Once the weekend passed, the major event all the students across Huaxia had been waiting for finally arrived.
The Ministry of Education officially announced that, starting today, the curriculum system reform would completely abolish English as a compulsory subject!
English had completely fallen from its position as a compulsory class and been moved into the elective curriculum.
This move caused an uproar throughout the global education community. It was an extremely major and historic change!
Since the college entrance examinations were restored in 1977, English had been a compulsory subject in Huaxia's education system.
Back then, the gap between Huaxia and Western countries had been far too great. We had humbly sought knowledge, so English was included among the compulsory subjects with the aim of learning from the strengths of the barbarians to defeat the barbarians.
After a full forty-four years, English had finally been dragged down from its pedestal.
After so many years of educational experience, and as Huaxia continued to grow stronger, everyone gradually discovered that foreign languages were not actually very useful.
Ninety-five percent of children would never use English after growing up. Even if they studied it well in school, they would quickly forget it after entering the workforce.
Unless they worked in an English-related field or went abroad, this subject was completely useless.
How many capable students had been unable to enter good universities because English had become their weak subject?
How many students had poured immense effort into English, memorizing by rote for more than a decade, only to discover after graduation that they had no use for the stuff at all?
Moreover, people who genuinely needed English would discover that what they had learned in school was fundamentally different from what they actually needed.
Foreign languages should indeed be learned, but they were