It might not be so shocking for those who went to a public high school in most places around the world, but a video entitled ‘Student hits teacher’ has brought a flood of comments consisting of rabid death and sexual assault threats—directed at all the kids in the classroom—racist slurs and even a RMB 5000 reward for anyone who can identify those seen in the short. Days later, names have been found and the internet manhunt is on.
“The students were napping, talking, horsing around and one of them was roaming around filming. One student said: “This is the geography lesson. Watch the show.” Then he walked up to the teacher and removed the teacher's white hat. The class roared in laughter. Later, that student went up to the teacher and made for a physical confrontation. Another student threw a water bottle at the teacher while the first student yelled: “That stupid c*nt! Kill him!” The teacher just kept on with his lecture.”
The video can now be found at tv.Mofile. ‘Check out these pieces of garbage, everyone see the truth for yourself, don't be polite’ is how tv.Molive user XiaoXiao introduces the video which with has received over 100,000 and over twenty pages of comments, some of which have been translated below. For posterity's sake, the video has also been uploaded to YouTube and in just two days has also garnered over 100,000 views with over 150 pages of comments, many of which are in English, from Chinese viewers…
Wait until they grow up and they might see just how shameless their behavior is. So ignorant. Morality is lost!! Or maybe they never will. (I was once a student just like them, always committing sins against my old teachers…I just want to say…sorry!)
If you have the balls tell us where that school is!! That bastard of a beast student, what's his name?? I'll go down there and find him and then we'll see how cool he is! I'll make him eat shit! Take him down!! The beast!!! His life on this earth is just excess!!!
If you don't learn, blame the education
But you want to blame society because you don't respect your teachers?
Being old is not easy!
If his family, son or grandson saw the way you treat him they pull out a knife and chop you don't-know-your-heads-from-a-hole-in-the-grounds. [Expletive] now they have minors law protecting you at school, but once you come into society you [expletive] if you don't get your asses kick I'll come do it.
Is this mainland China? Is this really Beijing? It must be a garbage landfill?! Beijingers like to say how cultured they are, that their low cutoff for the university entrance exam [compared to most of the rest of the country] is fair and reasonable. My ass! You're just as much garbage as the Communist Party!
What you're not seeing here is the vast majority of the comments, all still very rage and violence. At this point the RMB 5000 bounty is put forth as increasing calls for someone to dig up the student's name and address are posted. Based on the accent in which the students speak, immediate speculation is that the school is either in Beijing or somewhere to its northeast, later said to be the former. Here's what was posted at tv.Molive:
游客 2007-5-26 19:22:11 北京市海淀区艺术职业学校 全能班
Beijing Arts Vocational School, Haiding District, comprehensive class
I think China is the only place in the world where something like this could happen.
I hope everyone spreads this video to every major bbs forum, give rise to widespread public fury and someone is bound to track these bastards down and kill them!
Actually, a lot of the posts at the page the above user linked to are curses aimed at the webmaster for having deleted their previous posts on the subject.
What do they think they're doing!!!!
Are these the students in our great capital?
Are they the hope of our motherland's future?
Are they the pillars of the Chinese people's future?
They've even lost the most basic respect for their teachers and educations. It's time for the country's education system to be reconsidered.
Are you angry? I'm not!
These kids were made by incestuous parents!
Add to that their dirty environment, chaotic, inferior, unable to keep out the flies, bugs and dog shit. Their genes have mutated.
They've been spoiled rotten!!
These kids are going to be a harm to society when they grow up; best to shoot them all now. I really am furious; many foreign friends have already seen this video they're furious too. This is the first time in my thirty years that I've ever felt so furious.
I've always felt there was something wrong with the education system in our country, I just didn't know it was so twisted! Tell me, has all of society gone mad?!! Quality character education? With character education like this who knows, in ten to twenty years if our whole country will be a country of morons?!~~
Elites scold the students of the Chairman Mao era for not respecting their teachers but now nobody's mobilizing students to gang up on teachers, so how do they dare hit a teacher? What exactly's gone wrong with our education? I'm worried about the future of our nation.
They're [expletive]s at the Beijing Art Vocational School, their names and home addresses have already been found out, and people are attacking their school website…
I hope we can focus everyone's strength and come together to launch an internet manhunt!
Is that [expletive] even human?
Why don't you go home and hit your dad?
[Expletive] he's a [expletive][expletive]
I sent this to my local television station
The [expletive] people with money in China all give birth to garbage sons like this.
Yu Yue (that clown in the front row with the earring's nick name is big donkey)
Phone: 13681590432
Guo Xu, female (the one filming…who thinks this is so fun, giving the whole country something to enjoy together)
Haiding Arts Vocational School
Class 5, Senior 2
Guo Xu QQ: 373025284
Telephone: 88977628
Cell: 13661100088
The boy with the earring's home address has been made public:
7/F Shougang Machinery & Electrics Co. Ltd.
Laoshanxili, Shijingshan District
Beijing
Home phone: 010-88977268
游客 2007-5-28 5:12:27
这个不合适吧?要是情报错误不就造成误伤了么?
Is this appropriate? What if you're information is mistaken, won't you accidentally get the wrong person hurt?
You don't know how hard it is being a teacher these days. The school and the parents only want to see high grades but the students don't care about studying. Normally coming to class means making trouble, the boys and girls all falling in love, at night they go out and open hotel rooms, test scores come back in the single digits. I really don't know what the country will become if things keep on like this.
Beijing Haiding Arts Vocational School
Provincial-grade top school
Principal: Wang Zhong
Address: #4 Third Ring Road West, north Haiding District
Postal code: 100088
Telephone: 62216908
What sort of person is the one holding the camera? He's the same as the other students, garbage…they really should send all these kids to Iraq, the whole inhumane group of them
I'm a teacher. Even primary school is like this these days, really. I've taught Geography, and I've been sworn at in class. Only when he went to far playing around, I said a few things, swore too! China, now, I don't dare think about it! China's education, I don't dare think about it! Teacher's wages are never stable, in this day and age, now that we have choices, who's willing to go into teaching! Before long, I plan to stop teaching too, just leave…
One commenter, one of the handful to have registered a name, having chosen ‘Yu Yue's Grave’, writes:
我给那个小子建了 坟
I've dug that little punk a grave
And attaches in the comment this link, at which can be found this photo:
This is the result of China's having cast away several thousand years of traditional education just to bring in ‘progressive character education’.
This is also what happens when people wave their fingers at others, contrasting the ‘low character’ of others with the highness of the citizens of the capital, the lowest kind of behavior there is.
Which direction ought China's education be going? Your guess is as good as mine!
Though to tell the truth, I am a teacher. If this had happened in my classroom, there would have only been one result: I would have sacrificed my career to get back the respect that teachers deserve.
Faced with a scene like this, I'd just like to ask our media: will you continue to beat us teachers on the head with the responsibility stick?
If you have conscience, then please, in your anger, tell yourself and your friends that while they're teaching their own children, to be diligent. Never raise them to be like this.
Not just for yourself, but for this nation and society!
Thank you!
One last comment from tv.Molive, in English:
游客 2007-5-28 15:10:09 SONS OF BITCHES CHINESE TEACHERS DESERVE THESE…..lucky i wasn't there or else it couldv been way worse than that