Recently, I saw a news report online, but no matter how hard I try, I cannot find other, more detailed and specific related materials. The original text of the report is as follows:
The Guilin City Lingui District Education Bureau in Guangxi reported on June 10 that at approximately 11:20 a.m. on June 3, a sixth-grade boy at Hui Rong Elementary School in Lingui District fell from a building. The school immediately called 120 for emergency medical services and 110 for police, and fully carried out rescue work. After hospital rescue, the student’s vital signs are stable, with no life-threatening danger.
After the incident, the Lingui District Committee and District Government attached great importance, quickly organized departments such as education, health, and public security to coordinate response, including medical treatment and investigation of the cause. According to preliminary investigations, the student was not bullied or subjected to teacher corporal punishment at school. Through interviews with teachers and students and reviewing classroom surveillance, it was found that during the second period on the morning of the incident, the homeroom teacher criticized and educated the student because he did not complete his class assignments and because he went out to play during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday (June 1) and did not return home in time, which led his parents to look for him in the class group chat, and also notified the parents to come to school to assist in persuasion. During the third period that morning, the student’s parents arrived at the classroom door. When the student saw his parents, he immediately picked up a stool, went to the window, climbed over the guardrail, and fell from the building.
Currently, the education system in Lingui District is conducting a comprehensive investigation, strengthening students’ mental health and safety education, drawing lessons from the incident, and preventing similar events from happening again.
The formal bureaucratic language and meaningless platitudes are not worth discussing; the key point is in the second paragraph. “During the third period that morning, the student’s parents arrived at the classroom door. When the student saw his parents, he immediately picked up a stool, went to the window, climbed over the guardrail, and fell from the building.” Placed in such a cold, official report, it is simply shocking! The report states that the homeroom teacher criticized the student because he “did not complete class assignments” and “went out to play during the holiday and was not timely to return home,” which led to his parents “searching for him in the class group chat,” and that the parents “came to school to assist in persuasion.” Is it really just “criticism and guidance”? I think that warrants a hundred question marks. There is a 99% probability that this family and school are subjecting the student to brutal, fascist oppression, and the child, unable to bear it, in fear, wanted to jump out of the window and commit suicide.
As for the statement “strengthening students’ mental health and safety education, drawing lessons from the incident, and preventing similar events from happening again,” it is too hypocritical. It is a typical tactic of reactionaries, who always blame the victim—if something goes wrong, it’s the victim’s fault, and the students’ psychological resilience is too weak, shifting the blame onto the oppressors—the school and the parents.