Yuzhang Academy, 2021, Pen and ink

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Yuzhang Academy, a Confucian reform school purportedly treading internet addiction in Jiangxi China, treated teenagers brutally, and has caused deaths during their treatments.

 

Dozen of teenagers who were previously enrolled at Yuzhang have written posts online accusing the academy of mistreatment, alleging that teachers there used corporal punishment, locked them up in solitary confinement, and forced them to do heavy labor.

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Schools like Yuzhang Academy promise parents that they can make "problematic" children obedient again.

 

This piece is to reveal the dark side of our society, but more importantly helps teenagers to speak up. They are never alone.

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"You may give [your children] your love but not your thoughts,

 For they have their own thoughts."                                                              ---- Kahlil Gibran