Chapter 1687 A New Beginning
"Comrade Zhang Jianxiang, is this Longshan Village under your district? This place is much worse than the African refugee camp, right? I really don't know how you, the district party secretary?" With tears in your eyes, Zhao Jianhui turned his head and looked at Zhang Jianxiang and asked.
"Secretary Zhao, actually... we have done a lot of work in this matter, but the people in Longshan Village are stubborn and have problems with their concepts. The whole village is lazy and they are lazy. The poverty alleviation funds sent by the district have made them buy food..." Zhang Jianxiang glared at Liu Jun fiercely, thinking that if you say less, you will die? Let's go back and calculate the calculation. The latest novel Baidu search for "
"Secretary Zhao, I think you're going to lose your temper after seeing the village school..." The more I didn't want him to speak, the more this damn guy actually said something like that.
"You lead the way, let's go over and take a look." Zhao Jianhui snorted and followed Liu Jun to the primary school in the village.
The Longshan Primary School in the middle of the village is just a dozen very dilapidated stone houses, surrounded by low courtyard walls made of gravel stones. A bamboo pole more than ten meters high is flying a national flag that is almost rotten into cloth strips.
In the first grade class, the teacher was teaching children to learn pinyin in Mandarin word by word. When he heard the voices outside the window, the children looked out curiously, while chattering: "These people must have come from the city. Look, the glasses that those people wear are all golden silk edges..." The latest novel Baidu search for "
The female teacher who was writing on the blackboard turned around and shouted, "Quiet!" At this time, Mandarin became a local dialect again.
"I have to say that these teachers are still very dedicated." Liu Jun looked at Zhao Jianhui and continued: "The 301 students in this school are all from the village, and the teachers are all locals. They are helpless. The families with TV in the village do not exceed 1/20, and the Internet is a new thing. Local teachers rarely come into contact with the outside world. Many teachers stay at school to teach after graduating from elementary school. They only get a diploma after teaching for many years. They have long missed the best period to learn Mandarin. Teachers can't speak Mandarin, so how can they teach good students?" When they said this, Liu Jun shook his head with a wry smile.
In fact, there is another sentence he didn't say. Even this kind of half-local and half-foreign Mandarin is not fortunate to learn. Although the district waives all the tuition and miscellaneous fees for children, some families lack labor force, and some children have already taken on the heavy responsibility of supporting their families too early. Even listening to this kind of "Mandarin" is a luxury, because they have to get up to work in the rice fields before dawn...
This is not something that all parents of children do not know the benefits of going to school, but after graduating from elementary school, the children in the village must go to the town to go to middle school. The two junior high schools in the town have a boarding fee of 200 yuan per semester and a weekly meal fee of 20 yuan (under the premise of bringing their own dry food), and this money has become a heavy burden again.
More than ten years have passed, except for the loess road leading to the village being covered with cement, the village has basically not changed at all. They speak pure local Mandarin, and dropping out of school before graduating from junior high school has become a "habit".
There are 908 households and 3,957 people in Longshan Village, 468 households and 2,021 people below the poverty line, with a poverty rate of more than 51%. According to World Bank statistics, the overall poverty rate in the country was about 52% 30 years ago. In other words, the living standards here are still in the 1980s!
Compared with the economic status of Nanyue Province, which leads the national economic leader, Longshan Village is simply a shame for Nanyue Province. But who can blame all this? Is it really the villagers here who are not doing well?
Behind their "unfortunateness" is the long-term fate of education in Longshan Village. There are not enough investment in education for many years. There are 13 teachers in the school, two of them have a desk, and they work in the same classroom. There is no teacher dormitory in the whole school. Teachers from other places can only move into dilapidated houses, and teachers from neighbors can only rely on "teaching" to carry out their work.
The entire source of income of the school is limited to the financial appropriation of education funds, with a total of 144 yuan per student per semester, totaling more than 40,000 yuan. After deducting the fees for teachers' textbooks, student test papers and other fees, the remaining money can only be "one cent is used as two cents".
After class, all the teaching tools such as the participation of all staff, cylinders and compass are all written by 13 teachers at Longshan Primary School.
Once, the teacher used a homemade compass to draw a circle on the blackboard, but the students said it was like an "egg"; and when using a homemade protractor in mathematics class, the math teacher's degree of each time was "different".
There is no sports field, no computer room, and language room. Strictly speaking, Longshan Primary School does not even have a wall. The safety of 301 children is more worrying than the exam results.
Although students still do not have a "formal" toilet until now. An open-air dangerous house with uncovered walls stands next to the school. After the students are here, their urine flows directly into the farmland along the holes below the base of the wall. If they want to defecate, they can only go to the woods nearly 100 meters away from the school. But it is only limited to sunny days, so they have to hold it in a hard way. After a long time, there is too much stool in the woods. "I can't enter, and I'll step on it whenever I'm not young." Principal Li Deshan said, "Now, as long as there is something to cover them, students will solve it on the spot. In the past, senior girls were still shy, but now they are used to it..."
Facing the big cadre who didn't know where he came from, although he was a little restrained, Principal Li finally said what he should say very clearly.
Principal Li said that there is a huge "gap" with the quality of their teaching and primary school students in big cities. What he is even more worried is that children at both ends of the "gap" will sooner or later on the same day. On the surface, the enrollment rate of Longshan's "primary school to junior high school" reaches 100%. However, rural children go to school late and go to the first grade at the age of 8 is "premature" and most of them are over 16 when they enter junior high school. Compulsory education is a normative education and must follow common norms. However, the personality development of people after 15 years old is "explosive", and rebellious psychology follows. "If you are still in the third year of junior high school at the age of 18, it is difficult to find the sense of accomplishment that children of normal age should have, and dropping out of school is like a shadow" is an inevitable phenomenon.
The logic of the villagers is: If you go to school too early, you can’t do your job after graduating from junior high school. Currently, about 130 people in Longshan Village are in junior high school, but more than 100 of them will drop out of school after less than three years of junior high school.
As a result, group of older junior high school students who spoke pure local Mandarin dropped out of school and walked out of the house and regained their father's path. No matter how many difficulties there are in reality, they cannot stop their desire for the outside world. However, group of people from Longshan who went out went out, after a year or two, they still returned with tears like their fathers.
Just take the salary of a child named Ashan who works outside. His piece-based salary is 1,135 yuan, a food subsidy of 300 yuan = 1,435 yuan; a total of 25 days a month, working 115 hours a day; not counting overtime, Ashan's income per hour is: 1,435÷25÷115=5 yuan.
The current monthly minimum wage standard in Fofeng City is 1,100 yuan. Based on working 22 days a month and working 8 hours a day, the hourly minimum wage standard is 625 yuan. In other words, the wage for working in Ashan is already lower than the current minimum wage standard in Fofeng City. If overtime pay is included, the salary level is even lower.
As for such a low salary, Ashan is not the only one who works outside in Longshan Village. Ashan himself said that there are 6 people in his group and about 30 people in his group. The average salary in March is about 1,100 to 1,300 yuan. In addition to the group leader and supervisor, the employees of the entire factory basically only take this number.
A person like him is pretty good, and more people in Longshan can only take over the hoe of their parents, get married and have children, and end their poor and ordinary life.
This is a vicious circle. Although everyone knows it, it lacks the powerful hand to break this vicious circle.
"Zhang Jianxiang, Liu Jun, I suggest you hold a standing committee meeting in this school now and come up with a feasible plan. There is no way to lead the villagers to get rich, but you can't solve the problem of children going to school, right? I'm just waiting here..." After Zhao Jianhui finished speaking, he took out a cigarette and gave it to Principal Li: "I'm sorry, Principal Li, I'm too bureaucratic. I don't know that your school is still like this today..."
"Hehe, it's a good cigarette, you will know when you smell it..." It seems that Principal Li is also an old smoker. He took the cigarette given by Zhao Jianhui and put it under his nose. He smiled and took out the lighter to light it. He took a beautiful breath, and then said, "Leader? Are you from the city? Our requirements are really not high. Just build a few sturdy tiled houses for us students and build a toilet for teachers. We are satisfied. When it rains, the children can block it and solve it on the spot, but we teachers are really embarrassed to do this..."
Looking at Li Deshan's simple face, Zhao Jianhui's eyes became wet again. He nodded heavily, held his hand and said, "Principal Li, don't worry, the leaders in the district are all here. They are holding a meeting to study this matter. If they can't solve it well, I will live here and not leave..."
With the personal attention of the provincial party secretary, Longshan Primary School finally entered the "cement era" two months later. On the day Zhao Jianhui returned to the provincial capital, Longshan Primary School was rebuilt... On June 28, 2013, a new 308-square-meter teaching building of Longshan Primary School was completed.
The completion of this two-story concrete villa-style teaching building finally ended the "old" history of more than a dozen tile houses in the old classroom of Longshan Primary School.
Of course, these are all later stories. Zhao Jianhui, who returned to the provincial capital, was very busy. He devoted all his main energy to the launch of a new leadership assessment system. In this document, Zhao Jianhui finally decided to use Dongkang District as a pilot and implement the cadre appointment system. As expected, the proposal of this system has attracted everyone's attention and discussion, including the disunderstanding and boycott of some of Zhao Jianhui's political allies.
That night, Zhao Jianhui wrote quickly on his desk and wrote a famous saying from the martyr: "The revolution has not yet succeeded, and comrades still need to work hard."
This book is finished, but the story is not the ending. There will be a few chapters of the follow-up notes every day. Friends who don’t want to read can also end this. Friends who are willing to read it can continue reading it for a few days. When the security guard’s story is written here, it is actually restricted by the protagonist’s position and cannot be written down, but Youlong always feels unsatisfied. Maybe he will write a few extra chapters and explain a few people and a few things that he didn’t have time to explain clearly in the book, but now his mind is very confused and he doesn’t know where to start. If he wants to be lazy and rest for a while, he may not write it. But no matter what, he will remind everyone at that time.
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