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Post by slim on Apr 27, 2004 10:47:13 GMT 7
Does your school have any strange school rules that no Chinese teacher can explain to you (maybe they know what the headmaster's reasoning is, but are too shy to say fearing that the foreigner will struggle to contain his/her laughter). I've known the following rule for sometime, I recently asked one class if the rule had been removed, but no, it's still there...
Girls are not allowed to have long hair, they must cut their hair before beginning their first year of study.
I've never been told the official reason for this rule, students have told me it's because the school says the hair will interfere with their studying and that they'll take up too much time caring for it. I wonder if it has more to do with the boys though, if the girls look more like boys maybe those young male thoughts will stay focused more on the text.
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Post by Wolf on Apr 27, 2004 14:03:25 GMT 7
Heh. The most desirable girl I've ever met in China has short hair.
It's pretty universal, but the milltary training at my school was little more than a waste of time. They didn't even learn to march very well.
During the November provincial inspection everyone (except me an the other 3 FEs of the time) had to get up at 6 am every day. In the months leading up to the inspection, many of my students were required to write papers that had gone missing and pass them off as work done by previous students.
Other than that, it's usual fare like the mandatory Deng Xioaping classes for English majors; stuff that doesn't faze me anymore.
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Post by Gonzo Journalist on Apr 27, 2004 15:51:51 GMT 7
No Slim, Chinese boys will ONLY be attracted to girls if they look like boys. Haven't you noticed?
In our teachers' building we have lots of notices, such as "not to hanging clotheses on passage", and "the bicycle should be outside in yellow line".
Hardly strange, but totally ignored and unenforced.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Apr 27, 2004 17:44:32 GMT 7
One of the FTs came across a student wandering around today with clipboard and booklets. Asked what she was doing - I'm the monitor, I have to keep everything on the campus organised and make certain no-one breaks the rules. FE: What rules do you have to enforce: Monitor: NO kissing. FT: What would you do if you saw someone kissing? Monitor: I'd look the other way!! OK - I can understand a no smoking in classroom/dorm rule (although it is actually the entire campus), but we're talking about a bunch of lively young people between 18 and 25 here! No kissing?  Combined with freely available pijiu (and a German beerfest organised today with drinking and skolling competitions), this seems a little strange to me. Drinking is fine - kissing and smoking ain't. |
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Post by Steiner on Apr 27, 2004 21:55:49 GMT 7
The students at my school have only 6 hours a week when they're allowed off campus. Sunday, noon till six.
Teachers have to be in their offices from morning till ten at night, even if they have no classes that day, because a student just maybe might perhaps have something to ask that just can't wait till the next day.
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Post by slim on Apr 28, 2004 13:30:04 GMT 7
The most desirable girl I've ever met in China has short hair. Care to elaborate?  |
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Post by Wolf on Apr 28, 2004 15:48:19 GMT 7
Care to elaborate? A student. And thus end of story. |
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Post by Steiner on Apr 28, 2004 15:52:44 GMT 7
Oh, one more. In my school students try to get out of living in the dorms by renting a room in a teacher's house. So some students live with the teachers, get to stay up later studying, and have hot showers. The teachers get extra cash from the students' parents. But approximately every two months, the school decides that this is simply unacceptable and makes all the students move back into the dorms. That lasts a week, and then the students start moving back in with the teachers again. It's a two-month cycle.
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