I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 52: Do something big
On February 4th, the Lunar New Year, Xindongweigang Middle School chartered thirty buses to transport students home according to their county and city distribution. Parents who accompanied their children could also go with them. This initiative was well received.

We previously held an end-of-year summary meeting, an end-of-year parent meeting, and an end-of-year student meeting. Basically, this year's results will be even more gratifying, and students' confidence and ability to take exams have made a qualitative leap compared to the past.

Zhang Da'an's utilitarian approach, which was entirely geared towards improving test-taking skills, completely silenced those who still held doubts about college entrance exam retake classes.

From February onwards, March, April, and May will focus on completing practice tests, but the pace will remain the same as the original teaching schedule. Neither the main lecturer nor the co-lecturer will exceed the required amount of practice tests.

After passing the exam, the focus should be on maintaining a good mental state.

The stronger your confidence, the more likely you are to perform beyond your usual level.

Excessive practice can leave people confused and highly likely to experience forgetting how to write characters, and may even lead to confusion in subjects like Chinese that require intensive memorization.

For example, in an ancient poem, the first half of the title might be "The Peach Blossom Pool is a thousand feet deep," but the second half could become "It would be better to hang oneself from a southeast branch."

The biggest advantage of test-taking confidence is that it keeps the mind highly active and the person's overall excitement at an excellent level. This is similar to how athletes need to improve both their focus and their excitement.

Because students at Xindongweigang Middle School do not write essays or answer math multiple-choice questions in the unified entrance examination, their exam results are invalid for the Education Bureau. Therefore, after the Lunar New Year, on the seventh or eighth day of the Lunar New Year, when the school resumed operations, the Education Bureau organized a special "heart-to-heart talk" led by Qiu Jianmin.

It was actually a closed-door meeting, and the outside world didn't know the specific details. Accompanying Qiu Jianmin were the secretaries of two deputy mayors from the city. These two were the real people; Qiu Jianmin was just a front.

"That means the actual scores for the middle school entrance exam retake class need to be increased by 67 points; and the college entrance exam retake class, which includes two humanities classes, needs to be increased by 106 points?"

"Yes, that's the number."

Zhang Da'an pointed at the projection screen with a laser pointer, "Based on last year's provincial college entrance examination results, there were 279 students in the top 1,000. If you include me, that makes 280. However, I chose humanities this year, so I'm currently the only one in the top 1,000 for humanities."

"Two hundred and seventy-nine people..."

The secretary of the vice mayor in charge of education sighed and rubbed his face with his hands. "The pressure is too great. We'll be attacked. We need to do some crisis management in advance, or just keep a low profile. Otherwise, something bad might happen. If we suppress it, 'Zhang An Education' will be put under review and required to rectify."

"I have two plans."

Zhang Da'an was well aware of the pressure from the city. Once the college entrance examination results were released, the explosive results of the college entrance examination retake class at Xindongweigang Middle School would have a devastating impact on many rural middle schools.

It's not just one or two township middle schools, it's all of them in the entire province.

Crisis management in this area involves extremely broad yet specific issues like social fairness, so we have to be very careful. If we make even the slightest mistake, we'll definitely have to stop Zhang Da'an's current perverse practices.

Are you simply taking revenge on society?

"Oh? Two plans? Could you tell me about them?"

"The first plan is that I become the top scorer in the liberal arts exam, and we can mainly promote myself as the top scorer in the liberal arts exam."

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Everyone at the meeting was speechless. You kid... is becoming the top scholar so easy?
Oh, it's you.

That's okay.

But you were the top science student last year!

However, it must be admitted that what Zhang Da'an said is the best crisis management method. No matter what... being the top scorer is just awesome!
The victor has privileges.

The "sorrow" of rural middle schools across the country cannot compare to the joy of a top scorer in the national college entrance examination; at least in this era of rapid social development, this is the reality.

"The second option is that students can use their original alma maters to fill the quota. I will take a loss and focus on promoting the 100% undergraduate admission rate."

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It's pretty outrageous, but it's more human than the first plan. However, when communicating with the students' original alma mater, Zhang Da'an was too lazy to do such a trivial matter, so the Education Bureau found temporary workers to do the dirty and tiring work.

However, it is indeed not difficult to do. For any student's alma mater, each additional undergraduate degree is an additional high-quality achievement.

There are ways to get them included in the statistics of that year. This year there are no students with student status, but last year there were.

Just state that those with student registration last year were repeat students, that's all, it's just a small note.

Furthermore, as long as the data is reported in the congratulatory message, there's no need to implement formal statistical records. What's there to be afraid of?

This is all work!
Besides discussing crisis management after this year's college entrance examination, the closed-door meeting also addressed the matter of opening branch schools this year. The education bureaus of Mazhou City and Jianggao City have obviously communicated with the education bureau of Shazhou City.

Although the Education Bureau of Jiyang City next door also wanted to get involved, their enthusiasm has waned somewhat, and they need to wait and see for the time being.

The lack of a solution to the schooling problem for the children of migrant workers remains a hurdle. Jiyang City prioritizes overall economic development and has not elevated the issue of education, especially the results of the middle and high school entrance examinations, to the level of a core problem.

The potential of "Zhang An Education" is enormous, and the experts in Jiyang City are not unaware of it. However, even if it reaches the point of going public, it is unlikely that Jiyang City will take the lead. Instead, it will be the counterparts in Shazhou City who will step in. It would be better to cultivate local textile enterprises, which have a stronger capacity to guarantee tax revenue and employment, and a larger industrial scale and radiation.

This also shows the difference in the three cities' confidence levels. However, this is not something that the Shazhou City Education Bureau needs to worry about. The bureau only wants to know how much money is needed to invest in and build the branch school, and whether the directly affiliated education investment company can still have a relatively high and stable shareholding ratio like Shazhou City Xindongwei Port Middle School.

Another question is whether the branch school will adopt a gradual, step-by-step approach of "three plus three" or go straight for a more comprehensive setup.

“I’ve been to Xilai Town, but it’s too remote and the transportation is inconvenient. I’m afraid it will affect the establishment of the college entrance examination retake class. For parents, better conditions are definitely better. Now the main campus has basically achieved air conditioning in every classroom and dormitory, which has already created a gap. For parents, especially those who are not from Jianggao or Mazhou, it’s better to come directly to the main campus. We still need to consider this carefully.”

"So what I'm doing here is seeing if the Education Bureau is interested in taking a gamble. If I get the top score in the liberal arts section of this year's college entrance examination, the enrollment scale can definitely be increased to another level. Then, when the enrollment takes place in July and August, if there are sufficient and complete teaching facilities, the larger the enrollment scale, the better."

This statement is easy to make, but it doesn't actually refer to July or August. Instead, it includes February, March, April, May, and June.

why?
Because the renovation of teaching facilities will take at least three months, and the coordination of human, material and financial resources is crucial, whoever takes the lead is the boss. Zhang Da'an's meaning is very clear: let's see if the Shazhou City Education Bureau is interested in doing something big.

(End of this chapter)