还有更痛苦的惩罚是母校因任何理由关闭了，校友欲哭无泪，孩子欲读无门，只能怨叹遇“校”不淑，误了孩子的机会。

• Even more hurt and grieved are those old boys and girls whose mother schools were closed down for whatever reasons. As former students, they have nowhere to attach their memory; as parents, they can find no schools that would accept their children on preferential terms.Perhaps, if anything, they could only curse their stars for having attended a school doomed to closure, a sad fact now putting their children at a disadvantage.