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Tenzin Nyidon
DHARAMSHALA, Sept. 5: China has opened a new boarding school in Choné, eastern Tibet, for students in grades 4–6, hailing the project as “good news” in an August 24 WeChat post featuring images of modern dormitories, classrooms, and sports facilities.
However, Tibetan rights groups warn that the reality is far more troubling. The Tibet Action Institute (TAI), which has extensively documented China’s vast network of colonial boarding schools, argues that such institutions are designed not to nurture but to assimilate. “These schools are not just classrooms. They are tools of forced assimilation,” TAI stated.
In its July 2025 report, When They Came to Take Our Children: China’s Colonial Boarding Schools and the Future of Tibet, TAI drew on rare firsthand accounts from...
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