农村的学生在哪里？
Diane Geng | 把 2008年11月17号 粘贴在 个人影像, 乡村教育促进会 上面里 
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几星期前，我和几位RCEF的成员进行了一次实地考察。我们走访了永济另一个乡镇的一所学校，距离我们大约一小时的车程。他们的基础设施让我们印象深刻：体面的楼房、宽阔的走道，宽敞的活动空间。联想起拥挤不堪的关爱，我们不由心生一丝羡慕！但是，那所学校似乎欠缺了某些东西。许多宽敞的教室空荡无人，或者只有寥寥几个学生围坐在教室前排。每个年级只有一个班级，就算是初中也是如此。一个可以容纳近千人的校园现在一共只有一百多名学生。学生们到底去哪里了？ 校长向我们解释道，在过去的几年中，原本熙熙攘攘的学校渐渐萧条——因为大量的学生去城里上学。生源流失是现在中国农村基础教育的一个现实。公立乡村学校日渐衰退。即使公立学校完全免费，许多农民还是对农村的基础教育质量没有信心。当地人认识学校的校长和老师,他们对老师们知根知底，也了解他们是否尽责尽力。最优秀的教师会被调派到市里的学校，在那里薪水、资源和社会地位都比在农村高。而他们的学生，由成绩最好的学生带头，常常会跟着他们一起离开，结果就造成了农村生源大量流失。
我们认为，农村家庭不该认为只有在城市才有优质教育。良好的农村学校被空置而不加以充分利用是一个极大的浪费，很多农村教师也希望这个情形可以改善。因此，RCEF致力于帮助改善农村学校，使他们能够吸引来自农村地区的80％的中国学龄儿童，给他们提供良好的教育。
关爱学校是我们实践中一个很好的例子。它的创始人杨老师和孙老师，为当地儿童设想了一种与以往不同的教育。他们村庄的公立学校在学生人数减少到大约20名之后关闭了，杨先生和孙女士许诺要成立一所拥有良好管理和教师资源的寄宿学校，这个学校已经成功地吸引了200名学生。如今，在常驻的RCEF顾问支持下，关爱的课程与教学改革将更加明确.这不仅可以帮助关爱为当地居民提供良好的农村教育，而且也为周边学校的改革实践铺设道路。我们也希望得到您对RCEF和我们这一令人振奋的努力的支持！谢谢！
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Marco 说：
在 %I:%M%p 添加 2008年11月19号It seems that the empty schools are strong examples of not only the physical evidence of rural migration to cities, but also shows some of the reasons behind such decisions. There is no question that parents want what’s best for their children. So if they don’t feel that their kids are getting the opportunity they need they should be able to make the choice.I just wonder if it’s based on fact or on a kind of prejudice.
More money and resources are found in the cities so they attract the talent and knowledge from smaller areas. But the fact that enough students are transfering to the city that schools are being forced to close is quite amazing. Are the rural schools that bad or is it that parents think that they are? In any case, I’m sure such a phenomenon can cause harm to the rural communities future possibilities. What will become of such a place if the new generation is educated outside of the place that they live? How does it affect how they value their hometown, what they are taught, their decision to stay or leave?
RCEF, Guan Ai and other schools/organizations that are working to improve education in rural places seem to be first witnesses to some of the more harmful effects that migration may have on the communities they work in. Yet they are also on the frontlines of helping to preserve the communities that are increasingly being left behind. Rural schools have had and continue to have hardships but it doesn’t necessarily mean they should be abandoned. Because as important as education is to a community, if schools go then they take the next generation of students with them.