Seeing the teachers starting to pack up their tables, the parents trapped behind the caution tape all began to grow agitated.
"What's going on? It's almost our child's turn, why are they packing up the tables?"
"Quiet down, everyone quiet down," a Sacred Heart Middle School PE teacher announced loudly through a megaphone, declaring that the recruitment for long-distance student athletes had come to an end, and all twenty available spots for running specialties had been filled at Sacred Heart.
"How can this be? Didn't they say that Sacred Heart's admission process is supposed to be transparent and fair? Our child is the second fastest sprinter among Beijing's primary school students. Which candidates did you accept? You have to make it public." Those parents, who endured a whole morning of waiting plus the afternoon sun, dreaming of their sons and daughters' success, couldn't accept such a result.
