Free school shut down
By Alice Zhang |
December 25, 2010, Saturday
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EDUCATION authorities have ordered volunteers in Yunnan Province who taught a group of children belonging to migrant workers to stop the classes as they are running an unauthorized school, the People's Daily reported.
The students, mostly children whose parents are non-locals with busy work schedules who don't have time to take care of them, were left wandering on the streets of Kunming City, the provincial capital, after the classes stopped, the report said.
Before the December 7 ruling, the children were taught English by volunteers and were supervised while doing homework in a bookstore.
The teaching group's leader, Yan Duansu, a graduate from Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, told the newspaper she thought of setting up the school after she saw a child drown in a river bank. Yan said the accident happened because the child was unaccompanied by his parents, who were working.
Yan decided to do something about the situation in August 2009 and recruited around 20 other volunteers, most of whom were college mates. A bookstore owner agreed to provide his shop for the classes.
The volunteers said they wrote letters asking the education authorities to reverse the decision on December 15, but had yet to receive a response.
The students, mostly children whose parents are non-locals with busy work schedules who don't have time to take care of them, were left wandering on the streets of Kunming City, the provincial capital, after the classes stopped, the report said.
Before the December 7 ruling, the children were taught English by volunteers and were supervised while doing homework in a bookstore.
The teaching group's leader, Yan Duansu, a graduate from Yunnan University of Finance and Economics, told the newspaper she thought of setting up the school after she saw a child drown in a river bank. Yan said the accident happened because the child was unaccompanied by his parents, who were working.
Yan decided to do something about the situation in August 2009 and recruited around 20 other volunteers, most of whom were college mates. A bookstore owner agreed to provide his shop for the classes.
The volunteers said they wrote letters asking the education authorities to reverse the decision on December 15, but had yet to receive a response.
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