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Education in Lhasa gets help from around the country  |
From 19:30 to 21:00 Beijing time today, students from two high schools, one in Lhasa, and one in Beijing, will be communicating live on-line on CCTV's website. It'll be the first time that students in Tibet will chat with their colleagues in Beijing by way of the Internet. The school in Lhasa is called Beijing High School, because it was built by the Beijing Municipal Government. More than eighty percent of the teachers there come from around the country. Our reporter Liu Changying visited the school in Lhasa and filed this report about the students and one of their teachers.
Beijing High School is two kilometers away from the Potala Palace. Eighty percent of the 15 hundred students hereare Tibetan. These boys play soccer everyday, at 3,650 meters above sea level. This first-year student says his favorite football stars are David Beckham and Ronaldo.
The students' curriculum is just the same as that of any other senior high school around China, except for the Tibetan language class. Twenty-nine-year-old Sun Guilin teaches English. A native of Sichuan Province, he volunteered tocome work in Tibet six years agao. He made the decision without telling his parents.
SUN GUILIN, English Teacher of Beijing High School, Lhasa,said: "I am the youngest son in my family. My parents would never agree if I told them I was coming to Tibet to work. They believe the living conditions here are very harsh. I didn't dare to tell them."
Sun Guilin has a 14-month-old son. Born in Sichuan, the boy is in the care of his grandparents. Sun Guilin hasn't seen him for months. This time, Sun Guilin's father-in-law brought the boy to Tibet. Sun Guilin has decided not to be separated from his son any longer.
SUN GUILIN, English Teacher of Beijing High School, Lhasa,said: "Not everything is good, not everything is bad."
In coming to Tibet, Sun Guilin said, he has certainly given up some comforts in life, but has also gained a lot in terms of life experience. He said that although he wouldn't call himself a good teacher, he would try his best to fulfil his study, as the Tibetan people need good teachers.
Last year, 78 percent of the students from Beijing High School passed the National Entrance Exams and continued on to higher learning. Although difficult transportation has made Lhasa a remote place from the outside world, thanks to teachers like Sun Guilin, the young Tibetan generation receives an education just like that of other students around the country.
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