source: West China metropolis newspaper Author: Zhu Jianguo
the weather is getting cold and the child loves Li Xuemei, "teacher, hold me!"
1 5 pm, 4 pm, the sun is still shining on the mountain. Guangyuan city of Maisu Village stone village primary school, circling the winding country path, several vicissitudes of old persimmons hanging sporadically with ripe red persimmons, the children from school pack up good books, rubbing and rubbing the frozen red hands, facing the mouth big mouth, high a short one station at the school gate, waiting for grandparents and grandparents The coming. At this time, the head teacher and headmaster Li Xuemei always stood aside and counted the children one by one. Then he said, "there are 36 of them."
the last village small
small iron hammer ringing the hope of the bell
recently, Huaxi metropolis newspaper reporter traveled through the long journey to the Guangyuan city of Dupan District, Mai Liu Township, stone village primary school. The depths of the mountains in the cold winter season are particularly desolate and silent. Because of the higher elevation, the leaves of several large trees at the front of the stone village primary school have all fallen.
to this, the village branch Liu Detai told reporters that the small stone village is the last and only the only rural primary school, there are preschool and first grade, only a substitute teacher. The school has 36 students, the youngest 3 years old, the oldest 7 years old. They have a common identity - "stay at home children".
a flagpole stands on the playground, and the five star red flag flying in the wind can be seen far away. "The curved moon, the little boat, the tip of the small boat..." The children's loud reading broke the silence in the mountains. Follow the sound, at the end of a row of small cottage, a red painted wooden door half hidden, this is the classroom.
there are two classes in the classroom, one is the middle stove, the other is the first grade, the other is the kindergarten class, with 18 students. There is a blackboard in front and back of the classroom. Students in two classes sit on their backs and face each other's own blackboards. Li Xuemei, who was wearing peach and red cotton padded jacket, was in front of the platform to teach the children of the children's class in the front, and then to the back of the rostrum to teach the first grade students to read the text. Every class, she will run a dozen times back and forth. And this life, she has been stuck for 4 years.
under the windowsill of the classroom, there is an iron hammer and a half rusty tube. After class, Liu Qian, a first year student, struck the steel pipe with a small hammer, and the bells of hope began to ripple across the school.
last year, the village was ready to take the stone village to a small village, and all the school-age children here were sent to the Township Center School, but the parents were collectively retained, hoping to keep the school and let the children go to school near the school. Li Xuemei said that the children within 5 kilometers of the road are here to read, the farthest distance from the single side of the school to cross a few beams, walk more than two hours, the nearest also more than half an hour.
the last teacher,
36 children's 90s "mother"
two months ago, two months ago, just finished the month, I can't wait to go back to the village for children to class, "the 36 children are not me, I am worried about them more than when I worried about my children."
from the initial literacy class to the township public school in 70s of the last century, and now the village village, Shi Pai Village Primary School has existed for more than half a century. Li Xuemei said that the best source of birth was in the late 80s of the last century to the beginning of 90s. "In addition to primary school and junior high school, there were more than 200 students at most, and more than 10 teachers." Later, the young people in the village went out to work, leaving only the old and the children. In the past, the small village of stone card village is gradually depressed, but the sound and vitality of the children's reading and returning from school in the afternoon is still a little feeling of vigor and vitality. "
" 4 years ago, I returned home from high school, when the village was missing a teacher, and the village branch went to the door and asked me to leave a contemporary teacher. " Li Xuemei said slowly as he fed the baby. Her voice was very light and her face was always smiling. "Because I am the only one, so the head teacher and headmaster are me." Walking in the village, whoever sees Li Xuemei will call her "Miss Li" kindly. When
just substituted for teaching, Li Xuemei was only seventeen and eight years old. "I just don't get used to it. I feel like a big boy, but I have to manage dozens of dolls every day, almost every day, and my voice is husky. How can I be kept by the children? " Li Xuemei sighed and said that young people like her chose to go out to work. At the end of the year, they came home with twenty thousand or thirty thousand of their savings. A friend of her class went to Chengdu to do marketing. In just 4 years, she bought a car and settled in town, and she only got 1000 yuan a month. Li Xuemei's husband has repeatedly advised, even threatened by "divorce", hoping that the couple could work together in the city, but she was silent.
together with Li Xuemei, there was a 60 year old teacher who retired a year ago. "Actually, I've been to a young teacher before, but I can't wait long, and some students have gone even when their names are not recognized." Li Xuemei said that the conditions in the mountains were not good enough, and those college students were not surprised. The reason why she stayed was mainly because of the locals. "If I have gone, I don't know which one would like to teach these dolls." The woman born in 1992 is a bit confused and a little worried.