"Man, this is horrible! I never thought it would be this bad!" thought by me as I was nervously standing at the corner of the front classroom sweating. Do not even think about this as a speech project or debate tournament or anything like it. This is instead a punishment, a punishment for talking in class; a punishment that severely affects a student's physical and mental development; and a punishment that should be stopped.
Retrospectively thinking about five years ago, life was ridiculous. That was when I was still in China and enduring that never-going-to-end type of middle school life.…