What's wrong with me, a school principal, listening to students' suggestions?

The next day at 9:30 a.m.

Lin Yucai sat in his office, flipping through the resumes in his hand.

One of them was familiar to him; he had seen it before.

The second one is from Wang Liheng, who is 38 years old and has a master's degree in physics.

With eight years of teaching experience, he once taught a top-performing class at the No. 2 Middle School in the city.

However, everyone's resumes are very impressive, but a good resume does not necessarily mean good teaching.

He put down his resume, picked up his phone, and sent a message to Zhang Yang.

"Meet in the conference room at 10 o'clock, and bring Skinny Monkey and the others."

Zhang Yang replied instantly: "Received!"

9:55.

Zhang Yang, Shouhou, Liu Meng, and Zhao Yang appeared at the conference room door on time.

"Principal, you wanted to see us?" Zhang Yang pushed open the door and came in.

"Hmm." Lin Yucai pointed to the chair next to him. "Sit."

The four people sat down, looking puzzled.

"Three teachers are here for interviews today," Lin Yucai said bluntly. "I'll have you few as judges."

"Huh?" The skinny guy was stunned. "We're going to be judges?"

"That's right." Lin Yucai nodded. "You students know best what kind of teacher is good and what kind of teacher is bad."

"But..." Liu Meng hesitated, "Can we do it? We were among the worst students in school."

"Why not?" Lin Yucai laughed. "Just do it like you normally do in class. Find fault with things if you want. If you're satisfied, you can try listening to it."

"Is it really that simple?" Zhao Yang was skeptical.

"It's that simple." Lin Yucai stood up. "By the way, you can ask questions later, but don't ask anything pointless."

"Ask the kinds of questions you don't usually understand, and see if the teacher can explain them to you clearly."

The four of them exchanged a glance, and their eyes lit up.

"Understood!" Zhang Yang smiled. "This is something we're good at."

At 10:00 AM sharp, the first person to be interviewed was Li Xinyi.

She was wearing a floral dress, had her hair in a ponytail, and looked quite young.

After entering the conference room, she was taken aback for a moment.

Because sitting on the judges' panel were not only Lin Yucai and Su Qingyan, but also four students.

"Teacher Li, please have a seat."

Lin Yucai pointed to the chair opposite him.

Li Xinyi sat down and looked at the students with some nervousness.

"Don't be nervous," Lin Yucai smiled. "These are student representatives from our school, and they will be participating in the interviews today."

Li Xinyi nodded, relaxing a little.

"Let me introduce myself first," Su Qingyan said.

Li Xinyi took a deep breath and began to introduce her teaching experience.

Although she did not serve for long, she explained things in great detail.

I've been teaching high school freshmen since my first year, all the way up to last year when I was teaching senior high students during their final sprint.

When he got emotional, his eyes even glistened.

Lin Yucai listened attentively, nodding occasionally.

Zhang Yang and the others listened attentively. Although they didn't quite understand the technical terms, they could tell that the teacher genuinely loved teaching.

"Teacher Li, could you explain a problem to us?"

Lin Yucai took out a test paper and pointed to a function question on it.

"Of course." Li Xinyi stood up and walked to the whiteboard.

She picked up a marker and began writing the solution steps on the whiteboard.

Her handwriting was very neat, and every step was clearly marked.

When she gets to a key point, she pauses and asks, "Does everyone understand this?"

"Teacher, I have a question."

The skinny monkey stared at the whiteboard for a long time, then suddenly raised his hand.

"Go ahead," Li Xinyi said, turning around.

"Why do we need to find the domain of this function this way?" Skinny Monkey pointed to an expression on the whiteboard. "I don't understand."

Li Xinyi paused for a moment, then smiled.

"That's a good question." She walked to the whiteboard and redrawn a coordinate system.

"You see, the domain of a function is all the values ​​that x can take."

"In this problem, the denominator cannot be zero, so we need to eliminate the case where the denominator is zero."

As she spoke, she drew the graph of the function on a coordinate system.

"See that? There's a breakpoint here because the denominator is zero, so the function isn't defined at that point."

The skinny monkey stared at the whiteboard for a few seconds, then suddenly realized something.

"I understand!"

Li Xinyi smiled. "Any other questions?"

Liu Meng raised his hand. "Teacher, can this problem be solved in another way?"

"Okay." Li Xinyi wrote another solution on the whiteboard.

This time, she spoke even slower, asking "Can you understand?" after each step.

The four students listened attentively, nodding occasionally.

After explaining the problem, Li Xinyi put down her pen and turned to look at Lin Yucai.

"Principal Lin, are there any other questions?"

"That's all." Lin Yucai stood up. "Teacher Li, you can go back and wait for further notice."

After Li Xinyi left, Lin Yucai looked at Zhang Yang and the others.

"How is it?"

"It's good." Zhang Yang nodded. "She explained things very clearly and was very patient."

"I think it's good too," Skinny Monkey chimed in. "I wasn't very clear about the domain she was talking about before, but I finally understand it today."

Lin Yucai and Su Qingyan exchanged a glance and both smiled.

The second interviewee was Wang Liheng.

He was wearing a white shirt and glasses. After entering the conference room, he first nodded politely.

Hello everyone.

"Teacher Wang, please sit down." Lin Yucai gestured to the chair.

Wang Liheng sat down, his gaze sweeping over the four students sitting beside him, his brows furrowing slightly.

"Principal Lin, who are these people...?"

"Student representatives," Lin Yucai smiled, "will also be participating in the interviews today."

Wang Liheng's expression was somewhat unnatural, but he still nodded.

"Understood."

Su Qingyan asked him to introduce himself, and Wang Liheng spoke fluently, recounting his teaching experience at the No. 2 Middle School in the city in detail.

"I have taught three graduating classes of senior high school students, and the success rate of getting into top universities was over 60% each time."

His tone was confident.

"Teacher Wang, could you explain a physics problem to us?"

Lin Yucai handed over a test paper.

Wang Liheng took the test paper, glanced at it, and then stood up and walked to the whiteboard.

He spoke very quickly, writing formulas one after another on the whiteboard with almost no pauses.

The whole problem was explained in less than five minutes.

"The key to this question lies in the law of conservation of energy." Wang Liheng put down his pen, turned to Lin Yucai, and asked, "Any other questions?"

Lin Yucai didn't speak, but looked at Zhang Yang.

"Teacher, could you please explain it again?"

Zhang Yang stared at the whiteboard for a long time before raising his hand.

Wang Liheng paused for a moment, "What didn't you understand?"

"All of them," Zhang Yang said honestly.

Wang Liheng's expression was somewhat unpleasant, but he still patiently explained it again.

This time he spoke even faster, almost reading the formulas off the whiteboard.

After he finished speaking, he looked at Zhang Yang and asked, "Do you understand now?"

Zhang Yang shook his head.

Wang Liheng's brows furrowed even more.

"You can't even understand this?"

"I'm sorry, teacher, our foundation is relatively weak." Zhang Yang lowered his head.

Wang Liheng sighed, "Your foundation is weak. You need to go back and study hard. Just talking about these things won't help."

Lin Yucai's face darkened.

Su Qingyan glanced at him, then stood up and spoke.

"Teacher Wang, that concludes today's interview. Please wait for our notification."

After Wang Liheng left, the conference room was quiet for a few seconds.

"Principal," Zhang Yang looked up, "have I let you down?"

"What's so embarrassing?" Lin Yucai laughed, patting him on the shoulder. "You did a great job."

"But……"

"It's not your fault that you have a weak foundation," Lin Yucai interrupted him. "But a good teacher should have the patience to teach students with weak foundations, instead of telling them to go back and study on their own."

Zhang Yang's eyes lit up, and he nodded vigorously.

"Of course, you still need to read more books when you get back, and you also need to preview and consolidate the material yourself. You can't rely on the teacher completely."

The skinny boy's eyes lit up at this question. "Principal, does not relying on teachers mean growing up?"

"You little brat!"