The shortcoming of rural education is not how broken the house is. A good education is not a lot of buildings, the key is to look at people. If the house is broken, don't be afraid. As long as it is safe, don't hurt the children. The key is people. What person? Teachers, of course. The biggest shortcoming of rural education is the problem of teachers. Either older teachers, young substitute teachers without teacher qualification certificates, low academic level of teachers, or insufficient teachers in music, physical education, the United States and Britain, and so on, these problems exist in many schools.
In particular, the problem of older teachers is very prominent. I once talked to a rural primary school principal. He said that he was the youngest in the school, and he was 45 years old. Most teachers are over 50 years old. Most of these teachers are private teachers who have not retired. They have worked hard in the field of rural education all their lives, and continue to watch this field and be the last watcher.
2. The teaching facilities are outdated.
In recent years, educational facilities have developed in a balanced way. However, when visiting other places, the situation in some remote mountainous areas, rural areas and some schools is really not optimistic. On the one hand, it is the high-end atmosphere of urban schools, and on the other hand, it is a crumbling remote rural primary school. Both of them are in heaven and earth, as if they were two worlds. There are few rural primary schools, seven or eight thatched huts, and a dozen old, weak and sick people. Entering the library, the yellowed books in the 1960s still exist. Open the instrument room, a few broken globes, a few broken triangular rulers, a few yellow wall charts, and some old instruments with missing arms and broken legs piled up in the corner. The instruments used to sweep schools in the city into garbage pools are also much better than those.
3. financial resources are stretched.
Rural primary schools, especially remote primary schools, have fewer children, less funds, less foreign aid, school opening, utilities, repair costs, office materials, tables and chairs, and so on. After spending 36 hours, the school's financial resources are stretched, and many of them are unsustainable. I have to ask my superior for help. Building safety is a major event, cement purlins need to be replaced, poplar purlins need to be replaced, and necessary instruments in the instrument room are all large expenditures, which should be reported for help at different levels.
4. Students slip away quietly.
All the schools in the city are open, and children from the countryside also come to the city. Private schools have mushroomed, and digging deep into children will not stop. Children from rural areas went to cities for good schools. Follow the parents who work, and go to town. Rich people in rural areas have bought houses in the city, and so have children. Finally, the left-behind old private teachers led a group of left-behind children in rural areas, singing the song "Moss is as small as rice, but also learn peony" in the dilapidated school buildings in rural areas, and doing the educational dream of walking out of the mountains and jumping out of the agricultural gate on the barren rural land. Bless them! Reading is the best shortcut to change your destiny. Bless "Iceman"!