Chapter 37 Literacy Class Begins
The brigade's reconstruction of the primary school was quickly announced to everyone through a loudspeaker.
Not only primary schools, but also literacy classes are held in the evening for everyone to go to the literacy classes to learn to recognize words.
Team leader Zhou Jiefang also gathered some people to work at the primary school, to clean up the area and repair the broken parts, which also counted as work points.
As soon as they heard the news, the members started talking about it.
Ge Guifen, the wife of the team leader and the mother of the Women's Federation director, was the first to respond, "If the primary school really opens, I will send all my grandchildren to school."
Someone laughed and said, "Sister Guifen, you have a lot of children, so you must have sent a lot of them to school, right?"
Ge Guifen felt a pain in her chest, but for the sake of her daughter's job, she still said stubbornly, "So what? If you don't study, you will never be able to read. Even if there is a literacy class in the evening, I will go there."
Whether to learn or not can be decided later, but this thing must be done to show others.
Qian Xique also responded, "Sister-in-law Guifen is right. My daughter also needs to go to school, and I also need to go to the literacy class."
There are also families who already have children who go to school, and they are happy too, because this way their children can go to school directly in the brigade and don’t have to travel too far to go to school.
Some people also worried, "Primary schools will definitely need teachers. Will these teachers be selected from the educated youth?"
After all, in their brigade, few members had a higher cultural level than the educated youth.
There are some people in the team who graduated from primary school. They don't know what the other members think, but they themselves have only primary school education. If they put themselves in their shoes, they will definitely not be happy to let members who graduated from primary school teach the children.
But I was reluctant to let the educated youth go.
How could the educated youth take all the good things?
Primary school teachers do not have to work in the fields except during the busy farming season. After all, they have to teach children on weekdays and they still have to be paid.
"I don't think we need to pay wages. After all, our brigade doesn't make much money throughout the year. We can just give the teachers work points and distribute food according to the work points at the end of the year."
"That's fine." Zhou Jiefang took a puff of his pipe and nodded.
Previously, the salaries for primary school teachers were almost not paid. This was one of the reasons why the school failed in the first place.
"When we built the primary school, weren't all the teachers taught by people from the brigade? It's actually not a big deal. We can't teach primary school students." The branch secretary couldn't help but speak.
"Don't mention that. I was teaching the child to recognize words, but he recognized them wrongly. Fortunately, it was corrected in time, otherwise we would have been embarrassed and kicked out of the team. I think it would be better to let those educated youth teach. After all, they are well educated and will not teach wrongly." The accountant disagreed.
He also doesn't want to see his children coming back from school with incorrect readings.
Since it concerns their own children's studies, most people have no objection to choosing educated youth to teach this time.
Someone sighed and said, "We are still suffering from our lack of education. We can't even get such good things."
The team leader and his men suddenly remembered what Zhou Xian had said before. They didn't dare to think about recruiting jobs in the city, but they didn't expect that they couldn't even compete for the position of elementary school teacher in the team.
So it seems like I really have to attend this literacy class.
There is still some time before the elementary school starts, but Zhou Xian feels that since the start date is already later than other normal schools, there is no need to delay it until after the New Year. After the elementary school classrooms are cleaned up, register the children first, and wait for the team to select the teachers before sending the children to school. The more they can learn, the better.
The same goes for the literacy classes, we are just waiting for the teacher to select us to give lectures.
"We have to select a teacher first." This is what everyone agreed is the most important thing.
First let the teacher take the members to the literacy class. After the people are selected, they can go to class directly.
"Let's take the test just like last time."
The team leader thought that the method Zhou Xian used last time was a good one. Since he wanted to be a teacher, there would be no problem in selecting the one with the highest grades.
And this time they are primary school teachers, so we recruited quite a few people.
Zhou Xian will temporarily serve as the principal of the primary school. After all, she is the most educated among the several cadres in the brigade.
When she was also serving as the principal of a primary school, the system was put back online.
[Congratulations to the host for becoming the principal of an elementary school, reward career point +1]
Zhou Xian: “…”
She finally understood that no matter what position she was in, there was only one career point.
Only when she works hard on her career will she be rewarded with career points according to her work.
But Zhou Xian didn't have the heart to care about this at the moment, as she had to finish her test paper.
This time, more teachers were recruited. Comrade Ge Guifen kept nagging her third daughter-in-law, Wang Xuemei, every day, asking her to be selected. Last time, she came second in both the written test and the interview, but Ge Guifen regretted it for a long time.
She was almost going to have a daughter-in-law who was a broadcaster.
Fortunately, there are primary school teachers this time. After all, it’s not bad to be a primary school teacher outside, and you don’t have to work in the fields.
If the third daughter-in-law could be selected this time, together with her husband, the team leader's daughter, the director of the Women's Federation and the principal of an elementary school, Ge Guifen could laugh out loud just thinking of that picture.
After laughing, she rubbed her face and faced reality.
I haven’t been selected yet, so I have to keep a low profile.
Moreover, as family members of cadres, they should set an example themselves.
Thinking of this, Ge Guifen took out the two boiled eggs from the pot, gave one to her daughter and the other to her third daughter-in-law, Wang Xuemei.
Wu Xiufang stared at the scene.
"Sister-in-law, am I hallucinating? Mom actually gave eggs to my third brother and his wife."
Hu Lanhua took a look and felt jealous, but after all, the third brother's wife had graduated from high school. People like her and her second brother's wife were not qualified to take the exam to become primary school teachers.
She added some more fire to the stove and said, "Mom said that we should ask the third daughter-in-law to study hard. She probably didn't study hard last time, so she got second place in the exam."
Wu Xiufang twisted her lips, feeling that it was unfair but not knowing what to say.
After walking back and forth in the kitchen several times, he stamped his feet and said, "It's all our fault that we are uneducated and can't read. Otherwise, we could join in the fun. Aren't we going to organize a literacy class? Sister-in-law, let's all go. I don't believe that learning to read is that difficult."
Hu Lanhua glanced at her and said, "Mom said that my younger sister is now the principal of an elementary school, and it was my younger sister who asked us to run the literacy class. All our children should go to school, and they should also go to the literacy class. You should support my younger sister's work."
Wu Xiufang opened her mouth. She thought her mother-in-law would look at her differently because of her enthusiasm, but she didn't expect her mother-in-law to have arranged everything. After thinking about it, she couldn't come up with any ideas and had to continue cooking.
On the other side, Wang Xuemei looked at the eggs in her hand and felt a little helpless for a moment.
My mother-in-law says she is partial, but she is only partial to her own daughter. The treatment of others, whether her own sons or grandsons, is actually not much different.
At least they have never been treated unfairly.
She only had one daughter, and she didn't think it was a big deal. She was just afraid that her mother-in-law would have opinions and would be bad to the child. After all, some people in the team were patriarchal. But her mother-in-law never disliked her for this.
Wang Xuemei was still somewhat grateful to her mother-in-law. Except for her younger sister and father-in-law, her mother-in-law treated everyone else in the family equally, with the same treatment, which could not be said to be good or bad.
In the words of my mother-in-law, as long as you are not starving to death, don’t worry too much about other things.
Ge Guifen walked to the door of the third room, then turned to Wang Xuemei and said, "Eat it yourself, don't give it to Yiyi and the third child. You should eat more. You must strive for success this time and become a primary school teacher."
Wang Xuemei did not refute her mother-in-law, but still left the eggs to her daughter Zhou Yiyi.
"Didn't mom tell you to eat it by yourself?" Zhou Laosan said with some confusion when he saw it.
After all, it's rare for his mother to be so generous to anyone in the family except his younger sister.
"Give it to Yiyi. I will work hard this time and pass the exam to become an elementary school teacher." Wang Xuemei fed the egg to her daughter Zhou Yiyi.
As long as she passes the exam, her mother-in-law won't say anything no matter who she feeds.
Zhou Shoujun looked at them without saying anything. After his daughter finished eating, he went out to pour her some hot water. After she finished eating, he reminded her again, "Don't tell grandma that you ate eggs, okay?"
Zhou Yiyi didn’t understand why she couldn’t tell her grandma about eating eggs, but she still listened to her father.
Looking up and seeing Wang Xuemei looking at him, Zhou Shoujun felt a little embarrassed. "Well, you know, my mother is not a very reasonable person. It's better not to tell her."
I’m afraid that if I fail the exam, my mother will use this as an excuse to scold me.
Wang Xuemei didn't say anything, but took the red hairband that Zhou Xian had bought for her daughter, combed her daughter's hair, and tied the red hairband on carefully.
"When school starts again, all the kids at home will go to school, what will Yiyi do?"
The older ones in the family take care of the younger ones. Before, Zhou Yiyi was taken care of by Zhou Yingying from the eldest wife. Now Yingying must go to school.
"Let mom take care of the child. After all, she doesn't work in the fields during the slack season. We can talk to her when the time comes. If it doesn't work, we can ask her privately for mercy, just like we talked to sister-in-law before."
Although it is a tradition in the Zhou family for older children to take care of younger children, Yingying is also a child. Wang Xuemei felt bad asking her to take care of her, so she often helped Hu Lanhua with some housework, or when she went to the fields, Zhou Shoujun would also help his elder brother do more.
So the family is quite harmonious.
These are definitely useless to Comrade Ge Guifen, but Zhou Shoujun knows her mother's weakness. As long as he is nice to his younger sister, he won't have to worry about what his biological mother says.
Wang Xuemei held her child in her arms and was thinking about the exam.
On the other side, Captain Zhou Xian also got out the test papers. Basically, the test subjects were the same as last time, and the exam was the same as last time, with two invigilators.
But I won’t have an interview this time, after all, the work content of a broadcaster and a primary school teacher is different.
But it doesn’t mean that everything will be fine if you pass the exam. The team naturally has its own considerations. If the teaching is not good, the teacher should be removed at any time. In short, the children should not be neglected.
Enrolling in primary school is not that quick, but literacy classes are much more convenient.
Zhou Xian has been very busy these days. She is responsible for registering the admission lists of primary schools and the admission lists of literacy classes.
After the exam, we have to compile a list of teachers and then assign classes and schedule shifts according to the situation.
These days, she was so busy that she had no time to deal with the affairs of the Women's Federation. Fortunately, everyone was very conscious and did not cause any trouble.
After everything was ready, Zhou Xian read out the list of candidates on the loudspeaker and notified those educated youth who had passed the exam to first teach literacy to the members of the literacy class. Zhou Xian also specially called those educated youth over and held a meeting for everyone. He also prepared some words and gave them to the educated youth so that they could familiarize themselves with the content first.
Although they have passed the exam, we still have to look at their teaching methods. If students cannot understand, then there is no point in them running a primary school.
Some of the educated youth were more thoughtful and had already taken notes with pen and paper, planning to go back and think about how to teach the lesson well.
Even the members were surprised, so when the literacy class was arranged, the team directly notified all members who had time to attend the class. After all, it was related to the selection of primary school teachers, so when the time came and the notification was made through the loudspeaker, everyone brought their own stools and went to the primary school.
"How on earth is this happening? Aren't the test results out? Now we have the educated youth teaching us, so are we going to vote for them?"
"That's right, but it's fine this way. If any educated youth teaches well, I'll choose him. My child will go to school in the future, and I can't teach him poorly."
"Yeah, if I can learn to read, I can't be a broadcaster or a teacher, but my children may be able to do the same in the future."
A group of people walked and talked towards the primary school.
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