Chapter 238: Dreams Come True
In front of his beloved, Zhao Zhenghao didn't mind revealing his shortcomings, and in the face of Yu Yabin's question, he replied calmly, "I can't hear it." ”
Zhao Zhenghao's serious answer made Yu Yabin unable to distinguish the real from the fake, and she had no interest in distinguishing the true from the false, so she just rolled her eyes at Zhao Zhenghao coquettishly, and then pricked up her ears and listened to the faint sound of music from the music classroom in the school.
For Yu Yabin, who has a quiet personality, it is already the biggest dream to be with his beloved like this, in a place where he hears the sound of chickens and dogs, is far away from the hustle and bustle of cars and horses, and can temporarily unload the burden of stars, holding hands and enjoying the warm spring sunshine.
In the past few months of confirming the relationship with Zhao Zhenghao, Yu Yabin has imagined such a scene countless times, but because of their working relationship, it has not been until now that the dream has become a reality.
Although the surrounding environment is slightly different from what was imagined, as long as Zhao Zhenghao is around, everything seems to be very complete, and you can't expect too much, Yu Yabin is very content.
Zhao Zhenghao also felt very comfortable about the scene at this moment, in his previous life, Zhao Zhenghao also had a soft youth, had a guitar on his back, and his beloved wandered the world together, but unfortunately after growing up, he has been running for life, and the dream of the past only exists in the dream.
This impromptu trip satisfied all Zhao Zhenghao's imagination of his dreams in his previous life, and made him feel that his life was more complete.
didn't let Zhao Zhenghao and Yu Yabin wait too long, when they were not tired of the beauty of life at this moment, the school bell of Yangshugou Primary School was ringing, and more children who had been confined in the classroom before rushed out, and the joy in the air became stronger.
The janitor came over, took out the key to unlock the school gate, opened the gate, and let the children go outside.
The scale of Yangshugou Primary School is not large, although the students studying here cover several surrounding villages, but the six grades, including the preschool students, do not have 200 students.
It's not that there aren't so many school-age children in the surrounding villages, or that there are serious dropouts here, but that after life improves, many families with conditions are not satisfied with being trapped in the depths of the mountains, and while going out to work and find employment, they often take their children out together to receive better education in the city.
Soon, the parents who received the children left one after another, and those children who were close to home, or whose parents were inconvenient to pick them up, also left in groups, and the rest of the campus, except for some senior children who were already sensible, were still children who still insisted on receiving music teaching.
Now, in addition to the children in the campus orchestra, there are more than a dozen children who still insist on receiving music teaching every day, and they will practice for half an hour under the guidance of volunteer teachers after school.
Most of the children who can't endure the hardships of insisting on training will naturally not be given up by the "Music Teaching Program", and volunteers will also give them two professional music lessons every week, which can be regarded as making up for the lack of quality education in Yangshugou Primary School.
When the school gate of Yangshugou Primary School returned to calm, Zhao Zhenghao took Yu Yabin's hand and walked over, and greeted the janitor who was about to close the school gate, "Uncle, can we go in now?"
The janitor didn't mean to make things difficult for Zhao Zhenghao, he was just doing his duty, he waved his hand when he heard the words, and said, "Come in!
Zhao Zhenghao nodded and replied, "I know, that's not the sound of children's practice." ”
The janitor listened to the sound of the practice that had increased a little, and with a relieved smile on his face, he waved his hand at Zhao Zhenghao and the others, and did not say anything more.
Seeing this, Zhao Zhenghao no longer disturbed the tranquility of his old man's house, pulled Yu Yabin, followed the sound of the children's practice, and walked towards the music classroom.
The scale of Yangshugou Primary School is not very large, after entering the gate, it is a playground with an area that is not as large as the platform outside the school gate, the playground is surrounded by a plastic runway that should be two hundred meters of specifications, and there are some amusement equipment at the four corners, such as table tennis tables, seesaws and the like.
On either side of the playground are two rows of bungalows, each the size of five classrooms, and directly opposite the gate is the only high-rise building in the school, which is only a small two-story building, which looks like the size of three classrooms.
Through previous observations, Zhao Zhenghao probably knew that the bungalows on both sides should be the children's classrooms, as well as other functional classrooms - the music classrooms of the "Music Volunteer Teaching Program" are also among them. The small two-story building, the first floor of which was supposed to be the offices of the school's faculty and staff, and the second floor looked like it should have been converted into dormitories for teachers who had difficulty returning home, as Mr. Zhao judged by the clothes and bedding drying in the hallway on the second floor.
Zhao Zhenghao did not mean to delve into the living conditions of the teachers in this elementary school located deep in the mountains, they may have difficulties of one kind or another, but they are not capable of changing them, this is not like the "music teaching program", which only needs to spend money to solve most of the problems.
What bothers those teachers, it should not be money, the government of the Dragon Kingdom is now investing a lot in basic education, the salary level of teachers is equal to that of civil servants, plus the various income generation of schools, the overall income, in the entire social class, should belong to the middle level, more than the upper than the bottom.
To improve the treatment of teachers, it is not possible for Zhao Zhenghao to invest 1.8 billion yuan to achieve results, which requires the government to make overall arrangements, and Zhao Zhenghao is not capable of worrying about this.
He only glanced at Xiaolou, then withdrew his gaze and continued to walk towards the destination of this trip.
The music classroom of the "Music Volunteer Teaching Program" is located in the innermost part of the row of bungalows on the left side of the school gate, in fact, Zhao Zhenghao does not need to be close to find it, except for the sound of children practicing musical instruments here, which can show Zhao Zhenghao the way, there is also a more conspicuous sign - there are two children who receive assistance, it seems that they want to reduce some distractions, and move their practice field to the outside of the classroom.
The two children who practiced outside the classroom were learning the erhu, which is a common national musical instrument.
Although the principle of assistance in the "Music Teaching Program" is to provide free musical instruments for the children who receive assistance, including not only the erhu, transverse flute, guzheng, etc., but also the violin, saxophone, trombone and other Western musical instruments, and even after a special application, a special place for professional piano will be granted!
In order to allow the children receiving assistance to receive professional music education, the free practice instruments provided by the "Music Teaching Program" should not be shoddy bargains, but at least reach a professional level.
An entry-level erhu costs at least a few hundred yuan, and an entry-level violin has to go up in value, not to mention tens of thousands of pianos at every turn - the investment in the purchase of musical instruments, the proportion of investment in the entire "music teaching program" has always been very high, currently maintained at about 40%, with the expansion of the scale of aid, this part of the investment, will continue to increase!
Although the "Music Teaching Program" advertises that everything is free, it is impossible to distribute an erhu and violin to every child in the school receiving assistance, and if it does, it is impossible to say that Zhao Zhenghao invests half of his income, and even if he invests all his income, it is impossible to support the larger and larger scale of the project!
In this regard, the plan is to provide each school with a certain number of common musical instruments, a total of 50 or less, so that volunteers can provide regular music tutoring to the children.
Then, after screening, select the children who are interested in music, and let them choose the instruments they want to practice with the help of volunteers, and the "Music Teaching Program" will give these children an additional part of the instruments.
For those children who have received music education in general, the "Music Teaching Program" only provides free use of musical instruments, not the right to own, and for those children who voluntarily accept long-term practice, the program will only give them the right to own musical instruments.
In order to ensure the smooth implementation of the plan, the "Music Volunteer Teaching Program" stipulates that the musical instruments they provide are not allowed to be taken home by children in principle, and can only be used in the music classroom, and if the children want to practice at home, they need to purchase another instrument.
However, in order not to add additional burden to these children, the plan will provide a certain amount of subsidies for these additional children who purchase musical instruments, and the amount of the subsidy is generally 70% of the price of the musical instrument.
Of course, for some children who are really talented in music and whose families are really difficult, volunteers can apply to the top to waive all the fees for the purchase of additional musical instruments after they have fully understood the situation.
As for those children who can't continue their music dreams because of the lack of support from their families, Zhao Zhenghao is very sympathetic, but he really can't provide additional benefits.
The "Music Teaching Program" initiated by Zhao Zhenghao only provides one more possibility for the children's future, but it cannot take care of the children's future, because no one knows whether this future is good or bad when the future does not come.
No matter how great Zhao Zhenghao's ability is, it is not as big as the child's parents, since their parents do not support it, Zhao Zhenghao will naturally not force it.
After all, the plan he initiated is only a public welfare activity, not compulsory education mandated by the government!
Under this series of regulations, to a large extent, the intention of some opportunistic people to rub oil on the "music teaching program" has been avoided.
An entry-level musical instrument is hundreds or thousands of dragon coins, and a school receiving aid must prepare at least fifty pairs, which is forty or fifty thousand, and the plan currently covers two thousand aided schools, but the fixed investment in musical instruments is hundreds of millions!
Although there will be a big discount on the price for large-scale purchases, the investment is not small.
And, despite repeated emphasis on strengthening the management of musical instruments, the first lesson the volunteers gave to the children was to remind or ask them to take care of the instruments in their hands.
However, the children who received the assistance were basically bear children in their seventies and eighties, and it was when their hands were neither light nor heavy, and man-made damage to the instruments was inevitable.
According to the experience of the program for nearly four years, the basic lifespan of a batch of musical instruments is 16 to 20 months, that is, about a year and a half.
Therefore, the planned investment in musical instruments is not a one-shot deal, but a normalized investment, and with the expansion of the scale of the program, this part of the investment will only be more!
If the plan is not strict in the management of musical instruments, as long as the people below are allowed to increase the damage rate of musical instruments by a few percentage points on paper, and accumulate a lot, it will bring tens of millions or hundreds of millions of huge losses to the plan!
Although Zhao Zhenghao's money was obtained in a bit easy by the wind, it couldn't be squandered like this!
Zhao Zhenghao in this regard, does not mind doing sinnerful things, once such a thing is found to have happened, if the reason is the school receiving aid, the plan will immediately stop the aid to the school, anyway, in the vast rural areas of the Dragon Kingdom, there are tens of thousands of primary and secondary schools, do not aid this, can help that, and it is not the "Music Teaching Program" and Zhao Zhenghao who suffer losses.
As for whether this will have any impact on the children receiving assistance, it is not something that Zhao Zhenghao can take into account.
And if the oil rubbing incident happens to volunteers, or higher-level coordinators, then Zhao Zhenghao will not only immediately terminate their duties, but also transfer the case to the public security organs to investigate their relevant legal responsibilities!
In the nearly four years since the implementation of the "Music Teaching Program", a total of four schools have been terminated, and a total of nine volunteers and coordinators have been held legally responsible, accounting for a small proportion and still within the acceptable range of Zhao Zhenghao.
Another purpose of making the regulations for the management of musical instruments so strict is to prevent children who are new to music and do not understand their future direction from blindly choosing those high-value instruments for the sake of novelty and fun.
Fortunately, the price of large pieces of guzheng and entry-level is at most a few thousand yuan, but among the Western musical instruments, there are many niche and high-priced instruments, often tens of thousands of musical instruments, if the children's choice of such instruments increases, it will also bring additional burden to the plan.
If the children who choose this kind of musical instrument can persevere and achieve something, it can be regarded as in line with the purpose of the plan, and the money is spent comfortably.
The most fearful thing is that the children who choose this kind of musical instrument are just out of curiosity, and tens of thousands of musical instruments are purchased in three minutes, and after only a few uses, they are placed in the warehouse to accumulate dust.
Waste, in the greatest original sin!
The "Music Teaching Program" is a public welfare activity, and we cannot afford such waste.
Therefore, most of the children who receive long-term assistance from the program choose musical instruments such as erhu, transverse flute, and violin, which are more common and of moderate value, and there are not many children who choose expensive instruments.