It was another September, the season when school began.
This time, the primary and secondary school students returning to class were delighted to discover that their schedules had changed.
"PE every day?! The homeroom teacher and Chinese teacher won't steal it, will they?!"
"Half practical classes, half basic PE classes... Uh, as long as we can go to the field, there's no difference, right?"
The delighted children did not understand all those complicated matters. They were simply amazed that their suddenly lightened course load had become so much easier.
Clearly, new courses such as "Supernatural Common Sense Class" and "Double Physical Education Class" had been added, yet the overall number of classes had actually decreased.
Were elective subjects like natural sciences cut? No, the cuts had been made to core subjects, especially foreign languages.
In an instant, this arrangement caused an enormous uproar across society.
"This is a crime! This is murder against children!"
"This is madness! I've already written to the education authorities! No, we need to appeal to Wanjing!"
"This is an outsider conspiracy to poison our next generation."
Even though Wanjing had imposed news controls, current news censorship still relied on the old-era trio of traditional television, radio, and newspapers. There were not many effective means of controlling new media and independent media.
Especially now, when the traffic-driven era had only just begun to rise, how could such explosive news possibly be ignored? Even if an account was banned, in this wild age of the internet before real-name registration had become mandatory, all one had to do was switch accounts and draw in traffic to rise again.
And once a piece of news had spread to a certain extent online, forcibly suppressing it under the current circumstances became far too difficult—especially when certain forces were fanning the