(Baonghean.vn) - The intellectual level of the people is still limited, life is hungry all year round, so many students in the mountainous areas have not yet learned to read and write, so they have to follow their parents to the fields to find food. And at the beginning of the school year, when teachers in the lowlands have stabilized their teaching and students have returned to normal study routine, in the Western region of Nghe An, the "ferrymen" have to travel day and night, go to every stream, hill, knock on every door of every family to persuade their children to go to class.
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| On weekends, teachers from Tri Le 4 Primary School go up the steep mountain passes to the fields to encourage students to go to school. |
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| Tri Le 4 Primary School (Tri Le Commune, Que Phong District) is located more than 30km from the commune center, home to 100 Mong ethnic households. The new school year has been going on for nearly a month, but up to now, teachers are still continuing to mobilize students to go to school. In the photo: Teachers are mobilizing Mr. Xong Nhia Tu's family to bring their two children who are following them to the fields back to the village to go to school. |
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| Tri Le 4 Primary School has 41 teachers, all of whom are male. During the day, the teachers are not able to go to school, so at night, they divide into groups to visit families to encourage their children to go to class. |
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| There are days when teachers spend all night trying to convince families to let their children return to class. However, there are many cases where teachers do not receive a nod from parents. |
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| Up to this point, thanks to the efforts of the teachers, more than 90% of the students of Tri Le 4 Primary School have come to or returned to class. Mong teacher Xong Ba Thanh is one of the shining examples helping people realize the importance of learning, thereby contributing to changing awareness to send their children to school. |
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| Just like the teachers in Tri Le, the new school year begins and teachers at Xa Luong Secondary School, Xa Luong Commune, Tuong Duong District go looking for students who did not come to school when the summer ended. |
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| Among the villages in Xa Luong commune, the Khmu Na Be village has the highest number of students dropping out of school. Up to this point, there are still more than 60 students who have not come to class. So the teachers have to knock on each family's door to persuade them. |
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| Most of the students in Na Be dropped out of school to earn a living to help their families. Some students followed their relatives to China for many months but have not received any response, many others followed their relatives to Quang Ngai province to work in gold or followed their parents to the fields to plant corn and herd cows. In the photo: Teacher Tran Hung Thai - Principal of Xa Luong Secondary School encouraged and persuaded Xeo Van Xay, an 8th grade student, to return to school. |
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| It is difficult to mobilize mountainous students to go to school, and it is even more difficult to mobilize Dan Lai ethnic children in Mon Son commune (Con Cuong). |
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| Currently, the two Dan Lai villages in Bung and Co Phat, located in the core zone of Pu Mat National Park, still have 22 out of 81 children who have not yet gone to school. Teachers at Mon Son Secondary School said that almost every new school year, the teachers organize 6 or 7 mobilization sessions. |
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| Due to poverty and limited awareness, many Dan Lai parents do not want their children to go to school. Understanding this situation, teachers try every way to encourage, persuade, and even provide material support for the children to go to school. |
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| The hunger and poverty of the people are the invisible walls that separate them from the learning environment of the students. And the common image is the shaking of heads when teachers ask parents about their studies. |
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| However, many people saw the teachers' kindness and agreed to let their children return to class. |
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| Up to this point, the teachers of Mon Son Secondary School have convinced the families and brought 7/22 children back to school. And as soon as they received the nod from the families, the teachers immediately took the children back to school. |
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