Chapter 44: Who Do They Think They Are?
In this day and age, no one could understand what John was trying to do. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
For example, while providing weapons and equipment to Nie Shicheng and other bloody Qing army generals, so that they could have greater strength to resist the invaders, he indifferently watched the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War and the entry of the Eight-Nation Alliance into Beijing, silently waiting for the collapse of the Qing Dynasty; While trying his best to help those young students, and urging Rong Hong to expand the number of students, he wanted to reserve more talents for China, and at the same time used huge sums of money to snatch the cultural relics that were about to be lost......
Only John himself knew what he could do in this day and age.
John thinks that he is essentially an ordinary person other than that which is ahead of his time, so he can only do what he can think of. Therefore, he will not recklessly support those so-called anti-Qing righteous people, nor will he smash the pot and sell iron to fund the corrupt army of the Qing government, let alone throw himself into that huge whirlpool. Because he knows that reality is not a novel, and the power of one person is too small in the face of the tide of the times.
And on the contrary, John had to charge money for financing the arms of Nie Shicheng and the Beiyang Naval Division, even if it was only at cost price; The Shanghai branch of the Huntelaar Bank was not much different from other foreign banks, and even the many antiques he had acquired were shipped to New York by ship, and placed in a large museum that he had built......
The road knows the horsepower, and the people will see it for a long time.
Perhaps for many people in this era, John did the same thing as other foreigners, because they could not see what John was doing in private. But it wasn't until 10, 20, or even 50 years later that many of the things John did slowly showed their worth......
On February 1, 1901, the Qing government signed a peace program with the Eight Nations.
Although it was still early before the final treaty was signed, the outline of the peace talks, which had been postponed for more than a month, showed that there were probably some changes going on in the historical Xinchou Treaty. It's just that unlike the Japanese, the enemies of the Qing government this time were so strong that even John didn't dare to guarantee whether this change was good or bad. So he didn't put too much energy into this, but frequently wrote long letters to Rong Hong, who was far away in China, persuading him to increase the number of students sent to New York every year - even though the number of young students had exceeded 100 last year, John still felt that it was far from enough!
Today's Huntelaar Primary School is developing at a very fast pace!
In order to provide the best education for the students, John Dewey hollowed out almost the whole of New York City, and a large number of like-minded educators joined the Huntelaar School, and the Huntelaar Middle School has also been prepared for official enrollment after this summer. In order to match Dewey's educational philosophy, John built a variety of cultural, sports and scientific facilities in the school, instantly throwing out many aristocratic schools in New York!
In order to protect these future seedlings, John even invested in a farm!
This era is the darkest era of the American food industry, poisoned milk, expired meat flooded the entire market, go to the slaughterhouse or food processing factory in New York in this era, you will find that the future of China's black-hearted workshops is simply too kind. So John simply bought a superfarm in New Jersey and supplied his schools, hospitals and companies with affordable meat, eggs and milk — pasteurized milk. As for the provision of Huntelaar Primary School, John has always taken the free route.
Ahead of the times, it began to attract a large number of children to enroll.
In the early days, many employees of the Huntelaar family were reluctant to send their children to school because the school did not offer courses such as theology and Latin, and now they regret it. Therefore, when Huntelaar Primary School began to enroll students again at the beginning of the year, the number of applicants suddenly showed a big explosion!
The number of employees of Heinz Pharmaceutical, Medical Devices, Medical College and three hospitals alone exceeded 100!
Americans in this era have no scruples about having children.
There was no effective means of contraception, and even if it did, it was illegal, which made Americans in this era unrestrained in their fertility. On average, a woman has five or six children in her lifetime, and if it had been earlier, that number would have been more than eight! In a sense, a low-status woman is a fertility tool, and poor nutritional conditions coupled with frequent childbirth are undoubtedly a devastation to every woman's body......
Well, the topic is off the hook.
The number of students who broke out made John? Dewey was overjoyed, and John was overjoyed. Of course, he is not interested in cultivating any talents for Americans, but he also does not want those young international students to simply live in their own world, study, live and integrate with the children of the same period in the United States, which is John's purpose. So in the face of a surging number of applications, John fully authorized John? Dewey decided to enroll all Chinese children at will on the premise of ensuring that all Chinese children could be enrolled in school.
And then......
One day in mid-March, Dewey frowned and found John, the actual owner of the school: "Mr. Huntelaar, there is a very bad phenomenon in the school now!" ”
"Huh? What phenomenon? ”
John, who was originally very happy to see Dewey and planned to have a good chat with this big bull, frowned suddenly, and hurriedly asked.
"This ...... It's about those Chinese students. ”
After hesitating for a moment, Dewey sighed and said: "Before, because the number of white students was not large, the number of Chinese students was overwhelming, so it was not very obvious, but this year we enrolled hundreds of white students, in addition to the first-grade children, there are many older students to fill in all grades, especially those white students in the upper grades, who are not very friendly to Chinese students......
"What?"
After hearing Dewey's words, John's face suddenly became gloomy!
When there are more people, there are more rights and wrongs.
John is naturally very aware of this, so in order to protect these young children who have crossed the ocean, John can be said to spare no effort. This time, the school recruited white students on a large scale, and John reminded Dewey very early on, telling him to pay attention to this, and not to let racial discrimination spread in the school.
Sure enough, seeing John's face gloomy, Dewey hurriedly explained with a wry smile: "Sir, students are one thing, as long as the school strengthens management, it's okay, but ...... The key is the parents of the students! ”
"Uh, what does that mean?"
John was slightly stunned when he heard this, and asked in confusion.
"Alas......"
Shaking his head with a wry smile, Dewey explained what had happened recently.
In order to make Chinese students integrate into the United States more quickly, Dewey and John can be said to have tried their best. One of them is to break them up and divide them into classes, which is similar to the history of American children boarding in American homes. After all, if they are always together, although they are more familiar with each other, they will lose their original intention of exercising them.
But it is this policy that has aroused the dissatisfaction of many parents.
Over the past period of time, with the explosion of the number of students, many older white children have entered school, which has begun to bring all kinds of problems. For a long time, the U.S. government and the media have spared no effort to smear and attack the Chinese, and the young children are just that, and this time many older white children have been exposed to it, and the attitude towards these young children in the United States is quite bad! In addition to verbal humiliation, attitude discrimination and even physical aggression gave Dewey and others a headache. What's even more critical is that just yesterday, a group of parents came to the school in droves, blatantly demanding that the school isolate these Chinese children to attend classes, or simply kick them out of the campus......
"Bang!"
Suddenly slammed the teacup on the table to the ground, John stood up suddenly, his face was gloomy and terrible: "Isolation? Kick out of school? These bastards...... Who do they think they are?! (To be continued.) )