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The World’s Remotest School
By Assam on November 3, 2008
The World’s remotest school is situated in Gulu village, Sichuan province, China. The elementary school lies halfway up a mountain and climbing up from the base takes five hours. Take a look at the picture below , which shows students walking to the school. The school has only one teacher who has been there for 26 years, reports the West China City Daily.
Villagers say going to school is very dangerous for the children, since the path is only 1ft 4ins wide at the narrowest point and has a sheer drop on one side. Walking along the narrow, zigzagging path also makes the children feel dizzy, they say.
The school has five concrete buildings and a playground with a basketball hoop made of two wooden poles and a broken blackboard. However, the children are allowed to only pat the balls, as if they throw them and they go over the edge of the cliff, it would take half a day to retrieve them.
Shen Qijun, 45, the only teacher in the school, who teaches Chinese and Maths, said that only two students in 26 years have gone on to university because of the isolated area where the school is located.
via Ananova
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