The Chinese educational system has a strange idea of what it means for students to have a holiday.
The May Day holiday is right around the corner and late last week we were told we'd have a five day holiday (but we're actually getting seven days, the students are getting five). Needless to say we were pretty excited for it. We've been wanting to go to Wuhan to visit a friend we made during our time in Yichang.
On Tuesday, my coordinator let me know that "due to the holiday, there will be classes this weekend". Huh? The school is making up the classes over the weekend that are lost during the week because of the holiday. And "you don't work on May 7, the students have exams."
Because godforbid they let students have a real holiday where they can relax and be kids instead of spending their time studying for midterms that will take place the day they come back.
*sigh*
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Re: Holiday?
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-jason-
on Fri 27 Apr 2007 06:13 PM EDT | Permanent Link
yeah it's strange. my friends in taiwan were telling me the same thing. holidays weren't really holidays.
Re: Holiday?
You know, I was going to write a running rant about "how great it must be to be a student and Chinese in China," I decided that I couldn't bring myself to it this morning. Its a wretched situation of learning gone wrong, kind of the anti-America: so much testing has made them identical robots, here so much testing has forced many to give up before even trying. Yet, for the different outcomes, no one is learning regardless.
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