Pictures of Kids Going to School, No Matter What

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. Picture taken March 12, 2013.

Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013.

Xu Liangfan, 37, and students exercise at the playground of Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013.

Children sit on school benches at Al-Tawheed school in Aleppo January 1, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman

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

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. REUTERS/Hazir Reka

Students walk near a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.12 microsievert per hour, at Omika Elementary School, located about 21 km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 8, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11, 2011 disasters. However, only 91 students remained following its reopening on October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai

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. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

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. Picture taken March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLL less Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXM2 less Xu Liangfan, 37, and students exercise at the playground of Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLR less 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 (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2WHUB less Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - RTR2PS9C 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. REUTERS/Hazir Reka (KOSOVO - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2YB8P less Students walk near a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.12 microsievert per hour, at Omika Elementary School, located about 21 km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 8, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11, 2011 disasters. However, only 91 students remained following its reopening on October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT) - RTR2Z0V6 less 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. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - RTR2Z9AO 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. REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3ADXI 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. REUTERS/Sigit Pamungkas

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. Picture taken March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLL less Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXM2 less Xu Liangfan, 37, and students exercise at the playground of Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLR less 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 (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2WHUB less Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - RTR2PS9C 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. REUTERS/Hazir Reka (KOSOVO - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2YB8P less Students walk near a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.12 microsievert per hour, at Omika Elementary School, located about 21 km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 8, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11, 2011 disasters. However, only 91 students remained following its reopening on October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT) - RTR2Z0V6 less 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. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - RTR2Z9AO 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. REUTERS/Stringer

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. Picture taken March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLL less Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXM2 less Xu Liangfan, 37, and students exercise at the playground of Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLR less 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 (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2WHUB less Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - RTR2PS9C 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. REUTERS/Hazir Reka (KOSOVO - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2YB8P less Students walk near a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.12 microsievert per hour, at Omika Elementary School, located about 21 km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 8, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11, 2011 disasters. However, only 91 students remained following its reopening on October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT) - RTR2Z0V6 less 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. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - RTR2Z9AO 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. REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3ADXI Elementary school boys carry their shoes and bags after crossing 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. REUTERS/Stringer

Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR

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. Picture taken March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLL less Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXM2 less Xu Liangfan, 37, and students exercise at the playground of Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLR less 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 (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2WHUB less Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - RTR2PS9C 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. REUTERS/Hazir Reka (KOSOVO - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2YB8P less Students walk near a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.12 microsievert per hour, at Omika Elementary School, located about 21 km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 8, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11, 2011 disasters. However, only 91 students remained following its reopening on October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT) - RTR2Z0V6 less 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. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - RTR2Z9AO 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. REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3ADXI 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. REUTERS/Ajay Verma

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

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. Picture taken March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLL less Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXM2 less Xu Liangfan, 37, and students exercise at the playground of Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLR less 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 (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2WHUB less Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - RTR2PS9C 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. REUTERS/Hazir Reka (KOSOVO - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2YB8P less Students walk near a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.12 microsievert per hour, at Omika Elementary School, located about 21 km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 8, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11, 2011 disasters. However, only 91 students remained following its reopening on October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT) - RTR2Z0V6 less 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. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - RTR2Z9AO 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. REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3ADXI 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. REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly

Afghan boys sit on the ground outdoors for their lesson, near Khas Kunar refugee camp, Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan February 18, 2009. REUTERS/Oleg Popov

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. Picture taken March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLL less Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXM2 less Xu Liangfan, 37, and students exercise at the playground of Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLR less 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 (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2WHUB less Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - RTR2PS9C 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. REUTERS/Hazir Reka (KOSOVO - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2YB8P less Students walk near a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.12 microsievert per hour, at Omika Elementary School, located about 21 km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 8, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11, 2011 disasters. However, only 91 students remained following its reopening on October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT) - RTR2Z0V6 less 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. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - RTR2Z9AO 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. REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3ADXI 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. 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. Picture taken March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLL less Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXM2 less Xu Liangfan, 37, and students exercise at the playground of Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLR less 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 (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2WHUB less Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - RTR2PS9C 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. REUTERS/Hazir Reka (KOSOVO - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2YB8P less Students walk near a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.12 microsievert per hour, at Omika Elementary School, located about 21 km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 8, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11, 2011 disasters. However, only 91 students remained following its reopening on October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT) - RTR2Z0V6 less 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. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - RTR2Z9AO 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. REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3ADXI 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. 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. Picture taken March 12, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLL less Xu Liangfan, 37, escorts students on a cliff path as they make their way to Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION ENVIRONMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXM2 less Xu Liangfan, 37, and students exercise at the playground of Banpo Primary School in Shengji county, Bijie city in Guizhou province March 11, 2013. Xu, who started working at the school last year, is the headmaster of the school and teaches mathematics and gym class. 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. Picture taken March 11, 2013. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: EDUCATION) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - RTXXXLR less 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 (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2WHUB less Primary school boys carry their benches after their school was flooded due to heavy rains at Bassi Kalan village in the outskirts of Jammu August 10, 2011. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta (INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY EDUCATION) - RTR2PS9C 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. REUTERS/Hazir Reka (KOSOVO - Tags: ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR2YB8P less Students walk near a geiger counter, measuring a radiation level of 0.12 microsievert per hour, at Omika Elementary School, located about 21 km (13 miles) from the tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, in Minamisoma, Fukushima prefecture, March 8, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The reopened elementary school, which is the nearest one located to the crippled nuclear power plant, had 205 students before the March 11, 2011 disasters. However, only 91 students remained following its reopening on October 17, 2011. REUTERS/Toru Hanai (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ANNIVERSARY ENVIRONMENT) - RTR2Z0V6 less 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. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh (EGYPT - Tags: EDUCATION SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - RTR2Z9AO 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. REUTERS/Stringer (INDONESIA - Tags: SOCIETY ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3ADXI 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.