A podium. A classroom. Forty-seven teenagers, each caught in their own predicament
She was three minutes late. One remark, “Be late again and I'll have your desk moved outside,” and the next day, that girl never showed up for morning study. Her phone went unanswered, the surveillance cameras showed nothing, and she was missing all night.
Something that shouldn't be there turns up in a desk cubby, leaving a girl too frightened to open her books. The pressures at home drive a top student to the brink of collapse; running away is only a matter of time. A long, impassioned letter demands that the subject teacher be replaced. Class funds go missing, rumors spread, and anonymous notes weave a silent web of cruel bullying. Little schemes and idle gossip cut away at the class's unity, one slice at a time.
Strict discipline can hold the line. But rules cannot tear down prejudice, estrangement, or the invisible wall inside a teenager's heart.
He walks the line between rules and empathy. What he protects is the last shred of dignity of troubled teenagers; what he bears is the weighty trust of forty-seven families.
This is a veteran homeroom teacher's journal. It records the real confusion, resistance, and breakdowns hidden in the daily routine of morning study and evening classes, as well as the glimmers of light slowly gathered back, one by one.
Readers say it feels like their own high school homeroom teacher has been secretly keeping a diary.
Author's message: This book is a semi-documentary campus novel with a well-processed plot and dilemmas derived from real platform experiences. It not only writes about test scores, but also writes about the pain hidden behind the scores of teenagers: family pressure, peer isolation, and self-depletion caused by being sensible. Refuse to levitate in chicken soup and record the days when ordinary teachers and ordinary teenagers watch each other and heal each other. Welcome to comment and share your good memories of high school, and thank you for your support in studying.