Chapter 18: Parent-Teacher Conferences#
Qi Mi's school has a parent-teacher conference, but fortunately, the parent-teacher meeting is not complicated. Long before the advent of the era of brain-computer interaction, the popularization of information technology has made it very convenient for parents to monitor students, and now the parents' meeting is not so much to let the parents know about the school, but to meet the parents to show off their children's achievements and open a commendation conference. Once in the middle of the term and once in the final term, parents who think that their baby's comprehensive results can still be seen will participate.
However, Qi Fan still didn't tell her mother about it in the end. On the one hand, it was because it was inconvenient for her to say it, and on the other hand, she went back and thought about it carefully, and felt that she could not let her mother appear in a public place like school so simply. After all, her mother is the CTO of a brain-like company, so if she goes to the parent-teacher conference, it won't cause chaos?
But since Qi Mi's parents had never appeared at the parent-teacher meeting before, her teachers of various subjects had strongly urged parents to come this time. Qi Fan sat at the desk and thought about it for a while, and chose to @ grandma and grandpa in the WeChat group of her and grandpa.
At that time, Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang were on vacation in Beihai, but it was important to have a granddaughter's parent-teacher meeting on vacation. The old couple thought to themselves, Qi Min and Anton were too unreliable, and poor Mimi had no one to hold a parent-teacher conference for her. This has to be a "veteran", Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong assured Qi Mi that if her teacher dared to sue, she would definitely be scolded back.
So on the day of the mid-term summary of the parent-teacher conference, Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang flew back to Beijing and rushed to Qi Mi's school. Eighteen years had passed since they last came to the school for a parent-teacher conference.
"Hey, that's a big change here." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong wore a decent lotus-colored modified cheongsam and walked into the campus with a small leather bag.
And Mr. Qi Zhiguang next to her is still wearing the same sportswear for 40 years, with the same style of aviator sunglasses sent by Anton five years ago hanging on the collar. He asked an old question: "What is Mimi's classroom?" ”
"312A." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong said.
"Isn't 312A Lele's classroom back then?" Mr. Qi Zhiguang asked.
"That's 302A." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong didn't want to pay attention to him, "You have amnesia, it's time to go to the hospital." ”
Mr. Qi Zhiguang was very helpless. He was just playing a motorcycle racing game on the brain-like body, and Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong said that he was addicted to illusory spiritual opium and damaged his brain. I don't want to see who dances on the brain-like body all day long, and pretends to be a little girl in her twenties. So much so that every time she came to him in the brain-like body, Mr. Qi Zhiguang felt embarrassed by the thief.
But fortunately, there is a "hanging" from their daughter, although Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong sometimes sings and dances with a very age-inappropriate image, but if necessary, she can quickly switch to an appearance that matches the image of Mr. Qi Zhiguang. In fact, this function is very easy to implement, but in order to prevent people from taking advantage of the rapid switching of appearance, the cycle of modifying the image in the virtual world is still set to be similar to the real surgery, and the image change is gradual.
Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang walked into the teaching building of the junior high school, because there were so few students in the physical school, most of the classrooms had been converted to other uses. They took the escalator up to the third floor, walked into classroom 312A, and found the location of "Qi Mi" on the display screen.
Also because of the small number of people, the classrooms in brick-and-mortar schools are allocated a much larger place for each student than before. While desks and hard chairs are still used to promote learning, the total area of the desks has increased significantly, with a standing double-sided monitor and a stowable writing pad, while the table itself can be tilted slightly to use as a touchscreen display. This is different if the school is well funded, and from another point of view, it is easy for the virtual school to be equipped with high-end learning tools in the brain-like body (although the essence is all imagined out of thin air), if the physical school can't spend more money on hardware, then no one will go to the physical school.
And the advantage of this for parents is that it is more than enough for two or three adults to sit at the students' desks nowadays. Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong couldn't help but sigh that it was finally not like more than eighteen or twenty years ago, when the two parents were crammed into a position as narrow as Qi Min.
Hearing her emotion, a lady in the back seat of the aisle, who also looked to be fifty or sixty years old, also said: "Yes, this condition is much stronger now than it was twenty years ago." ”
Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong thought that this parent was also holding a parent-teacher conference for her grandchildren, so she turned her head and glanced at the name "Zuo Lixiu" on the display. She hadn't heard Mimi talk about this classmate, but she still chatted: "Your family is also an 'old fan' of our school?" ”
Most of the people who go to physical schools now have feelings. Some people like Qi Fan were brought by their parents to the school they once attended, and some were because their parents once longed for this school but missed it, so they had to let their children go to this school. Similar situations are all joked as "old fans".
"No, our family Huiyan went to this school." The parent of Zuo Lixiu's classmate said.
"That's what I went to." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong immediately found a "bosom friend": "At that time, there were almost 40 people in a classroom. ”
The two parents checked the year and found that Qi Min was in the last two classes of the student named "Huiyan", and he was taught by the same teacher. Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong didn't know about Mimi's situation, but she still remembered her own daughter's situation, and she talked about the things of the year with this parent.
While the two were talking, Zuo Lixiu's parents suddenly asked, "Is your family a younger brother or a younger sister?" ”
Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong was stunned for a moment, and then thought that in other dialects, the children in the family are called without emphasizing seniority, and all boys are called younger brothers and girls are called younger sisters. However, she herself felt that she was not used to being called so, so she replied in the usual way: "It's a girl." ”
"Oh, girl." The parent also switched to the local dialect system, "Our family is a son. ”
"yes, that's a pretty name." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong praised.
After a while, the parents were almost all there, and the subject teacher of the classroom came in to check the information of the students and the parents.
Teacher Keren walked to Qi Mi's desk, looked at Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang, and vaguely felt that it was different from what she saw when the first year of junior high school started: "You are Qi Mi's mother?" ”
"Ah, no, no, I'm the grandmother of Qi Fan." Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong hurriedly said.
"Why didn't Qi Mi's parents come?" The teacher asked.
"That...... I'm busy at work, and my home is too far away. Mr. Qi Zhiguang forcibly explained.
"It's best to have a parent-teacher meeting with the parents of the students." The teacher glanced at them helplessly, then turned around and saw Zuo Lixiu's parents again: "You are also Zuo Lixiu's grandmother?" Or grandma? ”
Zuo Lixiu's parents looked embarrassed: "I'm ...... I'm his mom. ”
"Don't worry, if your parents can't come, it's good if your grandparents can." The teacher obviously thought that she was upset by seeing that Qi Fan's grandfather was "criticized" just now, so she made up nonsense, and hurriedly comforted her, "I just want to trouble you to go back and forward the materials of the parent-teacher conference to Zuo Lixiu's parents." ”
However, the woman, who looked to be in her fifties or sixties, said again in embarrassment: "I am really Zuo Lixiu's mother." ”
It's really embarrassing. Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang couldn't help but glance at each other: when they let go of their second child and hurriedly gave birth to a younger brother to their 20-year-old girl, this is the first time they have seen it in reality.