Daily Life in China                  

XingShan School

This is the junior and senior high school.  All of China has mandatory education up through age 16.  School children are not allowed to work.  They have a very full time job and that is to study; day; and night; and weekends.  Most schools have dormitories for rural students but many of the students at dormitories are local kids.  Dorm students are in their seats in the evening for usually three hours a night Monday through Friday and again on Sunday night.   Most students who live at home come back in the evening to study, no distractions or parents orders.  It's not uncommon for a parent to pull a teacher aside and whisper tell the teacher it's ok if you beat his kid if he's not studying hard.

The school is 5 or 6 stories high and has several wings in back.  It's quite nice and loaded with 80 shoehorned in a room.  This school is crowded but not for China where 80 is common.  I got to talk with some of the teachers here and they are qualified and serious. 

Compared to the places the people in this city came from this school is wonderful.  Education is very important in China.  If the parents were given a chance to move out of their village, be able to work and have their child go to a good school they would take it in a flash.  Moving here that happened.  There's work here as factories were part of the mix in the city build.  New home, new job, new school. 

These pictures are deceiving; the climb up to the school is pretty long, about like going up to the top of a 10 story building.

Note the Learn to Learn, that English.

Those are 6 story buildings at the foot of the school.