ZOMG NINJA
ok so im in a private school in seventh grade where we have MIDTERM EXAMS, EXAMS, CLASS TESTS AND MONTHLY TESTS!! we have to buy our own books and wear a uniform and every day we bring our own books EVERDAY and our bags get really heavy, my shoulders are permenantly sore, the tteachers are stupid and barely know english we have to pay and the people are weird. i live in a country which is poor so the government (free) schools are horrible. i really want to change my school since i think they pressurize me too much. not only me, the whole school. my country is sorta like china, all about studies, no social life or anything. since i lived in sweden, where there werent any exams or anything, i feel really overworked. i only moved here in 2007, and i feel like im in university or something, they give us SO much homework too! i told my dad yesterday (hes really kind and unserstanding and open with me) and he just said that thats all schools over here. he has a job here and its not possible to move. the education is horrible
so how can i get him to change my school? i would prefer going to an expensive-er school rather than get stuck in this junkyard.
thanks!
please dont give me any answers about "not doing this to your dad" or anything, im fully convinced to do this because ive has enough with this idiocy
oh yes, and its an all girls school, which sucks, i need boys! lol :)
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Keep talking to him and telling him how you feel. You can't change now til after the summer so you have some time to convince him, just let him see how unhappy you are. It does sound like your dad would let you change schools but that other schools would be the same. Cultures are different, it's unfortunate that you went from Sweden to a place like this, the Swedes are easy going happy people generally. In places with harsh education that's just how it is, I used to work as a teacher in Korea, children get up at 6 or 7 am, go to school til 3 or 4 pm, then go to a hogwan (after school school) finish around 7 or 8 pm and go home to do their work. They end up working until 11 or 12 pm, and that's just the younger kids! I never worked with teenagers. There's no way out of it unfortunately. Good luck, I hope you manage to find a nicer school!
Keep talking to him and telling him how you feel. You can't change now til after the summer so you have some time to convince him, just let him see how unhappy you are. It does sound like your dad would let you change schools but that other schools would be the same. Cultures are different, it's unfortunate that you went from Sweden to a place like this, the Swedes are easy going happy people generally. In places with harsh education that's just how it is, I used to work as a teacher in Korea, children get up at 6 or 7 am, go to school til 3 or 4 pm, then go to a hogwan (after school school) finish around 7 or 8 pm and go home to do their work. They end up working until 11 or 12 pm, and that's just the younger kids! I never worked with teenagers. There's no way out of it unfortunately. Good luck, I hope you manage to find a nicer school!
China's one child policy: what happens if you have twins?
Cjaw
Just wondering, if you had two or more babies at once what would happen to the second one?
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The law says that couples are allowed to have one "live-birth" - that usually works out to one child. They can apply to the government for a permit to have more than one child - if they 'prove' they have enough status and finances to support the added child then they can have another one. If both parents have post-graduate degrees they are allowed to have two children. If a man or woman have a child from a previous marriage, they are still allowed to have one child in their new marriage. If their child dies they are permitted to have another child. As for multiple births (twins, triplets, etc) they count as one birth and are accepted. Twins are considered good luck (even the girls).
Ethnic minorities (and foreigners) are not required to follow this law... only the Han Chinese.
If you know something about the Chinese government you will know that policy is rarely enforced. In many places there are families with more than one child. They pay a token fine. In reality, large fines are rare, but are covered by the state-run media as a propaganda campaign - incentive for people to follow the law. Most of the middle class families I have been in contact have two kids. Almost all of the poor rural families I have been in contact with have more than two kids. (For 5 years I taught in rural and suburban elementary schools)
The problem isn't the governments law. The problem is the cultural idea that boys are better. I've heard more than one story of a woman being threatened by her mother in law, that unless she provides a son, her husband will divorce her. (Of course, we all know that it is the men who contribute the Y chromosome... but this doesn't seem to matter).
Orphanages raise the children of un-wed mothers as few un-wed mothers have the resources to support themselves, let alone another human. There are also a great deal of older children (boys and girls) whose families couldn't afford them and are forced to give them up - rather than have them starve to death. A number of children are abandoned because they have disabilities that the family doesn't have the resources to deal with. Many families live in absolute poverty, and while the kids (usually girls) aren't given up, they may have had a better life if they were.
Married women will generally get the sex of the baby while pregnant... they can then abort it if they don't want it (this is now illegal, but it is still often done for a 'fee' to the doctor).
Now that the level of education has raised (and women have more autonomy) the idea of having daughters is becoming more and more accepted, especially in urban areas. It's slow, but it is happening.
This is a note to all the people who answered this question (and other similar questions) ... If you want to complain about a country having stifling laws and strange practices, why don't you put down your bag of potato chips, get up off the couch and make a contribution to humanity?
No, I don't like China's one-child policy. But I see the desperate situation they saw when the made it (millions of people dying of starvation annually because the population was exponentially bigger than the production â too much competition for limited resources). I see the cultural struggle they have with it. I see the women who sit at the doctors office praying for some kind of divine intervention before going through with an abortion. No issue is ever as simple as you think it is.
The law says that couples are allowed to have one "live-birth" - that usually works out to one child. They can apply to the government for a permit to have more than one child - if they 'prove' they have enough status and finances to support the added child then they can have another one. If both parents have post-graduate degrees they are allowed to have two children. If a man or woman have a child from a previous marriage, they are still allowed to have one child in their new marriage. If their child dies they are permitted to have another child. As for multiple births (twins, triplets, etc) they count as one birth and are accepted. Twins are considered good luck (even the girls).
Ethnic minorities (and foreigners) are not required to follow this law... only the Han Chinese.
If you know something about the Chinese government you will know that policy is rarely enforced. In many places there are families with more than one child. They pay a token fine. In reality, large fines are rare, but are covered by the state-run media as a propaganda campaign - incentive for people to follow the law. Most of the middle class families I have been in contact have two kids. Almost all of the poor rural families I have been in contact with have more than two kids. (For 5 years I taught in rural and suburban elementary schools)
The problem isn't the governments law. The problem is the cultural idea that boys are better. I've heard more than one story of a woman being threatened by her mother in law, that unless she provides a son, her husband will divorce her. (Of course, we all know that it is the men who contribute the Y chromosome... but this doesn't seem to matter).
Orphanages raise the children of un-wed mothers as few un-wed mothers have the resources to support themselves, let alone another human. There are also a great deal of older children (boys and girls) whose families couldn't afford them and are forced to give them up - rather than have them starve to death. A number of children are abandoned because they have disabilities that the family doesn't have the resources to deal with. Many families live in absolute poverty, and while the kids (usually girls) aren't given up, they may have had a better life if they were.
Married women will generally get the sex of the baby while pregnant... they can then abort it if they don't want it (this is now illegal, but it is still often done for a 'fee' to the doctor).
Now that the level of education has raised (and women have more autonomy) the idea of having daughters is becoming more and more accepted, especially in urban areas. It's slow, but it is happening.
This is a note to all the people who answered this question (and other similar questions) ... If you want to complain about a country having stifling laws and strange practices, why don't you put down your bag of potato chips, get up off the couch and make a contribution to humanity?
No, I don't like China's one-child policy. But I see the desperate situation they saw when the made it (millions of people dying of starvation annually because the population was exponentially bigger than the production â too much competition for limited resources). I see the cultural struggle they have with it. I see the women who sit at the doctors office praying for some kind of divine intervention before going through with an abortion. No issue is ever as simple as you think it is.
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