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arioch36
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 Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject: How do Chinese teachers cope |
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Let off stream by attacking boss's likeness
Here, in progressive Zhengzhou Henan, revolutionary stress management techniques
This would never happen at a college...never!
And if it is simlar to other encouragements to express dissatifaction here in China (such as tianamnen) practioners best beware, they're making a list and checking it twice
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Let off stream by attacking boss's likeness
(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-09-29 08:40
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Song Qi, headmaster of Zhengzhou No 39 High School, recently found a powerful weapon for his teachers to reduce pressure and vent their resentment in Zhengzhou, Henan provincial capital.
Song places his portrait in a special room at the school for airing grievances. Every teacher who feels heavy work pressure or who is otherwise not satisfied with the school's operation or management can let off some steam by beating Song's portrait in the seven-sq-m room.
Many teachers said they felt much better after dealing a few blows to the headmaster's portrait. Song is thought to be the first in the province to introduce such a method for teachers to show their dissatisfaction. |
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jwbhomer
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STREAM? Let off STREAM?
More Chinglish... 
I sent this to some of my Chinese teacher friends... |
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malu
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How very Chinese. Let the teachers beat up the protrait of the principal because while they are busy beating up a bit of cardboard they won't have time to come and pester the principal in person.
And do they fall for it?... yessir! |
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Lister
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I'm just surprised that the principal would even admit that there was any need to let off steam or that he could possibly be wrong in any way.
Most of these guys like to think they're above reproach. |
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latefordinner
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| Don't forget the secret camera hidden in the corner. Boss needs to know these things. |
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arioch36
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| Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2007 6:51 am Post subject: |
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| Don't forget the secret camera hidden in the corner. Boss needs to know these things. |
Seriously! If you look at the recent history of China, the government loves to have periods of time where it encourages citizens to "express themselves freely" . These free thinkers are then later invited to take part in re-education camps |
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patsy
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| Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| I think those chinese teachers had better not beat the headmaster portrait and give him a nice gift instead, this will be better for their future. |
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InTime
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 1:48 am Post subject: |
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Re-minds me of a magical movie scene:
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After a full week of work, Luke is humiliated and tormented by being forced to submit to the authority of Boss Paul. To systematically break his spirit in front of the other prisoners, he is ordered to dig a "graveyard-shaped" ditch on the prison grounds. When he has completed the grueling task of emptying the Boss' ditch, he is told to fill it back up again - and then after it's filled to re-empty it again! The men sing "Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down" in full view of his tortured, groveling humiliation.
To symbolize his own death and the genuine end of his ferocious individuality and defiance, the guard slashes Luke across the head at the end of one end of the ditch, and he is tossed backwards into the open "coffin." Broken and tired, he begs the bosses to accept his cracked will and tarnished pride:
Luke: Don't hit me anymore...Oh God, I pray to God you don't hit me anymore. I'll do anything you say, but I can't take anymore.
Boss Paul: You got your mind right, Luke?
Luke: Yeah. I got it right. I got it right, boss. (He grips the ankles of the guard)
Boss Paul: Suppose you's back-slide on us?
Luke: Oh no I won't. I won't, boss.
Boss Paul: Suppose you's to back-sass?
Luke: No I won't. I won't. I got my mind right.
Boss Paul: You try to run again, we gonna kill ya.
Luke: I won't, I won't, boss.
When Luke returns to his bunk house, the men begin to abandon and turn away from him - one of them rips his phony picture into four pieces now that he is no longer their hero. After confessing to them, "I got my mind right," the prisoners contemptuously ignore him and refuse to help him - and he cries out at their betrayal: "Where are ya? Where are ya now?"
On the chain gang, Luke is forced to slavishly run errands for the guards and to become the water-carrier for the other prisoners. When he fetches a large turtle shot by the boss with no eyes, Luke pulls up the jaw-clenching beast: "Here he is boss. Deader than hell but won't let go." Playing the beaten fool, an instant later, Luke regains his rebellious nature and drives off in one of the boss' dump trucks - with Dragline hopping on the running board. He craftily stole the keys out of all the trucks so that pursuit is delayed. |
Not many Taoist-inspired Cool Hand Luke-types in China, eh?
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Cool Hand Luke (1967) is the moving character study of a non-conformist, anti-hero loner who bullheadedly resists authority and the Establishment. One of the film's posters carried a tagline related to the character's rebelliousness: "The man...and the motion picture that simply do not conform." With this vivid film, director Stuart Rosenberg made one of the key films of the 1960s, a decade in which protest against established powers was a key theme. One line of the film's dialogue from Strother Martin is often quoted: "What we have here is...failure to communicate."
This superb, crowd-pleasing film was based upon a screenplay co-authored by ex-convict Donn Pearce (and Frank R. Pierson), from Pearce's own novel of the same name. The main character Luke (played by Paul Newman) was inspired by real-life convicted safecracker Donald Graham Garrison. |
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latefordinner
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: |
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| So, umm, Chinese teachers cope by stealing the boss's car? <shrug> Whatever works I guess |
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