Chapter 36: Parent-Teacher Conference
Parents nodded - if both children need money for treatment, then of course the seriously ill one should be preferred.
It's not that there is no right to be treated for minor problems, but the conditions are limited and small problems can wait for other opportunities.
Grandma Dean sighed: "I said it very directly, but this is also the reality - I know that such an inconspicuous illness can also affect the mental health of children, but there are so many children, and the future is so long, money always has to be saved." β
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The head teacher listened to the side, and always felt that the trend of this matter was a little out of control, and she wanted to say something at the moment - but the microphone was held by the dean's grandmother, and the other party didn't give her a look at it at all, and she couldn't go up and grab it in a hurry!
He Han and He Zhang came to the orphanage, and they felt very sorry for this girl, so they found a way to contact the college student who had helped them before, and begged the other party to take them with them when they set up a stall, and all the wages they earned were saved, and all of them were used to treat the girl. β
"In more than three months, they saved more than 8,000 yuan - I don't know if any of them were added by the college student, but I know that they set up stalls on the pedestrian street, went to sell flowers, went to work on construction sitesβ"
Parents exclaimed!
"Of course," the dean's grandmother smiled and wiped her tears: "I sneaked into the construction site, because the college student was there to move bricks, and later the foreman found out and sent them out......"
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"There are also good people on the construction site, and they also want to donate to the children, but the two children don't want to - they say that everyone works hard to make money, and they don't have to eat, so they can't ask for this money. β
Hearing this, many parents in the audience have shed emotional tears.
Oh my!
How can there be such a gentle and caring child in this world, so young to set up a stall and go to the construction site...... Woowoo...... traffickers!
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The head teacher's face was already very ugly.
She wanted to preemptively let the old lady discipline the child well, but she didn't expect the other party to be more old-fashioned and spicy, and actually began to sell miserably - phew!
Shameless!
Who would believe that children earn money!
But looking at the parents in the audience, many of them actually cried???
She immediately came to her senses - she couldn't let the old lady talk anymore!
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At this moment, the dean's grandmother is showing the list, keeping the account of the change of ten or twenty or thirty every day, as well as the hospital receipts, looking at the date and handwriting, it is indeed not a recent all-of-a-time.
The head teacher stepped forward at this moment and wanted to pick up the microphone: "Thank you for sharing, but time is running out, let's listen to the situation of other childrenββ"
"Teacher Lu. β
A voice suddenly sounded outside the door, and the head teacher's scalp tightened, and he found the head of the grade standing in the corner of the door, as well as the vice principal.
At this moment, it was the head of the grade who spoke: "Let this dean's grandmother finish." β
Listening to this title, it is clear that you hear it from the beginning to the end!
The head teacher only felt a little cold at the moment.
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The dean's grandmother also wiped her tears: "Such a child, the head teacher said that the two of them are mercenary, I don't believe it-"
There is a top boss here, and the head teacher is obviously in a hurry, so he doesn't take the microphone at the moment, so he directly says: "But they exchange fruits for snacks in the class, and a small blueberry can be exchanged for a pack of snacks, is this kind of transaction fair? β
"Head teacher. β
The dean's grandmother's face suddenly became serious: "It's not right to use the value of money to measure the exchange of goods between children. β
"I remember that in the previous textbooks, there was a text "Antelope Wood Carving", which was a textbook about one or two decades ago, you must have taught it, and many parents in the audience probably also learned itββ"
In "Antelope Wood Carving", two young children exchange gifts, only to be repeatedly determined by their parents to determine the preciousness of the wood carving with money, and try to ask the children to break their promise and take back the token of friendship that was originally promised. β
The head teacher has been teaching for many years, and naturally knows that the previous textbooks have this, and I can't help but sweat coldly at the moment.
Then peek at the dean and principal by the door...... The two of them were expressionless and motionless.
"The children's approach is certainly unsafe, but no one can blame them for their sincerity β why do you, as a teacher, think that the exchange between the children is not equal, just because snacks seem more expensive and fruit is cheaper?"
"Are our children going to learn this value in school?"
The dean's grandmother asked.
Parents didn't think much about it at first, but now they are pondering again - the children are still young, what do they know is worth it or not? When they were young, a beer bottle cap was still treasured, and they wouldn't give it unless they were iron buddies!
Are beer bottle caps worth the money?
Are friendships worth anything?
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Seeing that no one spoke, the dean's grandmother took out a list again, and on top of it was a printed fruit price listβthe head teacher was already frowning, what more did she want? Isn't that enough?
The list was opened together with the ledger: "Starting from April 15 this year, Baihua Villa, a private mountain villa in the suburbs, has been sending fruits to our orphanage every day. β
"I don't know the price of their fruit β there are always people in the community who donate anonymously or donate clothes. As far as I know, the children in the class have also donated clothes to our orphanage. β
Xie's mother's face blushed - Xie Manman's kind of "donation" is more like humiliation, the two children who lost don't care, and the dean's grandmother is also so generous.
The dean's grandmother's performance today let Xie's mother know that the other party is well-trained and open-minded, and she must also know what Xie Manman means.
She couldn't do it.
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Fortunately, the grandmother didn't say much about it, but continued: "There are 30 boxes of fruit every day, of which three boxes are awarded to the three children who study best, and the rest is divided equally among the whole courtyard." β
She unfolded the ledger, and it was indeed a long time to have a record of fruit every day.
"After listening to the children last night, I called overnight, pretended to be a stranger, and asked them about the price of the fruit - blueberries, 280 per catty. β
There was an exclamation from below - 280 pounds? What kind of blueberry is this?
Only Xie's mother remembered the smell of the blueberry in the morning, and couldn't help but drool a little - she wrote down the name: Baihua Villa.
"Their fruits there are really not ordinary, a pound of blueberries, that is, one or two hundred big fruits - an average of one or two yuan, what do you exchange for? spicy bars, milk candy, lollipops, chocolate, biscuits, ......"
Parents burst out laughing β sure enough, snacks are true love.
"These snacks are the ones that children love, but the orphanage won't buy because it's not necessary, so the orphanage won't spend the money. And He Han and He Zhang exchanged enough schoolbags in the class, so they took it back and ate it together. β
The dean's grandmother suddenly turned her head and looked at the head teacher seriously and sternly: "Teacher, if this is the monetary value you emphasize, then you can do the math, is our child a philistine? Is it mercenary? Is this kind of exchange worth it!"