FSC [QT] Chapter 76.1

“Teacher, I’m so nervous.”

At this time, the door of the examination room was not open yet. Looking at the closed iron fence, the students brought by Ah Wu were a little nervous.

This was the first time that students from Hongxing Commune Primary School participated in the city-level arithmetic competition for primary and secondary school students.

It was also the first time that children of this age left the examination room of their own school and went to the county primary school to participate in the examination.

The unfamiliar venue, unfamiliar school, and unfamiliar competitors obviously increased the children’s panic.

“Don’t be afraid, just perform as usual. You must remember that your biggest opponent in the exam is just that one test paper. Apart from that, the invigilator and the classmates in the same examination room are not the ones you need to worry about.”

Ah Wu half-knelt down, her eyes level with the children. Her eyes were gentle and deep, and the friendliness and calm aura that lingered around her gradually calmed the children down.

“Yeah.”

Several children nodded, silently recalling the math formulas that they had memorized before the exam, and no longer cared about the eyes of the people around them.

The city’s arithmetic competition for primary and secondary school students is held once a year. Students who win first, second, and third places can not only receive corresponding bonuses, but they also get extra points for admission.

Although there was no need to take exams from primary school to junior high school these days, the enrollment quota of the Affiliated Middle School of the Machinery Factory was limited.

In addition to satisfying the enrollment of the children of employees in the field, the remaining quota could only be admitted on a merit basis.

At this time, if you have a good resume, your chances of being admitted will be much greater.

You should know that the Affiliated Middle School of the Machinery Factory was a junior high school that everyone wanted to go to, because the machinery factory had good benefits.

If you could enter the Affiliated Middle School of the Machinery Factory and perform well enough in school, you might not need to be admitted to a technical secondary school, and you could get the enrollment quota of the machinery factory after graduation.

In this era, the iron rice bowl of workers was the goal pursued by everyone.

In particular, Ah Wu knew that the Affiliated Middle School of the Machinery Factory was one of the few places that was not affected in those years because most of the students there were children of workers with no problems with their political background.

In addition, the Principal of the Affiliated Middle School of the Machinery Factory at that time was very capable.

When many high schools and junior high schools suspended classes, the Affiliated Middle School of the Machinery Factory still had classes as usual.

The teachers there only needed to submit self-criticisms regularly and were not dragged out for criticism or re-education.

Before Ah Wu took office, Hongxing Commune Primary School had never participated in similar subject competitions because the students’ level was not high. Moreover, even if they got a place to participate, they would only return home in defeat.

Such a phenomenon not only existed in Hongxing Commune Primary School, but also in some surrounding commune primary schools. In their opinion, only county and town primary schools with strong teaching staff were qualified to compete in such a level of competition.

The Hongxing Commune Primary School had not participated in this level of competition for six or seven years. Rather than getting laughable results after participating, the teachers in the school seemed to prefer to cover up the truth and chose not to participate at all.

At least, they would not get bad results and be ridiculed by the teachers of the county and town primary schools.

When Ah Wu was preparing to take several students with excellent grades to participate in the competition this year, the principal was quite dissatisfied.

But no matter what, the principal finally agreed. However, he and Ah Wu agreed that if they didn’t get any results this time, they would not participate in such competitions in the future.

For this competition, Ah Wu prepared for three years because the foundation of these children was too poor.

Instead of letting them participate in the competition in the first year to undermine their self-confidence, Ah Wu was more willing to patiently train them for a few years and let them out only when she was sure that they were ready.

This time, she brought seven students to participate in the competition, five of whom were already sixth graders.

If they could get good results in this competition, their parents might be willing to spend money to support them to continue their studies.

There were also two other students, one in the fifth grade and the other in the fourth grade. These two students were very talented in arithmetic.

Although they were still fourth and fifth graders due to age restrictions, their ability in arithmetic was not inferior to the other five sixth graders. Otherwise, Ah Wu would not have chosen them.

These seven students, in addition to being talented, also worked hard, especially one of the female students. Perhaps because few parents in the countryside were willing to support girls to study in this era, she worked harder than other students.

Ah Wu heard her say that her dream was to be a diplomat.

This competition was her chance to prove herself. If she could get good results, coupled with Ah Wu’s lobbying, even if she was a girl, her parents might not be unwilling to let her study.

Ah Wu had always felt that parents who could spend money to send their children to primary school were already enlightened parents in the countryside.

In the past, the commune primary school did not pay much attention to it, which made these parents see no hope. Therefore, there were almost no junior high school students, high school students, or even technical secondary school students in the production teams including Zhangjiagou.

The backward cultural level seemed to have become something that everyone was accustomed to, and no one had ever thought about changing this situation.

But, birth could not limit a person’s future.

Ah Wu felt that these children were the beginning of change.

As long as they could see the benefits of studying from this group of children, more and more parents would be willing to send their children to study in the future. Their children would not be confined to this piece of muddy land, and their future would go further and higher.

 

 

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