Student at Chinese cultural academy dies, and school’s founder blames family’s sins.
A traditional cultural academy in China’s northeastern province of Jilin has been investigated after a nine-year-old student died, apparently of leukaemia, and the school’s founder blamed the child’s parents for his disease, telling them “your family has sinned too many times”.
Such academies are growing popular, with a revival of the study of classic Chinese culture, known as guoxue or national learning, under way. These for-profit private schools have drawn criticism over their curriculums, which often forgo courses set by the Chinese Education Ministry such as mathematics or the sciences and promote traditional views such as the need for women to stay at home and serve their husbands. Many of them are not certified to issue diplomas.
Zhou’s parents – his father, Zhou Jiankui, and mother, Xiang Xiaoyan – who live in Chongqing, Sichuan province, about 2,600 kms from the school in Yitong, reached the school the next day.Three days before his death, Zhou’s white blood cell count was at 550.12, an abnormal level. Medical imaging showed enlarged liver and spleen, the Chongqing newspaper said. The symptoms suggested he had leukaemia, but a lumbar puncture, which would confirm the illness, was not carried out.
On the website for Yukun, the school describes itself as teaching subjects such as Buddhist scripts, calligraphy, tai chi and traditional Chinese medicine.
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