China’s strive for producing high quality students lays the burden on young imaginative children. The heavy pressing of education on kindergarten students marked the increase of children attending extra education programs and parents being anxious of their child’s future.

The goal of the Chinese government to increase the number of preschool and kindergarten attendees by 75 percent in 2020 marked lines on playful children’s faces and it’s beyond tradition where children are left to play until 6 before enrolling them to primary schools according to Du Juan, an education editor. Reports say that Chinese children are enrolled an additional three hours on other day school programs beside the daily 7:30 a.m. to 4: 30 p.m. schedules which their parents consider normal.

“Students are taught to memorize instead of developing creative minds” Du says. The learning processes differ in every age and forcing these children to pursue excellence by immerging them into heavy academics is very unhealthy. And instead letting students discover learning by their selves, the bases of achievement is based on exams. The reason behind the problem according to a education specialist at Michigan State University, Zhao Yong, even with the nationwide initiative of widening enrollment methods, it is China’s college entrance exams that decides the standard of excellence.

Zhao also pointed that parents enroll their children unto pre-schools and kindergartens which guarantees passing the colleges entrance exams emphasizing more on earning credentials rather than learning. The sad fact is, pregnant mothers are pre-enrolling their unborn children to pre-schools and kindergartens because of the fear of limited primary schools getting full.

This is because of the heavy competition among primary schools which has grown intensively over the years. This brought the problem of too many young students pressured to go to school without the security of having an available preschool institution to attend.

In solution to the rising dilemma, Beijing will spend $737 million over 5 years to build 118 kindergarten buildings and for the enlargement of 300 more. But as long as China keeps on producing students with high scores but with ability, Zhao says “it won’t help China recover from its cheap labor economy”.