Recently, high schools in Hunan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and other regions have successively announced the implementation of a weekend double rest policy, allowing students in their first and second years of high school to enjoy a full weekend off, while third-year students retain a single day off. The local governments in these three areas believe that this policy can reduce students’ burdens, enable students to自主安排时间进行学习, identify gaps in knowledge, explore interests and specialties, and even potentially break the single-mode of “a thousand troops crowding the gaokao single-plank bridge.” However, simply adding an extra day off does not truly reduce students’ burdens. In capitalist society, schools are merely tools of oppression against children. To satisfy parents’ expectations for their children to “increase their value,” these schools generally employ brutal and high-pressure methods such as cramming education, the Hengshui model, and militarized management, which damage children’s physical and mental health. According to statistics, by 2020, the myopia rate among Chinese students had reached 52.7%! Moreover, the long-term sedentary study lifestyle has caused Chinese students to suffer from diseases such as lumbar disc herniation from a young age. Faced with such high pressure, students continue to choose to jump from buildings to end their lives. Even so, years of hard study do not teach students anything useful; what they learn is merely how to answer exam questions. If the entire bourgeois educational route is not changed, an extra day of holiday will only lead to more chaos. Even bourgeois media speculate that if the single rest day becomes a double rest day, Confucian parents will only use the extra day to enroll their children in more cram schools, and schools may also take advantage of parents’ “hope for their children to become dragons” mentality to hold weekend classes. Implementing a double rest day will ultimately only burden students with even heavier loads.
I am from Jiangsu. Since we experienced the seventeen consecutive jumps here, the high school third-year holiday has only increased to less than half a day per week. When I was in the second year of high school, students in the same grade were already numb to the point that after witnessing a senior jump from the fifth floor, they hotly debated whether they could get a day off. I remember feeling so nauseous that I went to the bathroom to vomit.
It’s so disgusting. There are still petty bourgeoisie online saying they haven’t enjoyed the double rest policy before. Why should these high school students enjoy it? This mentality is exactly the anarchist attitude of Bakunin’s ‘I can’t do well, so you can’t either’.
Previously, Henan experienced a situation where the National Day holiday was extended to seven days in a row. At that time, many petty bourgeois students were thanking the Qing Tian Da Lao Ye Mao Ning, but in fact, it was the struggle of some students from schools in Zhengzhou that forced the Zhongxiu authorities to make some changes. Around 2010, our school also had a history of student uprisings. At that time, it was a struggle over school tutoring fees, and students all rose up to protest. Lao Jiu was so scared he didn’t dare to leave the classroom, fearing he would be hit to death by a bench. These Lao Jiu, accustomed to domineering over students, felt very guilty when the students finally rebelled. Only through student struggles could Zhongxiu make concessions; otherwise, the restrictions imposed by Zhongxiu would only become more absurd. My younger brother is now in a certain county of Shanhe Siheng Province, in his second year of high school. Their school still has high school freshmen and sophomores having one day off every two weeks, and seniors have one day off every month.
The double weekend is just an increase in the time for students to go to training institutions and send money to the Nazis.
Really indeed
I heard that various extracurricular classes immediately increased their prices. According to a relative, the teachers running classes for her child’s class charge over four hundred yuan per student per hour. A class with about ten students, lasting two hours—such a class can make nearly ten thousand yuan in profit. There are even tutoring classes charging 1000 yuan per person per hour.
Honestly, with such profit margins and the common situation of teachers opening classes outside of school, I began to doubt the teaching quality of those old bureaucrats inside the school. But even without extracurricular classes, students are still under strict control. The current education system is truly extremely corrupt!