Chapter 1487 Two good news!
What appeared in front of Cook and a group of Leshen Technology executives were two rows of dilapidated buildings. In terms of outline, they could barely be called "houses", but it is hard to imagine that such a house was actually a classroom for students to teach!
Cook looked at the dilapidated classroom in front of him, with huge cracks exposed on the cracked walls, which could even accommodate an adult in and out. Through the largest crack, Cook could clearly see the students inside, reading aloud where he couldn't understand the lesson.
A naughty student sitting in the last row secretly bent down while the teacher was not paying attention and crawled out of the crack. However, when he saw Cook and others, he immediately crawled back like a frightened rabbit.
He was very skilled in his movements, obviously not the first time he did this, but he was discovered by the teacher in the classroom.
"Geji, you are disobedient again. Sneaking out of the classroom again. Be careful that I will tell your mother!" said a young female teacher in the classroom.
"Li, you are an official here and you are in charge of education. The educational conditions here are so poor, why don't you improve it?" Seeing the scene in front of you, Cook felt very uncomfortable and said to Li Mingzhe beside him.
He was talking about Ying, but it was not a problem for Lee Mingzhe. Lee Mingzhe was originally a talented student who returned from overseas and was able to communicate smoothly with Ying. Cook also knew this.
Hearing Cook’s question, Li Mingzhe also said in fluent English: “Mr. Cook, you don’t know. This is the poorest place in China, and there are at least hundreds of schools like this. Every year, the country has to invest a lot of financial and material resources here, but it is too difficult, it is really too difficult. Even if the country continues to invest every year, it is still a drop in the bucket.”
Li Mingzhe was also a little heavy. As a provincial leader in charge of education, he certainly knew the current education situation in Sichuan Province. Especially in these areas in western Sichuan, poverty has already taken root here. It is impossible to change it in a short period of time.
"I can understand your difficulties, but no matter what, the children should not be crowded in such a classroom." Cook said this and paused, "I donated one million meters of gold in my personal name to build a new school for these children. It is too dangerous to teach in such a classroom!" Cook said with some emotion.
Hearing Cook's words, Li Mingzhe nodded and said, "Mr. Cook, thank you for your generosity. On behalf of the Sichuan Provincial Education System, I would like to thank you for your contribution to the education cause in Sichuan Province!"
The two of them communicated in English from beginning to end, so except for the few senior assistants around Li Mingzhe and the few senior entourages of Leshen Technology who understood, the officials who accompanied them did not understand the conversation between the two. However, when Li Mingzhe translated the conversation between the two to them, the people all showed joy on their faces. Especially the leaders of Wuke Township and the principal of Wuke Middle School were even more excited and almost crying!
One million meters of gold is equivalent to more than six million yuan, which is enough to build a high-quality middle school. For Wuke Township, this is definitely a great joy!
Director Huang of the Provincial Department of Education held Cook's hand and kept expressing his gratitude! For the top leader in charge of Sichuan Province's education, Director Huang knew very well how dazzling the move was for him! Although it was just a township middle school, it might not be a big deal in the whole province, but don't forget that this is a school donated by Leshen Technology! Their name is here, and this pilot will also be placed here, which is definitely a highlight of his tenure!
With Cook's temporary action, the atmosphere at the scene became much warmer. The group came to the school and stayed in a slightly better office for a while, and it was time for the break.
The director and teachers of Wuke Township Middle School who had received the notice immediately gathered the children on the playground and held a temporary donation ceremony on a small earthen platform on the playground.
Li Mingzhe stood on the simple rostrum and looked at the more than 400 teachers and students standing in the playground. Although there were not many people, this was a middle school with a regular junior high school system. In Sichuan Province, there were many schools like this. Because the mountain people here live in scattered and the dropout rate was very high, the school had few students. Schools like Wuke Township Middle School, which had more than 400 students, could be considered a university.
"Hello, teachers and classmates, today, we are here and bring you two good news. The first good news is that after our efforts, Leshen Virtual School, founded by Leshen Group and has passed the review of the Ministry of Education, will set up a pilot program in our Ukraine Middle School. From today on, everyone can enjoy the most advanced virtual teaching technology in China and even the world to teach! Virtual teaching technology is a great technology, and through it, everyone's learning efficiency will be greatly improved! Especially for students in senior high school, this is even more good news. The college entrance examination will be in less than four months, and there will be virtual
I believe that everyone's college entrance examination results will definitely improve! Here, I would like to wish these students who are preparing for the college entrance examination to achieve good results! At the same time, I would like to tell you about an educational preferential policy that our province will introduce soon. In order to reduce the burden on our Sichuan Province students, the Provincial Department of Education decided to allocate a part of the special funds from the tight funds to the students who are admitted to the university! As long as students who are admitted to the second-class undergraduate or above in the college entrance examination will receive scholarships of varying numbers. If you pass the national key, the Provincial Department of Education will be responsible for all the expenses for everyone in the four years of college!"
After Li Mingzhe said this, a warm applause suddenly erupted from the audience. However, it is better to say that the applause is a thank you for what Li Mingzhe said. You should know that in this extremely backward place where even the oldest desktop computers do not have, the concept of "virtual school" is really new. As for the scholarship plan Li Mingzhe mentioned later, many teachers disagree.
"Policies are good policies, but I don't know how many children who can enjoy such policies can have. The teaching conditions of Ukraine Middle School are too backward. Not to mention undergraduates, children can get into a junior college, which is a remarkable result. Alas, this policy in the province is not practical at all!" Teacher Su Keha stood behind the team of Class 1 (1) of Senior High School, and sighed and thought to himself as he listened to the words of the young leader on the stage.
Sukeha is an authentic local mountaineer in Daliangshan. He has been a teacher at Ukraine Middle School for almost twenty years. Here, he has gone from a young man to an old teacher in his 50s. It can be said that no one has a deeper understanding of Ukraine Middle School than him.
Sukeha is a math teacher and also the head teacher of Grade 1 (1). Sukeha knows the class he teaches best. These students have been limited by educational resources and conditions since they were very young and have received very poor education, resulting in their extremely weak learning foundation. It is better to have rote memorization in those subjects, but if there are students who work hard, they can still get a good grade. But when it comes to science, Sukeha can only smile bitterly.
A mock exam that I just finished, the students in his class had the best scores in mathematics and only scored 78 points! You know, this is a test paper with a full score of 140 points! This score can only be said to have just passed the exam!
Such grades, let alone the second-class undergraduate degree, are hard to go to a junior college degree. The province's preferential policies set by the lowest level is the second-class undergraduate degree. What is the use of such a policy for these children? Besides, even if they really get into such a school and enjoy government scholarships, what about the rest? Where should they come from? As a native native, Sukeha knows how much poverty is here. To be honest, the students who can stand in front of him and insist on completing twelve years of compulsory education have already had very good family conditions. Most of them end up just graduating from a high school here, then getting a diploma, and then going to work outside the mountains!
Therefore, Su Keha didn't actually react much to the "first good news" mentioned by the young high-ranking official on the stage!
However, the next second good news made him a little excited.
"Next, the second good news I want to tell you is that our Ukrainian Middle School will have a new classroom soon!" Li Mingzhe said this, paused, turned his body to the side, and said to Cook next to him: "Please allow me to introduce it to you. This is Mr. Cook, a Leshen Technology, a subsidiary of Leshen Group. Mr. Cook is very concerned about the education cause in our Sichuan Province. Seeing that the teaching environment of our Ukrainian Middle School is very poor and the classroom is dilapidated, Mr. Cook decided to donate one million meters of gold to build a new teaching building of Ukrainian Middle School! Here, on behalf of the education community in Sichuan Province, I would like to thank Mr. Cook for his generosity, and here we also give us warm applause to express our gratitude to Mr. Cook again!"
After Li Mingzhe finished speaking, he took the lead in applause!
This time, without him being driven, many students and teachers in the audience spontaneously clapped their hands! Especially those students, after hearing the news, their faces were red with excitement, and they slapped their hands hard, slapped their hands red!
"That's great, we need to have a new classroom! Finally, we don't have to worry about the day these broken houses will collapse!" Sukeha this time, he really clapped his hands! As an old teacher at Ukraine Middle School, what he was most worried about was the classrooms of Ukraine Middle School. These houses have been around for decades and have been dilapidated and may collapse at any time. Spring is coming again soon. When it comes to rainy season, Sukeha's worry is getting worse day by day. Upon hearing this news, Sukeha feels that he can finally feel a little relieved!
The next procedure was a bit boring, but some leaders above took turns to speak. Sukeha didn't listen much. He only heard the last one, which was that the principal of their school said that after the meeting, all the class teachers should go to the warehouse to collect virtual teaching equipment, and do a good job in statistics and distribution of students in the class. At the same time, starting today, the class teachers and teachers will also use the evening, Saturday and Sunday to conduct a week-long use training.
Sukeha did not have much hope for this new technology. In his opinion, the virtual school is far less powerful than a new school. However, since it was the principal's order, Sukeha still had to do it.
After the meeting, Sukeha and several other class teachers from the school came to the school’s warehouse to collect the so-called “virtual equipment”. There, he saw more than a dozen cardboard boxes piled on the ground. Two of them had been opened, and small white packaging boxes were exposed from it.
Those boxes are very small, almost the size of a cigarette box. Seeing such a small thing, Sukeha didn't expect this so-called "virtual teaching" device. He has seen computers in the county town, and those are big guys, like big TVs. How many functions can it have when it is so small?
Although he did not give up hope, Sukeha still carefully signed his name on the receipt sheet, and marked it as "Class 1 (1) and received a total of fifty-three". This is the number of all the children and teachers in their class added together, and Sukeha remembers it very clearly in his heart.
After the registration was completed, Sukeha, with the help of the staff, counted fifty-three small white boxes, put them in plastic bags, and then carried the bag back to class with them. Although there were fifty-three, these boxes were very light and easy to carry in their hands. Sukeha didn't have the time to think about these little tricks, and he had to take math class. In today's class, he had to correct the last monthly exam paper.
Back in the dilapidated classroom, Sukeha put the bag in the corner of the wall, then gave the papers on the lectern to the class monitor, asking him to distribute the test papers to everyone. He then looked around at the students in the classroom excitedly talking about the new classroom, coughed and said, "Everyone is quiet! Next, let's talk about the monthly exam papers! In this exam, our class's grades were generally not ideal, and many students made mistakes that should not have happened! There are still many people who have not mastered the key knowledge points I emphasized before..."
As Sukha said, he turned around and wrote the formula on the shabby blackboard. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!