"The school put our children in Class 13 because they thought our grades were not good. The school had given up on us a long time ago. How come the school has no responsibility?"
"I work hard every day to earn money to feed him, but he doesn't study hard. Is it my fault?"
"My family is not good at studying. There are many opportunities for us to go out and do other things. Why do we need you to meddle in our affairs?"
The parents present were not to be trifled with. They were stunned for a moment, and then they attacked Lao Lin madly with crackling sounds, like a frying pan exploding.
Lao Lin listened to every word, sitting leisurely in his seat, smiling, remembering those who spoke and their faces.
There were conflicts among parents, and the most embarrassed person in the classroom was the head teacher sitting in front of the podium.
Li Shu looked left and right, wanting to say something to ease the atmosphere, but at this moment, Lao Lin glanced at her.
The female teacher's eyes changed, as if she received some message, and then she stood quietly without saying a word.
The parents' protests gradually subsided until they ceased altogether.
"Did you hear that?"
Lao Lin's voice slowly rang out.
"What are you listening to?" some parents with lower emotional intelligence muttered.
"Did you hear what your parents said?" Lao Lin asked the students in the class.
The whole classroom was mysteriously silent and no one answered his question.
Old Lin still insisted on asking the children: "What do you think of these words?"
Most of the children kept their heads down and said nothing. Lao Lin only asked three questions without even saying anything politely. However, the atmosphere in the classroom was as if the students had been scolded by the most severe teacher.
"Does it sound hopeless? The school is irresponsible to you. Your parents seem to have worked hard to raise you and think they have done enough. But no one is responsible for your future. How do you feel?"
"Just...just like that?" Suddenly, a tentative voice came from the last row of the classroom.
Old Lin looked over and noticed one: "Little boy, you have a lot of ideas. Come on, tell us what 'just like that' means."
"I don't know." Zheng Matt was unusually serious. "Let's take it one step at a time and see what happens."
“Where do you think your next step will be?”
"I have no idea?"
"Open the white paper in your hand and see where your next step is most likely to be?"
"Technical school, right?"
"What major?"
"Calculator, my dad said it makes money."
Zheng's father made a "tsk" sound, signaling him to shut up quickly: "How old are you and you're already thinking about making money?"
"Didn't you always tell me to finish my studies quickly and start earning money?"
"What about you?" Lao Lin looked at him. "Regardless of what your father said, what do you want to do? What are you interested in in the future?"
Matt Zheng opened his mouth and subconsciously wanted to answer Lao Lin, but after struggling for a long time, he found that he couldn't say anything at all.
"I don't know either……"
He finally spoke honestly and looked at Lao Lin with hopeful eyes, as if hoping to get the correct answer from him.
However, Lao Lin just said: "If you don't know, think about it carefully."
There was a slight sound of disappointment in the classroom. It seemed that Zheng Matt was not the only one who wanted to get an answer from Lao Lin.
Matt Zheng looked a little unwilling: "I don't understand, uncle, what should I think?"
Lao Lin looked at the head teacher on the podium: "Do you have any suggestions, teacher?"
Li Shu said: "Teacher thinks that if you don't know what to do for the time being, you should study hard first, at least go to high school, and when you figure it out in the future, you will have another chance to choose."
Dad Zheng got angry: "What do you mean? You look down on us technical secondary school students. I graduated from technical secondary school and now I run a supermarket and make tens of thousands of yuan a month, much more than you!"
Matt Zheng was even more confused: "Then why did the teacher say that if I go to technical secondary school, I will have no chance in the future?"
Li Shu was very tactful: "There are still opportunities, but you have to be prepared and pay a higher price..."
"What's the price?"
Li Shu couldn't answer and could only go to see Lao Lin.
Lao Lin is very patient: "I can only say that if, if you are lucky enough to find something you like, you will not be content to just touch the surface of it. When you want to keep pursuing it, you will know what the price is."
At this point, his tone changed, "In fact, the above sentence is usually spiritual chicken soup. In fact, although opportunities are for those who are prepared, people who don't have opportunities often don't need to prepare."
When Lin Chaoxi heard this, she felt her knees hurt a lot. She had experienced the truth in Lao Lin's last words.
"Oh, is that so? No one told me before!" Matt Zheng became frustrated.
"This is not your fault," said Lao Lin seriously. "It is your family, school and our society that have failed to provide you with the most perfect environment for growth."
Lao Lin looked at the parents who had questioned him just now and said, "Which parent just said, 'The school has assigned us to Class 13, and the school is responsible', please raise your hands?"
The parents looked at each other in bewilderment, and finally the mother of one of the boys shouted, "What's wrong with what I said?"
"You're right!" Lao Lin nodded in agreement.
The mother's eyes widened, thinking that Lao Lin might be sick.
Lao Lin: "But the school is wrong. What can you do about it? High-quality educational resources are so limited. Your child is studying in a key junior high school, which is already very good. Ordinary families are even more helpless. Our status in a sense determines what kind of basic education our children will receive and what kind of industry they will be guided to. It is very unfair, but the degree of unfairness is actually much better than 100 years ago."
Old Lin looked at Zheng Matt's father again: "You just asked your son's head teacher what qualifications she has to look down on you, because she is still trying to get your son out of some of the 'unfairness' you have caused. This is where she has the qualifications to look down on you."
Like a press conference, Lao Lin continued to call people: "Let me translate what you just said - you work hard every day to earn money to feed your children, you have done enough, right?"
"Isn't it?!"
"Let me correct you. Providing food and drink to our children is what the state law requires us to do, while teaching them to read, behave, and help them grow is what society requires of us. But admit it, education is too tiring. There is no entry threshold to being a parent in this world. We are all trying to figure out how to educate our children. It is our many shortcomings and mistakes that have led to their problems."
The parents began to whisper to each other, and even the children felt a little indignant when they heard Lao Lin blaming their parents like this.
But Lao Lin didn't care about that. He pointed to the last parent very accurately and said, "Finally, I will answer Liu Ping's mother's question about 'none of my business'."
Lao Lin said, "Unfortunately, the children are not only your children, but also the children of this society. As a member of society, my future depends on them, so this matter still has something to do with me."
"So according to you, if we are not good at studying, it has nothing to do with us?"
Finally, a brave child raised his hand and asked with a smile.
"Unfortunately, kid, you may have misunderstood me..." Lao Lin also smiled, like a seasoned hunter who saw his prey fall into a trap.
"We adults are shameless. Are there so many problems in your family, school, and society? But what can you do? You still have to bear our mistakes, accept our manipulation, and walk a path of life that is 'just like this'."
"Why!?" some students were indignant.
"Because we adults are not only extremely stubborn, but also very limited in our abilities. We cannot change the problems you are suffering from at this stage. Not only that, I am not responsible for the problems we have created."
The classroom fell silent again, like a small empty universe, giving people a moment of absolute quiet thinking.
"Since you can't change, if we don't want to be manipulated, we have to work hard to change ourselves." The team leader felt something was wrong no matter how he thought about it. Finally, he frowned and looked at Lao Lin, "How cruel! You even implied that we should work hard to change the current social situation. Can I pretend that I didn't hear what you just said?"
"It's too late." said Lao Lin.
"How shameless!"
The whole class shouted to Lao Lin almost in unison.
Comrade Lao Lin, who was answering reporters' questions at the end, then laughed.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com