The banners were written on the campus of Peking University High School on the night of 14th, questioning the school’s governance level and dissatisfaction as an experiment in education reform, but the school denied this.
The banner is a call for democracy, which has attracted attention. (Internet photo)
On the evening of Jan. 14, a netizen tweeted about the banners hanging on the campus of Peking University High School. Another user with the nickname “manpower” also posted the news on a forum with the headline “Restoration of Beifu, the revolution of the times”, which drew attention.
The banner reads, “It is difficult to convince the public with the suspicion of insider knowledge, open and transparent,” “Real democracy, not verbal democracy,” “Long live freedom,” “A ghost of democracy is roaming over Beida High School,” and “Please don’t treat students as mice for education reform.
In the post, “manpower” mentioned that in the past two years, especially in the last six months, the level of governance of Peking University’s school leadership has gone straight down, turning the original real quality education into “branching out” quality education, increasing the unnecessary burden of coursework and mental burden (referring to the pressure of disciplinary action), and students are suffering.
A student tweeted about the banner incident, “I’m a student at Peking University High School, and the student who posted the banner yesterday is from the same school as me. It started because there was a proposal to put up banners for Shuyuan Week, and it didn’t pass, so some students from the project team insisted on trying to implement the proposal, and they sent out some online questionnaires to collect the banners anonymously, and then they posted them.”
The student also said that because of the unbearable (meaning degenerate) aspects of the Beida Annex in recent years, Fela took the opportunity to express his dissatisfaction. A teacher’s statement in the group warned, “Please note that forwarding inappropriate WeChat status will be withdrawn from school.”
Reporters called to Beida High School and Shijingshan Branch, both denying that any students posted banners.
Yang Shaozheng, a professor at the former Guizhou University School of Economics, believes that the children who posted the banners at the school have a valuable starting point, but issues such as the education reform mentioned in the article should be taken up by adults, or by parents to respond to the school, but in Chinese society, adults are hardly vocal about it.
In response to the posting that the “branch characteristics” may allude to the involvement of the “party branch” in schools, Yang Shaozheng said that not only secondary education in China, including university education, primary education, and even kindergarten education, is party-oriented education from an early age, training children to follow the party and listen to the party, such education teaches children without the ability to think independently and innovate, and they will only become party slaves.
Beijing observer Hua Po mentioned that after the Chinese Communist Party came to power, many children of senior Communist Party and military cadres enrolled in such prestigious schools as Beijing No. 4 Middle School, No. 8 Middle School, No. 1 Middle School, Normal University High School, and Tsinghua High School. Now these famous schools are also engaged in chain groups, annexing other ordinary primary and secondary schools and putting up the title of famous schools.
Hua believes that the students of some famous schools in Beijing have a rather unusual background, and if similar banner posting incidents occur, the motive behind them may not be pure.
But no matter what the motive is, Huapo believes that sporadic campus events may end up being a “storm in a teapot”, as long as there is a bit of wind and grass, the upper side will immediately maintain stability, which is also a pity.
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