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According to the linked article, social credit can be moved up or down for many reasons: "examples infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones
by trendia 9y ago
According to the linked article, social credit can be moved up or down for many reasons: "examples infractions include bad driving, smoking in non-smoking zones, buying too many video games and posting fake news online."
That means that if your social credit goes down for any of these reasons, which are not all financial, then you can be barred from the best schools.
I think it's far more likely to be used to keep top schools (which feed into top gov't/industrial positions) clean of any rabble-rousers.
- seanmcdirmid 9y agoPrivate schools aren’t the top ones in China. The top schools are all public (e.g., 人民中学). Private schools are where rich Chinese and foreigners send their kids because (a) they couldn’t get into better schools or (b) they couldn’t get into any public school because the hukou system is so screwed up. There used to be a range of lower cost private schools for migrant worker kids (and probably still is outside of Beijing).
- fspeech 9y agoDo you mean that the private schools could use social credit scores to select students? That is possible, maybe even likely. But one would think or at least hope that there will be diversity, as some private schools may then cater to the unmet demands by others. Remember private schools are in the business of competing for both revenue and talents. A "best" private school that refuses to accept the best students may soon find that they are no longer the "best" school anymore. OP was talking about a government ban. I could only find cases of courts enforcing civil judgement this way at some cities.