"So, you're saying that a Chinese teacher named Zhou Yu took over this ordinary class, gave these students extra lessons in less than a year, didn't charge a penny, and then sent 15 students in his class to college?!!!"

After Wang Hongwen heard what Li Jianping had to say about the details of the situation, he looked at Li Jianping in amazement.

"Principal, it's Zhou Yu, not Zhou Yu!" Li Jianping corrected, "That's about it! To be precise, there were only 15 people in their class who were willing to learn, and now all of them are enrolled in college."

"According to my friend, the key class started with a normal class on Saturday. After Zhou Yu found out, he wanted to ask the teachers of their class to do the same. But the key class is arranged by the school and has tuition fees! How can you give them the money if you do it yourself?"

"So other teachers were unwilling to do it, but this teacher named Zhou Yu didn't give up. He did it himself because other teachers refused to do it! He did all the work that other teachers should do, including math, English, and liberal arts. He taught them all!"

"As a result, he organized this weekend tutoring, but he didn't force all students to attend. It's all voluntary! If you want to come, I'll teach you well. If you don't want to come, I won't force you."

"The 15 students on the list in your hand who have been admitted to undergraduate programs are all the students in his cram school!"

"Tsk tsk, if he only did it once or twice during class this weekend, it would be fine, but he has been doing this for a whole year. Needless to say, I admire him a little bit."

Li Jianping sat at his desk and said to Wang Hongwen with a smile, "But it's a bit bad. You don't charge for this class anyway, so if you want to teach, you should teach everyone well. Why do you want voluntary participation? Then you won't care about the rest of the students in your class?"

"There's no such thing as being a teacher!"

In the end, although Li Jianping's words were still full of admiration for Zhou Yu, his last sentence clearly showed that he somewhat disagreed with Zhou Yu's approach.

But Wang Hongwen, who had listened to the whole story, was full of goodwill towards this young man whom he had never met before. After hearing what Li Jianping said, he couldn't help but glare at him.

"How can we manage this? How can we manage this?! This is high school! Not the nine-year compulsory education of elementary and middle schools! Do we still need teachers to beg you to study?"

Wang Hongwen was a little angry. "Most of them are adults or almost adults! Didn't Teacher Zhou give them a chance? Didn't he say at the time that they should participate voluntarily?"

"Teacher Xiao Zhou didn't stop those with poor grades from attending, did he? Look at this guy named Wang Jingqi! How much did he get on the final exam in the second semester of his senior year? A little over 300! Didn't he go to Teacher Xiao Zhou's weekend tutoring class? As a result, he got 630! Isn't Teacher Xiao Zhou's work good enough?"

"Why don't others who have better grades than Wang Jingqi know how to participate?! People who love themselves will always love them, and people who respect themselves will always respect them. Even they look down on themselves and give up on themselves! What do you expect others to do!"

"Teacher Xiao Zhou is not a saint, nor is she their parent. Does she have to kneel down and beg them to attend class?!!"

Li Jianping was stunned for a moment, obviously not reacting to how a casual remark he made could elicit such a big reaction from Wang Hongwen.

But he didn't refute anything, and immediately agreed cheerfully, "Your reaction is a bit too much, right? I didn't say anything! Yes, yes, yes, it's my shallow understanding, please don't be angry, it's my fault, I said the wrong thing, I shouldn't have! Okay!"

Wang Hongwen didn't really have any problem with Li Jianping. He said so much for Zhou Yu only out of his respect as an old educator who had been working in the education industry for decades for a young teacher who had ideals and was working hard to achieve them.

"By the way, you just said that he is a trainee teacher and was arranged to intern at Wuzhou Middle School? And he has conflicts with Sun Minghua?" Wang Hongwen paused, suddenly remembered what Li Jianping had just said, and asked hurriedly.

"Yes! According to the gossip my friend told me, Zhou Yu is from Jiangcheng Normal University. For unknown reasons, he was arranged to do an internship at Wuzhou Middle School! But not long after he arrived, he had a conflict with Sun Minghua over an exam!"

"It seems that there was a student in Zhou Yu's class who scored over 500. Yes, that's the one who scored 639 on this list. And I don't know what Sun Minghua was thinking, but he insisted on saying that the student cheated and forced him to admit his mistake at the meeting. Then the two of them had a conflict!"

"Tsk tsk, isn't Sun Minghua a bit mentally ill? If Teacher Zhou was in our school, we would have to support him! With the number of students in our school, wouldn't our school have to have dozens more students who can pass the first and second tier entrance exams this year?"

Wang Hongwen sat behind his desk without saying a word. He just picked up the cigarette on the table, lit it for himself, and thought while smoking.

Seeing this, Li Jianping stopped talking to avoid disturbing the old principal's thoughts. He just followed Wang Hongwen's example, picked up his cigarette, lit it for himself, and waited quietly.

After a long time, when the cigarette in his hand was almost burned out, Wang Hongwen finally spoke again.

"Jianping!"

"Ah, Principal, what's wrong?" Li Jianping asked when he saw Wang Hongwen calling his name.

"Do you have the contact information of this teacher Xiao Zhou?" Wang Hongwen asked calmly.

"I really don't have that! I have to ask again," Li Jianping said, "Principal, you don't want to..."

Wang Hongwen nodded without hesitation, "I want to get in touch with this teacher Xiao Zhou! See if it's possible to have him come directly to our school for vocational education!"

"Ah???" This time it was Li Jianping's turn to be surprised. He asked tentatively, "You don't mean to let this young teacher who hasn't even graduated from college enter our school without taking the exam, right?"

"Why, no?"

"Uh, this is too... I don't have a problem with you, just talk about the facts! What I mean is, isn't this a bit too much of a compliment to him? He only brought up 15 undergraduates, right?"

"This matter of Teacher Zhou is not uncommon in Blanket Factory Middle School. As for letting him enter our school directly with a quota? If other teachers knew about this, they would have objections, wouldn't they? Isn't it better to let him enter our school through an exam?"

Wang Hongwen was almost amused by Li Jianping. "Jianping, you are so young, but your thinking seems older than mine? What do you mean you only trained 15 undergraduates?!"

"First of all, let's not talk about whether Wuzhou Middle School is worthy of being compared with Maotanchang Middle School. Let's just talk about one thing. If any teacher in our school is given 15 students with an average score of more than 300, can he bring all these 15 students to more than 540 points in less than a year? If there is any teacher who says he can do it, needless to say, I will step down next year and let him be the principal!"

"That's not the case, that's not the case!" Li Jianping said quickly.

Wang Hongwen ignored him and continued, "Also, according to what you said, with Teacher Zhou's level, why should he come to our school if he is allowed to take the exam?!"

"Let's not talk about the famous schools in our province, such as Luzhou No. 1 Middle School and No. 8 Middle School, Jiangcheng No. 1 Middle School, No. 12 Middle School, and the Foreign Language School affiliated to the Normal University, but are Ruxu Middle School and No. 1 Middle School in our county not better than our school?"

"Why can't they go to these better schools by taking the conventional route? Why do they have to come to our school? How is our school better than those famous schools? Why do they have to be so shameless to get into our school?"

"We recruit talents without any restrictions! For this kind of talent, it is impossible to recruit him to our school through conventional means! We have to use other means to attract him!"

Li Jianping was almost convinced by Wang Hongwen and nodded, "Okay, Principal, I'll call my friend and see if I can get Teacher Zhou's cell phone number!"

Wang Hongwen nodded, "As soon as possible! Before other schools pay attention, we must contact Teacher Zhou first and confirm our intention with him!"

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