Borderless classroom
At a gateway school on China-Myanmar frontier, shared textbooks rewrite futures
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"Shu helps me with English — she aces every test," said Mu. In return, she teaches Shu Burmese. Shu's parents are cross-border logistics traders who hope she will master the language.
Their bond, nurtured over homework, comics, and classroom projects, reflects what locals call pauk-phaw — a Burmese term for sibling-like kinship. "We're inseparable," Mu said.