09-04-2012, 02:43 PM
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... and Yet We Still are Very Spoiled in the USA
In parts of China, BYO school supplies include desks - Behind The Wall
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BEIJING – While millions of students all over the world return to school this month, youngsters in one part of China were expected to bring not just pencils and notebooks, but their own desks and chairs when school opened.
As students all over China headed back to class on Monday, the grandmother of 3-year-old Wang Ziqi was spotted carrying a desk in Shunhe, Hubei Province, for the boy’s first day, while his older sister carried a chair for him.
Wang’s case is hardly unique. In Shunhe, there are more than 5,000 students in the town’s primary and middle schools, but the government only supplied 2,000 desks for them, leaving 3,000 children to bring their own from home.
In the town of modest means, for some that required grabbing whatever they could so that they have something to write on, even a coffee table
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