If you can only speak Tibetan in Tibet, you have no future...

People of Tibet face many difficulties and restrictions, one of them is education. There is a big dilema between sending your kids to Tibetan Schools or to Chinese Schools. As it explains on freetibet.org "....Parents who want their children to have any chance of competing against Han Chinese migrants for educational and employment opportunities know that they must become fluent in Chinese..." But some parents want their kids to know their culture, which can also be dangerous: "...For those parents who desperately want their children to grow up proud of their own identity, the ‘highway’ is the only option – going with or sending their children on the dangerous journey into exile to India where they can be educated in Tibetan and allowed to practise their religion without restriction. The journey, over the Himalayas, takes many weeks with the constant threat of injury or capture by Chinese border guards..."