Chapter 425: The Future of Left-behind Children
In the meeting room of the village committee, everyone is watching a small video.
At this time, the audience at the scene, not only Hu Feifei and his party, He Bingbing and other village committee leaders and Yu Zehai, but also all the subject classrooms of Yujiaao Village Primary School were also shouted to the scene by Yu Zehai.
The video is not long.
From a professional point of view, this video was shot in too rough way, and it was not edited and beautified. However, it is such a few brief environmental shots and character dialogue shots, but all the audience can see that their faces are full of sentimentality, and even old tears.
Desolate and dilapidated villages, one after another mud-walled and slate-walled houses, some of which have cracked or even collapsed, and the villagers, whether old people or children, are as thin as wood, yellow and thin...... That's not all, the most touching thing is a few short character dialogues.
On one side of the conversation, Mayor Hu Feifei was officially present at the scene, and on the other side, there was an old man who was about to die, and a boy in rags, like a beggar.
Hu Feifei asked, "Uncle Zhao, these children are seven or eight years old, right?"
"The little Niuniu is four years old, the big pillar is eight years old, and there are only five dolls left in the entire Zhaoshan Village. ”
The old man surnamed Zhao rubbed himself a bag of old dry tobacco, took out a match and lit it laboriously, took a puff of smoke, and then said slowly.
"They're all good babies. ”
The old man added: "They are really pitiful, they can't afford to go to school, and their parents have gone to work in big cities outside to make money, and they haven't heard from them for a year and a half, and they don't even give a penny to their families, and they don't even have a phone call or a letter from home...... Among them, some were thrown away by their families, and it can be said that these babies grew up eating 100 family meals. ”
"What if I don't go to school?"
The little secretary next to Hu Feifei interjected and asked.
In the countryside, it is not uncommon for children who grow up eating hundreds of meals. But as the old man said, throwing the child and not going to school was instantaneous.
"Look at what you asked, come on, come on, that pillar, come over for a moment. The old man took a deep breath of smoke and beckoned to the pillar that was playing there.
Zhuzi was the oldest and tallest boy in a group of children, and when he heard Zhao Laohan calling him, he ran over with his sleeve and snot in his nose.
Old Man Zhao nodded at the pillar and said, "Tell these city people loudly, how old are you, and what is your name?"
"Eight...... I'm eight years old! I'm called a pillar...... Zhao Dazhu!"
Obviously, this child rarely had contact with people outside when he was young, and suddenly faced Hu Feifei and his party, and when he faced the camera, his face was full of panic, and even his speech became stuttered in an instant.
"Zhao Dazhu, what do you want to do when you grow up?"
The little secretary interjected again.
"I'm grown up now, I'm a real man!"
Zhao Dazhu straightened his chest and said proudly: "I can herd sheep and cattle, I can raise chickens and feed pigs, I can also hunt pigweed, collect firewood, and I ...... I can also cook...... I ......"
"Girl, do you hear me clearly now?"
Zhao Laohan next to him sighed, and said helplessly: "If you want to ask him what he does when he grows up, he can't tell, anyway, it's just herding cattle and sheep, beating pigweed, feeding pigs, chopping firewood, etc., if you are lucky enough to get married and have children in the future, the child will also follow his routine, and the child's child will still be the same trick." And this is the fate of our rural children. ”
"The old man remembered that a great man once said that knowledge changes destiny. Therefore, the children must read, only by reading more and having knowledge, can we get rid of this endless cycle of 'strange circle', but you have also seen that we in Zhaoshan Village, our children, can't afford to read! We also want to change the life of the babies, and we also want to give the babies a hope and a future, but ......"
Speaking of which, Zhao Laohan was in tears, and the video came to an abrupt end!
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A few minutes of video, looped over and over again.
At this moment, in the conference room, many people burst into tears, and even some emotional female compatriots couldn't help but sobbed in a low voice......
After being silent for a long time, Yu Zehai finally couldn't help but ask, "Director Liu, is there no school in Zhaoshan Village?"
Director Liu's face was full of embarrassment when he heard this, and he smiled bitterly: "Mr. Yu doesn't know that Zhaoshan Village did have a school system before. However, after the whole village moved to Xiaoyang Village, the original Zhaoshan Village Primary School was also revoked and merged into Xiaoyang Village Primary School, and all subject teachers were also dispatched to Xiaoyang Village Primary School to continue teaching. ”
Today, some of the original Zhaoshan villagers are not used to the life of Xiaoyang Village and have returned to the old site of Zhaoshan Village, but the school system is gone, and there are no subject teachers. ”
"If these children are allowed to go to school in a neighboring village, not to mention the cost of tuition and miscellaneous fees, the 15-kilometer mountain road alone will stop the children's footsteps. If you are a teenager, this distance is naturally fine, but these are six or seven-year-old children, and they can't walk. ”
"So far?"
Yu Zehai's face was speechless, this Zhaoshan Village was too remote. However, it is indeed unrealistic to let a seven or eight-year-old child go over mountains and mountains and wade through mountains and rivers to a place fifteen miles away every day to study.
Yu Zehai's gaze swept over everyone's faces, and finally fell on the faces of Mayor Hu Feifei and Director Liu, and said in a deep voice: "Mayor Hu, Director Liu, presumably before you decide to come to Yujiaao Village to find me, you should have reached some kind of consensus, let's talk about your thoughts first." ”
Hearing Yu Zehai's words, Hu Feifei and Director Liu glanced at each other and said, "Mr. Yu, the hardware facilities, teaching resources and teaching environment of Yujiaao Village Primary School have far surpassed Panlong Town Primary School, and can even be comparable to or even surpass most schools in Shenshui City. Therefore, I have communicated with Director Liu before, can our Yujiaao Village Primary School accept a few left-behind children from Zhaoshan Village, so that these poor children can also have the same opportunity to receive education as those children in the big city?"
"That's it?"
Yu Zehai was slightly stunned, his gaze swept over the faces of the two, and said with a smile: "I'm scared to death the baby, the grass people originally thought that the town elder wanted me to accept those left-behind villagers." Just these left-behind children, I personally have no problem here. Needless to say, those children who have parents will not have a problem eliminating their previous household registration and settling in Yujiaao Village. ”
Speaking of this, Yu Zehai's gaze swept over the faces of He Bingbing, Zhou Xiaohui and others, and said, "What do you think?"
After listening to Yu Zehai's words, Hu Feifei and Director Liu were naturally full of excitement, if the other party raised their hands and voted all of them, then the purpose of their trip would have been achieved. It's just that He Bingbing and other village committee leaders, as well as Zhou Xiaohui and other subject teachers, discussed in a whisper.
Yu Zehai certainly set the tone, but there are still many details in it.
If the orphans are easy to say, take them over and train them, or even settle down in Yujiaao Village, this is easy to say, but what about those children who have parents and relatives?
Sure enough!
After a whispered discussion for a while, Mo Guiyu took the lead in standing up and said: "Principal Yu, as well as all the leaders here, just now we had a brief communication with several subject teachers, for us teachers, one sheep is to be released, two sheep are also to be released, we are eager to have more school-age children enrolled in classes, so as to expand the scale of our school, and improve the teaching level and popularity of our Yujiaao Village Primary School." ”
"However, there is a problem with this. ”
"If the left-behind children are orphans, we will take them over, or even settle in Yujiaao Village, and cultivate them in the future, which is a kind deed, and it also proves the sense of social responsibility of Principal Yu and the entire Yujiaao Village! After all, no one's biological parents have spoken, so what is the point of us doing this? What's the point? Is it for the pleasure of helping others? Is it to be fed up? Or is it something else?"
"Huh? That's true. ”
Yu Zehai's eyes lit up when he heard this, he smiled and nodded to Mo Guiyu, then turned to He Bingbing and said, "Lord He, what do you think?"
"Teacher Mo is right!"
He Bingbing glared at Yu Zehai and muttered: "If it is an orphan, we will accept it and settle down and cultivate it until it becomes a child, but if it is a child with close parents, we have no obligation and responsibility to help them raise children, which is illogical." Of course, for such left-behind children, we at Yujiaao Village Primary School do not want to refuse them out, but some principles cannot be broken. ”
"I know that the higher-level government and the leaders of the Office of Culture and Education are very concerned about the education of school-age children left behind in the villages under their jurisdiction, and we in Yujiaao Village Primary School have the ability and responsibility to help the leaders solve problems, but this still needs to be consulted, and specific and feasible details need to be studied. ”
"That's a bit of a surprise to us. ”
Hu Feifei and Director Liu glanced at each other, smiled apologetically, and said, "We were in a hurry to solve the problem before, ignoring the stakes and social impacts. First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Yu for his generosity, but the concerns mentioned by Mr. Mo and Mr. He are also very important! As Mr. He said, if the orphan is just an orphan, if the other person's parents are still alive, we have no responsibility or obligation to raise children for others. Do you have any good suggestions for this?
He Bingbing thought for a while, and said in a deep voice: "I have an immature idea, call the parents of those children to the scene, and the town's cultural and educational office, we will sign a tripartite agreement, and our Yujiaao Village Primary School will agree to accept these left-behind children, but there will be a fee." Even if it's only one dollar per semester, it's a matter of principle!"