And when you're a student, you're a student.

25 September, Phuong High School, 18th Secondary School, Beijing. In the public video, a boy stood in a microphone and spoke in the hallway, with the students ' cries coming out of the air. A suspected school manager tried to communicate with the students at the site and proposed to take several “student representatives” away from the room and speak alone, but did not put the mood down.

The strike, which was ostensibly centred on teacher replacement and teaching arrangements, revealed a more profound problem: students had ceased to believe that the existing means of communication in the school would address their grievances and had opted for a collective suspension of the school, pushing the problem from office to the corridor and network.

A teacher adjustment why the seniors pushed the seniors into the hallway at the same time

According to an Apolo News Network summary of students on 26 September, schools have recently introduced field teachers and managers, former teachers have been restructured and some students have long been dissatisfied with the quality of teaching, the accent of Mandarin, the rhythm of the curriculum and additional projects. Public video shows students on the ground clearly pointing their finger at school management issues and claiming that their previous claims were not answered.

For high school students, who the teacher is, how the curriculum is scheduled and how the rhythm is prepared for change is not a general administrative detail. A large-scale change of teachers, if not adequately described, transitioned and feedback mechanisms, directly affects the daily classroom and promotion arrangements of students.

The strike was therefore not suddenly started on a day. More like the long-standing accumulation of old grievances, students find individual expressions ineffective and eventually consider group suspensions as the last way to compel management to respond positively.

The most alarming thing is not that students say anything harsh, but why only strike can make management appear

The text that appeared on the scene was accompanied by emotional terms such as “rebels” and serious rumours of individual teachers. The latter has no reliable evidence and cannot be included as facts in the report; The former, in turn, more reflects student feelings of confrontation, which does not infer that all participants have a unified political position.

However, these noises should not obscure the core facts that have occurred: the group of senior and senior students has suspended their classes, publicly expressed their dissatisfaction with the management and adjustment of their teachers, and a school staff member has failed to calm down the scene after he arrived.

The easiest thing to ignore in public schools is that students do not just obey

The curriculum, personnel and management decisions of public schools are centralized in the administrative system, but when the decision is made to land, it is the students who bear the consequences. Communication can easily be degraded into notification if the manager sees the student as a “part of the acceptance” arrangement; When the notice accumulated dissatisfaction, it ended up not as a suggestion in the box but as a collective strike in the corridor.

The results of this incident in Beijing 18 have not yet been made public. The education sector in the schools and the Tondai district has not yet issued a complete statement, nor has the scope of the teacher adjustment and follow-up been made public. However, the fact that the existing communication mechanisms in schools have not, at least, prevented the escalation of the conflict has been illustrated on the ground.

What really needs to be answered is not that the students “should not be in trouble”, but why a dispute about teachers, curricula and school administration has to develop to the point where a large number of students leave the classroom before management is forced to face them on the spot.