In one recent survey, 66.2% of Chinese high school students said they planned to take care of their parents in old age.

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Starting this year military training has become mandatory for all Chinese middle school, high school and university students.

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He worked as a Chinese teacher at a special high school that was created for the children of ministry workers.

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Tom Ying, head of history at Burwood Girls High School in Sydney, grew up as a Chinese child in the white Australia of the 1950s.

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Fifty-five percent of the Chinese stopped school with a high-school education or less, while in the United States 46% stopped with a high-school education or less.

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But even with teachers, getting a Chinese-language program off the ground at a high school is difficult.

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