Stu... by etaioinshrdlu on Saturday May 16, 2020 @01:33AM (#23200754)
> Forcing kids to improve their grades at the cost of their mental health

This sounds like the status quo of many educational systems worldwide. It's very depressing to me. Obviously some countries are worse than others, but even the US isn't great compared to say, Nordic countries.

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Re:Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Stu... by vulcan01 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @02:06PM (#23213847)
This.

It's easier to criticise other countries' education systems, but for some reason we try to avoid criticising our own.

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