In two years, Li Kexue will be 60 years old. He planned to recruit another class of students in two years and quit after graduation, but he hesitated for a while and overturned this "decision" — —
"If there are dolls to read, we still have to teach them. If we don’t teach them, they have to go to the central school. Some children who live far away have to walk for more than two hours. If the family is poor and can’t rent a house to accompany them, they may have to drop out of school, or try to work until they can’t walk."
1 primary school
This is a private village. Erlongshan Village is one of the remote villages in Jialing District, Nanchong. Erlongshan Primary School has 59 students from four nearby administrative villages, belonging to preschool, second grade, third grade, fourth grade and sixth grade. They are arranged in two classrooms to receive "compound teaching" according to their grades.
1 couple
President Li Kexue and his wife Guo Hong have been in this school for 27 years. They are not only teachers, but also "nannies", who not only teach the children every day, but also take care of the food and drink life of the boarders. For safety reasons, the couple sleep in the boys’ dormitory and the girls’ dormitory every night, watching the children rest.
1 call for help
"The child is too young. What should I do if I open the window and fall at night?" Li Kexue thinks it is necessary to add awnings and fences to the windows of students’ dormitories, and the leaking places in the kitchen also need to be repaired … … This requires more than 30,000 yuan, and he can’t come up with it, so he has to entrust a caring person to help raise money through the Internet.
One day at the end of April, Li Kexue wrote a letter for help, and entrusted a well-known public welfare person to help raise more than 30,000 yuan through the Internet, which was used to repair the roof of the school canteen, install protective fences and awnings for students’ dormitories, etc.
This private school named Erlongshan Primary School is located in Erlongshan, Qiaolong Township, Jialing District, Nanchong City, with an altitude of 450 meters. 59 students belong to preschool, grade two, grade three, grade four and grade six. Li Kexue, the headmaster of this school, is the 27th year that he and his wife have stayed here.
In two years, Li Kexue will be 60 years old. He told the Chengdu Business Daily reporter that he planned to recruit another class of students in two years and quit after graduation, but he hesitated for a while and overturned this "decision". "If there are dolls to read, they still have to teach. If we don’t teach, they have to go to the central school. Some children who live far away have to walk for more than two hours. If their families are poor and can’t rent a house to accompany them, they may have to drop out of school, or try to work until the day when they can’t walk.
Heart students/
Worried about the safety of students, I want to install fences for the dormitory.
Erlongshan Village, at the junction with Pengxi County of Suining City, is one of the remote villages in Jialing District of Nanchong. Starting from Qiaolong Township and driving along Panshan Highway for 3 kilometers, Erlongshan Primary School is located.
Five years ago, two caring enterprises donated four bungalows and a two-story teaching building for the school, but Li Kexue still didn’t find out the name of one of them. "They did a good deed and didn’t want to be named." In addition to the school building, the school’s existing tables and chairs, teaching AIDS, bunk beds in student dormitories, air conditioning … … All donated by caring people.
There is a playground between the teaching building and the bungalow used as canteen and library. The playground is small, one side is close to the mountain, and the other side is the road. Two movable basketball stands donated by caring people are placed at both ends of the playground. After class, a student ran to the playground with a basketball to prepare for shooting, but failed to shoot the basket several times, because he didn’t go to a formal physical education class and didn’t know the correct posture of shooting. Due to the limited venue, some students ran to the road to fight, which made Li Kexue and his wife Guo Hong very worried. The couple stood on the road and were wary of whether there were cars approaching at both ends of the road. "Although there were few cars, I still didn’t dare to be careless."
The decision to ask for help began on a rainy night not long ago. That night, a boarder forgot to close the window, and the rain drifted into the window with the wind, wetting the quilt a lot. "The child is too young. What if I open the window at night and fall?" We can’t afford it. " For safety reasons, Li Kexue and his wife sleep in the boys’ dormitory and the girls’ dormitory respectively every night, watching the children rest.
This incident made Li Kexue feel that it was necessary to install awnings and fences on the windows of student dormitories, and the leaking places on the kitchen roof also needed to be repaired … … Li Kexue had someone calculate that the cost of some urgent problems in the school was about 30,000 yuan, but he couldn’t come up with the money. Finally, a caring person familiar with Li Kexue suggested that he donate money through the Internet to solve the current predicament. He then handwritten three pages of basic information about the school and entrusted caring people to help him raise money through the Internet. As of the press release of Chengdu Business Daily, the fundraising amount of the project has reached more than 4,400 yuan.
Li Science said that in recent years, the school has also received the support of relevant government departments, and will give the school a certain subsidy every year to support the school’s development. However, the subsidy includes the usual daily expenses of the school, such as water and electricity, and the remaining money is equivalent to the salary of himself and his wife.
The original intention of running a school/To let the children study nearby, the couple stayed in the village for 27 years.
Erlongshan Primary School has 59 students from four nearby administrative villages, belonging to preschool, grade two, grade three, grade four and grade six, who are arranged in two classrooms to receive "compound teaching" according to their grades.
"Now is the time when the number of people is the least, and there are more than 100 dolls at the most." Li Kexue still remembers that on September 1, 1991, he enrolled students in the first year of his school, and received 28 children. After that, it increased year by year, but the number of students began to decrease gradually in recent years. "If the family’s economic conditions are better, take the children to the town to rent a house to accompany them or take them to the city to study, leaving behind the poor family economic conditions." Li Science said that 48 of the 59 students are left-behind children and 24 are single-parent families.
"In our remote place, only reading is the way out." Li Kexue had hoped that studying would change his fate. In 1978, the college entrance examination resumed, and Li Kexue signed up for the college entrance examination, and finally missed the list by 4 points, and the next year by 5 points. The economic conditions at home at that time did not allow him to continue studying again. Li Kexue returned to the village to become a barefoot doctor, and later married his wife Guo Hong, who was also a high school graduate.
Although the college entrance examination failed, the title of "high school student" made Li Science a "cultural person" in the eyes of villagers. At that time, there were two public teachers in the primary school in the village. If they were delayed, Li Kexue and his wife went to help substitute. "At that time, children in the village had difficulty in studying, there were not enough classrooms and teachers. The village only opened two grades, so many children missed the school age." Some villagers suggested that Li Kexue could set up a school in the village to solve the problem of children’s schooling.
In 1991, Li Kexue rented a room of a farmer next to the village as a classroom. On September 1, he officially enrolled students, and he and his wife Guo Hong served as teachers. Later, as students of different ages entered the school in turn, Li Kexue adopted a double teaching method. Often, students of several grades sat in a classroom. When giving classes to senior students, junior students studied by themselves, and vice versa.
When school started in the autumn of 1999, the last public teacher in the village left, leaving only the school run by Li Kexue and his wife Guo Hong in Erlongshan Village, and the school became a veritable "couple primary school".
Future plan/"strive to work until I can’t walk"
At 1 pm on May 3, when the Chengdu Business Daily reporter arrived at Erlongshan Primary School, the students had already had lunch and several students were cleaning the dishes. In the eyes of the villagers, Li Kexue and his wife Guo Hong are both teachers and "nannies" for the children. Every morning at 5: 30, Li Kexue and his wife get up and cook breakfast for 33 boarders. The students get up at 6: 10, study by themselves in the morning and eat at 7: 00 on time. On every day in Qiaolong Township, Li Kexue will take advantage of the students’ early self-study time and spend 8 yuan money to get to the town to purchase vegetables and meat for the next few days. In the fourth class in the morning, Li Kexue or his wife must take out one person to prepare lunch for the students. "We should fry one or two dishes and cook a soup at noon.".
At 3 pm, it is the first class time in the afternoon. This class is a math class for the sixth grade. Li Kexue first asked nine fourth-grade students sitting in the middle of the classroom to do their homework, and then began to teach another 20 sixth-grade students. In another classroom separated by a wall, his wife, Guo Hong, is giving Chinese lessons to seven second-grade students, while preschool and third-grade children are sitting in the classroom, immersed in self-study. Students seem to have become accustomed to this model. "Sometimes we forget what we have learned before, and when the teacher tells them, we can also review it by the way."
Li Science said that although it is a rural school, he has opened all the courses required by the education department, but "neither of us (our wives) can do English classes", and Li Kexue felt a little sorry for this. To this end, a local non-profit organization in Nanchong will organize college students who are teaching to go to the school to tutor English for the students on weekends. What makes the couple feel gratified is that "the English scores of students are not much different from those of students in the central school".
In two years, Li Kexue will be 60 years old, and his son has advised him more than once not to stick to it. "It is better to do this than to work.". Li Kexue told the Chengdu Business Daily reporter that he planned to recruit another class of students in two years and quit after graduation. However, he hesitated for a while and overturned this "decision". "If there are dolls to read, we still have to teach. If we don’t teach, they have to go to the central school. Some children who live far away have to walk for more than two hours. If their families are poor and can’t rent a house to accompany them, they may have to drop out of school, or try to work until the day when they can’t walk.
Chengdu Business Daily reporter Wang Chao’s photo report