School-aged Children Drop Out
It’s reported that in China about one million school-aged children drop out of school each year and 80% of the drop-outs are from the families which are too poor to keep their children at school.
To tackle the problem, the government has launched the Hope Project. It has helped thousands of children go back to school. But in my opinion, this is far from enough. In order to change this situation completely, the government should set aside an adequate amount of money for education, especially for elementary education. And also, the
government should establish laws to ensure that no children should drop out of school as elementary school education is compulsory in China, and local governments should aid the poor families so that they can send their children to school.
To sum up, so long as our central and local governments and the whole society pay enough attention to this problem and take effective action, this situation will be changed.
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適齡兒童輟學
據報導，在中國約一百萬適齡兒童輟學，每年的80輟學%來自貧困家庭，也讓他們的孩子在學校。 為解決這個問題，政府已推出了希望工程。它已幫助數千名兒童重返校園。但在我看來，這是遠遠不夠的。為了徹底改變這種狀況，政府應該撥出足夠的金錢教育的數量，特別是國小教育。同時，政府應制定法律，以確保不讓孩子們輟學作為國小教育的學校在中國的是義務教育，地方政府應幫助貧困家庭，使他們能夠送子女上學。
綜上所述，只要我們的中央和地方政府以及全社會給予足夠的重視這一問題，並採取有效的行動，這種情況將會改變。