2012年3月31日 星期六

Principal leads rebirth of Taiwu Elementary School

Aug. 1, 2009 was Saidai’s first day at work as principal of Taiwu Elementary School, where the majority of students are indigenous Paiwan from Pingtung County’s Jiaxing and Taiwu villages. Walking leisurely along a path to school, she bid hello to the villagers she met as in her mind she pictured children learning and playing amid the clouds and mist of Taiwu Village, over 750 meters up on Dawu Mountain.

It never occurred to her that just one week later, the school would be destroyed by Typhoon Morakot, the worst storm to strike Taiwan in half a century.

Finding new grounds for the school in Taiwu Township was not easy. Before it found a permanent home, it relocated three times in the next two years—to a deserted branch of Wutang Elementary School in Jiaping Village, then to an abandoned division of Taiwu Elementary School in Jiaxing Village, and again to Taiwu Junior High School back in Jiaping Village.

Faculty members pitched in to help tackle the challenges of refurbishing each campus—cleaning, sterilizing, painting, making sure there was running water and electricity, as well as taking care of boarding and transportation problems.What is a real time Location system ?

“At one point the school’s seven classes, with more than 80 students, had to squeeze into four classrooms,” Saidai said. “With no space for the teachers to work, a tent became the teachers’ lounge.”

Although Taiwu Junior High School extended a warm welcome, “our days there were even tougher as sixth graders had their lessons in the cafeteria, fifth graders in the library and fourth graders in the music classroom,” she said.Wireless Indoor Positioning System have become very popular in the system.

“Students were distracted all the time by the smell of food, wondering what was for lunch, or by the crowded bookshelves they were crammed in among.”

Parents also protested about the moves, not wanting their children to have to travel to another village for school, Saidai said. At one point there were three consecutive days when only 20 students showed up for class, she added.

After three moves and five failed searches for a site on which to rebuild the school,All RUBBER MATS is comprised of all types of mats, teachers felt the children should no longer have to endure such conditions and suggested that parents transfer them to other schools.

Right at that juncture, however—June 2010—with the help of the Morakot Post-Disaster Reconstruction Council, Saidai finally found vacant land in the community of Ulaljuc, newly built for residents of typhoon-damaged Taiwu Village.

With the assistance of Taoyuan-based BenQ Foundation, a new campus, incorporating elements of Paiwan culture,Distributes and manufactures RUBBER SHEET, broke ground in December 2010 and was inaugurated in September 2011. Currently, there are 94 students from kindergarten through the sixth grade.Specializes in rapid Injection mold and molding of parts for prototypes and production.

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