Tuesday, February 15, 2011

My elementary school stories

    After I read Junior's stories I began to think my elementary school in China. I don't know why, there were few students be considered as "bad student" in some teachers eyes just because they were not get highly points on their exam. At that time, in China after grade exam teacher would speak out student's scores in front of all students and berated students who got fail of exam. In those teachers eyes, those F students were "black sheep" of class. I remembered that a little boy who always fail in the exam, teachers were laughing at him and asked other students do not speak to him, if some one told to him then other students were not be allowed to speak to you too. Since that time, no one told to him. Every student was afraid to speak with him. Now, I do not know where he is, but I am sure that his elementary school stories was shadow of his heart. At that time, we did not have ability to describe bad or good, in our mind teachers always right. I did not know why teachers can humiliated a eight years old boy.
  When I was grade two student, our math teacher was very stringent. If we got mistakes on homework she would slap our in the faces, it was illegal in China, so every time he slaped students faces she would alarm the student do not tell their patents. I remembered one day a boy of my class, he did not pass the final exam, the math teacher asked him in front of the class and asked all girls to scrape his nose in oder to humiliated him. At the same time that teacher was keep slaping on his face till he was bloody then she stopped and she was scared. She asked others students "Did someone watch me hit him?", we were slience and she kept asking "Did someone watch me hit him?" "No" we answered. That day was the first time I considered a teacher is not alway right. She told us how to lie, that was terrible. After few days later, school's persident knew this thing and the teacher was fired. But I know to the student who was hitted by her will not forget that day.

1 comment:

  1. Wow, intense teaching. I atually have a friend from Mongolia who actually went through the exact same thing. He says that his teacher would slap them for being "bad" in their eyes and also would wear many rings so that the slaps had more power.

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