On September 1, 2008, Wang Xile officially became a freshman in a middle school in Yinchuan.

Located in the heart of Yinchuan and adjacent to Zhongshan Park, Wang's middle school has four times the size of his original school, numbering more than 3,000.

In the first semester of admission, Wang Xile was successfully selected for the school basketball team, and he proudly said that he was the only one who was selected for the school basketball team of more than 1,000 people in the first year of junior high school, with a total of 12 members in the team, three in the second grade and 8 veterans in the third grade. Their skills are very good, and the team has maintained the top six level in Yinchuan, a junior high school with a population of more than 2 million people, all year round. The coach mainly liked Wang Xile's good shooting and hoped to train him to be a pitcher.

In the first year of junior high school, Wang Xile's academic performance was at the level of 15th to 25th among more than 50 students in the 12th class, and everything was going through smoothly.

In early September 2010, Wang Xile, who was just in his second year of junior high school, called back from his second aunt's house in Yinchuan to say that he had been elected president of the school's student union, which surprised me. Because the position of president of the student council is held by a person with excellent character and academic performance in any school.

During the National Day holiday in October, my wife and I went to visit our son at the house of Wang Xile's second aunt in Yinchuan and thanked him as a teacher. When I arrived in Yinchuan, I asked him how he was elected president of the student union.

"At the beginning of the second year of junior high school, there was a student union campaign speech for various positions, and I saw that the top students had signed up, so I wanted to give it a try, so I signed up. At that time, those classmates who studied well also sarcastically said that it was a toad who wanted to eat swan meat, which made me very unconvinced. In those days, I saw that from the third year of junior high school to the first year of junior high school, all the students who were preparing to participate in the election were struggling to memorize their speeches. Wang Xile said.

"So how do you do it. I asked.

"I looked at other people's things, and then organized my manuscript in the theme of how the student council is a bridge between students, schools, and teachers, and how to implement the school system and live in harmony between good friends. But, Dad, do you know how I speak?" Wang Xile said.

"What's the lecture?" I asked.

"I was the only one of those speaking students who gave an unscripted speech. The son said proudly.

"Off-script speeches! Off-script speeches are too difficult for a little doll of your size. I said.

"Not really. As soon as I came on stage, my mind suddenly became bigger, and I forgot all the things that I knew very well. But I didn't care about anything, I said out loud what could be reflected in my head, and I didn't know what I said after I finished speaking, and then bowed deeply to the black and oppressive crowd in the audience, and ran off the stage in a gray manner, but I didn't expect to be elected a week later. ”

During the eleventh period, my wife and my second aunt thanked the teachers for their care of Wang Xile, during the banquet, all the teachers said that they had a special good impression of Wang Xile, especially the director of political education said very seriously, first, Wang Xile is the first student union president transferred from other places in the school's more than 50 years history, and second, Wang Xile is the most comfortable student he has used as the director of political education all these years, although he is not top notch, but he plays basketball very well, because I am also a basketball enthusiast.

In this way, Wang Xile's life as a second-year junior high school student came to an end quickly, and his best ranking in the class for the whole year was the fifteenth. This year, Wang Xile was recommended by the school to be elected as a good student in Yinchuan City, and the head teacher Mr. Ma said that a middle school student, she could not think of being recommended by the school as a "three good student" at this level, because each student in the twelfth class won the title of a school-level three good students.

Indeed, on the one hand, under the guidance of the teacher, Wang Xile organized the work of the student union very well, and at the same time, he played basketball more handsomely. On the other hand, from childhood to adulthood, Wang Xile is close to nature, so that he has a natural sense of affinity, gets along with people and things, no matter what things are, his emotions will not fluctuate too much, and he can always face problems positively according to the actual situation.

But any good character, once you enter the battle for admission scores, becomes nothing.

In September 2011, Wang Xile began his junior high school life, and everything in the class at this stage was obviously for the students who could be admitted to Yinchuan High School, and students like Wang Xile with a 400-level level were basically excluded from the competition by the school. At this time, we put all our hopes on one-on-one out-of-school tutoring, for which both adults and children have paid a great sacrifice.

A year later, by July 2012, this kind of propaganda of "one-on-one" focused tutoring did not bring a qualitative change to Wang Xile's high school entrance examination, and he was still hovering around the 400 grade.

Wang Xile failed the high school entrance examination. At that time, there were only high schools above 585 in Yinchuan. Thinking that the high school score line of our Jiyanchang Middle School is only 300 level, I suddenly feel that Wang Xile, who grew up in a disadvantaged environment, may not achieve any advantage in this extremely high-intensity learning competition in his life.

Faced with the failure of the high school entrance examination, his wife was very angry with her son, and she started from counting down to blaming Wang Xile with how much money she spent in "one-on-one". Wang Xile locked himself in the back room and cried bitterly.

I saw that my wife used how much money she spent to blame the child's high school entrance examination score, so I immediately stepped forward to control her, and then encouraged Wang Xile to open the door of her room with motivational words, so that both mother and son could face reality. Because blaming the noise will not only solve any problems, but may also create unexpected disasters.

The bizarre high school score line immediately aroused my curiosity, I searched for some information, and found that Yinchuan's population has risen rapidly from 1 million to 2.15 million in recent years, but only one high school has increased.

With a population increase of 1.15 million, there was only one high school, and it is clear that this is not an educational issue, but a political issue of governance. Because the longer a person receives a liberal education, the less likely he is to commit a crime when he grows up, and it seems that the direction of service in our economic development is a bit problematic, but what is the essence of the problem? Is it just a question of the number of schools?