country bumpkin

Time flies, and soon it will be time to start the third year of junior high school.

Jia Zhengjing, the homeroom teacher of Yunya Class, held a class meeting for the students as soon as the school year started.

The main topic of the class meeting was: persuading students to drop out.

What does that mean? Literally, it means that Jia Zhengjing dislikes the students who are ranked in the bottom 20s, as they drag down the class's score.

So, they advised the students who ranked at the bottom to drop out and go home. Seriously, is this something a teacher should do?

And it's true that many students were brainwashed by him and actually listened to him, dropping out of school. Yunya was one of them.

Yunya consistently ranked in the bottom 20 of her class. Her good friend Huang Qingqing walked home with her, carrying their schoolbags together.

They were persuaded by their homeroom teacher, which is why they left in a moment of impulse.

This is what Jia Zhengjing said during the class meeting.

“Those of you who are ranked lower, think about this carefully. Right? Other students come to school every day, and you also carry your schoolbags. After school, you also go home with them.”

But during exams, others get 100 or 90 points, while you get 20 or 30 points and fail.

Aren't you wasting your time? Aren't you just playing along? You're just being practice partners for the good students, and you're always at the bottom of the class in exams.

Do you think there's any point in you coming to school? You don't know anything, you're tired of learning, and the teachers are tired too. The less you know, the more tired you get. This creates a vicious cycle.

Look, you're starting your final year of junior high now. There are a lot of new and challenging material to learn. Based on your grades, I doubt you'll understand anything you'll be learning in the future.

It's like listening to gibberish, and we still have to pay tuition and book fees? Is it really necessary? Parents work hard to earn money, let's save them some!

If you stay here, you'll just be wasting your money and time, and you won't get into high school anyway.

I think you should just drop out of school and go home!

As he spoke, he rubbed his nose and continued, "Oh, don't worry about the junior high school graduation certificate. When it's time to take graduation photos, the other classmates will notify you to come and take pictures. You'll all get your graduation certificates."

Several classmates asked Jia Zhengjing uncertainly.

"Teacher, do I have to pay 10 yuan for the graduation certificate?"

Jia Zhengjing: "Yes, if you pay, they'll take your graduation photos and issue you a diploma."

The other students were relieved to hear this, and obediently packed their bags. They then walked out of the school with Yunya and the others, each heading home.

From this moment on, Yunya was no longer a student, but a rootless duckweed, drifting and swaying everywhere.

Kong Xiujuan was quite surprised when Yunya returned with her schoolbag.

She asked Yunya why she came back with her schoolbag, and Yunya told her that she had dropped out of school and wasn't going anymore.

Kong Xiujuan didn't hit her, but calmly said, "This is your own choice. Don't blame your dad and me when you grow up."

It's not that we're unwilling to spend money on your education; it's that you yourself don't want to go.

Yun Ya nodded solemnly, "Yes, I know, I won't blame you. I've had enough of school."

Kong Xiujuan did not press Yunya further about why she had stopped caring about the matter once she had had enough of school.

Actually, Yunya dropped out of school for several reasons. Poor grades and falling behind were part of it, but the most important reason was that the teachers discriminated against her!

The whole class knew about it, but no one dared to say it.

Especially the homeroom teacher, Jia Zhengjing. He was the most hypocritical of all the subject teachers.

Other teachers might like a student because of their good grades and treat them kindly.

Jia Zhengjing is different; his favoritism towards a particular student is blatant and overt.

Regardless of your grades. Of course, teachers like students with good grades.

However, there were a few students whose grades were so bad that they were at the bottom of the class, but Jia Zhengjing still favored them.

You can tell if someone is biased just by watching two classmates argue.

It was clearly Guo Jingjing who complained that her deskmate was sitting across the center line on the desk, so she tore up all of her deskmate's notebooks and threw her pencil case on the ground, breaking it.

Teacher Jia actually scolded the boy who sat next to Guo Jingjing, showing favoritism. Why was she favoring her?

Some classmates said that Jia Zhengjing used tutoring as an excuse to molest Guo Jingjing in his office.

Some classmates saw it, but they didn't dare to tell anyone; they just secretly told their classmates behind their backs.

They could only gossip in secret, not daring to offend Jia Zhengjing, their homeroom teacher. This was his class; he was the one who made the decisions.

The most obvious impression is that Guo Jingjing is beautiful; she has a pure and innocent look.

There was another boy, Liao Xueming, whose grades were in the lower middle of the class, neither good nor bad, and who should have been the least noticeable.

When it came to choosing a seat, Jia Zhengjing always chose the front one for him. When it came to cleaning duties, the teacher would automatically assign him to wipe the podium, and he wouldn't have to do anything else.

Even when she had an argument with a classmate, she sided with him. Many classmates knew why, but Yunya didn't understand.

That day, a female classmate named Li Zhenqi told Yunya the truth. It was because of the boy's father.

His father is a leader in a department of a certain unit. He can help Jia Zhengjing's sister's child get a formal job through connections.

During this period of layoffs, where could you find a good job? But Liao Xueming's father managed to get it done.

How did Li Zhenqi find out about this? Because she was a student who had been receiving financial assistance from the neighborhood committee at her school.

There are five sisters in her family. She has two older sisters and is the third oldest. She also has a pair of twin brothers.

It's obvious that the parents had so many children because they wanted a son.

The last man in the game was a twin. Having many children means a heavy burden, making supporting the family a major problem.

Back then, the one-child policy was so strict that the parents risked their lives to hide and avoid the family. They never went home, only returning after their son was born.

The child has already been born; the authorities can't just tell the family to abandon the child! They can only resolve this by imposing a fine.

Their family had nothing, they were dirt poor, and they took all the valuables from the house, but it still wasn't enough to cover the fine.

Neighbors and relatives borrowed money from all over the place, scraping together enough to cover the fine. Otherwise, if they couldn't pay, their houses might be confiscated.

Later, when the children grew up, schooling became a problem again. The village committee decided to seek help from the Civil Affairs Bureau for poverty alleviation and also asked villagers to donate money so that all the children could go to school.

When the neighborhood committee members are bored in their offices, they gossip about some private matters, especially which schools admit students through connections and which jobs are obtained through back channels.

Coincidentally, Huang Qingqing overheard what happened to her teacher. Being a child, she didn't understand the seriousness of the matter, and the news spread throughout the class.

Although Jia Zhengjing knew a little about the bad rumors about him in his class, he didn't care what the kids were saying. Who would believe a child?

That's really true. These students are just kids. What good will it do them if they know the truth?

School is also a melting pot, and teachers are the ones who paint the canvas. Students are the blank sheets of paper, and whether the final artwork on those sheets is satisfactory depends on the students themselves.