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Girls from Ethnic Groups Get a Real Opportunity Thanks to Vision and Determination of School Professionals, Xu Lin Reports 20 | Wednesday, December 23, 2020 HONG KONG EDITION | CHINA DAILY YOUTH From left: Student Li Zhongmei’s family is from Zhema village, Guangnan county, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture, Yunnan province. The all girls dormitory at the No 1 Primary School in Guangnan county. The girls’ clean bunk beds. PHOTOS BY XU LIN / CHINA DAILY A different class of learning Girls from ethnic groups get a real opportunity thanks to vision and determination of school professionals, Xu Lin reports. stitch in time … as the say- Guangnan’s mountainous regions ing goes. But for girls from to be recruited to a school in the ethnic groups going to a town. school that nurtures their As the village had no cement road, talent,A the ability to stitch is just one her father walked with her on a of their achievements. Li Zhongmei, mountain path for about four hours 11, of the Zhuang ethnic group, is one to get there. They also brought two of the girls. She is learning embroi- bags of rice as provisions for the dery in class and that, among other semester, as required by the school. skills she is being taught, will help her Pan only went home once a thread together her future prospects. semester, and couldn’t contact her The fifth-grader is a boarder from parents while at school, because the two all-girl classes at No 1 Primary village had no electricity, let alone a School in Guangnan county, Wen- telephone. shan Zhuang and Miao autonomous She was worried about her new prefecture, Yunnan province. life, but it took her just a month to It takes her about two hours to adjust to it. travel to school from her home in She learned how to use a bucket the mountainous region, including attached to a rope to get water out of traveling along a 10-kilometer-long a well, as the school had no tap dirt road. Villagers send her by car water. and then she takes a bus. All of the girls were simply Starting from 1995, the primary dressed in the homemade clothes of school began to enroll an all-girl class their own ethnic groups. Most had drawn from local ethnic minorities, no pocket money. offering a two-year education from They once received clothes and fifth to sixth grade, exempt from all stationery donated by primary expenses, including tuition fees and school students in Shanghai as part board and lodging costs. of a public-service activity. It was the Outstanding pupils from impov- first time Pan had worn such clothes erished families in the county’s that kept her so warm in winter. She remote areas are selected. still keeps some as a memento of her After graduation, they will study school days. at the county’s best middle school, work as head teacher of the all-girl Upon arrival, many girls had poor and boost their chances of going to class. For 22 years she has devoted Mandarin skills because they spoke college. The graduates of the all-girl herself tirelessly to the success of the different languages of their eth- classes have gone on to become For female students the school. Now she only teaches nic groups. Pan recalls that, leading contributors in all walks of from poor families, Chinese language class. although they were straight-A stu- life, such as civil servants, doctors Over the decades, she has taught dents from their villages, in the early and teachers. the all-girl class more than 500 students. Many still days, they needed to study very hard “I like my new school life. The becomes a goal for call her “Mother Liao” long after to keep up with their county peers. environment and teaching methods them to study when their graduation. “We studied hard and followed have changed (at the new school), When she was head teacher of the the instructions of our teachers. but I don’t have much pressure they see pioneers like class, she was at school from 7 am to Even during weekends, we would regarding my study,” Zhongmei me and my 9 pm, calling it a day only after see- recite texts under the shade of a says. “I want to go to Tsinghua Uni- ing the boarding students go to bed. tree,” Pan says. versity. My dream is to be a teacher.” classmates.” She gave it everything and even had Life in town was so different and The new school provides her with to ask her parents to look after her her worldview was also shifting Pan Wenying, 37, a teacher of access to a library, and she loves to Chinese at the primary school, daughter, a teenager at the time. with each new revelation. Watching borrow books, especially those con- where she used to be a student “Students are sensible and smart, TV — which even then was still just taining fairy tales. and eager to learn,” she says. black-and-white — as well as eating Her parents, who had to curtail When a new semester started, she apples and mooncakes were all new their formal education at primary Science and Technology. required students to speak Manda- experiences. school level, work in Baise, Guangxi It encourages children from pov- rin all the time, rather than the lan- “The all-girl class has changed our Zhuang autonomous region. It’s erty-stricken counties to read aloud guage of their ethnic groups. destiny completely. All of my former about one hour on a high-speed short science articles to their moth- Besides their academic studies, as classmates have decent jobs and a train from their daughter’s school in ers, to not only foster closer parental they were away from home for the few are entrepreneurs,” says Pan. Guangnan. bonds, but also help popularize sci- first time in their lives, she had to Pan noticed that many of her Her father, Li Chuntian, 46, is both entific knowledge in rural areas. take care of the girls and teach them female peers in her village discon- delighted and proud that she was “The all-girl class program is a how to live on their own and handle tinued their studies before finishing admitted to the all-girl class. He says great example of getting rid of pov- chores, such as making beds and primary school, got married in their the village only has several female erty via education and plays an doing the laundry. teenage years and became house- college graduates, and he’s willing to important role in Guangnan’s pov- She accompanied them on walks wives and mothers. continue funding and supporting erty alleviation,” Zhang Xiulan, head around the town, to get familiar Many impoverished families her future studies, although, as he of Wenshan prefecture, said at the with the place and learn about traf- could only afford to pay for their also has two sons, he sometimes has opening ceremony of the all-girl fic rules. She also guided them on sons to study. Daughters would be to borrow money from relatives to classes in September. The national- women’s issues and hygiene, and married early to help their parents cover their tuition fees and other liv- level impoverished county shed that took them to see the doctor when get a dowry, which would be spent ing expenses. unwanted label in November. they fell ill. to help ease their family finances. This semester, the school recruit- She says that, compared with the “For female students from poor Empowering knowledge ed 100 students for two all-girl past, children today seem less able families, the all-girl class becomes a Another pupil, Hou Shengli, 12, is classes, the first time that it has to lead an independent life, and goal for them to study when they see also flourishing in the all-girl class. extended enrollment. some don’t even know how to do pioneers like me and my class- She visited the main town of Guang- A company in Jiangsu province household chores. Many are left- mates,” says the student-turned- nan county for the first time when has provided over 1.04 million yuan behind children and their grand- teacher, adding that parents, who she enrolled at the school this year ($159,000) to support the biennial parents would take on everything have seen some of them graduate — actually it’s the first place she program. This is to cover many items, themselves. But, after two or three from college and obtain good jobs, visited other than her village. It’s such as the girls’ living expenses and months at school, they master are more willing to send their chil- also the first time she has used a renovation fees for their dormitory. these basic life skills. dren to school. computer in class. Liao Nongying, a veteran teacher Pan believes that, in this era, the She and her two younger brothers there, recalls that, back in the 1990s, Paying it forward all-girl class is necessary, even only meet their parents once a year, the belief that men were superior to The first all-girl class, in 1995, only though people’s material living stan- because they’re working in Guang- women was not uncommon in the had 44 students. Among them was dards have been raised. In the digi- dong province. county’s more remote areas. Pan Wenying, 37, of the Yao ethnic tal age there are some lessons that “I’m suited to this new life as I’ve “Since the program has been run- group, who now teaches Chinese girls learn better when they are made new friends.
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