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    Teacher Rebuked for Suggesting Students Should Be Learning, Not Cleaning

    Oct 17, 2019

    Authorities in central China’s Hunan province have chastised a teacher after she complained about bureaucratic hurdles in resolving problems at her school, domestic media reported Wednesday.

    Li Tiantian, a teacher at Taozixi School in rural Yongshun County, wrote in a post on messaging app WeChat that officials from the local education bureau called her late Tuesday night and requested a meeting after she had complained about the school’s “unnecessary” weekly sanitation checks. According to a screenshot of her now-deleted WeChat article, Li had written that the inspections disrupted classes, as students were required to participate in cleaning activities such as sweeping.

    In her post, Li said local education officials claimed her article had caused them unspecified “damage.” According to media reports, leaders from the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, which administers the county, visited Li’s school Wednesday to say they would try to address the issue and promise that such “formalism” would be minimized in the future. (Image: 山花诗田 on WeChat)