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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tora Ziyal: [QB] Calling all people who commit suicide mentally unstable is like calling everybody who disagrees with you evil. It's sweeping the problem under the rug. I sort of agree with Gurgeh that school was probably this girl's WHOLE life, and I don't think anyone who's never been to an Eastern European country should judge, because you can't imagine what it's like growing up with a different set of ideologies. On the other hand, when I lived in Taiwan every so often you'd hear a blurb on the news about a student who jumped off a building because of school stress. Basically the competition to get into good colleges is so great a student from junior high and on who wants to get ahead (without being a prodigy) has to spend about 2/3 of his waking hours studying, doing homework, and getting tutored. And then you have to remember three years' worth of materials from junior high to take exams for high school, then remember three years' of high school to take exams for college. People judge you by the prestige of your school. Nowadays they're trying to reform by taking on more of an American grading system by looking at grades over 3 years rather than just the exams, but that only means you have to study all along the way instead of cram. I think from when I was little it was understood that if you fail in school, you fail in life, and even now I maintain high grades out of habit, because I can't bear the thought of anything else. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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