After talking with Jin Shulin, the old principal, for a long time, Gu Bai had a rough understanding of the dire situation faced by these 21 impoverished schools, explained simply in four words: internal issues and external threats.
The internal issue is that the salary for volunteer teachers compared to current income levels is absurdly low. In 2017, even a sanitation worker in a city earned at least 2000 a month, while a volunteer teacher in Xuyong County only received 600. Those who stay as volunteer teachers in Xuyong County can be said to be truly driven by love.
It is precisely for this reason that fewer and fewer teachers are willing to come to Xuyong County to volunteer.
