Chapter 38 ll

Maesle Xinghua Middle School is not the only school for children of orphans included in the Thai education system. As far as I know, except Datong Middle School supported by Manxingdie Zhang’s family, all others have accepted the jurisdiction of the Thai government. As the main language, Chinese has relegated to a very unimportant position. —— Datong Middle School, which is full of stars, cannot continue to allocate funds because the "Shan State Revolutionary Army" retreated to the mountainous areas of Myanmar. The government took over, and the Thai government immediately sent two Thai language teachers to the school.Mr. Kunsha's assistant is fiercely opposing this move, but he did not specify how to continue to support it.

Xinghua Middle School changed, because it is the head school of the school for children of lonely soldiers in northern Thailand, and the influence has continued to this day. The Thai government renamed Xinghua Middle School "An Ning Middle School" and raised the Thai national flag on the square. General Lei Yutian was open-minded. Although his two forward-looking measures were criticized by conservatives, they won unanimous support soon after they were implemented.Built on the territory of Thailand, without knowing Thai, but wanting to settle down and take root there, it has really become what is said in ancient books, "seeking fish from a tree".How can a person who is tongue-tied when he leaves the refugee village make a deal with the Thais?How can we compete with the Thais, make a way out, and pursue development?General Lei Yutian was tired of the phenomenon that the Chinese only hang out and quarrel in the Chinese nest.The previous generation alone, the dead are dead, the old are old, young people should have their own world.Returning to the motherland, returning to Yunnan is just a vague wish, and we cannot survive on these.What they are facing is the real society in Thailand, and young people must develop the ability to survive in Thai society.

"It's not that I've forgotten my roots," General Lei Yutian said, "I just hope that the children will live on." This is a serious issue, and the lone Miao people have begun to seek change. They are not responding to all changes with the same, but to respond to all changes with all changes.Expressing allegiance to His Majesty the King of Thailand and accepting the education of being assimilated by Thailand is just the beginning.This trend can be seen from the whispers circulating among the solitary seedlings.Many people swore to me that they had definite evidence—for example, in 1980, the Thai Immigration Bureau went to various refugee villages and took pictures of everyone, etc., which can prove that the Thai government has already taken every single soldier The Thai citizenship certificate was issued, but it has been detained in the military headquarters of the 352 Army.They are eager to get it so that they can leave northern Thailand and make a living in the capital Bangkok.

I don’t think the military will detain their citizenship certificates. That’s anti-moral and illegal, and the Thai High Command has publicly stated that citizenship certificates are only issued to the families of wounded and dead soldiers who fought for Thailand. This can be proved otherwise. It is impossible to send all of them.But this kind of rumor can explain the fact that the lone seedlings are eager to take off.And General Lei Yutian's measures were to train them to flap their wings. However, what hinders them from fluttering their wings is the lack of knowledge. All schools for lonely children do not have libraries, and only rely on some incomplete textbooks to pass the limited time in the classroom.The Chinese nation is a nation that likes to go to school, but it is not a nation that likes to study.With 5,000 years of traditional culture, the Chinese who claim to be a cultural power, that is to say, in Taiwan, except for the bed and the dining table (the real "food and sex"), more than 95% of the families do not have a collection of books. , not to mention a study room, if there is a bookshelf, it will be regarded as a monster with no promise.Although there are many schools in the deserted city in the border area, the entire Chinese society has no cultural atmosphere.Last year (1981), the female writer Ms. Zhang Xiaofeng visited Maesle as a church member. She was shocked and raised a batch of books after returning home.When I arrived in Maesle, I just shipped a batch. Several members of the China-Thai Refugee Support Group were busy distributing that batch of books, as well as some books they donated, in an empty room in Xinghua Middle School. In the classroom, bookshelves were set up, and perhaps the first library was set up for them in a school for children of solitary soldiers, or even in a refugee settlement in Thailand.I don't have a detailed count, but it is estimated that there are only seven or eight hundred volumes.

A young teacher said with emotion: "We need books, but we don't have the money to buy them. Even if we have money, we can't buy them anywhere. In Bangkok, or in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai, all the third- and fourth-rate yellow or semi-yellow novels imported from Hong Kong, the so-called "social romance" novels.There is hardly a single literary work in Taiwan. Occasionally, there is one, which is also a sample sent by a Taiwanese publishing house. If it is sold, it will disappear forever.Ms. Zhang Xiaofeng is one of the few Taiwanese visitors who fulfilled her promise. She made a wish to raise books, and she did fulfill this wish.Now it is just a library in Xinghua Middle School in Mesle, which is too simple to be called a library.There are more than 30 schools for the children of lonely soldiers in Thailand, which is still a desert. The love of donating a book can make the compatriots who are trapped in a foreign land feel like rain.However, who of us in China is willing to raise his eyebrows a little to the children in the mountains full of suffering?

The lack of teachers is also the fatal wound of schools for children of the lonely army. Primary school teachers only have 600 baht (NT$1,000) per month, and middle school teachers only 1,200 baht (NT$2,000) per month. Although Thailand The standard of living is half that of Taiwan, but this treatment can only make teachers full of sweet potatoes.Last year (1981), the "Rescue General" allocated 3.5 million baht, equivalent to 3.62 taels of gold, to 28 schools that needed to build school buildings, tables and chairs. A ray of concern moved them.But if they had a choice between the house and the teachers, they preferred the teachers.Good teachers can improve their level even if they teach under a big tree.And without good teachers, even in the Golden House, spiritually and intellectually still fail.Because of the lack of education and books, the lone Hmong has been far away from the motherland at an alarming speed in terms of ideology and consciousness, and will disappear forever in the outer space of Thailand.