When going to school it is important to do everything you can to ensure you get the best education possible.

What would you do if you were getting bullied because you asked the teacher to make sure everyone was speaking English in the class.

That is what happened to the student in this story but after a bit of harassment, he got the last laugh.

Check it out.

French students harass and bully me for asking them to speak English in an English-taught class, so I get them expelled.

This happened a few years back in China, at one of the universities there.

Here, I was studying Chinese language and I shared my language class with some people from France and Belgium (the French speaking part).

Our Chinese teacher was a really nice little lady that happened to also speak French.

So often, whenever the French speakers had a question, they would ask it in French.

That could make things difficult.

Now, I didn’t really mind it all that much but at some point, it got to the point where about half of the questions in the class were asked in a language I did not understand.

Obviously that is detrimental to my own learning experience since understanding the questions is important for me to learn the language.

So I politely asked them if we could just do the class in English because about half of us didn’t understand what was being asked.

Laoshi (the teacher) was very nice about it and afterwards, asked the students if they could rephrase their question in English when they asked it in French.

But apparently the French and Belgian girls and guys didn’t take it so well.

They were constantly glaring at me, and whispering among themselves in French.

Well, I just shrugged and moved on.

However, outside of class they were always sticking together in their own little group, doing things together.

At first they would just walk past me when I was sitting down having a beer with my friends, and they would simply glare.

Wow, they were really jerks.

But at some point it came down to them cursing, talking about me to other students and spitting on my lap when I was sitting in the park.

Obviously I was seething so I might have called them a few words which were a bit too unsavoury.

Anyhow, they didn’t take it well.

So the next day, I found out that they scribbled all sorts of things on my dorm room.

It said a bunch of awful stuff in Mandarin.

Obviously I was upset, but I didn’t really know what to do so I reported it to the International Student Office.

ISO was really nice and understanding, but told me they can’t actually do much unless I provide proof that something is happening.

It is always smart to record evidence.

Thus, I went on Taobao and and bought a little recording camera (looked a bit like a dashcam, it had the time and date and everything).

After the university had painted my room door over (they couldn’t get the markers off apparently) I hung the camera up in a corner of our dorm corridor and pointed it at my door.

Then I left and made sure to loop around a little bit to walk past the group of French/Belgians so that they knew I was leaving campus towards the metro station.

I had some nice dumpling soup and a beer and when I came back, look and behold!

Once again they were hardly creative with their insults (just more of the same) but this time I had proof!

I checked the video and I was very pleased: 5 out of 7 of the group were actually there, and all wrote down something on the door with permanent marker.

One of the guys even kicked the door which caused a crack at the bottom (these doors were not very sturdy).

They seemed to have a lot of fun doing it.

Now, of course the school was properly upset when I showed them the video.

Good thing they got what they deserved.

Normally the students would just get a stern warning but because ISO was aware that they were doing it before.

Also about the fact that they were harassing me all the time (I reported everything to them when it happened) they were less than understanding this time.

They suggested the board that had to decide on this (no idea what their name was, I couldn’t recognize their name in Hanzi) to expel the students.

And so they were.

All of this took place over the course of a couple of months, so we were nearing the end of the semester.

The five students who scribbled at my door got expelled just before their exams, which meant that all the time they spent at the university was effectively worthless since they did not receive any credits for it.

But it gets even better.

After this whole ordeal, I sent a neat (anonymous) letter in Chinese (one of my Chinese friends helped me write it) to the Public Security Bureau that these students had engaged in vandalism at our university.

Excellent, send them home!

A few weeks later, after I had already returned home, I was told by a friend of mine who was on good terms with their group that some of them had booked tickets and hostels to travel in China at the end of the semester.

However, their visa extension was denied by the Public Security Bureau on the basis of their misdemeanour at the university.

I’m not sure if the second part was caused because of my letter, or simply because the university informed the police, but I like to pretend that it was the former.

So I was just laughing as they slaved away half a year in courses for which they would receive no credit, and had to cancel thousands worth of travel plans.

That truly was a sweet, sweet feeling.

They got exactly what they deserved.

Let’s read some of the comments that were left on this story.

This is interesting.

Here is someone with a different experience.

This person thinks the teacher could have mediated better.

This person makes a good point.

Oh yes, they knew.

I love it when bullies get what they deserve.

It feels like a little bit of payback for all of us.

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