Primary school teachers should get higher pay

DUE TO A GENDER imbalance among local primary school teachers, the educational authorities in Southeast China's Fujian province offered 500 male high school graduates free college education to become teachers. This is not a good solution to the gender imbalance among primary school teachers, says Southern Metropolis Daily:

Data from the local authorities show that 83.2 percent of all the urban primary school teachers are female, and many kindergartens do not have any male teachers.

The Fujian education authorities might intend to solve this problem with their move. However, the strategy they have adopted is rather silly. It is, first of all, doubtlessly unfair to provide free education to only male students; worse, if male high school graduates enter normal colleges for free, some female students might lose the chance of entering these colleges, which is even more unfair.