students start living in school dorms

students start living in school dorms

students start living in school dorms at the ages of seven and eight years old

Since about 2002, local governments have been consolidating rural elementary schools. In the 1980s and 1990s almost every village had an elementary school, now there is about one school for every eight to ten villages. This means many students live too far away from the schools to walk to school and many students start living in school dorms at the ages of seven and eight years old.