It is a great honor for the teachers and students of Baidu Fangli Primary School in Baidai Village, Cang County, Hebei Province to push the tricycle that Grandpa Bai Fangli used before he passed away onto the award stage of "Touching China". However, for Principal Bai Xiqian of Bai Fangli Primary School, the consideration of the future of the school makes him feel worried and restless. This school has gone through 20 years of wind and rain, and the school is already old; in 2009, the school was identified as a dangerous building by the architectural design institute of Cangzhou City. And according to the school layout adjustment plan made several years ago, Bai Fangli Primary School belongs to the schools waiting to be merged. The nearest school to this school is Daguanting Central Primary School, which is more than 10 li away via the road. (Northern Network, February 6) If Grandpa Bai Fangli were still alive, he would be shocked to see that the primary school where he once taught and donated his 5,000 yuan pension, would face the predicament of being merged, and that the children of two natural villages, Baijia Village and Wangjia Village (the current enrollment area of Bai Fangli Primary School), with a total population of more than 2,600 people, have to travel more than 10 li to go to school. In recent years, some local governments have combined the school safety project with school mergers, hoping to achieve "two goals" at once: save the cost of repairing school buildings listed as dangerous buildings, and realize the layout adjustment of rural schools. Bai Fangli Primary School was probably listed as a school waiting to be merged due to such considerations. However, this is just the unilateral wish of the government department, without considering the actual needs of rural children's schooling and the more complex problems brought about after the merger of the school. Judging from the current scale of Bai Fangli School, it should not be included in the scope of pending mergers. Currently, this school has a total of 14 teachers, with 154 students in six grades of primary school and 146 children in three kindergarten classes. According to the principal, the number of eligible children entering the kindergarten next year and the year after will reach over 70, and expanding the school is imminent. According to the requirements of the State Council for the consolidation of rural middle schools, "Involving the layout adjustment of rural primary and secondary schools, it must be carried out on the basis of in-depth investigation and research and extensive listening to public opinions." Has the local government conducted surveys and research, and carefully listened to the opinions of the masses? According to reports, according to the calculations of the Cangzhou City Architectural Design Institute, it would cost about 3.5 million yuan to renovate the dangerous buildings of Bai Fangli School and build the most economical dual-track primary school and the simplest memorial hall. For this, the local government may think that merging this primary school and letting the children go to the central primary school would save this amount of money. This was indeed a "perfect plan" in the past, but now it is no longer feasible. In December last year, in response to the Gansu kindergarten school bus incident, the Ministry of Education stated that rural left-behind children who cannot board should attend nearby schools, and places that cannot provide school bus services should not arbitrarily merge schools, so as to avoid student safety not being guaranteed due to long distances. Before the local government merges this primary school, it must consider how to solve the commuting problem for a total of 300 children. If the government department leaves the commuting issue to the villagers themselves, the school closure and merger will inevitably be opposed, and it will also bring serious safety hazards. Compared to the more than 200,000 primary schools that have been merged in the past 10 years (according to the Ministry of Education data, there were more than 5.1 million rural primary schools nationwide in 2001, and by 2009, there were more than 2.3 million, averaging a reduction of 64 schools per day), including schools that were merged despite opposition from the villagers, Bai Fangli School is still lucky. Through an elder who "touched China", its fate has attracted social attention. Many netizens expect that the story of the elder teaching in the past could "touch" the local government to adjust the school layout plan. However, whether its fate of pending merger can be changed remains unknown. The fate of a school falling to the point where it needs to "touch" the government department to solve the problem is already very pitiful. In fact, the reason why this school became a dangerous building is due to insufficient investment from the local government. To make the local government pay attention to educational investment and reasonably layout rural schools, what is needed is not "touching", but a mechanism where villagers can participate in decision-making. That is, the educational development strategy, including educational investment and school closures, must be decided by the participation of villagers, and the government department is only the institution that executes the decision. Without establishing such a decision-making mechanism, it is difficult to fundamentally change the fate of rural education. 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