The school is, as I've said before, brand new. Some of the classrooms
are still being equipped. Today one was being equipped as a dance
studio.
Remember there are 3000 students in the school which means 3000
students in the halls at break. The large mirrors for the dance studio
walls were being carried through the very, very crowded halls by two
students aged about thirteen. The crowd of students was jostling and
pushing and several times they were almost knocked over as they
carried a piece of glass that was about four square metres which,
because they were kids, they could only hold horizontally.
In the UK there would be, and probably rightly in this case, a public
outcry. There would be investigations into who had authorised this.
Senior management heads would roll.
I couldn't believe what I was seeing and I'm truly amazed that no one
was injured.
As I say. Things can be very different in Chinese schools.
