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Length: 55mins
Production: 2006
Subtitles: Chinese & English
Synopsis
The School at City Fringe is about a School for migrant workers’ children, locating in the suburban Beijing. It’s about the life of teachers and students of the school in the year of 2005. This kind of schools recruits children who don’t have the identity of permanent residence of Beijing. These children are forbidden to enter a public free of charge school, and have to pay for their tuition in this simple and crude school. Likewise, teachers in this school work harder and get lower paid than the public school.
After a joyful dinner on the New Year’s Day, teachers find that they still don’t get their guerdon which was guaranteed by the principal before. On the day the semester ends, the teachers gather again. Some of them start to worry about their children’s education. They believe it’s good for the children to be well educated in any case, because they have to stand on their own feet one day.
