Lin Yunxin continued her report. Schools in the Skywing Empire held a total of six hours of classes, with an additional hour for the children to rest.
Of those six hours, two were devoted to Combat Class, Sports Class, Shooting Class, and Physical Training Class. The remaining four hours consisted of regular subjects such as language arts, mathematics, and science.
Combat Class had one hour of instruction every day, while another hour was divided among Shooting Class, Sports Class, and Physical Training Class.
Shooting Class was scheduled for Mondays, teaching students how to use bows, pistols, shotguns, rifles, and other weapons, as well as practice shooting at targets.
Sports Class covered ordinary sports that children learned, such as football.
Physical Training Class was somewhat similar to Sports Class, but the difference was that the children had to run with ten-kilogram backpacks, do squats, sit-ups, jump rope, dive, swim, and so on.
The teachers for Combat Class were all professional fighters, while the teachers for Shooting Class and Physical Training Class were retired soldiers hired by the school. Moreover, those retired soldiers were at least squad-leader rank, teaching the children with the same curriculum used for rookie recruits.
To many children, Shooting Class and Physical Training Class were frightening courses because the retired soldiers teaching them taught by shouting.
If the children responded too quietly, the teachers would roar, "What did you say? I can't hear you! Louder!"
If the children reacted too slowly or performed poorly, the teachers would curse at them outright, even using ugly insults like "stinking bugs" and "worthless trash."
Such instructors sparked protests from many parents. The Ministry of Education merely released a video showing that the two princesses, while attending school, had also performed poorly and been harshly cursed by their teachers, who had even