Looking at the few of his former protégés in front of him, Zhang Shengjie smiled slightly bitterly and told them the reason.

The predecessor of Dongxiang Middle School was a private school at the end of the Qing Dynasty, run by a squire who had returned to his hometown, and his descendants gradually expanded and slowly developed into a county school, and during the war, the Celestial Army also used this school as a temporary base.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the school became a public school, and together with two other schools newly built in recent years, it undertook the task of educating children in junior high schools and high schools in the town and more than a dozen surrounding villages.

It's just that over the years, because of the geographical relationship, Dongxiang's economy has not been too colorful, but the surrounding towns have slowly developed, and even infrastructure such as schools have been built, which has made Dongxiang Middle School slowly lose the advantages of a century-old school and gradually decline.

In recent years, the government's investment in Dongxiang Middle School has been greatly reduced, the number of teachers, teaching equipment and other aspects have dropped significantly, and even the classrooms have not been repaired for several years, and they have fallen into disrepair and become dangerous buildings.

The school has become a dilapidated building, and it is also a large amount of money to repair and reinforce, which makes the town's finances stretched.

Under the vicious circle, some people in the county even proposed to simply withdraw Dongxiang Middle School, divert the students in the school to the other two schools and the surrounding towns, and transfer the land where the school is located in the prime location of the town center into a commercial plaza and other buildings, so as to promote the economic development of Dongxiang Township.

There were both approvals and objections to this proposal, and both sides were well-founded.

Those who agree believe that the school has now become a dilapidated house, and it has become a big burden for the town, and a large amount of money has to be invested in it every year to repair and repair, and the surrounding towns have enough capacity to absorb the students in the middle school.

Those who oppose it are on the side of the students, even though the surrounding towns are able to reluctantly accept them. However, after all, there is a distance from Dongxiang, and some students in the mountain villages have to run more than a dozen or even dozens of kilometers to reach the new school, which will greatly affect the transportation, safety, time and family burden of going to and from class, and may even trigger a small-scale dropout wave.

When the two sides were arguing, suddenly there was news in the city that a well-known group specializing in private aristocratic schools in China planned to build a school in Viet Ninh, which was still in the site selection stage.

Someone came up with an idea to simply sell the school as a whole to that group. They are the best of both worlds.

Of course, with the expensive tuition fees of aristocratic schools, ordinary people have a few problems that can afford to go to, which are selectively ignored by those people.

After a few meetings, the leaders finally made a decision, regardless of whether the group had the intention to buy the century-old school, the town did not have the funds to repair the school, so it planned to abolish Dongxiang Middle School. Unless during this holiday, enough funds can be raised from the private sector to repair and strengthen the main building, so as not to reach the level of dilapidated houses.

If it's before the start of the next semester. Unable to raise enough funds, the school was abolished and teachers and students were shunted to two other schools in the town, as well as to nearby towns.

Speaking of which. Zhang Shengjie sighed helplessly, "We teachers, it's no problem to teach." But let's raise funds by ourselves but it's useless, how to raise them? Recruit from whom? ”

"In the end, a few of our teachers discussed for a long time, and cheekily decided to add a charity fundraising activity to this school celebration, without publicity or reluctance, if we are willing to come, we will tell them about the situation, how much can be raised! Then we will raise money from the public to see if we can raise a little more. ”

"If we can't raise enough money by the start of the next semester, then we will return the money raised one by one!"

When I first got the itinerary, everyone also saw that there was a charity fundraising activity on it, but I didn't care about it at the time, thinking that it was another leader who walked around casually for the sake of show, but I didn't expect it to be for this.

After pondering for a while, Xia Yun asked Zhang Shengjie, "Teacher, how much money do you need to raise so that this school will not be abolished?" ”

This question has obviously been in Zhang Shengjie's mind countless times, and he didn't think about it and said directly, "At present, the most important thing is that several teaching buildings and dormitory buildings have fallen into disrepair for a long time, and they are about to become dangerous buildings, and they must be reinforced, we have found experts in this area to estimate that the repair and reinforcement cost of a building is at least about 900,000 yuan, five teaching buildings, two dormitory buildings, and nearly 6.3 million yuan here!" ”

"And with our efforts, the town promised to squeeze out 1 million, so as long as we can raise 5.3 million yuan, this school can be regarded as a ...... for the time being. Of course, there are many other places that also need to be repaired, but they are not particularly urgent, and they can be put on for a while, so let them go first, and then slowly apply for financial funding from the government! ”

Seeing Zhang Shengjie frowning and sighing, Xia Yun was about to speak, when a staff member walked out of the door of the auditorium and shouted to Zhang Shengjie from afar, "Principal, the time is almost up, can you start?" ”

Zhang Shengjie nodded at the man and said to Xia Yun, "I'll go in first, you can do whatever you want!" ”

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Zhang Shengjie entered the auditorium, but Xia Yun and the others did not continue to walk outside, standing on the ground and looking at each other, thoughtfully and did not speak.

was silent for a while, and finally Wei Dongcheng spoke first.

"Those leaders are all shit, obviously they want to withdraw the school, so that they can sell the school to those businessmen for cash, two months, more than 5 million, where can Teacher Zhang raise money, and isn't it a matter of the government to repair the school, but it is also necessary to raise funds from the people, it is a big joke in the world! I really don't believe it, a county can't even get more than 5 million education funds! ”

Jiang Peilan smiled and said, "One is to invest a sum of money every year, the other is to cash out a lot of money, and there are political achievements to take, those leaders naturally know how to calculate this account!" ”

Gu Ruotong hadn't spoken since just now, and when she looked at Xia Yun's frowning and contemplative look, she suddenly laughed, "Brother, are you planning to participate in that charity fundraiser?" ”

Xia Yun came back to his senses and nodded, "Let's go and see it first!" Without Teacher Zhang, your brother and I would probably have become a professional gangster like Lei Laohu, and after all, it is my alma mater, and I don't want her to become a school for the children of rich families, or a cement building! ”

Jiang Peilan remembered the wall that had not changed for more than ten years and was obviously shorter, the prison escape point for bad students in Xia Yun's mouth, and the young man who was shouting and running on the playground that day, the corners of his mouth turned slightly, and he nodded.

"Then let's walk outside for a while, and when Mr. Zhang's work report meeting is almost over and the charity fundraising begins, let's go in again!"

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A few people found a place to sit for a while, looking at the charity fundraising time on the itinerary, and then walked to the school auditorium again.

The layout of the auditorium is the same as that of a typical movie theater, with hundreds of seats arranged in a fan-shaped pattern, and about 70% of the seats are sparsely seated, and there is a large stage opposite.

Of course, today's stage was arranged in the shape of a rostrum, with a row of seven or eight people sitting there, Zheng Guofeng, Xia Yun's little uncle Zhang Jiyong and the principal Zhang Shengjie were all listed.

Xia Yun and the others found a few vacant seats to sit in the back row, except for a few casual glances by the people next to them, they didn't attract anyone's attention.

At this time, Zhang Shengjie was speaking.

"Nowadays, several teaching buildings and dormitory buildings of the school have fallen into disrepair, and this year experts from relevant fields have come to the field to inspect and believe that if they are not repaired and reinforced, they will belong to the category of dilapidated buildings and can no longer be used!"

"But this year, the town's financial situation is not well-off, and it really can't come up with so much money at once, so the town has put forward two plans!"

"The first plan is to abolish our 100-year-old school and divert the students and teachers in the school to two other middle schools in the town and several schools in the next town!"

As soon as he said this, there was a buzz of discussion in the audience, some surprised and some angry.

One of the alumni stood up and said loudly, "Teacher Zhang, how can it be done, so many students are shunted to other schools, so they can't be squeezed to death, just take the second and third middle schools as an example, there are almost sixty or seventy people in a class, so there are no more than 100 people in a class?" ”

His words attracted the approval of some people, and another alumnus said, "Yes, Mr. Zhang, if we are shunted to other schools, what will happen to our children who originally lived in the school?" If you can't live in school, won't your child have to run more than ten kilometers a day to get to class? ”

"Yes, yes, there are so many students, the two schools will definitely not be able to eat, if they are assigned to the next town, it will be even more criminal, isn't this nonsense, no, we have to be the government to respond to the situation!"

Seeing that the discussion below was getting louder and louder, and there were signs of getting out of control, Zhang Shengjie hurriedly coughed vigorously and said loudly, "Alumni, can you listen to me?" ”

"Of course, we have all reported these problems to our superiors, but the funding gap is too big, and the town really can't come up with so much at once, so the town gave us a second plan!"

"That is, to raise donations from the society, raise a certain amount of funds, first repair and strengthen a few main buildings, so that they will not become dangerous houses, and then slowly apply for funds from the superiors to renovate the rest of the ......"

Collect donations?

Now the scene cooled down. (To be continued......)