In the late autumn of Bijie, the weather is getting colder, but the "fans" who are waiting for Yang Ming do not feel the cold.
The vehicle slowly came, teacher Yang Ming came out, smiling, his back was very straight, the scene was boiling, he had just won the eighth national moral model nomination award, and he was currently a teacher at the Fairview School in Jinxiu Street, Qianxi County.
In the dim light, Teacher Yang's silver-white sideburns and straight back seemed to be silently telling his story, making people wet their eyes.
Give up good work and take root in the mountains to support teaching
When the reporter talked with Yang Ming, he learned that he was from Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and his home was particularly close to Xiaoshan Airport, and the reporter could not help but sigh: "Teacher Yang is amazing!" The conditions in Xiaoshan are more convenient than in Qianxi, but you have been here for 12 years. Yang Ming smiled shyly and said, "The children here need me even more." ”
In 2009, Yang Ming graduated from The Yucai College of Southwest University (now Chongqing College of Humanities and Science and Technology) majoring in Chinese as a Foreign Language, and worked in Hangzhou and Dubai, with a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan. At that time, he could have become a city white-collar worker, working in developed areas with a high salary, but because of a news about volunteer teaching, he boarded the train in Laiqian before the end of the probationary period of the work, and came to the Brickyard Primary School in Jinbi Town, Qianxi County, Bijie City, with the love teaching team, to start a volunteer teaching career. At that time, there was no road through the village, and the only way to travel was to walk or ride a motorcycle, and the conditions for eating and living were very difficult, and it was particularly cold in the winter.
In the year of his first visit to volunteer education, it was a drought in the southwest, in order to overcome the difficulty of drinking water, he even went to a place where the locals rarely dared to go to fetch water, wearing liberation shoes on his feet, and embarked on a muddy home visit road, this year, his skin was black, people were thin, and his hair was white, but he faced everything with smile and courage, like a trickle that soaked the hearts of children.
In 2010, the volunteer teaching period expired, the volunteer teaching team members left one after another, the children could not bear to leave with tears in their eyes, and the parents thought that this lovely and respectable teacher would also leave. A child said: "I really want Teacher Yang to teach us until junior high school, high school, college..." Looking at the children whose eyes were full of curiosity, he made a decision that people could not understand at the time - to participate in the teacher special post program and continue his dream of volunteer teaching.
Yang Ming's major at university was Chinese as a foreign language, and he had every opportunity to choose to be an English teacher near the city, but he said: "Where you need a teacher, go where you go!" So he chose a rural teaching point that was more remote than the Brickyard Primary School, Jingshan Primary School. Here, Yang Ming used his thin shoulders to carry two burdens: one is the burden of work, and the other is the burden of life. In the face of weak teachers and heavy pressure on teaching work, he bravely shouldered heavy responsibilities, the three-foot podium was the stage for him to illuminate the road of study in Shanliwa, in the face of the harsh living environment, he carried vegetables up the mountain, carried water to cook, and visited his home in his spare time... He had many opportunities to leave, but for the sake of his children, he insisted on staying.
The hardest places the most needed teachers
When I was teaching at Jingshan Elementary School, I heard before I came here that the student progression rate here was low. He felt that the best way to retain students was to lead by example, study with the children every day, and the efforts were not in vain, and the classmates would study quietly with him.
In 2012, he was admitted to a publicly-funded graduate school while teaching, but the children heard the news that the teacher was leaving from nowhere, and "June 1" Children's Day sang "Friends" for him, and also changed the lyrics, "A word, a lifetime, don't go, stay" Watching the children sobbing, Yang Ming's eyes were red, and he knew that he could not go again. "Since you can't go, where can you not learn?" The tears of these children, heavier than anything else, stay, gain more than they lose. In this way, Yang Ming stayed here for year after year, taking classes every day, carrying water, climbing mountains and buying vegetables, which became the "compulsory courses" of his life.
In March 2017, Xinhe Kindergarten, located in a deeply impoverished village, was put into use. Due to poor road conditions and long distance from the town, Xinhe Kindergarten urgently needs teachers. "To the hardest places, to the places where teachers are most needed." Yang Ming took the initiative to apply to teach in the kindergarten, and one person insisted on one kindergarten and became the "child king". In the eyes of others, he is simply a fool, while working in the kindergarten, he continues to be the hero behind the scenes, in April 2018, under his travels, Gaoqiao Primary School in Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou City, and Shajing Primary School in Guanyindong Town, Qianxi County, formed a friendly school, injecting new vitality into the education of Shajing Primary School.
Help poverty alleviation No regrets youth Shaohua
At first sight of Yang Ming, an unknown storm jacket, a pair of Hongxing Erke shoes, rough hands, elegant appearance, sideburns have white hair, but his back ridge has always been upright, which may be a spirit that has been supporting.
From 2009 to Qianxi Volunteer Teaching, he has dedicated his youth to the cause of education in mountainous areas for 12 years. Over the years, the villagers are happy, in the season of tearing buds, the empty nest old people in the village often have more hands; when spring ploughing, there will be more hoes in the soil; the hair is long, it is inconvenient to go to the street, and the family will come to a free "barber"; the children are the happiest, what is the difference between the children, Yang Ming always pays attention to the heart, the children read the extracurricular books, put on the new school uniform, put on the new shoes, the school changed into a new desk...
Nearly a thousand home visits, countless investigations, Yang Ming's footprints throughout the 20 administrative villages of Guanyindong Town, he used his feet to walk out of a "Long March Road" of education, squeezed out nearly 100,000 yuan from the meager wages, helped more than 100 poor students, matched and helped more than 20 poor households, contacted public welfare organizations and enterprises to help the cumulative materials of more than 2 million yuan, benefiting nearly 30 weak schools in the county.
Under the contact of Yang Ming, nearly 30 rural weak primary schools in Qianxi County have set up love book houses, love book corners, Hangzhou schools and Qianxi school students' book drifting, the cumulative number of extracurricular reading materials increased by more than 100,000, contacted public welfare organizations, improved sports facilities and equipment, and helped solve the replacement of old desks and chairs in 5 weak rural schools.
In order to strengthen educational exchanges and promote educational balance, the inter-school pairing of Hangzhou Gaoqiao Primary School and Shajing Primary School in Guanyindong Town was promoted. In order to bring rural children closer to the times, under his guidance, in June 2018, Huangni Primary School set up a love computer room, which insisted on micro-wishes for more than 10 consecutive years and helped poor students realize micro-wishes more than 3,000 times.
On the morning of November 5, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, cordially met with the winners of the 8th National Moral Model and Nomination Award at the Great Hall of the People, among which Yang Ming had the honor of being listed. When asked how he felt when he returned from the Great Hall of the People, he was not good at words and said excitedly: "I am very excited inside!" This honor is both an encouragement and a flogging, and in the future, we will cherish the honor even more, play an exemplary role, pass on this positive energy, continue to undertake the mission of educating people for the party and the country, strive to be a good teacher of the 'four haves', and lead students to buckle the first button of life. ”
At the end of the interview, Yang Ming said that he would continue to exert his youth sweat in this land to help more children realize their dreams and let their dreams blossom and bear fruit.
Proofreader: Hou Chao Editor: Mei Yiming