{"id":13093,"date":"2013-06-01T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=13093"},"modified":"2013-06-01T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T15:02:14","slug":"worlds-loneliest-schoolboy-bacho-attends-classes-by-himself-in-remote-georgian-village-of-only-30-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=13093","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s loneliest schoolboy Bacho attends classes by himself in remote Georgian village of only 30 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13090\" alt=\"b9\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b9.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b9.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b9-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/b9-469x300.jpg 469w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>Bacho Tsiklauri, nine, is the only pupil at the primary school in the remote mountain gorge village of Makarta, Georgia, 62 miles north of the capital Tbilisi.<\/p>\n<p>He is one of only four children in the village, which is home to about 30 people. The older children, including his brother Dato, attend a high school in a nearby village two miles away.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters photographer David Mdzinarishvili travelled along 12 miles of dirt track through the Gudamakari gorge, which separates Makarta from the rest of Georgia, to meet Bacho.<\/p>\n<p>The journey through the gorge took as long as it did to cover on the main road.<\/p>\n<p>Bacho knows it is time for lessons when he sees 47-year-old Ms Tsiklauri, who teaches Georgian and mathematics, walking past his house at about 10am each day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Lia began the lesson by taking the register, but then she laughed and with this the tension disappeared.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They soon forgot about my presence, and the class went as usual: checking homework, going over previous lessons, being called to the board, and learning new material.<\/p>\n<p>At break time, Bacho kicked a half-flat football around the courtyard by himself and did a few laps, Mr Mdzinarishvili said. Then the boy&#8217;s other teacher, 40-year-old Inga Chokheli, arrived for his English lesson.<\/p>\n<p>Both the teachers were full of praise for their only student. They just had one disappointment: when he goes to high school, the primary school in Makarta will close.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bacho Tsiklauri, nine, is the only pupil at the primary school in the remote mountain&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,224,140,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-news","category-region","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}