Censor-busting dissident shines light on overworked Chinese students

Censor-busting dissident shines light on overworked Chinese students

This article was originally published by Radio Free Asia and is reprinted with permission. An 8th grader from Hunan province was “extremely stressed” — for good reason. His top-ranking middle school demanded he study 85 hours a week, with just two days off a month. “Teachers threatened us that if we reported it, we would be expelled from school,” the student wrote. His story and more than 4,000 like it have been submitted anonymously to a crowd-…