I didn't revise in school. I didn't even take notes. Things either went in or they didn't, and there was no point pretending I'd get anywhere staring at them all day. Young Nate Elbow took much the same approach. Despite his natural talents dwarfing those of his dad (the famous novelist Brendy Elbow), his refusal to spend his final school year cramming all the subjects he didn't care about left him with a mediocre score at the all-important Gaokao, condemning him to a life in the terrible clutches of the games industry. There's definitely not a moral in that somewhere. It's fine. I'm fine. Stupid teachers.
This is the central idea of Chinese Parents, the phenomenally popular child-raising sim by Moyuwan Games, which has been recently translated into English.
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