Half a chef, half a teacher: the "nanny" rural substitute teacher and his 18 students

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2019-09-02

reporter | Yang Yifan

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"Did your mathematics be taught by a physical education teacher?" This real situation occurred in Mayao Elementary School, Jieni Village, Pingyong Town, Rongjiang County, Rongjiang County, Guizhou Province.

This wooden structure of Miao Village is the location of Mayao Primary School in Jieni Village. The 28-year substitute teacher

all subjects in mathematics, Chinese, physical education, music, art, thought and society, and science are taught by a "chef". The "chef" is called Pan Pingzhong, 48 years old this year. In 1991, Pan Pingzhong was still working at an electronics factory in Quanzhou, Fujian. After learning that there was a shortage of teachers in the village, he returned to his hometown and became a substitute teacher. 28 years passed.

substitute teachers are temporary teachers who are not staffed in public schools. They usually sign a contract with the school once a year. Salary and treatment may be the most reluctant issue for substitute teachers. For a long time, although substitute teachers are doing the same job as staffing teachers, they actually act as temporary workers with no name and no distinction, and face dismissal at any time. They are concentrated in remote areas where public teachers are unwilling to go. In the region, the remuneration is only less than one-third of the teachers who are currently staffed. Regardless of the salary, social insurance, and various benefits such as job title evaluation, business training, etc., they cannot enjoy the same treatment as the officially staffed teachers.

Pan Pingzhong is one of more than 400,000 teachers in the country. Because he has been the only teacher in Jieni Village for many years, he was shortlisted for the 2019 Ma Yun Country Teacher Award this year.

Curriculum schedule spliced by paper strips.

Teacher Pan Pingzhong’s self-made teaching aids.

Teacher Pan Pingzhong walked into the classroom with a new textbook. This will be the last class of their teachers and students in this village. Many of

's brand new stationery come from social donations.

The "last lesson" of one-person school.

Miyao Primary School children’s parents mostly work outside, and Teacher Pan Pingzhong is the patriarch.

Teacher Pan Pingzhong taught students how to write Pinyin letters. is a chef and a teacher

Jieyou Village is a deeply impoverished village in Pingyong Town, Rongjiang County, and it is also a village listed under the national standard in 2018. There are 396 households with 1,524 people living in the four natural villages in the village, mainly Miao, Dong and Shui nationalities. Jieni Village is located in the hinterland of a mountainous area, with high mountains and steep slopes and long distances. 90% of young laborers go out to work. Due to lack of teachers, Pan Pingzhong’s state of being half a chef and half a teacher has been maintained for a long time at the Mayao Primary School in your village at

. I came to a teacher briefly in 2012, but I couldn't stand it after two years, and left to teach elsewhere. Since 2015, he has been teaching alone until now. The school conditions are difficult and there is no electronic class bell. The bells for get out of class are all hand-knobs. A bell like a "triangle iron" is actually a steel plate used to plow the ground. The class bell is slowly tapped 3 times, and then half a minute apart, 2 taps in a row; the get out of class bell is generally "Dangdangdang" slow tapping. The children listened to the ringtones like cipher signs-class, get out of class, flag raising, school. Most of the fellow villagers in

village go to work in the coastal areas of the Pearl River Delta. The salary is high and they earn 7,000 to 8,000 per month. And Pan Pingzhong stayed for this group of dolls and became the "left-behind teacher" of Jie Ni Village. When he first came to substitute classes, he was only paid 44 yuan a month. 28 years later, his current salary is only 2,000 yuan, which is far less than the official teacher in the Pingyong Town Central School. According to the education bureau of Rongjiang County, according to local regulations, the conditions for substitute teachers to "transfer from the public to the public" must be those who participated in the work before 1986 to be eligible. Pan Pingzhong has been on the job for 5 years. The

family began to oppose Pan Pingzhong’s substitution of lessons in the village elementary school. His wife complained: “I can’t count on my children’s tuition. I have two children. I started to teach in the first grade at this teaching site since I was a child. Later my children need money to go to school. , My wife went to work outside, and the child went to college, so she paid most of the tuition. She also persuaded me to go out to work with her, but I refused. I told her that I have this ideal, no matter what What she said, I won't change, and in the end she didn't say anything anymore." The

steel plate bell, accompanied by the classmates' work and rest time.

Pan Pingzhong made the last lunch for the students.

Pan Pingzhong alone buys the ingredients for nutritious meals and makes nutritious meals. The schools in the town all implement delivery, but this is a separate teaching site, far away from the town, so the ingredients are Pan Pingzhong riding to the town to buy

after the "last lesson", the children went home one after another, leaving Mr. Pan Pingzhong alone. .

Pan Pingzhong followed the child to his home.

In the last class, he gave each student a certificate to encourage students: after leaving Mayao Primary School, they should study hard and enter university in the future.

Mayyao Primary School's final photo of the teachers and students.

Late at night, Pan Pingzhong locked the school door and left the school alone. Mayao Primary School has since become history.

used chalk heads and old erasers. After merging the school, Pan Pingzhong took the students out of the mountain.

On September 1st this year, Pan Pingzhong walked into the "new" classroom with his books and started the first lesson of the new semester with his 18 students.

"The county education bureau has revoked the Mayao teaching site after a comprehensive consideration." Pan Pingzhong said that although he was reluctant to give up, the children deep in the mountains can go to schools with better teaching conditions. It has always been him and the villagers. The greatest wish. After being transferred to the central school to teach, Mr. Pan and another head teacher taught most of the first grade courses. The salary of substitute teachers has not changed from village elementary school to central elementary school, which is still more than 2,000 yuan, which is uniformly distributed by the county finance.

Now the central school provides free dormitories for teachers and staff, and Pan Pingzhong goes home once a week. It is 8 kilometers from the central school to Jie Ni Village, and it takes half an hour to get there by motorcycle. There will be rocks on the village road when it rains His mother is 71 years old this year, suffering from coronary heart disease, and her condition is not optimistic. The doctor said that there is no way to reverse the deterioration of the condition, so the mother can only maintain at home and get the injections by herself.

Pan Pingzhong's current degree is a junior college. After coming to the central school, the lowest degree of formal teachers here is a college, and he feels a lot of pressure. If there are opportunities for further promotion in the future, he hopes to be promoted to undergraduate. Only by constantly improving ourselves can we cope with the ever-changing environment. After

was transferred to Pingyong Town Central School to teach, Mr. Pan and another head teacher taught most of the first grade courses.

The children are in the new school, receive new textbooks, and start a new semester.

The first break in the new semester.

came to the central school and the children's food level has improved.

children who are one year old are waiting to do break exercises.

children after class.

Children waiting for lunch.