Indeed, students, and specifically high school students in South Korea are oppressed. No one can say "no." Almost all the teachers forbid students from doing everything except studying. Regular Korean high school students, who go to the high schools controlled by the government, study from 8 am to 10 pm. (Some students suffer from much severe curriculum.) They are literally "jailed" inside the school; even though ordinary school time finishes around 5 or 6 pm, they are "obliged" to participate in what teachers and others call "voluntary self-studying" time. Many of, or maybe most of, the teachers believe that a student's primary goal, indeed the only goal, is to enter one of the prestigious universities. They do not want students to have any idea of change, to try something new, or to resist the system, but to be a "brick in the wall."
Even some parents seem to share the same thought. After more than 12 hours of study in school, they force their children to go to private academy, or study with private tutor, just to raise their children's grades. They think that their children are making nonsense because the children are just "temporarily" tired when the children try to express his or her thought or idea about changing the system. Both teachers and parents believe that any student can not change the system, urging the students to "hold on" for just three years.
In this situation, students in South Korea do need a way, an outlet, to express their idea. They need somewhere to organize their claims, support them logically, and make a rational debates. The idea of students, which adults believe to be excessively and unnecessarily revolutionary, should be listened and respected, for the sake of both adults and students; if not, students will go insane and irrational in a closed jail where their mouths are completely concealed. Even though their are some dangerous topics to be discussed in high school, such problems can never be a reasonable excuse to ban and censor what students want to speak.
Motions
1. THB : the communities of high school students must be censored by adults.
2. THB : students must be kept away from political issues.
3. THB : students have the same full right as adults.
Very well expressed and I believe you - because you've been through that system which you speak ok. Korean kids tend to be overworked, and do seem to miss out on some aspects of creative education. I think this ties in well with the topic of your next critical response. Good stuff. The motions are good, a bit too related though. Number two has been popping up a lot and will be our next motion, I think.
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