In Xinghua, Jiangsu, thousands of high school students across 3 schools launched the “Anti-Balding Group Movement” against the abridged winter break and high compulsory tutor fees, framing it as a fight of the “student class” against the balding “teacher-capital class.”
「江苏兴化：数千学生发起“反秃头集团压迫”运动（2025.01.18）」江苏泰州兴化市的数千名学生，本周末发起了一系列抗议活动，成功迫使当地三所高中取消原定的寒假补课计划。这场抗议行动被学生们称为“一一八学生运动”，并将其视为“学生阶级”反抗“教资阶级”剥削的行动，宣称学生们最终战胜了“秃头集团”的… pic.twitter.com/SgXYQExCPn
— 昨天 (@YesterdayBigcat) January 19, 2025
Students gathered at school gates with chants, posters, blaring scooter horns, demanding their winter break back. Videos publicizing the event went viral despite police intervention. In the end, schools capitulated very quickly to the demands.
This protest stands out for its scale, but secondary school protests aren’t new. At Hefei No. 1 High last year, students posted dazibao quoting Marx, Lenin and Mao, accusing school officials of “bureaucratic oppression” and calling for resistance against unreasonable rules.
合肥一中瑶海校区2022级学生因不满校方管理张贴大字报，引用马列毛，呼吁全年级被压迫的学生联合起来
— 李老师不是你老师 (@whyyoutouzhele) December 17, 2024
他将部分校管理层称为官僚阶级，认为他们压迫学生。并存在以下不合理行为：
1.每周日考试的情况下还在周一和周六早上严查迟到
2.晚自习睡觉休息被强硬叫醒
3.不许学生在院子里打球… pic.twitter.com/YePwJaaujT
In 2023, middle school students posted dazibao in bathrooms demanding their labor day break back and calling for students to unite, in bombastic language “The male bathroom has risen up! We will be justice incarnate and fight till our death! Signed, an anonymous warrior”
