Yao Yi didn't believe in tears, but the cry of the watermelon head pierced his defense.

When Yao Yi was a student, there was an incident that Xiao Yao Yi thought he would never forget: in the second year of junior high school, a classmate in the same class as Yao Yi jumped from the roof of the teaching building and ended his short life.

At that time, Yao Yi studied in the direct promotion class of Shangjing Key Middle School, and the students in the direct promotion class did not need to take the high school entrance examination, and directly entered the high school of the school after the end of the third year of junior high school, but this does not mean that the students in the direct promotion class have no learning pressure, on the contrary, compared with the ordinary class, the learning tasks of the students in the direct promotion class are heavier, and they are always under heavy pressure from the first day of enrollment to the graduation of high school six years later.

Because the goal of the direct promotion class is not the high school entrance examination, but the college entrance examination and various competitions, so the learning progress of the students in the direct promotion class far exceeds the ordinary class, according to the idea of the class teacher and the school at that time, the three years of junior high school will be completed in the six years of junior high and high school, and the three years of high school are all used for review, competition and mock exams.

In order to enable students to complete the six-year curriculum in three years, the teachers of each subject did everything possible to prolong the class time and speed up the progress.

It's hard for outsiders to imagine the incredible willpower it takes for students who have just left primary school and are not yet physically fit to survive the three years of junior high school – in fact, most of the students in the direct entry class do not make it through.

Most of these children have good family conditions, but there are exceptions, and the boy who sits next to the garbage basket at the end of the class was born in a poor family, unlike other classmates, his parents can't afford to hire a tutor, can't afford a car to pick him up, and can't even guarantee that his three meals a day are nutritionally balanced.

The same time is tight, other students can sit in a comfortable car to enjoy breakfast or read books and recite, and he has to carry a ten-pound schoolbag to take an hour's bus to school; the same progress is fast and difficult to digest, other students can ask the tutor after school, and he has to be cheeky to ask the teachers in the school he knows or don't know; the same hardships and fatigue, other students can dress warmly, eat and sleep well, and he ......

Later, Yao Yi learned that the classmate who won the gold medal of the Hua Luogeng Cup in primary school was probably due to too little protein intake and insufficient sleep time, which led to memory loss, so in the second semester of junior high school, his grades plummeted.

Yao Yi didn't believe in nonsense like "you are poor because you are lazy" and "your grades are bad because you are lazy" since he was a child, a large part of the reason is because he has seen classmates who are more diligent than him, but no matter how much effort they put in, they can't catch up with him.

After so many years, Yao Yi can no longer remember the name and appearance of that classmate, and even the tragedy he thought he would remember for the rest of his life has forgotten, and at this moment, seeing the watermelon head that collapsed by memorizing words, Yao Yi remembered.

One day in the second year of junior high school, Yao Yi, who went back to the classroom after school to get a book, saw the classmate squatting in the corner crying, Yao Yi asked him why he was crying, he cried hysterically, he said he couldn't learn, he said he really worked hard, but he really couldn't learn.

At that time, Yao Yi wanted to help him, but he didn't know how to comfort him, and when he asked his parents for permission to let him go home with him after school to tutor, he realized that he had jumped from the roof of the school building that night.

Since then, the direct promotion class has existed in name only, most parents have transferred their children to other classes, the school no longer makes any publicity about the direct promotion class, and the class teacher has also adjusted the teaching plan.

The sudden relaxation of the pressure of studying should have been a joy for the students, but throughout the school year, there was hardly a smiling face in the classroom.

At that time, Yao Yi thought every day that if he had invited that classmate to dinner that day, if the teachers and parents had found out about that classmate's abnormality earlier, maybe the tragedy would not have happened.

It's a pity that no one wants to pay attention to a crane tail.

It seems that in the eyes of some teachers, no matter what the reason, as long as the academic performance is not good, there is only one reason: the student is not working hard enough.

But that's not the case.

The truth is that if students don't get the results they deserve, it's often because their teachers or parents aren't working hard enough.

But teachers and parents are not happy to admit their own failures, so all the blame is placed on the students.

Sounds scary, right?

However, this is not the scariest of all.

The most terrifying thing is that students really trust the judgment of teachers and parents at an age when they don't understand anything.

"Don't cry. Yao Yi gently patted the little head of the watermelon head and said softly, "Good, don't cry, you work hard, I saw it, I know, you really worked hard, you can't memorize these words, it's not your fault." If you don't want to memorize it, go home today, it's okay, okay?"

The watermelon head stopped crying, couldn't stop sobbing, with tears in his eyes, and shook his head stubbornly: "I want to memorize, I really want to memorize, every time, every time I take an exam, my mother sees and sees my English scores, just, she is sad, I don't want my mother to be sad and sad." ”

"Okay, then stay and carry it slowly, it's okay. Yao Yi's gaze softened, "I'll accompany you, and the teacher will accompany you." ”

"But, but...... No matter how much I memorize, I can't remember it, I forget it when I memorize it, and I forget it many times. The watermelon head pouted, and he was in tears as he spoke, "Teacher Yu, and Teacher Ma, that is, the teachers in the school, all said that I was not attentive enough, and they all said that I could remember it by memorizing it with my heart, but I couldn't remember how I memorized it." ”

Yao Yi thought for a while and comforted: "Maybe Teacher Yu's teaching method is not suitable for you." ”

The watermelon head didn't understand, and said confusedly: "However, other students can remember it, but I can't remember it." ”

"Just because you're different from them doesn't mean it's your fault, different people have different learning methods, you know? ”

Seeing the watermelon head shaking his head, Yao Yi gave an example.

"Do you know how to count sheep, when you can't sleep, count sheep, one sheep, two sheep, three sheep...... It's an effective cure for insomnia, but why doesn't it work for us? Because it originated in English-speaking countries, sheep are pronounced like sleep, so counting sheep has a hypnotic effect. ”

But in Chinese, sheep have nothing to do with sleeping, and when we lie on the bed and count sheep, we naturally can't have a hypnotic effect, understand? A method may work for a group of people, but it may not work for everyone. ”

Considering her status as an English teaching assistant, Yao Yi specially gave an example related to English, but the watermelon head didn't seem to be convinced, she blinked, and suddenly said, "Dumplings." ”

"What?"

"I、We should count dumplings when we can't sleep. ”