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stolen from there.
[The Epoch Times; East Canadian ed.] There is an increasing number of children in Hong Kong going through plastic surgery. The parents of those children say, "Giving them plastic surgery would give them an advantage during admission interviews to the best ("famous", literally) schools. Also, when the child goes to school, it would prevent him/her being teased."
However, the "Association of Plastic Surgeons" (uh.. don't know their exact name in English) advises parents, "Don't 'casually' (can't think of a better word) take your children to do plastic surgery; it could ruin their image instead of beautifying it, possibly leaving permanent scars."
According to ??? news, there are "famous" kindergartens and primary schools who conduct admission interviews where, not only the children's abilities are accessed, whether the children have a nice body and profile are also part of the admission criteria, creating the abnormal trend of parents sending their children to plastic surgery.
A clinical psychiatrist of the HK "Social Welfare Organization" (again, I don't know their official name) states, "The failure rate of plastic surgery for children this young isn't low; it could also have a big, negative effect on the children's mind. The children can develop a poor self-image, low self-esteem, hatrate of their parents, and in more serious cases, depression, which would have a serious effect on their mental development.
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The article mentioned "famous" schools. By "famous", it meant schools that have a good reputation, insanely tough curriculum, and/or are favoured by other schools. The process of getting into a kindergarten, primary school, or secondary school in HK is sort of like applying to university in Canada. Some schools (such as the so-called "famous" school) receive many more applications for admission than they can accept, so they must look at everything from marks/ranking, extracurricular activities, to which school the child came from. Coming from a "famous" school might give kids an advantage over others when it comes to admission, that's why parents in HK are =obsessed= with getting their kids to a good kindergarten.
I have some personal experience with something like this.... I had to transfer to another school in the middle of Grade 3. I applied to one of those "famous" schools. There was one spot available; I lost with a 96% overall average, number 1 ranking in the grade two years in a row, because the ONE time that I got 91 in math was too crappy for their school which specialized in math. Then I got into that school's rival school (their counterpart in arts and humanities)! XD
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