There is a general public perception that standards in schools are falling.

公众普遍认为，学校的水平都在下降。

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Schools do very little to ease the anxiety about falling behind expressed by many of the children interviewed.

学校几乎没有采取什么措施来缓解许多接受采访的孩子对落后表现出的焦虑。

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In many schools, the rot is beginning to set in. Standards are falling all the time.

在许多学校，情况正在逐步恶化，水准在不断降低。

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Businesses are not going to set up shop in places where roads and bridges and ports and schools are falling apart.

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But it has been highly controversial - initial attempts to close some English-medium schools with falling rolls has met with huge opposition.

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When the schools are falling apart, when the roads are falling apart, the bridges are unsafe, the state economy is in free fall.

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