Little Girl Stands Outside Classroom Window Every Day
From Tianya, October 14th 2008:
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 borrowed and gathered 500 RMB 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.”
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