Hello loves, out there somewhere there’s just some laws that are outrageous to the point of being downright funny. Cause imagine you pour so much brain power, time, sweat and blood to realize your dream to shove education down future student heads, and few weeks before graduation, some anal comes along and say NAY, THOU ART TOO SHORT TO DO THE EDUCATING.
🙄 IKR.
So a bit of back story, this Chinese girl, name Li, enrolled in Shaanxi Normal University back in 2014, with a program that gave her a full scholarship and hooks her up with a public school as a teacher upon completion. Now fast forward to a few weeks before completing her 4 years English degree, and the only thing that’s stopping her from her teaching credential is HER HEIGHT. Yep, you read that right. Standing at 140cm (4ft, 6inc), she’s deemed too short to be a teacher in Shaanxi province.
Whoever this joker that came up with the law was probably traumatised for having a Hobbit sized teacher back in the days. Cause as far as I’m concerned most of the short teachers I know are pretty feisty and the best when it comes to man handling kids with discipline problems.
But anyways, China’s Minister of Education doesn’t stimulate a height requirement for teachers, however each province has its own laws, in this case under Shaanxi’s provincial law, a male teacher should be at a minimum of 155cm (5ft) while female teacher should at least stand at 150cm (4ft 9inc).
Obviously, she must had shat her pants getting the news as she’s almost gotten herself enslaved to a university debt and loosing 4 years of the youth.
Luckily for her, the internet and its netizen went to her rescue. Her case got national attention as well as outrage. Peeps were crying out “discrimination” and demanded that Li gets her teaching credentials.
With so much backlash, the provincial department has since responded by giving Li an exception and stated that their height restriction will be removed in 2019.
China does have random odd laws out there, and I’m stoked to find them for you guys if you peeps like em. So if you do, holla at me at the comment section and make sure to follow me here or at instagram at ⚡ thunderabs ⚡ for updates.
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