Just because her younger sister liked the piano and cried about wanting to learn, her parents canceled the advanced math class the school had recommended for her, saving the tuition money for her sister's piano lessons.
Even her homeroom teacher had come to their home to persuade them, saying her talent and grades were excellent and that the advanced math class offered a chance for direct admission into the provincial high school.
She never had any autonomy; sometimes, she wasn't even given the right to know.
After she turned down all her classmates' invitations and arrived at the advanced math class on time with her schoolbag, she was stopped outside the classroom. The teacher told her she wasn't on the class roster.
Enduring the mocking gazes and laughter of the other students, she fled home to confront her mother.
