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A small passive defensive victory:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/westminster-school-pulls-china-communist-203326340.html

Westminster School is to pull the plug on its China operation after a new Communist Party ruling stipulated that all lesson plans must be approved by Beijing.

The school unveiled its plans in 2017 to set up a sister institution bearing its name in Chengdu in China’s Sichuan province.

But on Tuesday, Westminster’s chairman of governors told parents that this project has now been axed following “recent changes in Chinese education policy”.

Earlier this year it emerged that British-branded private schools in China will be forced to abandon their curricula and teach only lessons approved by Beijing as part of a broader push led by president Xi Jinping to ensure the “right” thinking.

The new regulations mean that international schools must now teach the same lessons as China’s state-run public schools from kindergarten to grade nine.
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Stephen Spriggs, the managing director at the consultancy firm William Clarence Education, said: “There was always a risk with schools viewing China as the land paved with gold. You are liable to a change in their government’s policy.”

He said he suspects more British schools will pull out of China and instead target more “politically stable” countries.

"Politically stable" = academically colonized. Why should any country formerly colonized by Britain (or any other Western colonial power) tolerate British (or any other Western) schools, which were first introduced as a consequence of colonization?

Some of the country’s leading private schools have set up campuses in the Far East over the past decade.

The £42,630-a-year Wellington College has five schools in China and one in Thailand. It set up its first overseas school – Wellington College International Tianjin – a decade ago.

Meanwhile, Harrow School runs 11 schools in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Indonesia and Thailand. North London Collegiate School has a satellite campus in South Korea, Dubai and Singapore.

Genuinely decolonized peoples would burn them all down. (I understand we are still far from reaching this point.) Beyond this, the local curricula themselves need to remove their own Western content (of which there is plenty). Above all, compulsory schooling itself (also a Western institution introduced during colonization) must end.

Most private schools use a “franchise” model, where an investor or management company pays the school a fixed amount each year – similar to a royalty – in order to use their name, brand or expertise.

Under this model, the British “mothership” school is often paid a percentage of the school fees each year, on top of the franchise fee.

Burning them all down would save far more money than it costs to keep them around!

The mothership schools ultimately need the same treatment also. For this we depend on:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/operation-gaddafi/