I wish it’s just imagination.
But something just happened to my school convinced me of it.
The teachers in our school—Chengdu Foreign Languages School went on a strike on November the 5th for their rights.
Say if you worked so hard for years and your salary was deducted every month for social security, but when you checked your social security and found you’d got nothing in it; if your boss used your name to take out loans from banks but didn’t repay, making you have no credit to loan purchase; if the national law made you a fixed contract worker but you were still facing a variety of assessment and the unemployment risk at any time; if your resignation was to be marked dismissed so that you were not accepted by any other company in the town. And when you spoke out your resentment to your boss and asked for a change but and was neglected, what would you do? Wouldn’t you do the same thing—going on a strike?
Before the strike took place, our teachers had been writing several letters and petitions to the school officials trying to settle the problem but in vain. They’d not get any feedback from the school officials. They were simply ignored.
On the day of the strike, the teachers were initially having a meeting with the owner of the school—Yan Yude. They hoped for a peaceful and fair way to end the incident and gain back their rights. But what the owner did during the meeting totally infuriated them—he throw insults into the teachers, swore at them, and libeled that they didn’t deserve to be teachers! What’s more, Yan threatened the teachers that he would settle scores with the teachers!!
Teachers are not God. They’re also humans like you and me. How can they devote themselves to education if their rights are taken away if their lives are not insured if they cannot make a living on their salaries?
What kind of person if Yan Yude that made him this rampant?
He holds 69.45% of the interest of Sichuan Derui Corporation in Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Derui Corporation has been investing in education since 1999. Under its command Wanhuan Education Group has many schools ranging from primary school to college, including Chuanwai Chengdu Institution, Chengdu Foreign Languages School, Chengdu Experimental Foreign Languages School, Western Chengdu Experimental Foreign Languages School and one elementary school, one kindergarten.
In July 2006, Yan bought from North Airline Company three Cessna aircraft 208B, jointing Sichuan Air Sports School established the first private owned common air company—Sichuan Olin General Aviation Co. Ltd., and other business. In addition, Greyhound transport industry is also Yan’s asset.
Do you think such a merchant ever thought of what education is? Do you think he ever cared about teachers or students? All he ever cared was his money. That’s what made him shouted to the teachers: “1000 more Yuan add to everyone’s salary. Want it or not! At most close the school! No big deal!!” In his eyes our school is only one of his properties! If he wants it he keeps it. He closes it if sees no profit. Teachers are only tools to make him money. Students are fools who send money to him. I do not understand, such a wealthy person, why can he donate one millionth of his money to those people who help him to gain his wealth who really need the money?
But what disappointed us students most is not this miscreant. It’s the main press. It’s the officials. This kind of things had happened before: main press avoided to report anything of our school because of the power our school has. They are afraid of telling the truth. They are afraid of revenge. The press chose to keep silence this time too.
What is press for!! If it does not announce the truth aloud why it’s still there!? Why do we need it?! Furthermore, some newspaper bended the truth in the favor of whoever! Our school blog was also forced to be closed. What could we say? We were totally speechless. Our society depressed us this time. This is not the way we people are promised to be treated. You showed us the dark and complicate side of you, which I believed is wrong to be shown to us students at this age. And you grabbed our beloved teachers from us—the leader of the strike—my history teacher is disappeared. We lost contact with him and we are all clear of what happened. Many other teachers were beaten by the gangsters Yan hired. When our Chinese teacher stood on the platform again, she looked at us, apologized for the incident and thanked us for what we’d done to support them, I felt so bitter in my heart that I wanted to cry out.
I can’t help thinking of the time I spent with my history teacher—a serene and tame man filled with wisdom and stories. The classes we went through together, we were naughty and asked him for more and more stories in Chinese history. We called those stories with a funny name—wild history, meaning they might not be true. Every time he argued in a same way that his stories were never “wild stories”. Then he leaned on the platform and started to take out those fancy stories from his memory.
Now I recalled the afternoon before a big test. Everyone was apprehensive and tensed. He stood with eyes half open to the sunlight from the window. He sighed, and reassured us: “everything’s gonna be fine in the sunlight.”
I wonder when the sunlight will reach our school?
I also know that I shall never lose hope, since we’re the hope of our country. On the day we were forced to go back school I promised myself, I will do anything I can to save it.
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