Great teacher who gave up superior family conditions to support teaching for 26 years passed away, students knelt down and called her mom in a touching scene

by jacklewman on 2008-01-31 04:14:45

Read it, it's really touching: Fang Shumei, a high school teacher from Shaanxi, gave up her privileged family background in Xi'an and taught in a mountain village for 26 years. After she passed away, nearly a thousand teachers, students, and villagers from nearby spontaneously stood in the heavy snow to escort her coffin back to Xi'an. Fang Shumei, a 51-year-old teacher from Yushan Middle School in Xumiao Township, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, gave up her privileged family background in Xi'an and taught in a mountain village for 26 years. In Xi'an, she had a large house and a wealthy family, but her heart always remained in that school nestled deep in the mountain ravines... Every month, half of her salary was used to sponsor students, and she also established a family educational assistance revolving fund with her savings, which has now grown to over ten thousand yuan...