This was originally an email to the Libreplanet-discuss mailing list. I am a secondary school student from Shanghai, China. This email discusses the problems I discovered in the Chinese educational system, in terms of students’ right to freedom in computing and options to control the COVID-19 pandemic from the standpoint of a person living in China. When COVID-19 broke out in 2020, students were required to watch lecture videos produced by the city’s education department for twenty minute...