Today in China, the College Entrance Examination (CEE), is generally viewed as "the" way to change one's destiny and it means a great deal to most teenagers.

　　However, another story has been revealed by what happened to the student who achieved the top mark of 638 in the Arts and Humanities entrance examination results in Hubei Province.

　　The student, Zhou Xun from Xiantao city in Hubei Province was informed that he had no chance of being enrolled by any university even though his score was the highest in China.

　　Zhou had been expelled by a university last year for stealing a bag with about 1,000 yuan in it. According to local regulations, students expelled by a college are forbidden to apply again to take the exam for one year.

　　There is nothing wrong is saying that people should pay for their wrongdoings. But for a young and immature teenager, being expelled from university is in itself a severe punishment.

　　Should we now give this student a hand or push him into the abyss? If holding the blunder made by a teenage so firmly against him, I argue that this is a failure of the education system.

　　The school's decision, and the local regulation that refused to give him a second chance, poses questions as to the aims of higher education.

　　Isn't a school meant to teach its students to be good? Shouldn't an educational institution tolerate a mistake and help the student to correct it?

　　And this situation doesn't apply to higher education institutions only. I have learned about students being expelled from middle school, despite the fact that education in junior middle school is compulsory. Instead of trying to mend students' wrongdoings, our education system simply "gives up" on some "losers", who might then be "given up" on by their family, and society.

　　This is far from being an effective "educational method". Schools are supposed to train and cultivate people with love and warmth. Why can't the college punish students' wrongdoing in more positive ways? You can have the student study for extra credits or do some obligatory labour, or even impose a fine. Why do they have to push him out?

　　And Zhou had been a good student, with a marvelous performance in high school so as to be enrolled by the Science and Technology University of China at the age of 16. The young man should have been allowed to realize his wrongdoing and make his attempt to correct it by starting all over again.

　　Many laws and regulations are not abided by in China. Ironically, the "blindfold" regulation worked well this time - it allowed the boy get through the process of application smoothly and participate in the exam and then obtain an excellent result.

　　This makes us think: why was he allowed to take the exam in the first place? Why didn't the regulation ban him from applying for the exam at the very beginning?

　　Zhou, with great perseverance, has decided to apply for the exam again next year, but many less talented and courageous students are abandoned for ever. The "regulation" doesn't give everyone a second chance. Does it have to be so?