Draft:Special training schools in China

Special training schools are a special type of school in China, mainly private schools. They tell parents of teenagers that they would stop teenagers being addicted to the Internet, and they tell parents of adults that they will provide jobs, but in fact they are scams. Parents were deceived and asked to pay high tuition fees (at least 30,000 yuan). Most of the instructors there were former gang members and were physically strong. They pretended to be police officers outside, and under the pretext of being investigated, they lured, kidnapped teenagers or adults and sent them to that kind of school. They were imprisoned in the special training school for at least half a year. Once locked up, they were unable to come out. They were controlled by instructors and cut off from all contact with the outside world. Moreover, special training schools are located in remote rural areas, surrounded by high walls of barbed wire, like prisons, and have become a lawless place for instructors. The instructors were tyrannical, arrogant and domineering, cruelly oppressed, tortured and beat the students, withheld students' property, were vicious and committed all kinds of evil, and did not treat the students as human beings at all. They treated the students as slaves and beat them whenever they wanted, showing no humanity. The instructors punished the students corporally from morning to night, regardless of severe cold or heat, and the students had no right to speak. There were various types of corporal punishment, such as standing motionless from early morning until midnight, running 50 laps along the playground, doing squats for two hours or walking the duck walk for several hours, etc. If the students are physically weak, they will be beaten. The students will be physically and mentally exhausted and even vomit blood, causing the students to suffer both physical and mental torture. If students disobey, they will be tied up, kicked, punched, or beaten with various tools. The instructors will even engage in a beating competition to see who can beat harder. The methods are extremely cruel. The students were beaten until their bodies were covered with bruises and bruises. Many special training schools even use electric shocks and other methods which are horrific and torture students until they are worse than death. Some special training schools have even been reported deaths. There are students' crying and howling like ghosts and wolves inside every day, extremely miserable. The quality of life of the students there is worrying: they only eat vegetables and soup, eat sauerkraut almost every day, and cannot eat meat all year round; the sanitary conditions are extremely poor, causing mosquitoes to infest; the living facilities are also extremely simple, without any electrical appliances. The students inside all have dark skin (due to being exposed to the sun every day). They are sallow and thin, and are severely malnourished. The students' tableware is very dirty and often contains food residues, causing students to vomit and have diarrhea from time to time. In this way, they are tortured from early morning to midnight like slaves by the instructors day after day. They suffered huge and irreparable damage to their bodies and minds, leaving permanent lingering shadows in their hearts. Amidst this extreme pain and despair, a large number of people fall ill and suffer from mental illness, such as insanity or depression, and many even contemplate suicide. Students' most basic human rights, such as dignity, personality, right to health, and right to personal freedom, are all illegally deprived and trampled upon. However, the China's Education Bureau acquiesces in such school operations. Such schools seriously violate human rights, but they are not supervised and the public has no channel to report them.

References

https://www.voachinese.com/amp/special-schools-abusing-students-traditional-concept-advocating-authority-20230201/6943810.html https://m.huxiu.com/article/393666.html https://edu.ycwb.com/2024-09/05/content_52907691.htm