Chapter 259: Seven Years of Life
The new semester has begun, and Jia Qianqian once again put on his small schoolbag. Even if she was extremely reluctant to go to school, she had to go. Who let himself have a father like Jia Youwei?
It's not that she hasn't protested, it's not that she hasn't struggled, it's not that she hasn't fought for it. In short, all the efforts he made came to Lao Jia and all came to naught.
In Jia Qianqian's mind, Lao Jia is a dictator. He speaks nicely and promotes democracy, but he has the final say in implementation.
Jia Qianqian was promoted from the second grade to the third grade. Today, she is in the third grade class of the school, which belongs to the middle grade between the lower and upper grades of the elementary school.
When Jia Qianqian entered the familiar campus and walked into the new classroom, he did not have the excitement and joy of not seeing his classmates for a summer vacation and reuniting after a long absence.
Even if she doesn't have the mood to go to school, she can't learn here. The only thing I can do is to be in a constant daze in class and during recess......
In addition, what Jia Qianqian can do is to read all kinds of books he wants to read. Even if you do your own thing in class, you will not be interfered with by the teachers of each subject.
On the one hand, the school teachers knew that she was a genius and did not need to treat her like an ordinary child, and on the other hand, they knew her rich background and family background.
Jia Qianqian learns well, and that is a benefit for the common people. On the contrary, if she learns badly, the people of one side will suffer. Who left her with too many resources and power in her hands?
Among the white lies that teachers use to motivate their students, the most famous is to study hard, go all the way, and in the future, you can achieve the only words that defeat Gao Fushuai through grades, which is naturally completely useless to Jia Qianqian.
She doesn't have to worry about who will defeat her in terms of grades, after all, she has always been the No.1 in school, and even the children in the upper grades can't pass her.
Jian Jian also once hid from Jia Youwei and secretly gave Jia Qian money to simulate the real questions of the previous year's college entrance examination in arts and sciences. As a result, Jia Qianqian actually passed the admission score line of Tsinghua University, including a full score of 150 points in mathematics, and the admission score line of Peking University in liberal arts.
In addition to being concisely surprised, I also know that even if college students who graduated from prestigious universities step into the society, they will sooner or later find that their scores are completely inferior to that of having a good father and mother, or a good grandfather and a good grandmother, or a good grandmother and a good grandfather.
Students who are born with high-quality social resources are more likely to succeed than those who do not.
Taking herself as an example, her classmates who have no social resources and are still in the capital have the most profound experience.
They felt firsthand what it means to take half a step forward, even if it was a small step, it was extremely difficult, and it was obvious that they had touched the ceiling.
The BBC's documentary "Seven Years of Life" has already revealed the mystery early. Origin determines fate, and hard work will definitely be useful, even if the probability is extremely low, it is better than nothing.
"Seven Years of Life" visits the first group of people from the upper, middle and lower classes to be selected every seven years, from the age of seven to the age of fifty-six.
There was a young boy who made a class leap from the son of a farmer to a professor at Harvard University.
On the contrary, another young boy from the middle class, but the class declined, he was not admitted to the ideal famous university in the college entrance examination, and he studied in a third-rate university.
It's not that his parents are not responsible, but they are too responsible, and they want him to be better than the blue, forcing him to go up, resulting in too much pressure, and limited by his own qualifications, and finally the tragedy of "pulling out the seedlings to help him grow".
As for the rest, they all stayed and circled around the original class. Children from the upper class went all the way to prestigious private schools and studied in Oxford and Cambridge.
After graduating and stepping into the society, he entered his own law firm and became a lawyer, with a good income, a decent job, a respected and stable career, and continued the path of his father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and grandparents, while his children still continued to follow their own roadmap.
Children from the lower classes, on the other hand, did not even go to university, and then entered society early to earn a living. The profession is nothing more than a restaurant waiter, supermarket salesperson, etc., and the job is unstable, and he is often forced to change jobs.
The BBC's "Seven Years of Life" is not cruel, but the cruel thing is that the BBC made two documentaries called "Girls Growing Up in Poverty" and "Boys Growing Up in Poverty" have different perspectives for men and women.
It's not about other countries, it's about Britain itself. Children from working-class backgrounds are generally poor in math, live in unsafe neighborhoods, and often face violence, drugs, alcohol, and so on.
When they reach the age of sixteen, even if they are looking for a job, it is not easy to find it. There is also neighbourhood discrimination in the UK, where you come from a poor neighbourhood and some employers are reluctant to hire you.
If you go to the bank to take out a small loan and start your own business, you will also be rejected by the other party with various high-sounding excuses because of your family reasons and address.
I finally found a simple and repetitive job, which was also a whopping 60:1, and you had to kill the other fifty-nine applicants first.
Otherwise, it is a temporary job, and the average hourly wage is that more than 2 million people in Britain are doing such jobs to make ends meet, and its population is more than 60 million.
If you can't survive, you go to the government for help. They will continue to send you to live in another poor neighborhood, a troubled neighborhood, a violent neighborhood, and so on.
Not only was there no decent furniture in there, but there was no heating in the winter. If you want heating, gas, electricity, water, etc., you have to find a way to pay for it.
The British film "I Am Black" is the best interpretation of the so-called state and government welfare, that is, the dice that determine the life and death of the poor.
The one who rolls the dice is certainly not the poor, but the one who decides the fate of the poor. If you are selected, you are still lucky, and if you are not selected, it is normal, and you are not unlucky.
According to the most normal logic, those who do not work are not allowed to eat, and it is only right. The government has taken care of you so that you can receive food relief vouchers.
As for things, naturally they won't be very good. This is nothing more than some dead salable, stale canned food, and so on. The most touching thing is that Blake graffiti on the wall of an application point in the UK with courage and anger and saying what is in his heart, I am Blake.
At the same time, another protester shouted out how the puppies at Eton College were swearing. Those are the ones who really control the fate of the poor.