On July 12, videos of "Zhang Guimei went door to door 24 years ago to persuade out-of-school girls to return to school" and her "the moment the podium fell" attracted attention.
In 1997, Zhang Guimei went to Huaping County Nationalities Middle School after the death of her husband, responsible for the most important junior high school graduation class, where 96% of the students came from poor mountainous areas, in order not to let girls drop out of school, Zhang Guimei went door to door to persuade, one of the girls from "can't go to school" to "don't want to go to school" The grievance picture touched many netizens.
Two months before the middle school entrance examination that year, Zhang Guimei was also diagnosed with uterine cancer (later diagnosed with uterine fibroids), in order not to affect the students' mood of preparing for the exam, she chose to hide her condition until the end of the test. The video was turned over again, and Zhang Guimei's choice was heart-wrenching and also caused discussion.
In 1990, after graduating from Lijiang Municipal Institute of Education, Zhang Guimei was transferred with her husband to Dali Bai Autonomous Prefecture Xizhou No. 1 Middle School to teach. In late 1994, Zhang Guimei's husband died of cancer. Unable to bear the grief of losing her loved ones, Zhang Guimei herself asked to be transferred to the remote Huaping County Central School in Lijiang City in August 1996.
In 1997, due to her excellent teaching work, 40-year-old Zhang Guimei was transferred to Huaping County Nationalities Middle School, and was assigned to the third graduating class of junior high school with the heaviest task.
96% of the students here come from poor mountainous areas, Zhang Guimei stepped through the depths of huaping mountains, did not know how many miles of mountain roads, how many tears, door to door persuasion, to bring out-of-school girls back to school.
The picture of her hugging and crying with a girl who almost dropped out of school touched many netizens. Watching the girl change from "can't go to school" to "don't want to go to school", and still shed tears of grievance, Zhang Guimei took it into her arms.
"Come with me, sleep with me, eat there."
Seeing this scene, netizens have sighed, thanks to Teacher Zhang, how many girls she has dragged out of the mountain along the way have changed their fate.
There are also many netizens who share their experiences with their relatives, and the little girl in the video who tearfully says "I don't want to go to school" has been the epitome of how many difficult families there are.
In 1997, with the efforts of Zhang Guimei, the grades of the junior high school students of Huaping County Nationalities Middle School slowly improved, during which time she also faced a choice of "life and death".
According to the official microblog @CETV news of the China Education Television News Center reported on July 12 that in April 1997, more than two months before the middle school entrance examination, when the reporter was still filming, Zhang Guimei suddenly fell on the podium due to physical discomfort.
The students immediately rushed up to check on Teacher Zhang's situation, and a boy rushed to the hospital with her on his back, and the other students also followed suit.
After being hospitalized, Zhang Guimei got the doctor's diagnosis result, which was uterine cancer (later diagnosed with uterine fibroids), and she was stunned.
Zhang Guimei carefully considered it, she believes that her life and death are in these months, but if you change teachers before the middle school entrance examination, the students' emotional fluctuations will be very large, thinking about it, she decided to "open up", "dead is dead, live is alive, I will lock the medical records in the drawer."
Zhang Guimei endured the torment of illness, sprinted with the students to take the middle school entrance examination, and sent the students into the examination room one by one before she was admitted to the hospital. The doctor finally diagnosed that Zhang Guimei was not suffering from cancer, but uterine fibroids.
"He (the doctor) took out the tumor that weighed 4 pounds, and I removed the stitches in 6 days and I was discharged from the hospital and came back to [school]." Zhang Guimei recalled.
Although I have heard a lot of teacher Zhang's stories, after 24 years, netizens are still moved again when they see her choice when facing the disease.
However, some netizens have put forward different views on The choice of Teacher Zhang, they believe that although teaching and educating people is important, the health of teachers is also very important, and the spirit of Teacher Zhang Guimei is admirable, but I hope that more teachers will also pay attention to their health.
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