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Ages 6 - 15 climb 2,625 ft bamboo ladder to attend school - China
I couldn't fathom allowing my little ones to attempt this, how many have fallen '?' Yes, they attend a boarding school but making this hazardous trip ...every 2 weeks with 2 adult supervisors --- SHOCKING!Asia
China to replace treacherous 2,625-foot ladder to school with stairs
Published May 27, 2016 FoxNews.com
A series of dramatic photos showing kids putting their lives on the line by climbing a 2,625-foot bamboo ladder to and from school forced embarrassed officials in western China to propose a quick remedy on Friday: a set of stairs.
The 15 children ages 6-15 climb up the cliff side ladder to return home from the boarding school every two weeks. It's their only way to get home.
The hardship faced by residents in the village of Atuleer in Sichuan province underscores the vast gap in development between China's prosperous, modern east and parts of the remote inland west that remain mired in poverty. The 72 families who live there are members of the Yi minority group and subsist mainly by farming potatoes, walnuts and chili peppers.
A news release Friday from the Liangshan prefectural government that oversees the county said a solid set of steel stairs would be built as a stop-gap measure as officials considered a longer-term solution.
It quoted local residents as saying that in addition to the safety issue, the ladder-only access exposed villagers to exploitation because traders knew they would be unable to carry unsold produce back up the cliff.
"The most important issue at hand is to solve the transport issue. That will allow us to make larger-scale plans about opening up the economy and looking for opportunities in tourism," county Communist Party Secretary General Jikejingsong was quoted as saying in the news release.
The dramatic photos that appeared online earlier this week showed children wearing colorful backpacks climbing the 17 separate ladders accompanied by a pair of adults. The photos garnered even more attention after appearing on the front page of the English-language China Daily and other newspapers on Thursday.
A team of 50 officials from the Zhaojue county government's transport, education and environmental protection departments traveled to the area on Wednesday to assess safer alternatives, the Global Times reported Friday. It said the county was considering building a road to the village, although the cost would be exorbitant for such a poor region.
China pulled almost 700 million people out of poverty following the implementation of economic reforms in the early 1980s and says less than 10 percent of the population still suffers from extreme privation.
Most of China's poorest people are from long-marginalized minority groups or are farmers and herders living in the mountainous southwest, where rope bridges, aerial runways, canoes and cliff side ladders remain crucial to accessing the outside world.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/05/27/village-where-children-climb-cliffside-ladder-may-get-stairs.html
HOME SCHOOLING would fit nicely into that scenario and a satellite link would be cheaper then steps!
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Re: Ages 6 - 15 climb 2,625 ft bamboo ladder to attend school - China
I simply wouldn't send them and goodness knows why their mums let them.
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eddie wrote:I simply wouldn't send them and goodness knows why their mums let them.
'DADS' ...I would doubt that this 3rd world region is forward progressive enough to allow the ♀ gender to have a vote/say - do anything but cook/clean/make ♂ happy!
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Pffffff. I wouldn't last a minute there then.
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Well obesity is not going to be a problem among these children is it lol
Seriously that is ridiculous and for once where is the health and safety.
Seriously that is ridiculous and for once where is the health and safety.
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