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Original title: Being a father and mother, and being a teacher This couple of rural teachers have been working for 20 years.
Author: Miao Zhiyong
They get up at 6 in the morning and start to get busy. In addition to normal teaching, they also have to take care of the life of the students full time. They cannot rest until the children fall asleep at night and sometimes they do not sleep through the night to care for sick students.
In Nanjiang County, Bazhong City, Sichuan Province, at the junction of Sichuan and Shaanxi, there is a Yuanding Mountain at an altitude of 1400 meters. Yuanding Mountain Elementary School is a well-known “home for abandoned children.” At the school there is a couple named Chen Guo. Zhang Rong’s teachers and “post-70” couples have voluntarily cared for the study and lives of nearly 1,000 abandoned children while teaching for 20 years. Weekends and holidays are no exception. The students call them “Fruit Daddy” and “Mother Zhang.” .
Thanks to his meticulous care, the growth of these abandoned children deep in the mountains is no longer monotonous and lonely, they live in the loving Wen Wei family and more than 60 students have become students at key universities across the country.
Return to hometown to run schools so children left behind have books to read
More than 20 years ago, after graduating from high school, Chen Guo was working as a substitute for a primary school in the urban area of Bazhong City and the salary was very low. To earn a living, he changed his career to start a business and open a restaurant, and his life was prosperous. In 1999, Chen Guo and his wife Zhang Rong returned to the village. It was time for students to study, but several school-age children were out of school to play at home. Upon questioning, it emerged that these children did not go to school because their parents worked outside the home and the school was far from home.
“After returning to the city, he was very worried about the children who were not going to school in his hometown. After repeatedly considering it, I supported him to return to the village to run the school,” Zhang Rong said. In the fall of 1999, a family school appeared in Yuanding Village. The original idea of the couple was to allow the students to study closely. Later, children came from other villages. They wanted to stay home, so they left two rooms for the students to live in for free. With the increasing number of boarding students, the living and teaching conditions of the family schools can no longer satisfy more students for study and accommodation. In 2005, Chen Guo and his wife transferred to Yuanding Village Public Elementary School as a substitute, and dozens of students from the school also transferred to the school.
After the arrival of Chen Guo and his wife, Yuanding Elementary School opened a new model of full-care boarding school. While the school is responsible for teaching tasks from kindergarten to third grade of primary school, it is also in charge of the complete management of care for abandoned children in the village and nearby villages.
The school became his “home”
“In fact, we are busiest on the weekends. In addition to getting up early in the morning to ensure the children’s meals and daily chores, we also need to bathe, do laundry, do extracurricular activities, and help the children and their parents. Talking on the phone … I’ve been busy late into the night, “Zhang Rong said while doing laundry.
Every weekend, you should wash all the students’ clothing and duvets to ensure there is more time for the children to teach during formal class. Zhang Rong smiled and said that he often performed such heavy physical tasks, that his body became stronger and stronger, and that his thin arms had also developed muscles.
“In fact, we have a total of 47 abandoned students here, from more than 10 nearby towns and villages. Their family backgrounds are not very good. Some are single-parent families. Every student has a sad story!” Master Chen Guo, who was cooking lunch, sighed and stopped talking, her dark circles started to moisten …
On weekends and holidays, Chen Guo and Zhang Rong will find ways to improve children’s food, so that these children whose parents are not around all the time can feel the warmth and love of home. Chen Guo said that the culinary skills he trained before opening a restaurant can now be used again.
“Due to the new corona epidemic this year during the Spring Festival, several parents of students working in Wuhan were unable to return. The children spent the year in our house.” Zhang Rong said that this year, Yuanding Primary School accepted 57 abandoned children, including some. Forty-seven of them live on campus, ranging in age from 2.5 to 16 years. With the exception of the Spring Festival, the children stayed at the school throughout the year and the school became their “home”.
Without pain there is no gain
Singing all the way through hardships The story of this pair of teachers caught the attention of the “Jack Ma Foundation”. In 2015, Chen Guo and Zhang Rong won the “Ma Yun Country Teacher Award”. In 2016, the Bazhong City Bureau of Education hired husband and wife as lecturers in the “Bazhong City Poor Village Primary School Teacher Training Course” and shared with the primary school teachers in the city. town village on the theme “The experience of village schools and the care of abandoned children”; In 2017, Bazhong City Family Style and Family Training Story Sharing Meeting, they shared their story of “the home of abandoned children”; In 2018, the two were recruited as guests of the “most beautiful family fact tour group” in Sichuan province. Provincial visit to share the story of “rooting rural education, caring for children left behind and helping alleviate poverty.” In the same year, Zhang Rong was named “National Excellent Child Companion Mother”, and represented 353 girl accompanying mothers across the country to inform and share in Beijing.
“Thank you for your attention and help from all walks of life. In fact, we only did what we wanted to do and we wanted to create the conditions for these poor mountain children to come out of the mountains and become useful talents in the country. “. Chen Guo and Zhang Rong declared their original intention to run the school.
Even though I’m tired, keep going
“To be honest, we have been tired after so many years of walking! I hope that more social forces care about the growth of the children left behind …” The “post 70” couple said his heart after of a long silence.
“However, when we are tired, the children (will fight) (for us) beat their backs, and when they are thirsty, they fight for us to drink. Every time all our fatigue is erased,” Chen Guo said. Some of the children who leave school have finished high school or university, and some have already entered work. “Every holiday, they come back to visit us and shout ‘Daddy Guo, Mommy Zhang’. This is when we are happiest and feel that all our efforts are worth it.”
“Someone once hired me to change careers with a high salary, but I politely turned them down because these kids can’t live without us and we don’t care about them,” Chen Guo said, from running a family school to becoming a teacher at Yuanding Village Elementary School, its income has not been high. Even so, they have not charged these fees for the care of the children left behind. Although they lived a poor life, their perseverance was not shaken.
