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Article : http://www.chinasmack.com/stories/little-girl-stands-outside-classroom-window-every-day/
Yesterday, someone reported that a pupil at the Binhe Road Primary
School in Dengfeng City [in Henan province] has been standing
outside the classroom to listen to lessons for over 20 days,
suspecting that the teacher was punishing the student.
Yesterday afternoon at 2pm, a reporter rushed to Binhe Road Primary
School. After hearing the class bell ring, the students entered the
classroom one by one. However, under the classroom window for Class
1-3, a little girl carrying a backpack said goodbye to the
schoolmates who talk to her. She grabbed the steel bar of the
window with both hands and looked into the classroom uninterrupted.
After reporter’s inquiry, the little girl is called Guo Xiaoxiao
(name changed), from Wangzhuang Village nearby/of Dengfeng City,
and 6-years-old this year. She used to attend class in this room
but, for reasons unknown, she was kicked out of class. Not wanting
to leave the school and still wanting to study, she could only
stand under the window to listen to the lessons.
When Xiaoxiao’s father Guo Zhanchao arrived shortly later, seeing
his daughter standing outside the window listening to class, he was
unable to hold back his sobs. He told the reporter that he pedals
three-wheel carts (carrying goods) for a living. Originally, he
knew the Binhe Road School Headmaster Zhao. At the start of the
school year, unable to find a school that would admit his child, he
went through great efforts to borrow and gather together 500 RMB
(Singapore $100) and gave it to Headmaster Zhao. Mr Zhao
immediately agreed to admit Guo Xiaoxiao to the school, but later
Mr Zhao delayed and delayed until the afternoon of September 10th
when Mr Guo’s daughter was finally assigned to Class 1-3. But good
things do not last; on September 18th, the daughter who had been
attending school for only a few days said to her father while
crying that the teacher would no longer let her into class, and
that she could only stand outside the window to listen to lessons.
Soon after, Guo Zhanchao went almost daily to the school to see the
headmaster, but Headmaster Zhao only agreed to return the money and
did not plan on arranging Guo Xiaoxiao to attend school.
Guo Zhanchao said with tears, “I suffered my whole life because I
don’t have an education, and today can only depend on pedaling a
three-wheel cart to raise my family with difficulty. I just want my
daughter to learn some knowledge, so she can have a happy life
later.”
Mr Zhao, headmaster of Binhe Road Primary School, commented on the
incident saying that he is unfairly blamed. He said Guo Zhanchao
and him knew each other from before, that he did indeed receive the
500 RMB money that Guo forcefully left in his office, but he later
returned the money to Guo. Regarding letting Guo Xiaoxiao’s attend
school, he can only feel sorry for their family’s situation, but
could not arrange for her to attend school simply because they gave
him a gift. Later, he could not do anything against the exclusion
of Xiaoxiao. “That was handled in accordance to the relevant
regulations of the Department of Education. She is the child of a
peasant who migrated to the city for work, not a pupil of this
area.”
Not wanting to complain, but looking at my tutees and also many
other students complaining about how they rather not study...
Thanks for sharing anyway, Ultima.
