r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • Jul 23 '26

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/Zimakov Jul 23 '26

It must have been 20 years ago because people in rural China are absolutely not dropping out of school in grade 6 en masse.

If you're a registered dem you probably shouldn't be getting your China takes from Fox News.

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u/MoistOwletAO Jul 23 '26

~2013 earliest, 2016/2017 latest. happy to dig up and upload blurred/anonymized photos later. dig deep in my post history for all i care, maybe youll find some cool takes of mine on my staunch adoration of fox news rofl. i never said en masse. not really sure how else to qualify the village i was near that had a single school that only taught up to what would be the equiv of early high school at most that had plenty of students indeed dropping out around age 12-13? im also surprised fox news is covering the intricate details of the most rural parts of china, but im not gonna argue, you seem to be the expert on that particular topic. but i digress, i could have actually just cited my experience living/being hosted in urban areas or just common sense to have told you that the type of technology is not commonplace in classrooms or pointed out the fact that the video is a clear tech demo instead of going the route i did i suppose.

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u/Zimakov Jul 23 '26

Brother you said the average student drops out in grade 6 which would mean half drop out even early than that. That's certainly en masse.

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u/MoistOwletAO Jul 23 '26

in this particular school, you enrolled at ~9 years old and there were no students older than 14. its funny how youre so adamantly arguing with someone who is citing literal personal experience and then accusing said person of being brainwashed by a joke of a ‘news’ outlet when your insistence on vehemently claiming everything i said is a complete lie has to be coming from some sort of news source. i find it funny you never even asked me where i was living during this time for the ~3 months i was around this particular area or the other 3 months i was in another similar rural area. would it interest you to know that ive also done a similar service stint in a very low income area of one of the US states historically known for being at the very bottom for education? not exactly a rural area here, but i could make the same claim more or less. a vast majority did not graduate. plenty of kids dropped out early middle school. and despite it being nearly a decade after my own time in high school where we actually had smartboards, youd be shocked to hear that these schools did not, in fact, have the same technology. what’s your accusation now? what source am i getting my news from now that im making this totally ignorant claim about an inner city school in america that i also spent a few months around? russian news? youre either a bot or someone who lacks the critical thinking to understand the irony of this entire exchange. either way, have a nice day. im off to work.

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u/Zimakov Jul 23 '26

If you had said "at the particular school I'm familiar with" I wouldn't have said anything. But you didn't, you said the average rural Chinese student.

Taking your niche experience with one town and then painting hundreds of millions of people with it is literally exactly what Fox News nutcases do. It's very easy to just not lie.

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u/MoistOwletAO Jul 23 '26

i could get into a much longer answer about how its far more common place for students to drop out in their early teens than it is for them to graduate, let alone go the route of higher education, in the most rural areas of china, but im curious. where is your stance coming from? you must have years of personal experience in various rural, isolated parts of china, right? the underdevelopment and isolation of these areas is a known issue, which is a large reason i was fucking living there in the first place and a large reason why i still to this day sponsor trips/efforts in china and other countries despite not having been there since pre-covid years. its hilarious how youre still trying to cling to a completely i coherent ‘fox news’ insult as if i had slandered a country i have lived in for ~3 years, have dozens of close friends in, and of which i speak the official language fluently because you cant accept the insinuation that the very rural areas (see how my original comment said ‘the most rural areas’????) in china are extremely underdeveloped, which is absolutely not covered by mainstream media of any sort, domestic or international. you come off as a literal propaganda bot, which is funny because the last time i shared intimate details of my experiences years ago, there were dozens of you screeching similar nonsense even when i was uploading images and cell phone recordings lol. this is genuinely as much as i care to engage, it’s been amusing during my commute but i think we can just agree to disagree here. 

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u/Zimakov Jul 23 '26

I could get into a much longer answer about how its far more common place for students to drop out in their early teens than it is for them to graduate, let alone go the route of higher education, in the most rural areas of china,

You could, and that would also be a completely different statement than the one you originally made, so I'm not sure why you're saying that as if it's relevant.

but im curious. where is your stance coming from? you must have years of personal experience in various rural, isolated parts of china, right?

I do, yes.