Rain

Leo said, This passionate desire for ingrained cultural oppressive pressure to pass exams in Utopia specifically and all Asian schools in general means millions of children died today in a stampede while escaping their teachers after evening class. Stare at star stairs.

- It was raining, said Authority. Blame rain.

- The rain had nothing to do with it, said a survivor, 10. It was a death trap.

The provincial education party leader was fired. The principal of the school was fired. The peasant parents of dead children can’t do a thing because they are stoic victims of The System.

They have absolutely no power. How can The System fire parents?

They have no idea how we run the institution, said Authority. We brainwash students and parents.

- Mandatory study from 6:00 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. seven days a week, said The System.

- This is your DUTY as parents, said The System. Beat your kids with fear and hard love.

- As students, your DUTY is to pass the exams. 60 is heaven. 59 is hell. Learning is secondary. Teachers push you through, it is their DUTY.

- We have developed safe secure schools for your children, said The System. Look at our safety record. Look at the substandard construction materials and cost-cutting measures we have implemented to save money. Look at the bribery and corruption we’ve developed and nurtured to manipulate everyone from the top to the bottom to create the finest, safest educational facilities in the entire world. We pay everyone off.

- As you know from our long history the value of human life here is worthless, said The System.

- Our rigid educational safety standards includes spotless bathrooms, elaborate expensive fancy sports halls where students are required to sing silly useless patriotic songs about the motherland. Dining halls where they eat the same mass produced rice and green stringy soggy vegetables day after day. Freezing dorm rooms where we pack 10 students into rat cages, an empty library and slippery tiled stairs which, in the event of a fire, panic, epidemic (C-19), plague, tornado, hurricane, typhoon or earthquake collapses shoddy buildings killing 80,000 kids in death traps.

If you protest the death of your child because of our negligence we will:

1.         evict you from your home

2.         remove you from your plush paper pushing bureaucratic job

3.         send you to a re-education through labor camp where you haul shit

4.         make you pay a fine

5.         hunt you down

6.         extract your organs

7.         subject you to shameful public humiliation

The System, to prevent public disorder and broken social harmony by distraught parents grieving over the unfortunate unforeseen death of their children, will hold a one minute of silence memorial at 10:00 a.m. next century in honor of our loyal and patriotic students who perished in the latest tragedy while pursuing good grades, academic excellence and social conformity.

May their untimely death serve as a reminder to all of us to remain vigilant and steadfast in our common purpose of command and control procedures.

Thank you for your attention.

Local Party Propaganda and Education Office

Book of Amnesia Unabridged