Two days before the beginning of a new term

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of a new term

There are only two days left before the beginning of a new term. Frankly our new term has been on for two days. It is only because the students are not here at school that we are free, with only some preparation for the beginning of a new term. The most important thing for us to do during the period is to have an inspection on our work.

In Monica’s term, it is a kind of brainwashing. Any thoughts that are harmful or detrimental to teaching will be openly vowed and therefore eradicated. We have supposedly been required to do everything meekly and obediently and unconditionally. We have no right even to argue. The accusation of being homeschooled in China is not fair and square to us. Under the severe pressure, what can we do if we take the livelihood of our family into account?

We get our half weekends. I use “half” here because we have to go to school on Saturday mornings and Sunday evenings. We are satisfied, since it has already cut off a little pressure of ours.

“What man has made of man?” This is a verse from a poem which now I can hardly call to mind the poet. What have we been brought to the world for? To suffer, to bear all the troubles every day with no prospect of being emancipated? I just don’t know.

Having been under the yoke for so long, we have lost the power or ability to protest. We have become meek sheep. Sometimes I think the present education system is only a system of strangling people in a civil way, or to a less degree, making people wretched and dumb fools. I am just such a fool. Not only homeschooled, but also prosecuted, we have no idea of what our prospect my change to be.