The next day, Gu Yifeng handed Qiu Yi a list.
Qiu Yi took a look and saw that half of the educated youth had signed up and wanted to take the exam.
Qiu Yi nodded to Gu Yifeng, "Thanks!"
"You're welcome, Teacher Qiu, you'll have to work harder in the future!" Gu Yifeng said to Qiu Yi with a half-smile before turning and leaving.
Qiu Yi looked at the list in his hand. Yang Man, Hu Doudou, and of course, Gu Yifeng himself were not on it.
That's good too. Now that they're here, I have to be careful that they don't oppose me or deliberately cause trouble!
This result turned out to be exactly what Yan Yan and Zhao Huanhuan had guessed.
Three days later, Qiu Yi conducted an exam for the fourteen people who had signed up.
Of course, the content of the exam is not limited to textbook knowledge, but also includes some measures that teachers take to deal with students when they encounter difficulties.
In short, Qiu Yi's test assesses both IQ and EQ.
A few days later, he announced the results and admitted six people.
There was a young man in the village who studied in high school for a year before the school was closed and he didn't continue his studies. His name was Tao Shize.
The other five were all sent-down youth.
Zhao Huanhuan, Wen Yan, Fang Mei, Lu Jianguo, Fang Zhuoyang, and Qiu Yi's former roommate.
After the six people were confirmed, Qiu Yi reported them to the brigade leader, and from then on, these six people worked hard with him in the primary school.
At the same time, the brigade leader also had to report this matter to the commune.
Starting the day after the quota was set, Qiu Yi organized six people to clean and tidy up their primary school by hand, removing weeds and clearing away debris. With the help of the villagers, the roof was repainted and the collapsed courtyard wall was repaired.
The brick walls of the building were washed with basins of water, cultural walls were set up on campus, slogans were written, and the doors and windows that the carpenters had helped to build were painted green.
Some small trees were planted on campus, the playground was cleaned up, and basketball hoops and ping-pong tables were installed.
They brought back the leftover bricks from building the educated youth settlement and paved the courtyard in the schoolyard. Except for the tree pits, the ground in the teaching area was paved with blue bricks.
The campus wasn't very big to begin with, and there were enough bricks left over.
Of course, drainage routes within the campus have also been provided.
The money spent on paint and other supplies for the school was provided by the village committee.
At the same time, they did not neglect enrollment. In the village and several nearby villages, they went door-to-door to encourage children of primary school age to enroll.
Regarding the registration fee, after discussing it with the team leader, they decided to charge each child 15 cents per half-semester, plus the cost of books, which would be around 50 or 60 cents.
The villagers could accept that their children could attend school in the village for just five or six cents, so classes for grades one through three were quickly established.
They enrolled nineteen students in the first grade, seventeen in the second grade, and ten in the third grade.
These three grades are basically for children aged eight to twelve.
The children in second grade all previously attended first grade, and the children in third grade all previously attended first or second grade. Their families thought it was too far to go to school in the commune, so they had the children take a break from school and come back home in the last two years.
As for the fourth and fifth graders, they counted the children in several villages. There weren't many children in the third grade, only nine in total, the youngest being eleven and the oldest fourteen.
When Qiu Yi returned, he discussed with the other five teachers how to divide the nine students.
The final decision was to place them all in the fourth grade, and not to set them up for the fifth grade this year.
After making the decision, they communicated with the parents. After some consideration, some parents agreed, while others refused.
The ones who refused were the fourteen-year-old and the two thirteen-year-olds. They believed that children of thirteen or fourteen were already capable of doing adult work. They could earn ten work points a day, or at least eight, which would greatly reduce the burden on their families.
Qiu Yi, Zhao Huanhuan, and Wen Yan visited the three families three times, but they were determined not to let their children go to school. The parents said they didn't want to lose this source of labor so that their younger children wouldn't starve.
The three of them had no choice but to leave disappointed, so they put the remaining six students in the fourth grade.
After the number of students was finalized, Qiu Yi personally took the list of students to the higher-level education department to order textbooks for the children.
We also need to buy notebooks for writing.
Qiu Yi and Wen Yan took care of these things, making countless trips to the commune and Shanglin City. Finally, in late August, everything was settled, the books were retrieved, and the textbooks were ready.
Fearing that some families might not even be able to afford pens, the teachers pooled their money to buy pencils, erasers, and ballpoint pens for the first batch of 52 students.
They didn't buy many pens, only twelve, intending to use them as prizes for the first midterm exam.
After Qiu Yi and Wen Yan brought back the books and pens, Zhao Huanhuan and the others cleaned up the tables, chairs, and benches that the village carpenter had made over the past two months and arranged them in each classroom.
The blackboards in each classroom have been painted, and the learning area at the back of the classroom has also been set up.
The windows in each classroom were installed, and Zhao Huanhuan and the others cleaned them.
The day before school started, the group was busy until late at night before heading home.
Five days ago, they separated to determine who would teach which subject and who would be the homeroom teacher for which grade.
They had just started classes, and in the first grade, they only had Chinese, math, and music classes because they were going to learn patriotic songs.
Art and physical education were added in second grade.
Starting from the third grade, moral education was added.
The main subjects for each grade are Chinese and Mathematics, and the exams only cover these two subjects.
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