Original title: Rooted in the mountains and caring for students (theme).
Remember Li Weiqun, a good person in Fuzhou and a "nanny principal" (subtitle).
Fuzhou** reporter Lin Rongsheng.
Yesterday's winter breeze in Tingping Township, Minhou, was during the winter vacation, and it was quiet in Tingping Weiqiao Primary School, and the principal Li Weiqun put up his collar and went into the school to patrol. The class schedule at the door of the classroom was blown by the wind, and Chinese, mathematics, physical education, and information were ......On the paper, the content of Li Weiqun's work is recorded.
The school in front of me in the depths of the Minhou Mountains, Tingping Weiqiao Primary School, is nearly 100 kilometers away from Minhou County, at the junction of Minqing, Luoyuan and Gutian counties. Li Weiqun has been here for 14 years, from a young man to a homeroom teacher loved by children, from a general subject teacher to a "nanny principal" ......Li Weiqun never left, he took care of every child with his heart, and let batch after batch of mountain children out of the mountains. A few days ago, Li Weiqun was awarded the Good Person of Fuzhou in the fourth quarter of 2023.
He is the support of the children.
Li Weiqun is 48 years old this year, his family lives in Tingping Village, and the 12-kilometer journey to the school is not far at all in his opinion.
Li Weiqun's dedication to the mountains stems from a childhood experience. When Li Weiqun was in the fifth grade of primary school, his mother died, and he was in danger of dropping out of school. Luckily, his homeroom teacher came to his aid and helped him complete his studies. This made him feel grateful from his caution and came up with the idea of relaying to protect the children in the mountains.
In 2009, after teaching in Houxi Village for 13 years, Li Weiqun was transferred to Tingping Weiqiao Primary School. Since many school-age children in the mountains have gone to the city with their parents, there are not many students in the school. At the beginning of the new semester in September last year, there were only 20 students left in Minhou Tingping Weiqiao Primary School, and 6 teachers in the school took on the teaching work of a grade, including Chinese, mathematics, physical education, and information.
Unlike other teachers, Li Weiqun is also the principal of the school and the children's health management teacher. In the past, transportation was inconvenient, so Li Weiqun settled his home at the school in order to take care of the children living in the school.
In the morning, before dawn, he got up and urged the children to get up, fold the quilt, wash, and read in the morning; At midnight, he patrolled the night in the dark and helped the students cover the quilts. Some children cry because they miss their parents, and he will comfort them carefully; Some children quarrel and are sad, and he will be patient and soothed. Slowly, he became the support of the children.
After Li Weiqun became the principal, the school's teaching conditions also underwent great changes. The original fence and dirt floor are gone, and the school has erected a fence and laid artificial lawn to ensure the safety of students. Not only that, there are many ** classrooms for children in the city, and the children of Tingping Weiqiao Primary School can also enjoy it, which makes parents feel even more happy about this change.
For the sake of students, he borrowed money "cheekily".
Li Weiqun looks rough, but he is actually as careful as a student with a hair. Once, during a class, he noticed that when a student reads and writes, he often puts his face on the paper and his fingers are unusually slender. After a hospital examination, Xiaorong was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome. This disease involves the child's heart and other organs, and the cost is more than 300,000 yuan.
When Xiaorong's father and grandmother in her 70s heard the news, they grabbed my hand and sat on the ground, I really couldn't bear it, and I thought that I must do something for my child. Li Weiqun advocated that colleagues and friends raise money for the children's medical expenses, and then "cheekily" asked for help from enthusiastic people and entrepreneurs who had donated materials to the school.
I asked for money, and it was such a large amount, and I was worried that they would think I was spending the trust I had in each other. Li Weiqun said that at that time, he had made the worst plan, which was to borrow money for the child in his own name, and finally repay it by himself. Fortunately, with the help of the leaders of the Fuzhou Charity Federation and Southeast Eye Hospital, Xiaorong's medical expenses were reduced by a large part, and his condition improved significantly.
Helped more than 10 children return to class.
This is not the first time Li Weiqun has campaigned for students.
Soon after Li Weiqun arrived at the school, he noticed that some children often did not come to class in winter. When he visited the students' homes, he learned that these children had no winter clothes and could not go out in the cold winter. In order to help the children, Li Weiqun took out his meager salary to buy winter clothes and other materials for the children, so that the children could return to class.
In the early years, because most of the people living in mountain villages were elderly and children, they did not pay attention to education, and some families could not afford to pay school fees, and children dropped out of school from time to time.
Student Xiaoying is one of them. Knowing the situation, Li Weiqun came to the child's home in the rain on a winter night to persuade him, and finally dispelled the idea of parents letting their children drop out of school. Subsequently, he went to the trustee to find caring students, and finally, with the donations of caring people, he successfully let more than 10 children like Xiaoying return to school.
Nowadays, more and more students are going out of the mountains to be admitted to colleges and universities, and some students return to Tingping Township to become middle school teachers after graduation, taking over the baton of rural education.
*: Fuzhou**.