Suicide-pact student is released from hospital
By Li Xinran |
July 15, 2011, Friday
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A 16-YEAR-OLD girl who joined a suicide pact with classmates and swallowed sleeping pills after being advised by a Beijing high school to quit has been discharged from hospital.
She was one of eight students who had planned to commit suicide together after being told by the Chinese Music Conservatory Middle School to leave because of their poor academic performances.
The other seven have also been found, but their parents haven't heard from the school about their future.
The eight formed the suicide pact on July 9, one day after their parents were told to withdraw them.
Each of the eight had a bottle of sleeping pills. The girl, who has not been identified, was the first to attempt suicide, Xinmin Evening News reported, citing her mother.
On the same day, parents of five students jointly wrote to the school asking that their kids be given one more chance.
The 16-year-old's mother admitted her daughter was not getting good grades but complained about the school's loose management.
A vice headmaster of the school, surnamed Xu, told Xinmin Evening News that any senior student who flunks major subjects or one third of the subjects in a semester will be advised to quit.
"My daughter's class has 30 students and eight were advised to quit," the mother was quoted as saying.
"I've never seen the teacher of the class since my daughter was admitted to the school and I haven't received any phone calls from the school before.
"My daughter told me many of the school teachers were part-time and left the classroom immediately after class," the mother added.
The mother also told the newspaper that students ate snacks and played video games during class while expressing regret at sending her daughter to the school.
"We've been forced into a corner," the mother was quoted as saying.
She told the newspaper her daughter transferred from a key high school in their hometown of east China's Shandong Province a year ago.
She was one of eight students who had planned to commit suicide together after being told by the Chinese Music Conservatory Middle School to leave because of their poor academic performances.
The other seven have also been found, but their parents haven't heard from the school about their future.
The eight formed the suicide pact on July 9, one day after their parents were told to withdraw them.
Each of the eight had a bottle of sleeping pills. The girl, who has not been identified, was the first to attempt suicide, Xinmin Evening News reported, citing her mother.
On the same day, parents of five students jointly wrote to the school asking that their kids be given one more chance.
The 16-year-old's mother admitted her daughter was not getting good grades but complained about the school's loose management.
A vice headmaster of the school, surnamed Xu, told Xinmin Evening News that any senior student who flunks major subjects or one third of the subjects in a semester will be advised to quit.
"My daughter's class has 30 students and eight were advised to quit," the mother was quoted as saying.
"I've never seen the teacher of the class since my daughter was admitted to the school and I haven't received any phone calls from the school before.
"My daughter told me many of the school teachers were part-time and left the classroom immediately after class," the mother added.
The mother also told the newspaper that students ate snacks and played video games during class while expressing regret at sending her daughter to the school.
"We've been forced into a corner," the mother was quoted as saying.
She told the newspaper her daughter transferred from a key high school in their hometown of east China's Shandong Province a year ago.
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