i wrote about why I visited the school here on my academic blog, cultural bytes - Setting Up Fieldwork Site

I visited a school for children of migrant families in Wuhan, China. This school is government certified and currently has 800 students from 1st to 9th grade. Fees are 300RMB ($50) every semester (two semesters each quarter). The students are children of migrants. These students pay to go to school because their parents have taken them with them out of their village where school would’ve been free to the city where they are working without an official identity registration (hukou card). Without the hukou card, their children cannot gain access to any of the social services provided to residents of a city. Therefore several hundreds of these schools have been started independently by migrants throughout these migrant-receiving cities in China. These schools must charge a fee so that they can hire trained teachers, buy books, rent a classroom and perform administrative duties.

Here are some pictures below from my visit yesterday. I went during nap time so many of the students are sleeping in the photos. but once they woke up they couldn’t stop jumping! well maybe I couldn’t stop jumping :)