Chapter 87: Kicked Out

In our village, there was no school. Parents had to ride bicycles around the mountain roads to send their children to school and return to pick them up in the evening.  Each round trip took nearly two hours, so the older kids rode their own bikes.  In the early days, the villagers had never attended school, spending their lives farming. Only since the country's reforms have children started to go to school.  Our village has nearly two hundred households, and building a primary school here would...