There is a school called the Huaping High School for Girls in Lijiang, Yunnan Province. Its headmaster(校长)Zhang Guimei opened it twelve years ago and she has sent 1,804 girls here to great colleges(大学)all over the country.
In 1996, when Zhang Guimei came to teach in Huaping, she found many young girls left school at a very young age. They went to work or got married because their families didn't have money. To let these young girls have a good education, Zhang decided to open a free school for them.
After years of hard work, the Huaping High School for Girls finally opened. Zhang almost gave all her life to the students here. Some girls were afraid of the dark teaching building when they came to school early, so Zhang went to the school at 5 am and turn on the lights of the teaching building for them. When the students studied in the classroom late at night, Zhang kept staying with them at school. Zhang also kept visiting the students'homes to know more about them.
Zhou Yunli was one of Zhang's students. She became a middle school teacher in a big city after finishing college. When hearing that her old school needed some math teachers, Zhou Yunli went back to her home town right away."Without Ms. Zhang's school, ▲ "Zhou said."It's time for me to repay(报答)her and my old school."
