四次谢幕与零次录像：文化差异中的教育思考

British schools bar parents from photographing or filming performances, including their own children's. Dr Xiaoyun Peng describes the consequence: a son who takes four curtain calls and a family with no record of it. Her husband, on placement as a trainee teacher, was reported for taking a selfie on a farm trip with no pupils in frame. She traces the policy to safeguarding and legal risk, but also to a principle of collective equality, since a recording that circulates creates comparison among families who were not there. She sets this against Chinese music schools, where every concert is livestreamed because video is admissions gold. The trade-off she identifies is real: performance becomes purer when nobody is filming, and invisible in a world where visibility drives opportunity.