I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 36 What kind of life-risking is this?

As a national-level arguing athlete, Zhang Da'an eventually managed to get the parents who came to argue with him to obediently pay 58,000 yuan. If they didn't pay, they should go elsewhere to master the core technology.

I didn't originally plan to set up a humanities class, mainly because improving the overall score in humanities is much more difficult than in science. Quickly doing practice tests can only solve a small part of the problem, and rote memorization can only solve a small part of the problem. It requires a lot of designing memory associations to answer questions quickly within the effective time.

For history and politics questions, many questions are really difficult to understand. You may have memorized all the knowledge points and summarized the standard answers, but if you misunderstand the question, you will answer the wrong question.

Moreover, questions that play on word choice are everywhere, such as "colony," "semi-colonial," "semi-colonial and semi-feudal," and "completely turned into a colony" in modern history. There is a certain "word game" involved in the questions, which is very unfriendly to most liberal arts students with average test-taking abilities.

Of course, once the memory association is set up, it's easy to get started.

Typically, top-notch tutors will design scenarios for one-on-one tutoring, similar to the scenario design for classical Chinese literature appreciation.

However, it is time-consuming and requires coordination.

It can be described as an advanced version of games played by kindergarten children, or a simplified stage play.

Taking "Zou Ji Advises King Qi to Accept Criticism," "Chu Long Persuades the Queen Dowager of Zhao," and "Tian Ji's Horse Race" as examples, students are asked to play different roles to understand the practical significance of classical Chinese texts. This method of appreciation is not only highly efficient, but also involves picture memory, video memory, and scene memory, so there is virtually no chance of forgetting it after three days.

Just like when I was a child, I would take firecrackers and blow up poop; that scene is the concrete image of the word "childhood".

But as I said before, it's very costly. Test preparation requires a three-week cycle of repeated practice, and strengthening memory in history and politics is a similar process. Generally speaking, ordinary high schools rarely have this kind of resources.

Teachers have limited energy, and for most teachers, this is first and foremost a job, and only secondly do they have any aspirations in this job.

Six hundred yuan a month... What's the point of risking your life?

If you teach more than two classes and are involved in scene design, you need to be physically and mentally fit, as well as have good interpersonal relationships; otherwise, the teaching team will give you a hard time.

Therefore, in terms of improving test-taking skills, science subjects are much simpler and less strenuous than humanities subjects, while humanities subjects are more troublesome and have a lower cost-effectiveness ratio.

However, the tuition fee is 58,000 yuan a year...

What kind of bicycle do you want?
Anyway, the Shazhou City Education Bureau went all out, helping Zhang Da'an recruit people everywhere, even poaching people all the way to the provincial capital, Jiangning City, causing chaos and confusion.

"Director Qiu, Mayor Xiao called and said that someone from the provincial bureau has filed a complaint."

"What's there to be afraid of? Xindongweigang Middle School has already agreed that, in addition to expanding the eleven classes by five, they can also give us room for a 'two plus two' arrangement."

"Wow, Director Qiu, this is incredible! Doesn't that mean we've gained at least another 20 million?"

"So now everyone in the bureau who can get involved is out there. There are three recruitment fairs across the Yangtze River, and I had the Human Resources Bureau print out huge full-body photos of them. To be fair, Zhang An, this young man, looks quite dashing in a suit." The so-called "two plus two" means that four more classes can be added, but they can't all be arts or sciences; they can only be half of each, and preferably only two classes.

The office secretary who came to inform us of the situation immediately mentioned at least 20 million, which was calculated based on the "five plus two" that were added after the eleven classes, which is seven classes in total.

In fact, the students in these sixteen classes already cover high school repeaters from all twelve prefecture-level cities in the province. There are also a few students from Jianghuai Province who are having second thoughts, but these students have connections and can receive test preparation training at "Zhang An Education" before returning to Jianghuai Province to take the college entrance examination.

College admissions do not consider national rankings, but only provincial rankings. Therefore, among the first batch of students in the "Zhang An Education" college entrance examination retake class, these students from the Jianghuai province are likely to have the best scores.

Candidates within Jiangkou Province are simply competing internally. Even if they score a billion times better than those from other provinces with the same ranking, they are still competing with people within the province.

Moreover, these students from Jianghuai Province are not simple either. They attended primary school in Jiangning, and their college entrance examination scores in Jianghuai Province this year were not far from the cutoff line for top universities. However, they did not want to go abroad but still wanted to attend a good university, so they chose to repeat the year.

The reason for choosing "Zhang An Education" is not only because of its effective advertising, but also because an elder in my family is an old comrade-in-arms of Qiu Jianmin; furthermore, compared to those prestigious schools, the cost of a year of training with the top scorer in the national college entrance examination is only 58,000 yuan, which is really cheap.

Extremely high cost-performance ratio!
You should know that if their family were to use connections to get into "XX Affiliated High School" or other similar prestigious schools, it would cost at least 200,000 yuan.

These parents are all willing to argue with Zhang Da'an, but in essence, they still have enough time and money to support their children and let them slack off for three to five years.

Compared to their own children getting into top-tier universities through proper means, they were more interested in Zhang Da'an choosing to repeat the year and study humanities.

Zhang Da'an was quite the prankster; he set up a bulletin board at the school gate that read, "300 days until Zhang An becomes the top liberal arts student."

It's both impressive and glamorous. Many parents have chosen to buy a 20,000 yuan apartment in Shazhou City to accompany their children to school. If their child wants to eat something, they can have it prepared and driven 10 kilometers to deliver it.

Oil is more expensive than vegetables, but the vegetables are filled with a mother's love.

By August 28th, the decision on whether to expand the last few classes was finally made.

There was a parent of a student from Jianghuai Province who was a very influential and wealthy woman. She helped the Shazhou City Education Bureau make connections, and she could find people in Luzhou that she couldn't find in Jiangning!
He contacted more than 30 "teaching experts" in Luzhou and even called a bus to take them to Shazhou City for interviews.

Interviews were held on the morning of August 28th, and 18 people were confirmed as qualified on the afternoon of August 28th. On the evening of August 28th, the Education Bureau and Xindongweigang Middle School, along with all those who spoke good Mandarin, called the families of the last remaining candidates to notify them of their successful admission.

That same night, the Shazhou City Printing Factory worked overtime, and at four o'clock in the morning on the 29th, when the sun rose, they dispatched dozens of vehicles to have drivers deliver the admission notices to the students' homes.

On August 30th, at the unveiling and ribbon-cutting ceremony, prominent figures in the city, anyone with any connection to education, came over to clap hands and take photos.

Then on September 1st, Xindongweigang Middle School welcomed its first semester. Zhang Zhengdong, the head of the Private Education Section of the Education Bureau and the principal of Xindongweigang Middle School, personally stood at the brand-new school gate and welcomed all 38,000 and 58,000 students to register with the warmest smile and the most enthusiastic applause.

(End of this chapter)