Shanxi Linfen Red Ribbon School is the only AIDS school in China. It was officially established in 2011 with the approval of the Linfen Municipal Education Bureau of Shanxi Province. In June this year, media reported that 16 students from Red Ribbon School in Linfen, Shanxi, took the college entrance examination alone in a standardized examination room set up by the school, which aroused heated public opinion. Now that the college entrance examination admissions in various places have ended, how did these children do? And was he successfully admitted to the university?
We learned from the school that so far, 15 of the 16 students who have taken the college entrance examination this year have been admitted to universities in Beijing, Qingdao, Taiyuan and other places, including 2 undergraduates and 13 junior college students. According to Guo Xiaoping, the principal of the school, since these children with AIDS have a relatively weak learning foundation, they are very happy with the current college entrance examination admission results. But while they are happy, these children with AIDS also face some practical problems. Since most of the children are orphans and do not have enough financial support, it is currently difficult for the children to pay for their living expenses after going to college.
It is understood that in order to solve this problem, the school has contacted the China Foundation for the Prevention of STDs and AIDS, and the organization is willing to provide part of the college expenses for these children.
As for the 15 children who are admitted to college, they themselves are also actively working hard to earn living expenses. Cuicui is 19 years old this year. Her mother died when she gave birth to her, and her father also drank poison and died last year. Fortunately, in this year's college entrance examination, she was lucky enough to be admitted to her favorite electronics major. However, without family support, the cost of college was a big pressure on her. She is currently doing micro-business and wants to earn some living expenses through this method. She hopes to earn money to buy a computer through her own efforts to facilitate her future studies.
However, compared with financial pressure, there are greater worries deep in the hearts of these AIDS children. How to take medicine and how to make friends after going to college will all become problems.
"I'm afraid that no one in college will talk to me and no one will be friends with me. This is worse than death." Cuicui told our reporter. For children like Cuicui, who have lived in a red ribbon school since childhood, going to college means leaving their original safe haven, and it also means facing more troubles.
For these troubles, principal Guo Xiaoping said: "We don't need the society to give us any policies. We just hope that we have passed the same university and that the teachers and classmates around us can treat us equally."
In a few days, these prospective freshmen will enter a new life. Most of them will hide their identities. How to let them live under the blue sky with us requires the joint efforts of the society.
AIDS patients are also alive. They do not want to become AIDS patients. I hope everyone will not discriminate against them.