On a 15-kilometer-long country road, Wang Jinliang, 58, carrying a school bag weighing about 10 pounds, walked to 35 students ’homes to send and receive homework. 2 trips a day, 2 hours each trip, passing 8 natural villages, unstoppable.

　　Wang Jinliang is a language teacher in Dongluquan Primary School, Songfan Central Primary School, Changshan County, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province. He has been firmly on the front line of rural education for 37 years. Under the influence of the epidemic, in order not to let the students in the class lose their homework, he went online with the children during the day and went out at 3 pm to collect the homework completed by the children. After the corrections, he sent homework the next morning. Such days have lasted for nearly 50 days.

35 students, 15 km road

　　Wang Jinliang lives in Shuangxikou Village, Huibu Town, Changshan County. At 6:30 in the morning, he carried a red backpack on his back and put on his sneakers to go out. The heavy backpacks contained the workbooks of 35 students who had been revised the night before.

　　Due to the impact of the epidemic, Zhejiang launched online teaching in February this year. At first, Wang Jinliang also tried online batch assignments, but the results were not satisfactory. "Most of these children are left-behind children. Some of their parents went out to work early, leaving the children to the elderly. Less than half of the 35 students turned in homework." Wang Jinliang said, adding the age problem, he faced himself. Mobile phone revision is a great challenge to eyesight.

　　In order to urge students to complete their homework in time and to master their learning situation on the day, since February 28, Wang Jinliang has adopted the most "troublesome" way to send and receive students' daily homework-walk to the door. "Although this method is clumsy, it is the most effective." Wang Jinliang said.

　　There is a fixed route for sending and receiving operations. The 35 students were distributed in 4 administrative villages and 8 natural villages, and walked down in a circle, more than 15 kilometers.

　　"I can't drive a car, I can ride a battery car, but for decades I am used to walking. The school is 10 miles away from home, I usually walk to and from work." Teacher Wang said, sending and receiving at students' homes in this way Workbooks can also set a good example for students to exercise.

　　After sending homework and returning home for breakfast, it was not yet 9 a.m. Wang Jinliang turned on his mobile phone and watched the "air classroom" with the children, and the textbook was filled with comments. After finishing the class and arranging his homework, he has to do it himself. "Familiarity with each question will make it easier for students to correct homework."

　　More than 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Jinliang carried his backpack to the student's house again, this time he was going to collect the students' completed homework. The same route took 2 hours, and Wang Jinliang didn't feel tired and exhausted. Sometimes he finds that students encounter learning difficulties, he will always stop and actively tutor students.

"Teacher can insist, why can't you"

　　Every semester, Wang Jinliang will visit the house, and the students live in which village and alley. Wang Jinliang "can find it with his eyes closed." Many parents are also students he has taught in the past.

　　"Teacher Wang is more devoted than our parents. Every time I watch him give his children patience for homework, I am very touched. The children in the mountain village cannot do without him." Mentioning Wang Jinliang, the father of student Wang Mengni praised him. Since Wang Jinliang came home to send and receive homework, some parents have urged their children to write homework like this: "You see Teacher Wang is here to send homework again, the teacher can stick to it every day, how can you not stick to it ..."

　　Influenced by Wang Jinliang, his daughter Wang Wei is now a kindergarten teacher in a kindergarten in Changshan County. Wang Wei remembered that once it rained heavily, as usual, his father should finish his homework and return home. "We learned later that he was hiding in a pavilion on the side of the road in order to prevent the student's workbook from getting wet. The workbook in his arms was intact, but his body was wet by rain."

　　Wang Jinliang's Chinese textbooks are marked densely. He likes the text "Monument" the most. In the class, he often read to students that "Snow quickly covered the body of the director of munitions, and he became a crystal monument." He often shed tears emotionally.

　　"Since I started working in 1983, I have been a class teacher for 28 years. When I first taught, I was paid 26 yuan a month, and now I can live a decent life. I grew up in a local village and wanted to do something for the children here. "Wang Jinliang said that he is a teacher and a party member, and he should be worthy of every student."

Stay on the front line of rural education and stand on the last post

　　Dongluquan Elementary School is on the edge of the hill, and the school ’s small playground is still a gravel road runway. There are 151 students and 11 teachers in the school. There is only one class per grade.

　　On April 21, students in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades returned to school. Wang Jinliang taught the sixth grade graduation class. In his view, in addition to letting children learn a certain amount of knowledge at the basic stage of education, it is more important for them to learn to be humans and cultivate good habits in all aspects. "Sixth grade is the last stop of elementary school. Students are going to middle school. It is important to lay a solid foundation."

　　Over the past few years, many students have entered the county's key junior high schools and stepped out of the mountainous areas. After 37 years of teaching, Wang Jinliang stuck to the front line of rural education and witnessed the changes in the village: the number of students in the primary school is decreasing, and more families have the ability to send their children to the county to study and receive better education.

　　Wang Jinliang was awarded the honorary titles of “the most beautiful teacher” and “advanced individual in moral education” in the education system of Changshan County. In 2019, he was also selected as a national outstanding teacher. Mathematics teacher Cheng Guanghong sitting at the desk opposite is Wang Jinliang's "old partner", describing him as "old ox": "He has always been serious and responsible to the students and treats the children with sincerity and sincerity."

　　After Wang Jinliang's deeds were reported by the media, netizens praised them: "There is no language to express my current mood, I only hope that the teacher will be safe and healthy after retirement, and live a long life." "The teacher's back is the hope of rural children." ...

　　"Reading can change their destiny." Wang Jinliang said, "I will retire in more than two years, and I will stand up for the last shift and keep the first stop of education for these children who are looking forward to going out of the mountain." ( (Reporters Xu Shunda, Zheng Mengyu) Xinhua News Agency, Hangzhou, April 19th, by wire