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Tyr-Ziu Saxnot
05-28-2016, 05:57 AM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/chinese-children-must-scale-2-094252781.html?nhp=1

These Chinese Children Must Scale a 2,600 Ft Cliff To Get To School
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Associated Press
May 27, 2016

(BEIJING) — A village in China’s mountainous west where schoolchildren must climb an 800-meter (2,625-foot)-high bamboo ladder secured to a sheer cliff face may get a set of steel stairs to improve safety.

The concerns arose after striking pictures were taken of the children climbing the ladder in Sichuan province’s Zhaojue county, in a scene that 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 ladder is the only access to the village of Atuleer to which the children return every two weeks from the school at which they board. 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 set of stairs would be built as a stop-gap measure while officials consider 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.

I am by no means a weak or cared guy but no way in hell would I climb that damn ladder!

Imagine risking your life to go to school by climbing a cliff on a bamboo ladder!

And we in his country bitch if our kids get a spanking at school or god forbid a teacher doesnt cater to the kids as if they are the masters..

Back in my days in school, we had a few fist fights, were spanked, then if in high school fighting we were expelled 5 days for first fight, ten days for a second fight and entire year if we had a third fight.. I never saw anybody do more than to in one year --not in high school.

It is sickening what the damn libs/dems have done to our schools....
And they've done that on purpose to get more dumb people to vote for them--its a strategy and it works like a charm...
obama elected twice proves it..- -Tyr

pete311
05-28-2016, 07:22 AM
Or you can consider us lucky that we live in a great nation where kids don't have to scale a vertical cliff ladder to get to school. but of course that doesn't fit your attack agenda....