Chinese Children Using 2,600 Foot Ladder to Get Home From School

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Just to get home from school, they climb more than 2,500 feet toward the sky — on a ladder made of bamboo and secured to a sheer cliff face.

After pictures surfaced of the challenging trek faced by schoolchildren in a poor corner of China's mountainous west, their village may be getting some assistance by way of a safer, more modern piece of infrastructure: a solid set of steel stairs.

The hardship faced by residents in the village of Atuleer in Sichuan province 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 bamboo ladder is the only means of access to the village to which the 15 children age 6-15 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.
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I hope thats a joke man. If it is not, so many questions. Why not build a small school down there? whats the failing off ladder ratio? Did it cure fear of heights?

The view is breathtaking btw..

 
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I know it sounds awful and all, but maybe the villagers prefer to stay isolated. Easing the way to reach the village could change that.

 
Hey...For a long time I have heard and read that China is kicking our asses in education. Maybe this is how? The smart kids know now to climb a ladder safely. The dumb ones fall of.

Result ????.......automatic increase in testing scores.

I sure would hate to be one of the students that falls behind.

 
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