I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 48: Strange things to live in
The reason for the staring contest among the three parties is related to a rumor that Jiangkou Province may also be able to set its own college entrance examination questions in the future, as soon as possible in the next year or the year after, or as slowly as possible in five, six, seven or eight years. The provincial bureau has an "old doctor" who, after taking a look, believes that there will definitely be a result within five years.

To be honest, this self-selected exam is actually dispensable for Jiangkou Province, but due to various reasons, the capital was preparing for its own exam, so they had to find a scapegoat to take the fall.

Jiangkou Province has a relatively high economic level and relatively small gaps within the province. We can approach this from the perspective of balancing national education resources and education development levels. Then, the other thirty or so brother provinces and cities across the country will have nothing to say.

Anyway, the reasons are still quite legitimate and just.

But as I said before, it doesn't matter how high your college entrance exam score is, what matters is your ranking within the province. In fact, it doesn't matter to the students in Jiangkou Province. It's just that being "under the emperor's nose" is really too embarrassing, so they have to cover it up a bit.

There is nothing we can do about it.

For insightful people, these things that are about to become a fait accompli are not important; what matters is how to create benefits after the fait accompli have been established.

The relationship between the Jiyang City Education Bureau and the Mazhou City Education Bureau is fairly good, so if a capable person can accurately diagnose the situation, both sides will generally make preparations.

If implemented within five years, then high school freshmen in the next year or two will very likely benefit from the new college entrance examination policy.

This change may not be easy for students preparing for exams to adapt to, and it also presents too many uncertainties for any high school teacher conducting regular teaching.

So whoever has the strongest ability to guarantee a minimum return will be able to achieve excellent results in the new internal competition.

The underlying logic behind the efforts of the Jiyang City and Mazhou City Education Bureaus to secure a branch campus for Xindongwei Port Middle School is this.

Zhang Da'an himself has already proven his ability to take the national college entrance examination. Even if he doesn't become the top scorer again, he still has the ability to get into a top university. Every additional college entrance examination score is a bonus.

Meanwhile, two teachers from Jiyang City who visited Xindongweigang Middle School also revealed some information: the high school section of the "top student tutoring class" uniformly does not write Chinese essays or math multiple-choice questions in any city-wide unified exam.

There is no guaranteed minimum score of 120.

Or they either don't write the essay or they don't answer the math multiple-choice questions.

The average score difference of tens or even hundreds of points is known only to insiders to the actual results of the unified mock exams at Xindongweigang Middle School.

Furthermore, because there are many relatives and friends in the eastern part of Jiyang City and the western part of Shazhou City, teachers can always find relatives who are also teachers through various means. For example, some teachers at Chengdong Middle School are brothers-in-law with teachers at Taizigang Middle School. After a little communication, they learned that Taizigang Middle School would occasionally buy lecture notes from "Zhang An Education".

At this point, if we randomly select a class to conduct a handout evaluation, we can basically estimate the scores for the composition and math sections. Then, by adding the estimated scores to the average score of the senior high school section of Xindongweigang Middle School, we can obtain a rather astonishing figure.

Last year, many high schools in Shazhou City were outraged because they knew about this. After all, the middle school entrance exam retake classes had already "bloodied" the entire city last year, and it was hard to guarantee that they wouldn't crush many key high schools during the college entrance exam this June.

After all, Xindongweigang Middle School doesn't just have three or five classes; it has a dozen or twenty students who are repeaters of the college entrance examination, recruited from across the province. In terms of student quality, it may not be inferior to national-level demonstration high schools.

Then there's the terrifying expenditure of five to six million yuan on salaries for top-tier lecturers. Any school principal who hears about it will feel their scalp tingle, as it creates a stark difference in the level of focus among teachers. There's a "core technology" here, besides Zhang Da'an himself, that is, "Zhang An Education" is willing to pay, willing to offer salaries more than five times higher.

Therefore, theoretically speaking, apart from "elite schools" or various foreign language schools, "Zhang'an Education" must be the most competitive and in-depth in terms of internal job competition in Jiangkou Province.

The reason why there is no particularly alarming attrition rate now is essentially because Zhang Da'an had already completed the selection of front-line lecturers, assistant lecturers and teaching assistants during the summer vacation. After three rounds of internal training, the "troublemakers" among the teachers were all rejected with a single vote. There was no way to force anyone to stay just to save face.

Zhang Da'an follows a fairly "assembly line" approach in all aspects, from training outlines and courseware to test preparation, with the sole criterion of improving test-taking efficiency. To achieve this goal, he has already incorporated advanced techniques from sociology, psychology, and other fields that will only become popular later.

Therefore, the students of Xindongweigang Middle School, or rather, the students of "Zhang An Education," have a striking difference in their mental outlook and psychological state compared to students in those purely campaign-style repeat-year schools.

This is a competitive advantage that the internal elites of the three education bureaus value highly. They held internal meetings to discuss the feasibility of imitation, but were stopped by the high financial expenditure.

I can't play at all.

Xindongweigang Middle School can even openly operate an "internet cafe" and a "game arcade," a practice that no education bureau could possibly promote to any other high school in the same city.

Whoever pushes this approach will face parental opposition at the door; that's the reality.

Another aspect is the application of multimedia teaching. The level of multimedia teaching at Xindongweigang Middle School is consistent with that of universities. In addition, there are internally compiled test preparation syllabi and courseware. It is unlikely that most high schools can prepare all the multimedia teaching materials. At most, they can put a speaker in the classroom to listen to English listening exercises.

Even more incredible is that the lecturer's entire teaching content is recorded and backed up, something that most high schools simply cannot do.

Besides investing in equipment, classroom review and debriefing are also necessary. It's impossible to go back and rewind for the progress of just one or two people, but "Zhang An Education" can. That's the purpose of small classes. They can have assistant lecturers and teaching assistants create small classes specifically for a small group of people to catch up on their progress.

Meanwhile, at Xindongweigang Middle School, while other high schools are still playing with notes and teachers are still summarizing "what we talked about in the last lesson," classroom reviews can be done down to the second.

The beauty of multimedia teaching lies here.

Which education bureau wouldn't want to do this?

However, I'm sorry, normal public schools don't have enough qualified teachers, enough funding for hardware facilities, or the resources for targeted progress reviews. Whether it's material costs, human resources costs, or time costs, they simply can't push things forward.

Many things are made up for through extracurricular tutoring, cram schools, and private tutors, and these are basic practices at "Zhang An Education".

This is why the education bureaus of Jiyang City and Mazhou City suddenly interfered, making the education bureau of Jianggao City extremely uncomfortable, and even resorting to the bizarre tactic of forming a friendship with the education bureau of Shazhou City.

Having heard about these messy things, Zhang Da'an perked up immediately. Opening a branch school in another city... it seemed like it could be a bargaining chip, something to ask for a price.

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