I can’t make it at 1:00 p.m. tomorrow. How about 1:45 instead? I’ve been called away to our headquarters in Tianjin. Can we reschedule to Friday morning at ten o’clock? You have to be able to recognize thousands of characters in order to read a Chinese newspaper. If we have no engine, the train can’t do anything, right? It’s the engine that has the power to move the train along the track. Well, that’s kind of what it is like for you and me. We have a lot of things we do every day. If he does, it can be inferred that he has learned that coming late to class is associated with punishment. Looks at the educational experience of poor, working class, and middle class students against the backdrop of complicated class stratification in a shifting global economy. It may be too late to start anything new and it is not accepted practice to allow students to leave the class early.