"Training schools will never disappear, not as long as Chinese parents want their children to learn English. You can either be part of the problem or part of the solution".

Come off it, Kevin, you are like [edited] on this site. What's all that about your dear old pappy suggesting you should vacate the toilet? He can't be any more than forty now, or so we glean from your ageist rants? Or was the ablutions' room revelation a bit of a slip revealing yourself as no slip of a lad at all but some old palisade of ageing fragments who would put a spring in the stride of all us veterans you malign so grievously.

As for Chinese parents ordering their offspring to private schools in the evenings after such a brutal day in Chinese middle schools(up at six saluting the flag) and at the weekends, what do they know about what's good for their kids? On three occasions on my watch in China children have thrown themselves out of middle school windows because of the pressures put upon them by the education system and parents just demanding too much. One of the reasons I started allowing sleepers to sleep came from my middle school experience. Even if there are private schools out there with good intentions they are still bad for Chinese children-pressure pressure pressure, just to make money and oblige stupid chinese parents to part with it. According to the BBC some 27000 Chinese school kids ended their own lives last year-the pressures of intensive education. Private schools must share the blame for this carnage.