The class was full of little cadres in training: Class Monitor, Homework Monitor, Hygiene Monitor.
Instead of waiters, there are class monitors, who respond to raised hands.
Instead his life is dominated by the class monitor, Om Sokdae.
Even front-row seats near the blackboard or a post as class monitor are up for sale.
In 1940 she enrolled at the Hofmann School in New York to study painting, where she met the artist Robert De Niro, who was working as a class monitor.
The sorts of people who used to go into banking were pleasant, jolly chaps, the class monitor who gets on with everyone.
Party-appointed class monitors increasingly provide "guidance" to excessively opinionated classmates, he and others say, and e-mail traffic on university servers is closely scrutinized.
People who knew him described him as a thoughtful and thorough young man, an accomplished chess player and class monitor with a liking for athletics and a readiness to help out.
When she was sixteen and living in Nanjing, she had a charismatic Chinese teacher who took a liking to her. "He made me the class monitor," she said, and her classmates teased her about being the teacher's pet.
He told me that the villagers don't call him "party secretary," because he prefers to go by the title ban zhang, which means "squad leader" or "class monitor".
