"We have about 300 students here, in six grades, from grades one to six. How could there be no place to sit? The classroom is so big, there must be a place to sit. However, if you want your child to learn better, you can pay a little more transfer fee, and we can arrange a desk for your child to sit at the front. There was a greedy glint in the headmaster's eyes.

Wang Tingting also began to frown a little, but then said: "It's okay with money, we have money." It's just that I found that none of your teachers here seem to speak Mandarin? Also, it seems that these teaching facilities are not very good. ”

"I said, you, this is a country school, how can it be compared with those schools in the city? Our salary is only 700 yuan a month, how good teachers can you hope we have here? However, the children nowadays are too squeamish, so they should be allowed to come to the school to suffer a little, so that it will be good for them. The situation in our school is very suitable for training students. What does it matter if the teacher doesn't speak Mandarin? As long as the test can be done correctly, you can rest assured, our teachers here are very strict and ensure that your children are taught well. The principal said immediately.

Wang Tingting still wanted to ask, but Liu Weiming shook his head at her. Wang Tingting understood, so she smiled and said to the principal: "That's great, then I'll bring my child over to you tomorrow, and I'll bring the transfer fee with me." ”

After finishing speaking, he left the school with Liu Weiming.

"Secretary Liu, why don't you ask more?" asked Wang Tingting when she walked out of the school.

"No more asking. Liu Weiming smoked a cigarette and said lightly.

When the driver saw Liu Weiming coming out, he very consciously drove the car to the school gate. After Liu Weiming and Wang Tingting got into the car, they slowly started the car.

"It's still early to look for a few more schools in another town. Liu Weiming looked at his watch and said to the driver, and after speaking, he said to Wang Tingting: "Tell me what you think of this school." ”

Wang Tingting was writing something in her notebook, and when she heard Liu Weiming ask herself, she closed the notebook, thought for a while, and said: "The teaching facilities are very backward, the teachers' quality is poor, the teachers' salaries are low, the teaching quality is very bad, and there is obviously a phenomenon of indiscriminate fees. In addition, the fact that the three villages share a school, and that there are no school buses and that the distance between the three villages is so long, shows that the children have to walk a long way to get to school, which is also a problem. In addition, I found out that teachers are educating children in order to prepare for exams, which is the case in education throughout the country, but this is also a problem. ”

Liu Weiming nodded and said: "Your analysis is very good, after you go back, go to the Finance Bureau of the Municipal Government and the Education Bureau to check the allocation and use of education funds." Let's see if we can match what we know today. ”

Wang Tingting nodded, and then began to write down in the notebook again.

After driving for about an hour, I came to the entrance of an elementary school, which of course was another town. Being able to find this school is also thanks to Wang Tingting's constant asking for directions.

Walking into the school, Liu Weiming was disappointed again, and the situation was basically the same as the previous school. After Liu Weiming insisted on walking past a few teachers, Liu Weiming actually discovered an unexpected deposit, and this accident was that Liu Weiming found a young teacher who was only about 20 years old, which was completely different from the teachers in his forties and fifties that he saw earlier. Of course, what surprised Liu Weiming the most was that the Chinese teacher spoke Mandarin, and he spoke pinyin very well, he could spell and write, and there was nothing on the desk that was within the ring ruler. Liu Weiming finally saw the bright spot. Liu Weiming stood outside the classroom and watched, and after the teacher had finished teaching the students in Mandarin, he had taught the new words, and then began to tell the students a story, the story of Edison. Although Liu Weiming heard this story when he was very young, Liu Weiming still listens to it with relish.

Time passed quickly, and Liu Weiming heard the bell for the end of class made by the jerky knocking of the iron piece.

"Ask this teacher to come and talk and find out about the situation. Liu Weiming said to Wang Tingting, who was standing beside him.

Wang Tingting nodded.

As soon as class ended, the children ran out of the classroom as fast as they could, and began to chase and play.

The young teacher walked out of the classroom and shouted when he saw the children, "Students, you must be safe and don't fight." ”

Wang Tingting walked over and felt that the children were frolicking around too much, so she walked up to the teacher and said, "Hello teacher, we have something to ask you, are you free?"

"Who are you?" the teacher was a little surprised by the sudden appearance of Wang Tingting and Liu Weiming, and asked suspiciously. And he has always spoken Mandarin, so Liu Weiming is sure that he is a foreigner.

"We are local ......," Wang Tingting was interrupted by Liu Weiming before she finished speaking.

"Yesterday, some teachers from Dongshan County went to the city government to report the situation, do you know?" Liu Weiming interrupted Wang Tingting's words and walked over directly to ask.

"Who are you?" the teacher looked a little surprised and frightened when he heard this. In fact, he also participated in yesterday's protest, and he was always quite scared when he participated in this protest, because he was afraid of "reprisals." ”

"Don't be nervous, we are from the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, and the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attach great importance to the reaction of your teachers in Dongshan County yesterday, so let us both come here today to understand the situation. Tingting, show him your work card. Liu Weiming said with a smile.

Wang Tingting listened to Liu Weiming's words, took out her work card from her bag and handed it to the teacher.

The teacher took the work card and looked at it, and saw that it said that the position of the section chief of the Municipal Party Committee Office was written on it, and he believed Liu Weiming's words a little.

"It's a bit noisy here, let's find a quiet place to talk and find out the situation, okay?" Liu Weiming said with a smile.

The man looked at Liu Weiming and Wang Tingting uncertainly again, then nodded and said, "Come with me." Then he walked around and walked to a house next to a classroom, he took out the key and opened the door and said, "Please come in, this is my dormitory." ”

Liu Weiming walked in and took a look, the conditions were very simple, there was only a bed and a table, and the rest had nothing. The room is not big, only a dozen square sizes.

"I'm sorry, but it's not in good condition. There are only a limited number of teachers in the school, and there is no dormitory, so I have to be assigned a utility room for me to make a dormitory. The man said embarrassedly when he saw Liu Weiming's eyes.

"It's okay, don't be nervous. We are here today for an unannounced visit, so don't tell anyone that we have been here. Moreover, we are not going to say anything to anyone today that we have learned about the situation from you, and you have something to say boldly. We won't ask for your name, so you can rest assured. Liu Weiming was not polite, and sat down on the only stool in the room and said.

"Ask, and I promise to tell you everything I know. I don't really want to work here anyway, so there's nothing to be afraid of. The man said with an interesting and decisive mind.

"Are you a college student?" asked Liu Weiming directly.

"Yes, I was assigned a college student the year before last, and I was recruited publicly. Nanzi nodded.

"Can you tell us about your group of college students?" asked Liu Weiming curiously.

"We were assigned to a total of 110 college students in Baishan City, of which 12 were assigned to Dongshan County, and most of our 12 were assigned to rural primary schools, of course, there were also a few lucky ones who were assigned to schools in the town or county. ”

"Some of your teachers in Dongshan County went to the city government yesterday to protest against your low salary, do you understand the situation?" asked Liu Weiming again.

The man hesitated for a moment before he said, "I'm not afraid that you know, in fact, I was one of the people who went to meditate yesterday. We are not only reflecting low salaries, but also long-standing arrears in teachers' salaries. Our ordinary teachers have a salary of almost more than 700 yuan a month, and the salary of our batch of college students is slightly higher, according to the text, it should be more than 1,300 yuan a month

, plus some subsidies can reach 1,500 months. ”

The man paused when he said this, and then said: "This money is too low for us college graduates, and now working outside, a college student can at least have more than two thousand a month." Of course, it doesn't matter if the salary is lower, after all, we agreed to teach in the village school because we like the profession of teaching. However, it is unacceptable for us to be owed wages for more than a year, and we have to live."

"You haven't been paid for more than a year?" asked Liu Weiming in surprise.

"Yes, it's been almost a year and a half, and I haven't paid a penny. Half of our rural teachers have resigned and left. The man nodded.

Liu Weiming sat there, started smoking, and then asked, "Can you tell us about the current situation of your school?"

"Are you sure you don't publish what I said today?" the man said with some hesitation.

"We are the staff members of the municipal party committee and government, we are here today on behalf of the municipal party committee and government, and every word we say today is on behalf of the municipal party committee and government. Now you should be able to believe it. Liu Weiming smiled and said.

"Since you said so, then I'll tell you the truth. I think it is necessary for the municipal party committee and government to vigorously rectify it, otherwise it will ruin the lives of these children. If you look at the education that the children in the cities are receiving, and then you look at the education that our rural children are receiving, there is a world of difference in the way of education, and when they grow up, how can these rural children be compared to those who are in the cities? I think that if this continues, the rich will become richer and the poor will remain poor. The man began to speak slowly.

Liu Weiming nodded, and then said: "The municipal party committee and municipal government you mentioned will have special research institutions to conduct research, and we came here today mainly to hear some specific things you said. For example, the school's educational funding, the quality of teaching, and whether there are any irregularities. ”

"I don't know much about the education funding, but I know that the salaries of the teachers in our school are the same as mine. The facilities in the school are already very rudimentary, and we have been applying for new teaching facilities for two years, but there has been no response. Because teachers don't have money, many teachers start to think of other ways to make money in order to make a living, and there are few teachers who are teaching hard, which is very harmful to students. In addition, because of the low salary, therefore, the school teachers are not very high, generally are old people, these old people are from the old society, and they themselves do not have a high culture, as far as I know, they are some private teachers recruited from the local area of the big education, many of these private teachers only know a few words. Later, the teacher reform removed the qualifications of private teachers, and those who remain now are those who have found a relationship to change from private teachers to public teachers. Let's not talk about whether these teachers themselves are highly educated, but it is obvious that they are older, and they live in rural areas, and they are basically out of touch with modern society, and their education methods are still stuck in the education methods of 20 years ago. As for the violations, it is not obvious, there are some things that the school has no way to do, and there is basically no money allocated to it, and our school also has to survive, such as the desk is broken to repair, chalk to buy, and the school is also out of no way to charge students a certain amount of teaching fees per semester. The man said excitedly.

Liu Weiming looked at the man, then looked at his watch, then stood up and shook the man's hand and said, "Thank you very much for saying so much to us today, and we will truthfully reflect the problems you said to the relevant departments." It's not too early, so we'll go back first. In conclusion, I would like to say that difficulties are temporary, and if you are a college student and a high-achieving student with state education, you should understand the value of perseverance, and you must believe in the party and the government. No matter how persistent we are, we must teach the students well, they are the future of the country. Here, on behalf of the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, I would like to express my gratitude to you for your educators who are on the front line. ”

"Thank you. The man shook hands with Liu Weiming with some emotion.

Liu Weiming nodded, then said goodbye and went out of the school gate with Wang Tingting and got into the car.

"Let's go back to the city. After Liu Weiming got on the bus, he leaned back on his seat and closed his eyes again.

When the car drove to the downstairs where Liu Weiming lived, it was already night, and Wang Tingting opened the car door for Liu Weiming to let Liu Weiming come out. Then he carried his bag and followed Liu Weiming upstairs.

"You can send it here, there's no need to go up, I'm not seventy or eighty, do I want you to be a woman to protect me? Haha, go back early, it's not too early." Liu Weiming turned around and said with a smile.

"It's not about men and women, it's my responsibility as a secretary. In addition, I think, you haven't been back for so long, I don't know what this house has become, you live as a big man, and no one will clean it up. As a secretary, it is my responsibility to care for your health, which is the responsibility and authority given to me by the organization. Wang Tingting's stubbornness came up again.