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I dare not look down when I am climbing up now because I am so frightened.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, dogs are taken to school and they must also make the climb on the ladders.<\/p>\n<p>The task facing the youngsters every day could well make some Britons think the next time they are moaning about their own commute to work in the UK.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801566155-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=801566155\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children in China are forced to climb a huge ladder to reach their school each day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chinese children climb 70m ladder to reach school - 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