I do agree that China is pushing students way too far in terms of education. I often hear about how Chinese students receive the most amount of homework out of any country, but I didn’t think it was this bad. Singapore is also known for being one of the best in academics, and as a Singaporean, we definitely have a lot of pressure placed on us, but UNIFORMS WITH CHIPS AND CCTVs? That is too far. Give these kids a break. There is no point forcing them to become the best if they can’t even take a rest. They are humans, not academic machines. Cut them some slack.

I am an Asian kid myself and I personally think too much control on kids causes them to lose their independent thinking, and their rationality 😔.

OMG This brought back so many painful memories for me. The problem is, when you grew up in such an environment, you didn’t even know it was wrong. You would feel that all your problems were your own, that you weren’t good enough or didn’t work hard enough.

Force creates diamonds but sometimes too much force's breaks the diamond

This is really horrible to watch, education has become a kind of torture to those kids

As a Chinese person from Thailand, I'm beyond grateful that my great grandparents moved to Thailand and started their families here. I can't even imagine what it's like to literally wear a device that tracks your brain all the time. That's just invading the child's privacy and it could be a stressful thing especially for kids with ADHD/ADD/Autism and other developmental disorders.

As a CBC (Canadian born Chinese ). I think this is too much for a child to hold in their heart, My parents give me a lot of homework but they would still let me play and have fun and if a child does not have happiness they will not have a good childhood ❤

As a 11th grade Asian student I can relate I sometimes ha e suicidal thoughts due to study pressure its hard to study all day Like I have to get A+ grade in every exam or else I can't play basketball which I love the most Now looking back at my childhood I realized I lost my childhood😖

As someone who studied in China before, i can first hand tell you that the education system has many flaws, we are put under constant presure of being “the best” at everything and thats what most parents expects of their children, we have lesson almost 8hours a day and some even up to 10, plus bullying is also a major issue cus even if you report it, chances are the teachers dont give a sh-, but what i hate the most was that the schools forces you to memorise a sht ton of stuff and the teachers are allowed to hit you 💀

As a Filipino student, there's a small amount of expectations my mom gives me when it comes to school, but she doesn't force me to study 24 hours. She understands that the way for me to learn is in my own pace and she encourages me to have fun because, as she said, you can only be a youth once. Not to mention the school she enrolled me to encourages independent learners. We have an aloted day on where there will be no teacher, but they expect us to study on our own.

There needs to be a balance-the right amount of control just enough to instill learning and discipline, and the right amount of leisure or 'letting go' to avoid results such as those shown in the video.

that’s pretty tense, but my dad makes me learn on Saturday. First he makes me read chinese on his laptop for 30min, then he makes me read a Chinese book (which dad reads most of it but I still read some sentences) for 40min (it felt like 40.) then he makes me do his really hard math questions that are for like 6th grade Canadian that usually takes me 2 days. So I kind of know what that feels like.

I can't belive how stressful it is for students in China 😢

I thought Korean education system was hard but after watching this, i'm actually fascinated by how much freedom we have.

3:56 Poor boy. You can see that how he's trying to convince the sister to stick to the right answer. What actually breaks my heart is that you can hear the mother laughing at him aswell in the background. It's sad that how people laugh when someone is trying so hard for something to be right. How cruel of these people..

I'm also very stress when I was a kid....I am a Chinese and every time when you go to school, your feeling is not HAPPY, you feel STRESS. I don't have freedom anyways- So, when i grown up, means now, I'm working at Australia. I saw many kids there bringing their happy and joyful feelings to go to school.. China...you're going too far. That's not a good thing for kids. China should change.

As a Asian myself, I’m very grateful to be in a school without crazy rules like these. I’m disappointed in China for pushing so much pressure on poor students making them go crazy 😢

After seeing this, I started to love my Indian education system.

Know I’m really sad for the students there. They don’t deserve this

I'm from Hong kong (A part of China) And I've spend the first 10 years of my life there before I moved into Australia. I am glad that such things like AI detecting/ those head bands haven't appear in Hong Kong yet but seeing the situation I think it will soon happen. It is true that they want us to rely on memorizing more than actually use our brains and express our thoughts out/ critical thinking and be creative. They have a whole dictation test (Sometimes you have to memorize the whole essay and write it all out) every week and the amount of Chinese words I have to memorize is too much I spend a lot of my time studying and going to education centers causing lack of times for me to engage in other activities. The amount of homework is crazy. I at least have to spend 2 hours a day doing it (I was in primary school). I feel like they want to control us completely and become perfect/ very very very obedient and not have independent thinking or any opinions. welp China might become the next north Korea actually- WELLLLLLL IM HAPPPPY THAT I DIDN'T HAVE TO SUFFER THAT BEFORE I LEAVE😭

As an asian student, i can confirm that school is very very pressurising but NOT THIS TORTUROUS literally if i had to spend a week in these type of schools from actual hell, i think id rather die.

As a person who studied at an international school in Shanghai, even I was not fully aware of this. I just heard rumors of schools treating students poorly, and teaching them to hate Japan and the U.S. Before this, I only knew about the heavy workload and stress. But do remember, this is only some schools in China. Edit: Most other schools's problems are just heavy workload and some stress when it comes to high school exams. Though I know that stress isn't good, their situation a lot better to the types of schools shown in this video (coming from a priviliged asshole who can't even speak chinese at a high level). And before anyone says anything, yes, VPN is illegal in China, but the law itself isn't enforced, unless you are seen directly using a VPN in front of high-ranking officials.

Man, I remember doing the basketball thing in China, when I had school there. I will admit, even though the education system is EXTREMELY strict, it has helped me with my studies now in America.

Even though I’m not Chinese but the fact I grew where my parents like to control , n even myself as a mom I see how other parents are obsessed turning into their kids into number one and the best of the best only to find out when those kids are grown and older they will prevail and go opposite of what you wants .. myself as one … that why I raised my kids in a very chilling environments where yes please do good in school and take your education seriously as a parents I am watching you and helped opened door for you but I’m not that parents expectations is frying your brain out but is you that take your responsibilities what works for you at the level you can handle

Chinese education is very stressful, the kids have a lot of pressure at school and even at home.

As a student who used to study in local schools in Hong Kong, I can confirm that they rely on memorization and not critical thinking. And honestly this is the reason I switched to an International School. The amount of stress was just unbearable, imagine having to arrive to school at 7:55am, going to bed at midnight due to studies and tutorials, having 6 chapters of Math in an Exam, Chinese Literature (ancient language) that is useless nowadays, needing to know what the author wants to tell us (I often end up questioning people how will teachers know the answer when they're not the author), students not knowing why they have to study those, teachers that can't even mark exams or unit test papers correctly, Physics formulas that you have to memorize without knowing how do people come up with that. (Just my experience in a local school) And if you ask me who to blame, it's the teachers and the Education department. If the teachers want their students to concentrate in class, then just make the lesson interesting, keep the students engaged. And don't get me started on the Education department, it has so many problems with it. One of them is the HKDSE (Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education) examination, you literally have to memorize 12 Chinese passages and answer questions for Chinese, that often leaves me and my friends wondering "Why do they have to determine our jobs or Universities based on 12 useless Chinese passages?" Like if you want to be a doctor, what does it have to do with what you learn in Chinese, English and Math? And why not grade us based on our dream jobs? Not to mention that the local Chinese students are literally suffering because the Chinese in Hong Kong was just too hard, and yet, the Education department didn't even reflect on it

this entire video so true ngl. the pressure is big. i studied in a local hong kong primary school and i can confirm

I feel bad for most of these students especially ones with adhd the pain they got from most of these pains are physically and mentally

As an Asian one of my friends almost died after studying non stop for two days for an exam.

As an Indian I can thankfully say that we don't have as much restrictions as china or so much freedom as in America . We are just in level!

This is actually sadly true in my old school in China, this is why my mom and dad moved to Australia because I actually almost died from studying nonstop for 2 days without food and water or sleep due to the extreme pressure it had on me… I’m 13 now.

I’m a Chinese American, I lived in china till I was 5. Lemme just say, it was really hard. They discipline there kids at a very young age. Coming into the u.s (adopted). I already knew most table manners. They would also only give u 2 meals or 3 meals but little amount in the orphanage. Not to mention I only had 1 pair of clothes. I had a heart disease so it made it really harder for me.

I am an international student in China, and the normal Chinese schools really stress the kids out, it's really different from the international education that I felt, I used to go to a normal school, and I was dismissed around 8pm, homework was usually done until 12pm, and I was required to be at school at 7pm the next day, and I could only get a few hours of sleep a day, and the weekends were full of extra classes, which made you numb. And there were tests almost every day as the curriculum moved very fast. Chinese education is much more than that, and it pains me to say that last week three students in my area ended their lives because of the long periods of time without weekends and breaks, and I'm glad that I'm now experiencing an international education, otherwise I wouldn't be able to imagine my life.

Kids are not ment to go through pain of getting achievements in life Even if it has its benefits The child's well being is more important

As a Chinese,this is only a small part of China doing this.Please don’t misunderstand this.Most of the parents are nice to their children and gives them freedom.My school is great and not that strict.Thank you

Honestly it's better to aim for something in between, and every person is different, so what work for a kid, may not work for another.

This is so gruesome. This feels like military training but for education for kids. 😢

As an Asian myself, I can definitely understand the feelings and pressure these children are going through. My parents are, at some points, become really strict and they only let me play 30 minutes on Sunday, and how is 30 min enough??? What can I do in 30 min? Apart from parents, school work and the pressure of being a “people pleaser” is also a reason for teenagers to get depressed, I guess. May I ask the school teachers, are you trying to train us into geniuses?

I'm a filipino kid and it doesn't take it too strict but it's very hard to do it

“Pressure creates diamonds, but it also creates rubble” - Ordis

As a Filipino student who studies in an international school in Qatar, my parents wanted me do good in school, and they don't pressure me to always study. They also help me understand lessons that I'm having difficulty with and are like teachers to me. And they let me relax whenever I'm done with my homework. This is really sad to watch that the fact that china's education system is pressuring student to become "perfect" and giving the lack of freedom is horrible. And I agree it's invading the student's privacy and monitoring them 24/7 is terrifying.

4:00 i had watched this vid before but it never occurred to me how similar I am to this boy. being the firstborn not only did i always have to be the best and perfect but I also had to teach them while simultaneously having to study my own subjects and last time my brother failed in one of the subject, he started saying how bad of a teacher i was and i was doing it intentionally. Needless to say all my mental breakdowns trying to teach them payed off when I heard that. Thanks

as a 8 grade Chinese student，i really think the pressure is a little bit big. Im in a main class in a school in Shenzhen now. Theres many problems of Chinese education and most of them are from family. Just like me, i know my mom loves ,but she is too care about my study and im always under big pressure

I am chinese, However not born in china, my mum raised me in Australia, and i thank her so much for it. She told me when I was young that, she moved here so I could get a better life, I indeed did, I thank my mum everyday for moving here, I can’t imagine being in china right now. I will indeed visit but won’t ever move there.

Yes, let’s force our kids to learn 24 hours and then let them suffer like the adults. Imagine if you are the kids and your parents scold you for not doing ‘extra’. Is that the culture do you want to preserve?

They don’t even get privacy for what goes on in their head. That’s menacing. No one should ever do this to their students

Its good to have some pressure but in this case i think it crossed the line. I used to have to balanced more than 8 hours of study, homework and school with 2 cocurricular which im forced to be active in eg. participating in competitions, in addition to having tuition almost every day. I think it did teach me something valuable other than traumatizing me. But having too much control also means having no trust in the students that they will do their best and instead of truly learning something i think it will have the opposite effect.

Yep that’s what I was going through the exact same thing until I moved to New Zealand 😭😭😭

We need to balance our studies while having fun at the same time , time management is important for us to be able to balance our time.

Morality can not be quantified. It’s about the individual’s judgement. There is no line.

Im grateful for my school in PHILLIPPINES 😌

For the headbands they should just put cameras in the classroom to see if any of the students are paying attention or not if the teacher didn’t see, or they could also get somebody like another teacher when they’re having free time to checkup on the students in another class.Because if the headbands give the students a headache

I'm a fellow Chinese-Korean who migrated to Australia at a young age. Although I believe that kids should have discipline, this is going too far. I have ADHD, and if literally yawning or losing focus for 1 second would get you into trouble, I would not survive.

As a formal Hong Kong student who moved to sydney, I can relate to this. Schools never prepare us for the future, and 90% of the knowledge they teach is useless or you would never use it in real life. Unlike Western countries, Hong Kong almost never use a laptop for school, so we wouldn't know the basic ICT skills like Word, Powerpoint, etc. They are also too exam oriented. We only have exams and there isn't any assignment which counts towards our grades. For example, we never learn how to write a scientific report for science, which is an essential aspect of science. We only do exams for every subject. However, a good thing about Hong Kong is that they teach better maths. Not only the maths are better than Western countries, but the textbooks and the way of teaching it is more clear and more logical. The maths textbook in sydney is much worse than Hong Kong. They give you questions that you haven't learned throughout the textbook. But still, Hong Kong is too stressed, and I also hope that the Education Bureau would do something to fix the system. It's so flawed that even the heads of the Education Bureau put their kids into international schools while trying to persuade parents to put their kids into local schools and embrace the flawed local education system to the parents.

I am a kid from Hong Kong and even though Hong Kong doesn’t have school technology to track students, I still feel the pressure of school, when I’m on the news I always see china students sick in the hospital and still having to do homework, even if it’s a bad thing (which it is), I still think it is very impressive for china students to handle such intense school rules🫡

I also think that china might be going far with its education system. For kids getting more and more attentive.They can get a little bit strict teachers,plus they have 12 hours of school I am sure so they either decrease the time a little bit like 6 hours or a bit more than that. or they can get a place where the kids at recess time can go to rest for abt 20 minutes or more whenever they feel exhausted. otherwise they can eat their lunch in the classroom.

I thought living in India I had a tough curriculum but this is just next level 🤯

5:23 yes absolutely yes 😢 they are children and parents need to take care about them

I am Taiwan people and I am 7 years old and I am in school it wasn’t like this!?!?

Too much pressure and stresss makes a person numb

3:15 ik it's actually torturing the innocent students. I feel bad for the innocent students 😢

As a chinese student myself I got beat or hit by some of the teachers before and one dragged me out the classroom because I was not doing something well and just dragged me out as like a dead person

As a chinese, I’m kinda glad that I live in Italy and do Chinese school and the school doesn’t do what the other schools does in china but I really really feel bad for people in China so stressed out and stuff.

It's really just about the parents because I like in Hong Kong and some parents are strict, some are tigers, some don't care and some are in the middle.

Thank God UAE 🇦🇪 schools are not like this 😢😭😭😭 I want my freedom of emotions I love my school the way it is even if it has benefits children should be allowed to be children but at the same time its makes a child focus does not mean you have to brain wash them they are more fun ways to learn than to do this thats why i love my school system ❤

As I am Chinese and my cousin is in high school when the last day of summer break she cried and told my aunt she put too much pressure on her and I felt extremely bad/sad for my cousin

as a chinese that moved to canada, I feel way more relaxed because: homework every day and the education system, I literally learned multiplication at grade 2, fractions and integers at grade 4 the bad part is that I was not in mainland china, and my life is bad

Phew im glad im not in china but i feel bad love philippines from china 🇵🇭❤🇨🇳

I’m actually in Shanghai in a Chinese school (but I’m going to a new school this year)and this is just too far and my classmates aren’t that stressed and their parents aren’t that bad so maybe they’re just other schools that are that stricter but all of my friends aren’t that bad they’re all funny and crazy in good way but yeah if you’re school is that strict I’m so sorry for you

I’m a Korean student who lives in America and I feel so bad for the kids. Our education system isn’t like this and my parents dont expect me to use all my time studying

4:25 One word - acted. There was one content creator that did a video about this, and later proved it absolutely wrong with giving strangers a dollar for answering the same questions.

Even though my religion is Chinese and I am a U.S citizen I do understand that they give So much homework and that some are strict and the Mom or Dad would give them lots of programs to talk about school the kidnapers are also using ai sadly to trick those kids that they are the mom and dad when it online

A Vietnamese myself, I already feeling a lot of pressures from learning in academies to academies just to try and get a scholarship somewhere abroad. I can say no one else will enjoy this type of pressure. I have to learn English, math, literature. Those 3 subjects I studied each one 3 times each time 3 hours per week. And near future I be learning German and French. You know the pressure is really high when your whole calendar is just studying and studying, homework and homework. Just imagine have to walk home after school, can't take a shower nor dinner and go directly to another campus to learn the same thing you learn at school but more harder and advance. This is just a bit of what most Vietnamese been through, Im lucky because I study in a non public school. If we take a look at South Korea, it another hell on Earth, one of my friend he have to study from 6 am every morning until 2 am the next day before he can go to sleep.

This is really perfect timing,I’m a chinese student rn in china and am doing homework and saw this😅

“As a Chinese person, I can confirm at grade 4. We learned the nervous system,digestive system,and the skeletal system, we get overworked and have a lot of pressure, but we’re happy for supportive people on social media.” -me

I’m from China,HK but my school doesn’t really have homework and in the video, I think they are good and bad things the good things are that they can be more skillful then before and the bad thing is that the teacher give TOO much pressure to the students

It's not as extreme in India but the students here do have some unhealthy amount of pressure on them. It actually comes down to the population and the job market. The competition is extreme and you need to take extreme measures to get a job better than other people.

Chinese education is very stressful, the kids have a lot of pressure at school and even at home. It's terrible to see human beings manipulated in this way. Poor kiddos 👶 😢

As an American who lives in USA I never want this to happen.

I always heard of my younger brother (when he was still back in China living with our grandparents) he went to school at 8AM. And sometimes come back at 8PM.

5:17 He is being forced to say this NO DOUBT

Education is more about grades then learning now a days

I feel so sorry for them all. 😢

Hi, I’m actually from China, and to answer your question,is yes and no.Yes is for there IS these device that are seeing are students paying attention to class.For no,is not every school does it.Hong Kong doesn’t even have these devices since I study there and more places don’t have them.

I am from China and I had studied in China for abt 7 years until I moved to Singapore when I was P2. When I was studying in kindergarden , we already needed to learn words and Math.Then,I was studied in a international school when I was Primary 1 and it was not rlly too bad(since its a internatuonal school Ig?But we still learn almost same thing as government schools but just learn English earlier)But I must admit,my cousins are studying in China and it was overwhelming. Imagine u have like 30 exam papers to deal with for holidays💀I would be so overwhelmed . And parents also give high expectations which is kinda unrealistic and make the child very stressed

I- have experienced this.. as I was a student in china. But now I'm in a different country (since my parents are not dumb and moved out). I can say that this this so so bad, and the amount of control and pressure is just- un able to describe. A few of my classmates have thought of even dying once or twice.. and the controlling is just- too much.

As an Asian teen i know one thing controlling kids isn't the best way to make them do things it will cause an impact. I know that cause my mother is very very controlling to me and my brothers.

I feel bad for these students as a Filipino who studies at a private school we take it a step at a time and if a Chinese girl that moved from china and was struggling with her life and education moves to my school im gonna make sure she's going to have the most happiest life in my school 💐❤️🍁❤️💐 "For every black and white area in life there should always be a gray area" -Me

According to me, it has both positive and negative effects, but it's harsh in China, forcing young kids to study more and stressing them out, which is sad. But if this complicated way is reduced and then implemented for students above 15 years of age,it would be very useful for the world.

I agree tho, I'm chinese but i was born in Italy and when I was a little girl still going to kindergarten my parents sent me to China to learn because they thought they would work in Italy to earn more and then come back to China forever, but I was so "emo" because in kindergarten I couldn't do math (we already learn when we are little kids) and I used my fingers cuz I suck in math and the teacher yelled at me then I cried so bad lol. The second reason is that I always cry because I miss my mother and I had slapped my grandfather and I don't remember why but maybe it was about the problem of study that I studied too much. So they sent me back in Italy.💀

I am asain too and I'm from China and we moved to Belfast

This will bring about another phenomenon in China. Usually the stress issue will continue and peak at their high school period and the stress will disappear when they are studying at college. Chinese colleges and western high schools are more alike. Truancies are common in Chinese colleges and many of them tend to lie flat.

As a chinese from Malaysia, I am grateful after seeing this video. Hope they will get better in the future.😔Although this way works, but I prefer being someone that is not too stressed...

Education is only A path to have a wonderful life not a mainstream path. Education is to be loved not to be hated or forced. We have to remember that there are other opportunities that we can grow in and live happily. Till the child is in about 10th class he/she would have most of the needed knowledge in order to understand and what to choose.

As an Indian-South African child. I'm grateful and I hope they dpnt put much pressure in future😢😢😢

They are being treated like criminals. What did they do? Nothing. They didn't ask to be born or take responsibility. This is close to the 2017 Yuzang Academy case. Where everything happens in closed doors. But this one is just open and well-disguised. I am absolutely disgusted.

I’m glad to know that we Americans don’t have the worst education system.

This is a great example of what the rest of the world should and should NOT do. There is definitely a lot we should learn from them, as there is a lot we should NOT learn from them

My kids Indian school timings : Morning 5:30 to 6Am Yoga 6am to 6:15 News Paper reading 6:15 to 6:30 Milk time 6:30 to 7am Try to read & understand on ur own what teacher going to teach morning sessions. 7am to 9am classes 9am to 9:15 Breakfast 9:15 to 9:30 Morning exam 9:30 to 12pm classes 12Pm to 12:30 Lunch 12:30 to 12:45 Lunch Exam 12:45 to 1pm Sleep 1pm to 4pm classes 4PM to 4:15 Tea time 4:15 to 4:30 Evening Exam 4:30 to 7PM classes 7PM to 9M Daily Revision 9PM to 9:30 Dinner 9:30 to 10:00 Daily Exam

I know that because i went to a Chinese school is soo much pressure everyday i went home crying and never get to rest everyday because of daily homework