The Declaration of the MingTeng Incident 5 Years Ago

——To mark the 5^th anniversary of Anti-MingTeng Week

At the beginning of this article, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone except Ming Teng! At the end of each year, I used to write an article to summary the whole year which will be passed soon. But this year, because of the heavy work and the special day——the 5^th anniversary of MingTeng Incident, I decide to write an brief article about this, to declare the fact of the most terrible incident in my life till today when I was in the Xinbeijiao Junior High School 5 years ago.

As I have mentioned above, this incident made mainly by Ming Teng, the Grade 9 Chinese teacher in my junior high school (in the next paragraphs I will use ‘it’ to refer her to show my contempt to her) has imprinted deeply in my memory that I may not forget it forever. What it has done badly wounded my young heart which cannot be recovered. So, it worth being criticized once a year. In the past few years, some people may heard about this incident, but what I want to say is, the versions you have heard about is probably not correct. In fact, in order to reduce the influence to my little soul as much as possible, I have covered the truth for long to 5 years. Today, I will reveal the truth at that time to you by this special way.

Let’s come back to five years ago, December 27, 2006, the morning reading class began. Huiqin Wu, my English teacher of Grade 9, walked into the classroom. With her requirements, we corrected homework for each other. After I finished, according to my custom, I wrote down a message like this on my friend’s homework paper. ‘A certain person always looks for a bone in an egg.’ (In fact, I mean my Chinese teacher Ming Teng always look for a flaw which didn’t exist at all.) But unfortunately, this message was discovered by Huiqin Wu, and she soon got annoyed, she thought that ‘the certain person’ in the message was referred to herself. So, she ordered our monitor to call our class teacher and Chinese teacher Ming Teng came to the classroom. After seeing this scene, without asking me about what had happened, it straight dragged me out of the classroom into the corridor, shouting at me. At that time I stood aghast, couldn’t say anything. It just kept shouting at me and humiliating me, never allowed me to speak in my own defense. It even said, ‘The good impression you have left on me has totally changed today!’ Just imagine this scene, how can a 15-year-old boy who always heed what an elder or superior says endure such humiliation! And it did not allow me to go into the classroom, deprived my right of being educated. I just stood in the corridor, be humiliated by it, and be observed by the students and teachers passed by. At that time, I had even considered jumping off the building, to end up my own life, but I can’t. Doesn’t due to I was afraid, I thought I was not worth to die for such a baggage! And only I am alive that I can criticize it every year, and let more people know its crime.

It didn’t let me to go home until about 19:45, I think. Because in my cell phone, there is such a message I sent to my mother at 19:31, Dec.27, 2006. ‘Dear mum, I have something to photocopy, I may go home a little later, please do not worry about me.’ In fact, I was trying not to let my mother know about I was being bullied and humiliated by this baggage temporary. When I arrived at home, I burst out crying. Thanks to my dear parents, after listening to me described what had happened patiently, to my surprise, they said ‘Don’t be afraid, whatever happens, we stand on your side!’ After that, every time Ming Teng called my father or mother to blame me, my parents always help me, we let it know, it was impossible for it to drive a wedge between my parents and me. Its evil attempt would not be succeeded. At last, about one week later, under the pressure of the whole family, Ming Teng stopped making inroads on me, but refused to apologize.

Today, I continue criticizing it, not only because it had damaged my little soul five years ago, but also query its qualification of being a teacher. As we all know, love students whatever happens is the basic principle of a teacher, if one does not meet with this basic principle, how can I call him or her ‘teacher’? These are all about the secret I have concealed for five years. Five years ago, I was a little fragile child compared to the Ming Teng; but five years later, I grow up, full of ambitions and confidences. I write down this article to tell you, your intrigue will never be realized, what you have done only smeared your own name.