An Oral History of the Special Olympics in China Volume 1 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811551321
Publisher: Springer Singapore

Study Late into the Night

S’s mother: As she grew older, she needed to attend primary school in Yangpu District. She had just recovered from stomach bleeding by then. How could I take care of her while having to go to work in another district? So, I asked my mother-in-law, “Would it be possible to transfer my daughter’s household registration to your residence? I promise I’m not after your house. I know it’s for my brother-in-law. I only want my daughter to go to school here.” She agreed.

This way, my daughter was admitted to a school affiliated to the railway system not far from my mother-in-law’s home. The teachers there were relatives of the railway staff. They were really nice. As they only knew that my daughter was weak, but nothing about her previous story, they took good care of her, and often praised her even for minor progress. She was good at pinyin. This was the only exam that she got 100. In the first semester of her first grade, she got 80-plus for Chinese and 70-plus for math in the final exam.

When we went to the Ruijin Hospital again, the doctor was satisfied with my daughter’s performance in the exams, saying, “Wow. That’s not bad. Not bad!” That was based on my daughter’s real situation. Since the doctor said her performance was “not bad”, we thought she was not bad as a beginner, and that she would be better when she grew older.

Each piece of my daughter’s bones was X-rayed and subject to X-chromosomal analysis, but we still didn’t know the cause of her problem. My husband and I are just common people, while her problem resulted from the incident at her birth. The doctor kept encouraging us, “She will be fine. Her problem is not caused by congenital or genetic diseases.” It’s all because of his encouragement that we didn’t give up.

Though I went far for work, I still needed to go back to my mother-in-law’s after getting off. There were five people in the family, including my brother-in-law. Only receiving a little allowance from my mother-in-law, I was the one who covered basically all the daily expenses and kept paying for everything. When my daughter was in the third grade, about 7 or 8 years old, my mother-in-law said, “Your brother-law will soon get married. Are you considering moving back to your own apartment?” Her words made sense, so, my daughter was transferred to another school in our district.

My mother-in-law lived in Yangpu District, but we had moved from Luwan to Hongkou District. The new school never considered student’s previous performance, but required all transferred students to take an exam to see whether they could go up to the next grade or stay down. Shanghai schools used two kinds of textbooks, one was the S version and the other, H version.1 The former was simpler. My daughter used S at the previous school, but changed to H in the new school. After the test, she needed to repeat the third grade again.

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