中国妈妈亲历孩子英国“中考”，校长来信劝家长不要“鸡娃”

While her elder son sat GCSEs, Dr Xiaoyun Peng's daughter's school sent parents a letter about resilience. It referenced the government and NHS push on adolescent mental health, then, with unusual candour, cited King's College London research finding that grit accounts for under 1% of the variation in exam results; motivation, home and school environment together add about 4%; intelligence accounts for close to 40%. The head neither dismissed resilience nor sold it as a formula. Peng contrasts this evidence-based restraint with the inspirational register familiar to Chinese parents, and describes her son's half-term during the exam period: rowing in the morning, practice and a walk in the afternoon, no revision classes and no extra work. She argues that Britain's capacity to resist escalation is structural rather than a matter of relaxed teachers.