Chapter 7: Public and Private are Distinct

  Fierce Teacher, Beautiful Private School Queen, Heaven's Bookstore

  After lunch, after washing and dressing, simply putting on a little makeup, I'm almost jealous of myself. The fairy in the mirror, how did she grow up? Is this a human being who is envious of others' prosperity? Alas! The difference between people is still obvious.

  Liu Ya Qian left the mirror, walked out of the bedroom and came to the office. The office was crowded with people waiting for roll call.

  "Already preparing for class so soon? Young people working, have energy, have this spirit. I, in the morning, taught two classes of sixth grade, my energy is exhausted..." Was Mr. Cao saying that to Liu Ya Qian?

  Mr. Cao's desk, sitting opposite Liu Ya Qian's desk at an angle, with a bookshelf behind it, but the bookshelf has become Mr. Cao's private shelf, filled with all sorts of miscellaneous items such as chili sauce, packages, umbrellas, lunchboxes and so on.

  "Teacher Cao, thanks for covering two classes for me this morning." Liu Ya Qian took the initiative to show her gratitude.

  "Don't mention it, you're new here, I've been doing this for years, no need to be polite. Ya Qian, are you used to eating and living here?" Mr. Cao seemed very enthusiastic, but his words were inconsistent with his tone.

  Yes, I'm Xie what, you can't wait, huh!

  But Liu Ya Qian still said: "In the future, I will still need Teacher Cao to take care of me. I'm a newcomer and don't understand anything."

  "No problem. Young people don't understand and ask, who didn't start from the bottom..."

  "Everyone be quiet, let's get started." Director Ma interrupted Mr. Cao's words as soon as he came in.

  "When I was sent down here back then..." Teacher Cao's voice grew louder as he spoke, completely drowning out Director Ma's.

  "Wait a minute! Can't you see I'm busy!" Director Ma bellowed.

  "You're just good at this one thing. You can even get the simplest things wrong, and that's all you'll ever be able to do!" Teacher Cao shot back.

  "How did I get it wrong!" Director Ma exclaimed.

  "You said Mr. Liu was absent this morning, but he was clearly there! Hmm?"

  Director Ma clutched his waist with both hands and was so angry he couldn't speak.

  "Hurry up! Whoever is holding everyone back, if you're late for class, you won't be allowed to go to the bathroom. If you're late getting into the classroom, it's not okay. You'd better hurry, or I'll go to the bathroom myself!" Teacher Cao's voice was very stern.

  Director Ma continued to nod off very ordinarily.

  Liu Ya Qian was left staring in shock at this scene.

  This is too weird. Doesn't Director Ma have any self-respect? Has Teacher Cao been eating gunpowder every day? Is this Teacher Cao trying to show off in front of new people? Or are these "old couple" used to flirting and quarreling with each other?

  Thinking of their final banter, Liu Ya Qian couldn't help but smile secretly.

  Suddenly, no! Why didn't Director Ma read out my name?

  Liu Ya Qian instinctively told herself that if she didn't speak up, it was likely that she would be skipping class.

  "Director Ma, why didn't you read out my name?" Liu Ya Qian asked.

  "Oh, all right, I know," said Director Ma.

  "Director Ma, what do you mean? Are you doing this on purpose? Or can't you stand seeing a beautiful woman? You're so scared that you don't even dare to mention her name?" The one speaking was the school's only physical education teacher, the tall and powerful Li Ke.

  "Haha......"

  "Hehe..."

  "Hehe......"

  The whole room burst out laughing.

  Director Ma shouted at Li Ke with a smile: "Get out of here."

  "You're the leader, you go first and we'll take a look. Director Ma, I'm putting my words on the line, just roll one out and I'll immediately follow suit." Li Ke is quite bold.

  "Alright, alright, dismissed! Hurry up and go to class!" Director Ma seemed to have slipped away with a sullen face.

  "Teacher Liu, don't mind him, he's getting old and his eyes are dimming. In the future, if you scold him a few more times, he won't forget to mention your name." Li Ke said.

  "Ke Zi is right, this old horse, he's a scoundrel who deserves to be scolded. If you don't scold him for one day, he'll feel uncomfortable all over." Mr. Cao chimed in.

  Liu Ya Qian smiled and said: "Alright! I know, next time if he makes a mistake again, I'll scold him severely."

  "That's right." Li Ke smiled and went to class with a smile.

  Liu Ya Qian took the textbook and left the office.

  Collect your emotions, next you will be facing students.

  Since you've become a teacher, you must set an example and take responsibility for your students. This is indeed the engineer of human souls.

  The teaching profession should not be underestimated.

  The weight of being a teacher is heavier than Mount Tai!

  A murderer who kills one person or a few people still has limited impact, and will ultimately be brought to justice and leave no lasting evil legacy.

  And a teacher, if not teaching seriously, leading students astray, then in the future, a spoiled student will affect a part of society, and a class of students is not just a few, so it will produce a series of adverse consequences.

  Therefore, what teachers do can either bring positive energy accumulation or lead to a vicious cycle for the entire society in the future.

  As for this point, Liu Ya Qian is very clear about it.

  From the moment she stepped onto the stage, as a teacher, her sense of mission was sacred to her students!

  ……

  I've gone up onto the stage...

  Liu Ya Qian suddenly felt tense.

  This is unprecedented.

  Something's wrong today.

  The classroom, which was in an uproar just a moment before, fell silent in an instant.

  For a moment, the air was solidified, time was stagnant, and the students' expressions were as if they had been pressed with a pause button...

  All students, especially those male students, their expressions are telling their own eyes that what they see in front of them is real?

  It's obvious that these young students aren't so young anymore!

  ……

  Private schools are better than public schools in all aspects, especially primary schools.

  Nine years of compulsory education, go to public schools, don't spend a penny, but those parents still insist on taking money to send their children to private schools.

  Why? Is it because public schools have weaker teacher resources than private schools? Wrong! Absolutely wrong.

  Public school teachers are all outstanding talents who emerged from fierce competition and were hired based on their strong abilities. Private school teachers, of course, are those who failed to get a teaching position in the public system and had to settle for second best.

  It is thus clear that private school teachers are all those who have been eliminated by public schools.

  It is completely wrong to say that public schools are inferior to private schools in terms of teacher strength.

  So what is the actual reason?

  The key point lies in whether one is on the payroll or not.

  Young teachers who were admitted to the establishment, except for those with good grades, rarely got assigned to schools in the city, so their main assigned schools are mostly in rural areas.

  After going to a rural school, I suddenly realized that it's not what I thought. The dilapidated state of public schools in the countryside is basically visible to all.

  Firstly, these young teachers were disappointed with the hardware. Secondly, those old teachers mixed experience and skin, plus rural children going to school differently from urban areas, these rural children also had to take farming as their main priority, the key is that many people in rural areas are working outside now, and many families think that learning a little bit of literacy is not good enough, it's enough to go out and work.

  Due to parents' lack of cooperation, teachers have developed a slack attitude, and over time, the teaching quality in rural areas has declined sharply.

  Newly joined young teachers are generally very motivated in the first few months, but as time goes on, they discover a frightening phenomenon: their efforts and payoffs are not proportional.

  They worked hard and "shed blood" in their teaching, but in the end, they received the same salary as those old teachers who were muddling along, all of which was allocated by the state's financial appropriations, a fixed amount that didn't change no matter what, with no extra bonuses.

  Old teachers have higher seniority and receive more salary than young people. Young people find that no matter how hard they work, it's always "not worth the effort", and even if they do nothing, they still get paid.

  This way, the enthusiasm is gone. People are inherently lazy, after three years of hard work and one day of slackness, they can't muster up their spirits again.

  What's unbalanced is that young teachers in public schools only earn 1,700 to 1,800 yuan per month, while private school teachers normally get 3,000 yuan.

  What's more, young teachers in the city have also started to make a fortune by running their own private tutoring classes. Young teachers in rural areas are even more envious and dissatisfied. With this mindset, who can still teach well?

  Especially those young teachers who have been unable to get a raise for one or two years, are even more likely to indulge in distractions. In some rural public schools, it's not uncommon for students to be "self-studying" in the classroom during class time, with no teacher present, while the teacher is actually playing mahjong in the office...

  Such a frightening thing is not imagined, but a small reflection of the actual situation in reality.

  Private schools are completely different. Those "famous" teachers, come here, holding back a belly full of energy, must fight to regain their reputation.

  Moreover, private schools are personal "enterprises", and with the corporatization of schools, they have to emphasize efficiency. If you teach poorly, slack off, or just go through the motions, that's not acceptable. Not to mention slacking off, even if students simply express opinions about you as a teacher, or if you really don't have the ability, then it's easy: you're out of here.

  In private schools, students are the "bosses", "customers" and "breadwinners" of those school board members, while teachers are just working partners, which is a social phenomenon that cannot be seen in public schools.

  Moreover, in the past when there were no private schools, a good public school would have enough enrollment slots, and even if you had money, you couldn't get in. This also cultivated the "superiority complex" of those public school teachers.

  As a private school, the more students the better. But those so-called public top schools still haven't changed their mindset and are still arrogant, who can tolerate your attitude now?

  There are plenty of private schools that will take you in, and it's all about the money, isn't it? If something can be settled with money, then it's not a big deal.

  Rural households, even those in extreme poverty, are very rare.

  In addition to the national compulsory education subsidies, private schools also have policies, with an annual refund of 585 yuan for compulsory education book fees, and students from poor families can receive an additional subsidy of 1,000 yuan per year. Under this situation, private schools, especially private primary and secondary schools, began to sprout up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, and for a time, they seemed to be "dominating" the world.

  Another point is that many young people in rural areas go out to work, and the closed management model of private schools, which includes pick-up and drop-off services, food and accommodation, has hit the parents' soft spot.

  Everything is waiting for the development trend of private schools now, and it will get better and better.

  For the country, private schools have also thoroughly solved the problem of left-behind children, sharing the country's worries and relieving parents' concerns. In such a situation, how can private schools not thrive?

  ……

  The most striking thing in private schools is that students' ages are generally older, because retention is a common phenomenon here.

  Schools of course like students to repeat grades because tuition is paid once per semester.

  Liu Ya Qian found that although they were in elementary school, these sixth-grade graduates were all over ten years old, not just any ordinary ten-year-olds, but fourteen or fifteen or sixteen, making up the majority.

  Liu Ya Qian asked, and unexpectedly there were 17-year-old students in the class, 17 years old! Just one more year to become an adult!

  If this were in the past, these students who graduated from junior high school would have been calling someone "dad" or "mom" if they weren't studying.

  Liu Ya Qian's face suddenly turned red.

  To know, now this society, sister and brother love is not fresh.

  He hastily shook his head and calmed down.

  Liu Ya Qian thought to herself: What's wrong with me?

  But those boys' gazes...