Under a temperature higher than 30 degrees, a P6 kid in a neat primary school uniform and a pair of helpless parents made their last effort to enroll in a secondary school they trusted. I deliberately use “trusted” instead of “favorite,” which is often used in public because the parents said that putting their kid to a school requires “trust” rather than “favorite.” I asked them, as the school they were offered was a quality school, why did they want to change? The mother ‘recited’ the primary school teacher’s advice with a little resentment: “Your daughter’s performance has deteriorated. The test results indicated that she probably belongs to the ‘2nd -tier’!” ‘2nd-tier?’ The mother’s head was filled with question marks. Was the teacher criticizing her daughter’s attitude? Or complaining that she didn’t want to make progress? Or teasing her for not knowing how to rear children? No matter what it was, it was not a suggestion for school selection. Should we listen patiently before criticizing? What made the parents the saddest was not the kid’s academic performance at a certain moment but being judged as the ‘2nd-tier’ by the teacher. Though the government has its considerations in classifying the kids into different tiers, it does not require us to disclose and highlight the tier the kids belong to. Is it necessary for an 11-year-old kid to accept that they are, from then on, a 2nd-class citizen?