Sun Yuanjin, a 45-year-old geography teacher at a middle school in Jinan, Shandong Province, not only teaches and educates people, but also brings his mother, who is over 70 years old, to work every day.
Because his mother was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and had no one to take care of him, Sun Yuanjin began to take his mother to work after discussing with the school in order to take better care of his mother.
There is an extra "cleaning grandma" on campus
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Since April this year, on the campus of the University Town Experimental School of Shandong Normal University, she has often seen a working figure, sometimes sweeping the floor, sometimes cleaning the windows and wiping the table, and she is always idle. This person who seems to be a cleaner is actually Han Shufang, the mother of school teacher Sun Yuanjin.
Sun Yuanjin is a geography teacher in the first year of junior high school, and also serves as the homeroom teacher of the sixth class of the seventh grade. After graduating from university, he began to stand on the three-foot podium and became a teacher who taught and educated people, and it has been 22 years now.
During class, his son Sun Yuanjin gave a lecture in the classroom, and his mother Han Shufang wiped the bookcase and windowsill in the corridor; After class, the son was in the office preparing for class and grading homework, and his mother sat silently behind him and watched him. The scene of mother and son being together is particularly warm. However, behind it is a sad reality that has to be faced.
Sun Yuanjin, a teacher at the University Town Experimental School of Shandong Normal University: At the end of 2020, I often forgot to turn off the water, electricity and gas, and sometimes the faucet was turned on for a day, and the most dangerous time last time was that the steamed buns were all distilled, and then the house was full of smoke. I took her for a check-up, and the initial judgment was cerebellar atrophy. In October 2023, I took her for another follow-up, because I felt that taking medicine was not very careful, and the doctor told me that it seemed to be developing a little fast, and it was accompanied by a little autism.
Although the old man said that he wanted to cook for the child, in fact, since more than three years ago, the family no longer let her go to the kitchen.
Sun Yuanjin, teacher at the University Town Experimental School of Shandong Normal University: The pot and pot in my house have been burned by her several times, so I don't dare to let her cook now.
At 12 noon, Sun Yuanjin took his mother to the school cafeteria for dinner, and the school arranged fixed seats for them.
Sun Yuanjin is the only son in the family, his father died early, his mother raised him with hard work, and after his mother suffered from Alzheimer's disease, Sun Yuanjin followed wherever he went.
Sun Yuanjin, a teacher at the University Town Experimental School of Shandong Normal University: I also considered several rehabilitation centers, the kind of care for the elderly, but I think that going there may not be conducive to her recovery from this disease, if she is still not familiar with the surrounding environment, it may aggravate her disease or accelerate her condition. It was too devastating during that time, she felt that she was old and useless, and in order not to cause us trouble, I had to go back to my hometown, and I had to go out almost every day, and I really couldn't help it.
A dilemma
The school extended a helping hand to help filial piety
If you concentrate on taking care of your mother at home, you may not be able to continue teaching in school. If you go to work normally, what should you do without your mother? Sun Yuanjin told the school about his dilemma with trepidation.
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Principal Ma Yong brought the problem to the school office meeting, and everyone reached an agreement. Sun Yuanjin did not delay his normal work and brought his mother to school to work. Knowing that Sun Yuanjin's mother, Han Shufang, was hardworking and capable, she had been idle, and the school also arranged for his mother to be responsible for part of the sanitation of the corridor on the third floor within her ability.
Ma Yong, Principal of the University Town Experimental School of Shandong Normal University: I instructed Mr. Sun to pay close attention to the teachers in the office, and also found a few "spiritual angels" (psychological committee members) in Mr. Sun's class, so that they could also pay close attention to it, and then arranged for the security guards at the school gate to pay close attention to the entry and exit of Mr. Sun's mother, and the school cadres also took turns to take a look from afar, so they made a lot of careful preliminary preparations.
In this way, Sun Yuanjin began to bring his mother to school, but at the beginning, his mother was not very suitable for life here.
Sun Yuanjin, Teacher of University Town Experimental School of Shandong Normal University: When I first came to school, I still liked to go to the kind of place where there was no one. The friendliness shown by our classmates and teachers, a greeting, a call for grandma, my colleague chatting with her, I feel better and better, it is different from before, and now I especially like to come to school.
"Education is not just in the classroom"
From the cramped and nervous feeling of entering the campus at the beginning, to daring to say a few words to the children, Sun Yuanjin's mother is slowly adapting to school life. Sun Yuanjin's situation that was once on the verge of collapse has also improved, and family and work have been temporarily balanced. By chance, a teacher from the school's propaganda center posted the story of the mother and son to the school's official account.
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Wu Ruohan, a music teacher at the school, who is both a colleague of Ms. Sun and the editor of the school's official account, said that after the article was published, the number of views that day exceeded her imagination.
Wu Ruohan, a teacher at the University Town Experimental School of Shandong Normal University: This should be the one with the most views and clicks among the official accounts issued by our school in the past few years.
Sun Yuanjin's life with his mother has changed, and with the increase in attention, everyone found that the students are also quietly changing.
Jia Li, Assistant Principal of University Town Experimental School of Shandong Normal University: When she walked around from the third floor, she couldn't find Teacher Sun's office, but our children were very good, no matter who she asked, as long as she knew that Teacher Sun was a junior high school teacher, she would bring her grandmother to this office. It is she herself standing here that brings such an opportunity for our children to help the elderly and respect their relatives.
In this school, every Friday afternoon is the day of the parent-teacher conference, and the parents report that they also see the changes in their children.
- Parent: The most direct thing is that if there is chicken legs, Teacher Sun will give the chicken legs to his mother to eat, and then she (the child) will also have this behavior, that is, give me the delicious food.
- Parent: He (the child) admires Mr. Sun very much, and feels that Mr. Sun has really set an example for him in honoring his mother.
- Parent: She will help her mother with some work, and she will say that when your mother is old and can't move, I will also take you with me.
Sun Yuanjin did not expect that the matter of taking his mother to work not only attracted widespread attention, but also hoped to help him in different ways after the local civil affairs, disabled persons' federation, social security and other departments learned about it.
Qu Yanjing, deputy director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Changqing District, Jinan: After the assessment, if it meets the policies of civil affairs and meets the conditions, we can use the policies. At the same time, it is very good to take care of this part of the day in our community, there is no problem with eating, short-term daycare, and you can go home to rest at night.
Sun Yuanjin, Teacher of University Town Experimental School of Shandong Normal University: I really didn't expect that my mother's affairs and I would receive such a high degree of attention, and I would like to thank the school for being so understanding and tolerant of me, and I would like to thank all walks of life for their care and help to me. In the future, I will do my best to give back to the society.
Teach by example
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In the early years, when Sun Yuanjin was preparing for the high school entrance examination, his father died in a car accident, and his mother relied on pancakes for him to study. Now, the mother is sick and does not remember anyone else, but only her son. As the only son in the family, as well as the father of two children and the teacher of the students, Sun Yuanjin took good care of his mother, taught the children what "filial piety" and "gratitude" was, and taught the children a love education lesson with his own actions.
In order to protect Sun Yuanjin's filial piety, we can see that the school has made a lot of efforts. Sun Yuanjin's mother went from being uneasy to liking to go to school, which also brought together a lot of love and help from teachers and students. Education is like a tree shaking another tree, and a cloud pushing another cloud. Parents, teachers, and people around them influence young seeds with their words and deeds, so that they can take root and sprout and thrive.
Faced with the sudden attention, Sun Yuanjin said that he just did what a son should do. In the future, I will continue to take good care of my mother and train my students with my heart. He hopes that with his practical actions, gratitude will become a seed in the hearts of children, and they will grow into warm and powerful people in the future.
Editor in charge: Zhang Jing