Total surveillance of students in China (5 photos)

Recently, footage appeared of Chinese students writing a test at their tables, with a camera pointed at literally everyone. The footage is straight out of a dystopian future. But suddenly Chinese teachers got in touch and explained - this is not at all what you think!





Cameras for everyone!

There are more than one or two shots of cameras above the students; this is quite common equipment in good schools. The camera is aimed strictly at the student’s desk in order to track all his micromovements. The image is transmitted to the next office.



The students themselves admit that studying this way is too stressful. One of them just posted a video online showing how everyone was learning.

People online called the place not a school, but a digital prison.

It helps you study

Teachers say that this system is created solely to teach calligraphy to children. Drawing hieroglyphs is difficult, and one squiggle can change the meaning of what is written, so teaching children to write takes a TON of effort.





If calligraphy is like that, then fine, modern technology and all that.

Honestly, I don’t envy countries with hieroglyphic writing; so many hours are spent on cramming instead of chemistry and mathematics.

And these cameras are turned on only during calligraphy lessons; they are connected to the tables and record the movements of the student’s hand. To immediately retrain and correct him when he moves incorrectly.

In the videos in such classrooms you can actually see that students are practicing calligraphy.

Is this true only for calligraphy?



One camera per class is almost mandatory, but one is not stressful.

The use of cameras in educational institutions is not officially prohibited in China. They have already been used for facial recognition in some high schools to monitor whether students are all reading and looking at a book when the teacher tells them to.

Even then it all looked like a dystopia, but my parents liked it. After all, they send their children to school to study, not to look out the window.

Parents themselves also use video nannies and cameras to see from work whether the child is doing his homework when he should.

Some even stream their child doing homework and get thousands of views. A very strange hobby for those people who watch this...



Footage of Dayun's mother filming him doing his homework in front of an audience of 900 people

In general, China used to be teased with a digital prison, that their faces were recognized on the street. But suddenly it turned out that the Chinese themselves live freely, and they directed all the means of control and digital prison at their own children.

Well, you won’t envy the new generation of Chinese kids. Maximum lack of freedom of choice and education of will. After all, the child himself must decide whether to read a textbook or look out the window. Otherwise, how can we continue to live as an adult?