Some bilingual schools are boarding schools, which are not uncommon in China. In schools, children are taught to respect teachers more than their parents and may criticize their parents’ Islamic faith, according to Byler. 4 High School, a local plainclothes officer who identified herself as Gu Li said it was a bilingual boarding school. She said that while Uighur students had to study Mandarin, there were also Han Chinese students studying Uighur. In a room at the end of the hall, there rose the distant laughter of relatives’ children, children who were not hers.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 21, 2018 23:37 UTC