【新唐人2014年05月16日讯】根据统计资料显示，自杀成了大陆死亡的第5大原因。虽然对中小学生自杀很难有准确的统计数字，但中共官媒日前声称，大陆每年大约有500名中小学生，因不堪应试教育和繁重的学业压力等原因自杀。本应该是欢声笑语、无忧无虑的年华选择自杀，这不能不让人深思。
4月初，一名13岁江苏男学生因未完成作业而上吊自杀﹔四川达州市渠县的一名高一男生，也从学校实验楼跳下身亡。
今年2月底，甘肃《兰州晚报》报导说，兰州市在3天时间内，就有3名中学生相继自杀。
中共官媒《中国日报》引述《国家卫生部计委》期刊的说法，大量每年约有500名中小学生自杀。
湖南“新化一中”教师罗美华认为，现在社会太注重分数了，造成没有背景的家庭压力很大，父母只能对孩子施加压力，孩子又没有其他精神的东西去寄托，造成他们出问题。
湖南新化一中教师罗美华：“家长一些方面的影响，社会也没有一些政策性的舆论导向，也没有对学生疏导，所以遇到事情一想不开就自杀了。”
大陆“结石宝宝”家长蒋亚林认为，中国教育体系出现了问题，学校采用的是“填鸭式”的教育方法，分数至上，老师决定一切，学生不能有一点个人的想法。造成学生死板、不灵活。
蒋亚林表示，孩子们在学校学习不好会受到各种歧视。学校这种巨大的竞争力和学习压力，使孩子们的心里很容易出问题。
大陆结石宝宝家长蒋亚林：“现在独生子女居多，家人一般对于孩子来说都是采用夸赞的方式，很少会去批评，所以孩子的抗压能力本身就差一点。”
最近大陆当局出炉的《教育蓝皮书》显示，大多数的自杀学生，都是因为无法承受考试教育制度的强大压力而自杀，有将近三分之二的学生自杀事件，是发生在下半学年要考试的时候。
《蓝皮书》指出，去年“五一长假”之后，南京市同一天连续发生两起中小学生自杀事件，都跟学生没有完成作业有关。
去年初，南京《青少年综合服务台》对900名中小学生，进行了生命意识教育现状调查，有4%的中小学生经常存有自杀的念头，偶尔有自杀念头的也占到了35%。
上海的调查结果也不乐观：有24.39%的中小学生曾有一闪而过的“结束自己生命”的想法，认真考虑过这个想法的占到15.23%，5.85%的孩子曾计划自杀，1.71%的中小学生自杀未遂。
旅美中国问题学者谢选骏指出，2500多年前，孔子就提倡因材施教理念，可是到了现代，这个理念却没有得到贯彻。谢选骏对《自由亚洲电台》说，考得不好不一定不是人才。“比尔-盖茨”大学没有毕业，但是他做企业有一套。
旅居美国的前“山东大学”史学教授刘因全表示，美国注重的实际动手能力，与只注重分数的大陆不一样。
旅美前山东大学史学教授刘因全：“美国的学校，一般的小学生只上半天多一点的课，到中学也是，大约下午3点就放学了。而且，他上学的时候，有大量的时间学习一些实用的东西，比如说弹琴、游泳、一些体育文娱活动，甚至学做饭。”
刘因全认为，中国的贫富分化非常严重，普通民众在社会上受到各方面的压力就非常大。这些压力都会被家长传递到孩子身上去，用各种方法强迫孩子学习，望子成龙。
刘因全：“我在美国生活我知道，美国对儿童的保护无微不至。如果父母打骂孩子的话，孩子可以告。如果把孩子打伤了，即使孩子不告，一旦被老师、同学发现以后，老师和同学也会告。否则老师会犯法。”
《教育蓝皮书》还公布了公众对教育满意度的调查结果：公众对目前所在地域的总体教育状况满意度的评分仅58.28，在评价“小升初”时，不满意度群体的比例更是高达74.64%。
采访/朱智善 编辑/宋风 后制/李勇
What Is Wrong with Chinese Children: 500 School Students Commit Suicide Each Year in China
Statistics show that suicide is the fifth biggest cause of death
in China.
Although it is difficult to accurately compile suicide statistics
for preliminary and middle school students in China,
the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) recently announced
that about 500 commit suicide each year under academic
pressure brought about by the examination-based
education system.
Children should be carefree at their ages,
so why do they commit suicide?
This becomes a serious question every Chinese faces.
In early April, a 13-year-old Jiangsu boy hanged himself
when he did not finish homework.
Another 10th-grade boy jumped off his school’s building
and died in Qu county, Dazhou city of Sichuan province.
Lanzhou Evening Daily reported this February that three
Lanzhou middle school students had committed suicide
in three days.
China Daily, a CCP mouthpiece, quoted a National Health
and Family Planning Commission (NHFPC) journal, which
reported that about 500 Chinese students from preliminary
or middle school died by suicide each year.
Luo Meihua, a teacher at Xinhua No.1 Middle School
in Hunan province, said Chinese society is stressing
test scores too much.
This creates a lot of pressure for students from
ordinary families, especially from their parents.
Those children have no other way to relax their minds,
and this sometimes causes serious problems.
Luo Meihua: “Children are pushed by parents
but there is no help from Chinese media.
They never provide supervision regarding
how to relax children’s minds.
Therefore when they take anything too hard
they may just commit suicide."
Jiang Yalin, parent of the “kidney stone baby",
believes China’s education system is seriously flawed.
Chinese schools use a forced-feeding fashion
to educate students, regarding test scores
as most important.
Teachers are like bosses and do not allow
any individual opinion from the students.
This leads to fixed and patterned minds of all students.
Jiang Yalin said children with poor grades
are discriminated against in many ways.
Huge academic pressure from intense competition in school
makes it easy for students to develop mental problems.
Jiang Yalin: “Now most children are the only child
of their families.
They are mostly praised a lot and seldom
see criticism at home.
Therefore they are more vulnerable to pressure."
The CCP authority recently released an education blue book
which said most students who commit suicide could not
handle the immense pressure caused
by the examination-based education system.
Two-thirds of suicide cases occurred during the second
semester of a year, when all kinds of examinations are coming.
The blue book also mentioned that two children
from Nanjing committed suicide on the same day
after the May holidays last year.
In both cases the victims could not finish
their holiday homework.
Early in 2013, Nanjing surveyed 900 preliminary
or middle school students on their consciousness of life.
The results showed that 4 percent of these students
frequently think about suicide and 35 percent
occasionally think about it.
In Shanghai, the situation is no better.
About 24.39 percent of Shanghai students have had
the thought of ending their lives flash into their mind
and 15.23 percent have seriously considered it.
5.85 percent have planned their suicide and 1.71 percent
have made suicide attempts.
Xie Xuanjun, a China affairs scholar, commented that
Confucius had presented the idea of individualized education
over 2,500 years ago.
However, his idea was not implemented in modern China.
Xie told Radio Free China that high scores
do not necessarily indicate great ability.
Bill Gates failed to graduate from his university
but he is extremely talented at running a company.
Liu Yinquan, former Shandong University history professor,
said education in the U.S. places more emphasis
on practical ability than test scores, which differs
tremendously from China.
Liu Yinquan: “In the U.S., most preliminary school students
only take classes for half the day.
Middle school students also finish their schooling
by roughly 3pm.
What’s more, even in school, students in the U.S. spent a lot
of time learning practical activities such as piano, swimming
and other sports or cultural activities.
They even learn cooking at school."
Liu said polarization of wealth is very serious in China.
Ordinary people are subject to huge social pressure
in many ways.
Those pressures are frequently transferred to children
by their parents.
They force children to study and burden them
with their high expectations.
Liu Yinquan: “Now I am living in the U.S. so I know that
the U.S. takes protecting children extremely seriously.
If any parent beats or scolds a child, the child can report
it to the government.
If a child is injured, his teacher and classmate
can also report it even if the child does not report it.
It is the teacher’s responsibility to do that, otherwise
he or she violates the law."
The blue book also announced a survey regarding
Chinese people’s degree of satisfaction
with the education system.
The survey gives a low score of 58.28 in assessing
public degree of satisfaction about local education.
In addition, 74.64 percent are not satisfied with the entrance
system from preliminary school to middle school.
Interview/Zhu Zhishan Edit/Song Feng Post-Production/Li Yong
