Comments on: People Are Now Coping With Beijing’s Pollution By Building Giant Domes

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 09:47:28 +0000

The ISB domes provides a great environment for the students to exercise without the fear of damaging their lungs. I myself am an ISB student and have been living in Beijing for quite a while now. Sure, maybe we’re a bit spoiled and bratty, but isn’t everyone at some point? We pay our money to the school in order to secure a safe, happy and productive learning environment. Just because we want an area that will allow us to exercise untainted by the atrocious pollution of Beijing, that means that we’re all nothing but spoiled and bratty children? I can see that half the comments on here are posted against ISB, but let me tell you something. ISB’s students possess an intellectual ability that far surpasses those of the average public school child. These children have to actually ACHIEVE RESULTS in order to even get into the school itself! And sure, maybe it’s expensive, but we pay for what we want and its an investment into our futures. In truth, it’s nothing more than buying a whole shit ton of stocks in order to secure a potentially secure financial situation.

Seriously, for those of you that think that creating these domes will limit our interaction with your supposed “actual world”, think again. How often do you think our students interact with the actual world anyways during recess outside? I suppose that we’re just going to allow anyone to just stroll into the school and just start talking to the kids. No. Furthermore, do American public schools just let people come in and start talking to their kids? NO! For pete’s sake, you need a pass or some other form of clearance just to get your car into the goddamn school! So enough with this bullshit about it limiting our interaction with the outside world. We are normal kids living normal lives, and we simply want to get away from the pollution. We are not just spoiled and bratty kids who sit around at home with expensive hobbies and just burning through cash.

Our students achieve results, and we pay for our education. Sure, we’re in the higher class of people in this world, but how does that define us? Great, I want a good education that costs a bit more money, shoot me! You might as well go around tearing down all the boarding schools around the world, basically all of the upper level international schools in the world and not to mention the average private school in America too! All of you people that believe that the domes are going to do nothing and make us naïve and stupid, well let me tell you this. The domes are public now for a price of course. Nothing more than your average fitness centre and frankly, if you believe that we’re spoiled and bratty and somehow, just SOMEHOW this is the domes’ doing, then you are clearly a worthless existence. YOU are the one that is naïve and stupid and you clearly are nothing but a jealous piece of shit who just simply doesn’t understand how terrible the pollution in Beijing can get.

By: Past ISBer

Past ISBer — Fri, 02 Aug 2013 00:19:09 +0000

To start off, I graduated from this school a few years ago and am well into my post-graduate career. To say that all the students who attend this school are “spoiled and bratty” is actually quite a leap from reality. To be fair, I have not visited the school in a few years, but the people I met at this school are some of the best, brightest, and most intellectual people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting, as well as the most welcoming. I also garnered, in my honest opinion, one of the best educations available. Many of the students who attend this school are diplomats’ children, so relative to the circumstances of their parents’ jobs and the recompense of said job, the people are relatively down to earth.

Secondly, the pollution in Beijing is horrifying. Just looking at the statistics today, the current Air Quality Index in Beijing is at 154 with a maximum being 169. To put this in even greater perspective, this year the density of PM2.5 particulates in the air has surpassed 700 micrograms per cubic meter in parts of the city, and the World Health Organization considers 25 micrograms per cubic meter to be healthy…

Yes, the students who attend this school are the 1% (in socioeconomic standing/luck/job opportunity/etc), but they are also children, starting as young as four. The school charges the amount they charge not only to secure a incredible education, but also to ensure the best facilities for the students. Parents have many other available options for international schools, but they are willing to pay this sum for reasons such as this.

Lastly, this is a non-profit school (or it was when I went there), might as well put the money towards something that will help the kids, right?

Be kind and please don’t judge us too harshly.

By: Chauster

Chauster — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 03:24:19 +0000

Hey man my parents work hard from the ground up to make all this $$$ so I can blow it every Friday night at a table at Spark/Element/Vics and buy all the drugs I want.

I would appreciate it greatly if you treated them with a little more respect!!!

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By: The Rail on Black Ledge

The Rail on Black Ledge — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:22:40 +0000

Walk 100 meters off the campus and you’ll find 15 year old Chinese boys working at Jenny Lou’s.
Imagine how soul-crushing it must be for these Chinese kids to see the students walking onto the million-dollar campus, everyday while they sit in their shitty excuse of a food mart and smoke cigarettes and drive electric trikes to deliver food to other exbrats.
Such a situation can only be described as being the culmination of rich West meets developing East.

By: Rafael Enrico

Rafael Enrico — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 22:39:57 +0000

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By: ISB Alumni

ISB Alumni — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:25:19 +0000

Looks like I’m writing here rather late, but I have one point to make.

Everyone who have not been to Beijing before or have no idea why ISB has spent the resources to build the dome:

Stand on the sidewalk in Beijing at any given time in the dead of winter and try to take a deep breath.

You will start coughing and choking on the pollution before you get to finish breathing in.

Now try to do sports or even play tag (ISB does include an elementary school) in that kind of air.

For those who know, you will understand why ISB has built the domes. For those who don’t know how bad the air pollution gets, well, let’s see. Staying outdoors in Beijing on a bad pollution day would be equivalent to smoking approximately 15 packs of cigarettes (without the nicotine).

I believe ISB wants their students to continue to pursue their interest and passion in sports rigorously, and also let the elementary and middle school students enjoy open spaces (the dome is open enough) and spend their childhood not cooped up indoors on their computers, unable to run around and play.

And to the haters and people who are too arrogant to realize the truth: Your comments are causing the brain cells of the readers to kill themselves one by one. Please stop.

By: Evan Passier

Evan Passier — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:33:46 +0000

You guys are a bunch of idiots. Whoever thinks this dome is a bad idea, can literally go suck my tits. I shouldn’t be wasting my precious jerking off time to explain to all you R-tards.

By: NB

NB — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:06:28 +0000

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By: ISB Alum

ISB Alum — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:35:12 +0000

hey cunt, so what if u see kids go out to bars and drink? you talk like if we’re the only kids in the beijing area that goes out to sanlituan. Lol, and if u dont want to see “idiots” at ur favorite bar. go find urself another bar. go to bars in salana. oh wait. nvm you probably cant afford it.

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