According to the BBC some 27000 Chinese school kids ended their own lives last year-the pressures of intensive education.

Just a sick sick thing to read. Anyone who defends these training centers has been and always will be a part of the problem. People who are stupid enough (foreign or native chinese) who self rationalize over and over of how they are supposedly making things "better" really are a disgrace to themselves. In the end parents, teachers, training center owners, principals, and anyone involved with the general education in China must realize they ARE NOT BRINGING OUT THE BEST OF WHAT THE KIDS HAVE TO OFFER ON THEIR OWN FREE WILL. But such is the childish attitude of the population in this country in general.