Today's Penglai Island has become the most desirable place in China. In this year www.biquge.info's selection of the top ten livable cities in China, Penglai Island ranked first in the number of votes, far ahead of other cities. After that, the National Bureau of Statistics released the domestic economic situation in the first half of this year, and Penglai Island was jaw-dropping with a growth rate of 30%.

Tianxin community did a survey not long ago, the theme is which city in China you yearn for the most, Penglai Island received 43% of the votes, still at the top of the list.

In three years, Penglai Island has changed from a desert island in the minds of the Chinese people to a holy place, and its influence and attractiveness have increased rapidly, and these have brought about the expansion of population size. When there are more people, there are more problems, such as education.

Similar to other businesses on Penglai Island, the education here is also very unique, and in the new semester, Penglai Island carried out an educational reform, which caused controversy in China.

At the beginning, Lu Yang was in Penglai Island to promote education, in order to attract those high-quality teachers, he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, but now, even if there is no preferential policy, the top teachers in China have taken the initiative to move closer to Penglai Island. Many teachers from prestigious schools are regretting that these people received an invitation from Lu Yang two years ago, but in the end they all refused, and they also missed the opportunity to join Penglai Island.

Penglai Island now has a population of 1.4 million, with a school-age population of 320,000, which is a relatively high proportion. The increase in population has led to an increase in the number of schools, and now there are nearly 1,000 schools of various kinds on Penglai Island, and last year's education expenditure reached 28 billion, and the scale of education is getting bigger and bigger.

There is a clear difference between education and the mainland in Penglai Island, although there are still various exams here, but it also pays attention to the cultivation of students' interests, more emphasis on thinking and innovation, in all subjects, Lu Yang also specially improved the status of physical education.

At present, the education of Penglai Island is in charge of Wei Limin, who is a world-renowned education expert, because she studied in the United States in her third year of high school, she has a relatively in-depth understanding of the education in China and the United States. In fact, the current education model of Penglai Island is a bit like a style that neutralizes Huaxia and the United States.

Lu Yang was still satisfied with Wei Limin's work, but before the start of this semester, he held a special education meeting, proposing that English be listed as an elective subject, rather than a compulsory subject.

As soon as Lu Yang's proposal came out, a big discussion began in the education circles of Penglai Island, with some people supporting it, but more people opposing it, especially the teachers transferred from the mainland. They have become accustomed to teaching beyond the number of languages, and naturally do not want to change. But to say that the most fierce opposition is still those teachers in the third year of high school, they teach for the purpose of the college entrance examination, if English is abolished, Penglai Island students will not participate in the Chinese college entrance examination?

If someone else put forward such an opinion, everyone would probably ignore it, but this time it was Lu Yang who put it forward, and he was the owner of Penglai Island, even those who opposed it had to think carefully. In fact, Lu Yang did not do this on the spur of the moment. If it had been impulsive, he would have abolished English long ago.

Lu Yang wanted to abolish the status of English as a compulsory subject because he wanted to strengthen Chinese language education on Penglai Island. Among the 380,000 students on Penglai Island, there are more than 30,000 non-Chinese students, most of whom come from Europe, but also from Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and other regions. In terms of population, they are far inferior to the Chinese, but that doesn't mean they will like the Chinese culture.

Penglai Island is a typical immigrant city, and under Lu Yang's deliberate control, the proportion of Chinese is 91 percent, and the proportion of others is 9 percent. To do this, Lu Yang must consider the issue of cultural conflict. In order to maintain the stability of Penglai Island, Lu Yang intends to forcibly promote Chinese culture, not to mention assimilating other immigrants, at least to let them understand and accept Chinese culture.

In order to achieve this goal, Lu Yang also suppressed the education of foreign cultures such as English.

The opposition of others did not shake Lu Yang's determination to abolish the compulsory English course, and in this regard, Wei Limin, who has a Western background, is instead a supporter of Lu Yang, which some people do not understand. In the end, Lu Yang implemented his will, and from September 2018, English became an elective subject in schools at all levels on Penglai Island.

This decision was announced relatively late, and many students only found out about it when they started school. It is said that many schools heard the cheers of students on the first day of school. Those students not only rejoiced themselves, but also reposted them online. The news was posted on the Internet on the same day, and it was immediately on the search list, and now, not only Penglai Island knew about this decision, but the whole of China knew about it.

"Finally I don't have to memorize English words anymore!" Signing up to go home, Feng Ya happily hugged Su Yan and said.

Su Yan didn't know about this before, but when she heard her daughter say it, she was still a little worried.

"Then what should you do with the college entrance examination? The domestic college entrance examination still has to take the English test, and if you study abroad, the English requirements are higher! ”

"Whatever, I don't plan to study abroad anyway, what's the use of learning English? Besides, I can go to university on Penglai Island......" Feng Yaman said nonchalantly.

Su Yan said: "There are two universities on Penglai Island now, both of which are military in nature, how can you go there?" ”

"Didn't Uncle Lu say that he wanted to establish Penglai University, just when I was in my third year of high school, the university was built...... By the way, I still have to tell them the news about this, they must be envious to death! Feng Ya happily returned to her room and began to call her classmates in China

It's not just Su Yan who is worried, but at the same time, 70% of families on Penglai Island are worried about this problem, and many parents even plan to send their children back to school on the mainland because they really can't support Luyang's reform.

The decision to abolish English even affected Lu Yang's family, although his children did not go to junior high school, but relatives had them. In the past two years, many relatives in Lu Yang have been naturalized on Penglai Island, and there are more than a dozen children in junior high school and high school, so in the afternoon of the same day, some relatives called Lu Xinguang and asked about English.

"Xiaoyang, why did you cancel English? Your cousin called just now, their family Shanshan is in his third year of high school this year, and he will take the college entrance examination soon, as soon as you cancel your English, what should he do with the college entrance examination? After Lu Xinguang received the call, he specially called Lu Yang.

Zhang Chunfang was cooking, and when she heard the words, she said: "I remember that Xiaoyang's English was not good before, so it won't be that you can't learn English by yourself, so you just cancel it, right?" ”

Lu Yang was embarrassed when he heard this, but Zhu Xiaotong laughed: "Mom, I think it's likely to be like this!" ”

"I don't speak English well?" Lu Yang justified his name, "I just don't say it rarely, if you really talk about it, my English is better than what the people of the United States say!" ”

Lu Yang is not lying, he can already speak fluent English ten years ago.

"No matter what, you can't cancel English, now going abroad is becoming more and more frequent, what is it called internationalization, right? How can you do it if you don't know English! Lu Xinguang said.

Lu Yang said: "Dad, don't worry about it, I know it in my heart." ”

"You have a number, but a wise man thinks a thousand times, and there will be a mistake, even if you are a genius, there will be times when you make mistakes. Listen to people's advice, eat well, you have to listen to me about this matter! Lu Xinguang insisted.

Lu Yang was helpless, so he had to say: "Dad, I canceled English for a purpose. Besides, why do we Chinese people have to learn English, but foreigners can't learn Chinese? You see, there are many foreigners on Penglai Island, and everyone still speaks Chinese. ”

"That's right, I met a foreigner in the supermarket two days ago, and I chatted with someone, but it sounded a little awkward." Lu Xinguang said, "However, people say that Chinese is more difficult to learn than other languages......

"Chinese is difficult to learn, and English is not easy to learn, so I have to reduce the burden on those students with such a reform." Lu Yang said.

Penglai Island's education reform has led to a big discussion on whether Chinese students must learn English, and the scale of the discussion is unprecedented, and almost the whole society participates.

It was the students who spoke the most enthusiastically, with one student saying:

"At that time, in order to connect with the world and learn from the advanced experience of foreign countries, Huaxia made English a compulsory course, alongside Chinese and mathematics. After so many years, Huaxia is no longer the Huaxia of the past, and with the increase of our influence, more and more foreigners have begun to learn Chinese. However, we have never heard of any country that makes Chinese a compulsory subject. It seems to me that juxtaposing a foreign language with its own Chinese language is something that only some small countries do, or else they have been ruled by the British for hundreds of years, as in the Three Kingdoms. If Huaxia still had a reason to do this before, then it would be a shame to continue to do it now! ”

The comment was made by a sophomore at a high school in Beijing, and by chance, his post was widely reposted, with a very high number of hits, and won the approval of many middle school students. However, what really made this post detonate Huaxia was because of Lu Yang, after the high school student posted his comment on Weibo, Lu Yang reprinted it and joined him.

The discussion became more and more intense and widespread, first with students, teachers and parents, then with education experts, university teachers, and then with the Ministry of Education and the State Council. This bottom-up discussion has become the most popular topic in China, and all parties are expressing their opinions on the Internet.

A week later, discussions in Huaxia began to go abroad and attracted the attention of the world. Language represents culture, and the Chinese list English as a compulsory subject represents their willingness to accept British and Minian culture, and the West is naturally happy to see it. And now, Huaxia is considering abolishing English classes, which represents the rise of their own national culture, and even their national will, which is obviously not what the West wants to see.

"The whole world should be vigilant: Chinese nationalist ideas are rising!" The Washington Post of the United States reported with such alarmist headlines. (To be continued.) )