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Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Guizhou province March 12, 2013. Located halfway up a mountain, the school has 68 students of which about 20 live in the nearby Gengguan village. Students from Gengguan have to edge their way along the narrow cliff path to go to class everyday, alongside Xu who would escort them. The path, which was carved from cliffs over 40 years ago, is the only route between Gengguan village and the school, according to local media.

Students hold on to the side steel bars of a collapsed bridge as they cross a river to get to school at Sanghiang Tanjung village in Lebak regency, Indonesia's Banten village January 19, 2012. Flooding from the Ciberang river broke a pillar supporting the suspension bridge, which was built in 2001, on Monday according to Epi Sopian the head of Sanghiang Tanjung village. Sofiah, a student crossing the bridge, says she will need to walk for an extra 30 minutes if she were to take a detour through another bridge. REUTERS/Beawiharta

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A student crosses the frozen Batllava Lake on his way to school February 21, 2012. Students at the village of Orllan are starting their first few days of school since two weeks of disruption due to bad weather. They have to cross the frozen artificial lake of Batllava, which supplies water to the capital Pristina, to reach their school on the other side. Picture taken February 21, 2012.

Students travel in a vehicle after attending school at Ibsheway el-Malaq village in Gharbia governorate, about 165 km (103 miles) northeast of Cairo March 12, 2012.

Elementary school girls cross a river to go to school in the village of Nagari Koto Nan Tigo in Indonesia's West Sumatra province November 14, 2012. School children from around 46 families in the village are forced to cross the river every day because there is no bridge, villagers said.

Students walk towards their school amid heavy fog during early morning on the outskirts of the northern Indian city of Chandigarh January 6, 2010. Media reports in India said at least 60 people died over the weekend due to the cold weather in the north and east of the country.

Students cycle through the haze-blanketed town of Sampit, in Indonesia's Central Kalimantan province September 28, 2012. The haze that blanketed Sampit is believed to have originated from forest fires and land clearing for plantation use by residents, local media reported.

School girls walk across a plank on the walls of the 16th century Galle fort July 8, 2009. REUTERS/Vivek Prakash

Somali children attend a makeshift outdoor classroom at Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab in Kenya's northeastern province, June 8, 2009. Weeks of intense fighting in Somalia has driven tens of thousands of people from their homes, swelling camps on the Kenyan border that are already the largest and oldest in the world, sheltering more than 270,000 Somali refugees.

Students, walking to school, are dwarfed by power towers as they fight their way across an open field, during a winter storm, in Pickering east of Toronto December 12, 2000. The first severe winter storm of the season blew its way up through the mid-west of the United States and into eastern Canada dumping up to 50 centimeters of snow combined with 70 kilometer winds and numbing temperatures.

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[sgossard]

They'd better have great teachers.

 

[criesofthepast]

They'd better have great teachers.

lol at the odd ball Toronto picture being there. That was one day...not everyday like the others.

 

[Szu]

Reminds me of these kids.

 

[equippedwithtowel]

lol at the odd ball Toronto picture being there. That was one day...not everyday like the others.

What's not pictured is when the army came in to sort things out after.

 

[Camp Lo]

I've never felt so ashamed of skipping school. Man man man....

 

[PBalfredo]

The next day

 

[lunchtoast]

It was worse than I was expecting.

 

[Eighty Deuce]

It builds character.

 

[Peterthumpa]

CTRL+F "Brazil", nothing found. Thread invalidated.

 

[lethial]

lol at the odd ball Toronto picture being there. That was one day...not everyday like the others.

Yah, nothing really dangerous about Toronto. Now if it was kids going to school in a depressing city, the picture would be #1.

 

[MisterHero]

Abe Lincoln had it easy it seems. I went to school during typhoons, earthquakes and floods, but that still isn't hardcore enough either.

They'd better have great teachers.

 

[Grimm Fandango]

I take it there must be no more schools in Detroit.

 

[bobbychalkers]

I'm reading this contemplating not driving to my late afternoon class under a Tornado watch.

 

[wenis]

every parent in america that has ever been was wrong.

 

[devilhawk]

Those all seem to be safer trips then Chicago.

 

[chickdigger802]

103miles... hope traffic isn't bad.

 

[AirBrian]

None of those pictures show it uphilll both ways. And only one has snow. Pffft, my parents had it much harder!

Spoiler

I'm completely kidding, of course.

 

[Katana_Strikes]

Teacher: "Billy why were you late for school this morning?"
Student: "There was a landslide blocking the cliff path."

Teacher: "Billy what's your excuse for being late this morning?"
Student: "Bridge collapsed so had to swim the rest of the way."

Teacher: "Children has anyone seen Billy today?"
Students: *silence*

 

[You Are Viewtiful]

lol at the odd ball Toronto picture being there. That was one day...not everyday like the others.

I had to walk an hour a day to school through forests (it was very muddy) during the winter of the York Region Transit strike. Those damn storms and my shoes

I got a bike eventually though. But fuck corrupt unions.

 

[coffeehofi]

Man, this stuffs bring my old memories back. I grew up in rainforest of Central Kalimantan - Indonesia, my 1st year on the elementary school was awesome. Every day I need to wake up early in the morning, paddlin a small canoe through the rapid with 3 of my friends just so we could get to school on time. Never thought it was dangerous, the only think that matter is to be at school on time.

Pretty sad that I've been rarely saw this kind of motivation happened around the city kids nowadays.. I mean most of them sayin the school sucks.... Ouch...

 

[IdreamofHIME]

Hope they don't get there to find out it's a snow day.

 

[Exr]

Man do I feel like a shithead now for skipping out on classes

 

[Mariolee]

Man, this stuffs bring my old memories back. I grew up in rainforest of Central Kalimantan - Indonesia, my 1st year on the elementary school was awesome. Every day I need to wake up early in the morning, paddlin a small canoe through the rapid with 3 of my friends just so we could get to school on time. Never thought it was dangerous, the only think that matter is to be at school on time.

Pretty sad that I've been rarely saw this kind of motivation happened around the city kids nowadays.. I mean most of them sayin the school sucks.... Ouch...

My dad just showed me this and he grew up in Indonesia too. He never had it as bad as this, but he made it a point to tell me that I should feel like an asshole for ever thinking of skipping school when this is what kids have to deal with because they WANT to go to school.

 

[robochimp]

This American Life on a Chicago School. It is crazy what these kids have to live through

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/487/harper-high-school-part-one

 

[I Stalk Alone]

The next day

cue wilhelm scream

 

[SuperBowser]

mistake

 

[SuperBowser]

haha, I walked over that exact plank in Galle fort a year ago.

there's absolutely no reason kids would cross it to go to school. it just forms the border of the city. people live inside the city and there's only ocean outside the fort.

 

[Himynameischris]

And to think I started bitching because there was traffic on my way to class this morning...10 min away.... :/

 

[See You Next Wednesday]

The next day

Thanks a lot Indy!

 

[Data West]

Last of Us 2 concept art.

Also, what's the Asian country where they have like the two ropes across this massive chasm in the jungle and they're in these little boxes that they have to pull themselves across on? I saw it on Nat Geo once.