It is said that the son of the summer graduated from primary school this year, and according to the principle of students enrolling in the nearest school, he was arranged to attend junior high school in Shenzhen Guiyuan Middle School. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoXia and Fan Ting only have one child, and they feel that they should still spend a lot of money in education so that Xia Yu can enjoy a better education.

It is precisely in the past few years that a whirlwind of private education has been set off in society, and many enterprises have invested heavily in building various types of private schools and "aristocratic schools" for families with better economic conditions or parents who focus on the cultivation of their children. For example, some private schools cultivate students' tolerance and frustration education, with the aim of strengthening their physical fitness and ability to survive independently, so that they can become self-reliant laborers in the future; while some "aristocratic schools" pay attention to small class teaching, with no more than 25 students per class, in order to achieve the goal of improving the quality of teaching; and some focus on intensive English teaching, and do not hesitate to pay a lot of money to hire English teachers from abroad with high salaries. Of course, the wool comes out of the sheep, whether it is small class teaching or intensive English teaching, it will inevitably increase the cost of teaching, which will have to be paid by parents.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" activates an idiom story, called: "Zhou Yu beats Huang Gai - one is willing to fight, and the other is willing to suffer." "In today's society, what you want is the quality of service, as long as you do a good job, there are still people who are willing to pay.

In Shenzhen, there are more than three such schools.

Although the family is not very rich in the summer, his wife Fan Ting is more open-minded, she said: "The money will come when it is done." ”

So, in the summer, they decided to go and have a look.

The family took advantage of a Sunday to take the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway to Xin'an Senior School in Bao'an. It should be said that from its inception to the present, it has reached a period of growth that can be continued, and there is not much risk for both the school and the parents to invest their funds. However, it is not a short distance from their home to the school in the summer, and it is a little inconvenient to go back and forth between the city and the school every Saturday. In addition, due to the large number of students, the service quality of life teachers may decline, and for a thirteen-year-old child like Xia Yu, it may be difficult to adapt to large class teaching and public life.

The following Sunday, they drove the North Ring Road to Asia Pacific International School in Xili. The school has been in operation for less than two years and has some junior students. According to some parents, the teaching is not bad. In the summer, Fan Ting had a detailed conversation with the school. Judging from the conversation, this school advocates small class teaching, and takes English teaching as their breakthrough, and has teaching exchanges with many foreign universities, and students can go abroad for training and even further study. In addition, there is an advantage in the city, which is convenient to travel back and forth every week. However, in addition to the completion of the scale construction of teaching facilities and other hardware, the level of teachers, the scale of student enrollment, and the quality of teaching are still unknown.

It can be said that if you compare two schools, the disadvantages of one are the advantages of the other, and vice versa.

Among the summer colleagues, both schools have their children enrolled. Xu Donghai sent his son, who was in the third grade of primary school, to Xin'an Senior School to study, and picked him up once a week to reunite with his parents. When Xu Donghai was consulted in the summer, Xu Donghai said: "The quality of teaching is reasonable, but it is a little too far. ”

Summer asked, "Can you live independently when your child is so young?"

Xu Donghai said: "They have life teachers, one on one floor, and they manage a lot of people. If you want to make the life teacher pay special attention, you have to talk to him, and the red envelope still has to be given. ”

Summer said, "That's a bit of a problem, huh?"

Li Guolan's son, who is in the first grade at the Asia-Pacific School, said that when she was approached in the summer to find out about the situation, she said: "My son was transferred from kindergarten to the nursery class there, and he was one of the first students in this school. I've been studying for two years, and the teachers there are very responsible. Every Saturday, the school drops my child off at the gymnasium, where I go and brings it back, and on Sunday afternoons, the parents take my child to the gymnasium and be picked up by the school bus, which is very convenient. ”

Summer asked, "Are you used to being a child?"

Li Guolan said: "What's wrong with it? There is food, play, and friends at school, and on Sunday afternoon, they are clamoring to go to school!"

Summer smiled and said, "It seems that your family is going to have a doctor!"

"Not necessarily. Li Guolan said modestly.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, at the end of August, the Xia family is about to determine whether to go to Guiyuan Middle School to register Xia Yu.

In the evening, the family had dinner and discussed which school Xia Yu attended.

Fan Ting was determined to send Xia Yu to an aristocratic school to study, thinking that it was worth spending a larger cost on a child. However, Summer's view is: it is not necessary to spend money, the child will become a talent, and sometimes things backfire, it is a business of "losing the wife and the soldiers", and the gains outweigh the losses.

Xia said: "After the state resumed the college entrance examination, you have seen: Why were so many college students who came out of the ravines able to pass the examination? Hua Luogeng did not study in college, but he wanted to become a university professor, so why was he able to become a talent? There is an even more classic story: In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, didn't Senior General Chen Geng become the dean of the Harbin Military Engineering College? At that time, the state wanted to recruit a group of students from the army to study university courses, and when the army selected the cadets, there was another task to be assigned to some people to complete, and when the commander took out two pieces of paper and announced the list to the soldiers in the formation, the list on one paper stood on the left and the other on the right. Among them, there was an uneducated soldier who stood in the wrong line, stood in the queue of cadets of the Harbin Military Engineering Academy, and became a college student by mistake. In the end, this person has not yet become a pillar of the country's military science! Therefore, the key to whether a person can become a talented person or not is his will. Of course, there is talent, and those who can read can read wherever they read, that is, gold will shine wherever it is placed. On the other hand, if it's a cow, you just take it to Beijing, and then bring it back as a cow. ”

At this time, Fan Ting said impatiently: "You are just reluctant to invest, and you are holding on to your wallet!"

Xia Yu also coaxed and said: "Yes, a full money drill! I value a penny bigger than a gong!"

In the summer, Fan Ting and her mother couldn't resist it, so they could only settle for the next best thing and agreed to sign up for the Asia-Pacific International School.

The next day, Xia went to the savings center to spend 50,000 yuan in cash, went to the Asia-Pacific International School with Fan Ting and Xia Yu, registered Xia Yu, and a few days later, paid 180,000 yuan for the preparation of the study. According to the regulations, this money is returned to the parents when the student leaves the school, and the interest is used to supplement the school's expenses during the school period. In this way, the cost of each academic year is at least more than 30,000 yuan.

After paying the money, Xia thought to herself: "When I was in high school, the tuition fee was only three yuan, and these three yuan was not easy to come by! At that time, three yuan was equivalent to ten days of food for a national cadre." At that time, I understood the difficulties of my family, and every Saturday and Sunday when I returned home, I would go up to the mountain to cut firewood, dry it and bring it to school to pay for tuition and miscellaneous fees, without my parents having to think about it at all. If future generations can have my entrepreneurial spirit and viability, I should be happy. ”

In this way, Xia Yu became a first-year junior high school student in this "aristocratic school".

August 30, 1997, was the day Xia Yu went to school, and in the summer, Xia Yu and Fan Ting were driven to school by Xia Yu's uncle Xie Feng and began their boarding career.

When I came back from a business trip in the summer and asked Fan Ting, Fan Ting said: "The impression is okay, one room for four people." But they were in the same room with a pair of twins from Shandong, and after his father left, both of them cried in the room, which was very pitiful. ”

Some people say that the most concerned thing in the world is the connection between mother and child, which expounds the theory of the greatness of maternal love and the broad feelings of mothers. At that time, the ancients Meng Jiao (Tang Dynasty) didn't know which nerve was touched, and a big man actually wrote a poem for this purpose, named "The Wanderer's Yin", which depicted the depth of maternal love. Don't say it, now it looks like it's really a swan song for the ages. His poems:

The line in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt.

Before leaving, I am afraid that I will return late.

Coincidentally, today, more than a thousand years later, Fan Ting sent Xia Yu to live at Shenzhen Asia-Pacific International School for one night, and a hanging heart has never been able to let go. It was really:

Mother to her son, can you lift the quilt last night?

Did you eat in the morning?

My husband drove quickly and went to Xili together;

After seeing it, the heart is at ease, and the peace of mind slowly returns.

So, in the summer, Fan Ting drove quickly to the Asia-Pacific International School, and arrived at the school in less than an hour. The couple found Xia Yu's classroom, looked secretly outside the window, and saw Xia Yu sitting in the back row, looking at his expression, they were still very confident to listen to the teacher's make-up tutoring before the start of the new semester. Fan Ting's heart was put down.

On September 6, Xia Yu went home from studying in Asia-Pacific for a week, and as soon as he got home, he kept talking, saying: "The school food is delicious, and the food at home is the same, and it is unpalatable." ”

When asked about his studies, he said, "I became the subject representative of the biology class and the head of the English and Chinese study groups. Looking at his expression, he is still adapting to the new environment.

In the evening of the next day, Xia and his wife sent Xia Yu back to school, and when they arrived at the dormitory, they saw the twin brothers who had not gone home, their eyes were red from crying, and they couldn't help but comfort them. When these two children saw that someone was sympathetic, they cried even more, so that everyone who listened to it was moved.

Later, on the way home, Summer said to Fan Ting: "Seeing them crying reminded me of returning home on the first Saturday of high school accommodation." ”

Fan Ting asked, "How was it then?"

Xia said: "I was boarding at the school, and I felt very comfortable, getting up in the morning to do exercises, reading early, eating breakfast, and having food as soon as school ended. After eating in the evening, I immediately took a shower, washed clothes, and studied on my own at night, and everything was very regular. After a week, just like Xia Yu's feeling now, he is more satisfied. However, when I was having dinner at home, the younger sister first said, 'Brother, you seem to have lost weight!' and then the eldest sister looked at it and asked, 'Yes, ah, you have lost weight!' At this time, my mother said with great concern: 'Are you thin, are you not enough to eat at school?' As soon as these words came out, I couldn't help but have a sour nose and tears burst out of my eyes, and I actually cried 'ah, ah, ah'. ”

Fan Ting said: "You too, men don't flick when they have tears!"

Summer defended: "There is another sentence: just because I haven't reached the sad place." But isn't it sad to be talked about, especially when someone sympathizes with someone!" (To be continued.) )