Chapter 534, Education Reform Act
The old rules, mockery first, after saying hello, the two finally returned to normal. Brooklyn didn't know what politeness was here at Winston, so he got up on his own, expertly dug out the coffee beans that Winston had hidden in the file box, and poured out a handful of them with a distressed expression on Winston's face.
He said while grinding the powder
"Do you know the law firm that Anne owns?" Winston rolled his eyes, after all, worried that Brooklyn was spoiling his coffee beans, got up to squeeze Brooklyn away, rolled up his sleeves and began to grind the powder.
"Of course you know, what's wrong?"
"Her law firm doesn't have a good reputation lately." Brooklyn stepped back and stood by and watched. In fact, in addition to grinding coffee powder, he does other processes very generally, usually drinking it himself at home, looking at Winston's cautious appearance, he really wants to get started, he is a little afraid that Winston will really throw him out.
"I want to inquire whether it is a simple law firm problem, or if someone is coming at me and preparing to use the law firm to attack me." Winston and Brooklyn see each other less and less, but they know each other very well.
He paused, shook his head, and said
"Now the three sides are pinching hard, Mr. President is still adding fuel to the fire, clamoring to continue to increase sanctions over there, and the two sides should not have the heart to care about you for the time being."
"The mess that Mr. President has made is enough for them to keep busy." The president may really be dedicated to the country, or maybe he is really selfless, but he is a little extreme and funny.
Unfortunately, the Federation does not allow any glorious and positive figures to appear in government. The president is not willing to be a puppet, he wants to do things – whether for public or private – and he needs power if he wants to do things, and if he needs power, he has to fight against the current owner of power.
As a result, the donkey, elephant and the president fell into a dispute. In fact, there are three parties, too many parties to take part, and this storm of struggle for the federal government is expanding in size at an exaggerated rate, swallowing up everything it sees.
The storm is spreading from top to bottom at an eye-popping speed. This quickly touched on the already acute contradictions of federal society.
In order to compete for power and profit, all parties will instinctively take advantage of these contradictions to create hot incidents and suppress their opponents.
As a result, the already sharp contradiction became even more acute. The already fierce conflict has become more intense.
More and more social contradictions are being used as a weapon to attack political opponents, and more and more hot events are being created, so more and more people are involved in them.
The conflict is expanding at an exaggerated rate. What Winston means is that there is no end now, and there is a lot of work on it.
Brooklyn is not a problem for them at all.
"I knew it!" Brooklyn slapped the face, startling Winston
"I knew it was Anne's problem! She still had to say it was my problem. Winston asked quizzedly, squeezing the ground coffee back, licking his fingers
"You quarreled with Anne?"
"Hmm." Brooklyn is angry at the mention of this. With some resentment, he complained to Winston about the events of the previous night.
Listening to the 'story', the first cup of coffee has come out. As soon as Winston finished picking it up, he was snatched up by Brooklyn, who happened to be complaining.
Brooklyn took a sip, closed his eyes slightly, and savored it. Winston stood aside, his expression anticipatory.
Brooklyn opened his eyes and spoke in Winston's eyes full of anticipation
"That's it, I don't feel as good as KFC coffee." Winston's face visibly drooped and quickly elongated, first into a donkey's face, and then longer as if someone had rolled it out repeatedly with a rolling pin.
"Wait a minute." Winston took a deep breath, pressed the call button to call his assistant, and pointed to Brooklyn Road
"Go to the supermarket and buy a pack of the cheapest ground coffee and make him the cheapest instant coffee." The assistant looked puzzled.
The assistant was new and hadn't seen Brooklyn a few times.
"Go!" The assistant was startled, quickly exited, and closed the door. Winston turned around and was about to output to Brooklyn, only to find that Brooklyn had already drunk it all.
"You...... You ......" Winston pointed to Brooklyn and was speechless for a long time. Brooklyn smacked his lips, shook his head and shoved the cup into Winston's hand, exclaiming as if talking to himself
"Hey, it's really not as good as KFC's coffee. I don't understand why it's so expensive, it can't be that some people are stupid and deceived, right? ”
"Then don't drink it. Wait for your instant coffee. Winston came to his senses and rolled his eyes.
He picked up the coffee cup, sniffed it to his nose, and then took a shallow sip. Instead of rushing to swallow, let the liquid fully envelop the tongue and spread to every corner of the mouth.
Wait until your tongue has fully tasted the bitter taste before swallowing slowly. Then slowly open your eyes and enjoy yourself.
"It's so bitter, tsk~" Brooklyn spoiled the scenery on the sidelines. In fact, he is not incapable of tasting good and bad, so many years of coffee drinking experience, especially after graduating from school, he can be said to have drunk all levels of coffee in the world, and he can naturally distinguish between good and bad.
- otherwise he wouldn't have drunk the first cup so quickly. That's pure coffee bean extract. To say this is just a matter of Winston's habits.
Winston didn't say anything and took a glass for Brooklyn. The two of them hugged their coffee cups and drank them. Winston brought the conversation back to Brooklyn.
But his focus was not on the law firm, nor on Brooklyn's rivals, but on Brooklyn's quarrel with Anne.
He gave Brooklyn a hard laugh and was then told by Brooklyn that 'I'm getting married, how about you?'
Winston, who almost reacted to the blow, immediately moved out of Jerry to prove that he was married, had enjoyed everything, and had children so old.
Finally, Winston brings up Mark Milley's wedding.
"When are you going to have a baby?" Brooklyn thought for a moment and shook her head
"I discussed this with Anne, and it didn't turn out very pleasantly." Winston looked strange and whispered in Brooklyn's ear
"You can get her pregnant first, and the thoughts when she is not pregnant are different from those after pregnancy."
"I have a lot of experience." After a pause, Winston added. Brooklyn shook her head
"What experience? Experience being called daddy? Winston looked Brooklyn up and down and shook his head
"It's obviously not good for you to do this, even if you go for surgery, I don't like your style. It's too old to call me daddy, you have to scare me out directly. As he chatted, Winston's assistant returned, holding a cup of coffee comparable to that of the NYPD, and handed it to Brooklyn.
Winston stood up at once, his face drooping again, this time it was Jinra.
"The supermarket happens to have a discount, $1.99 for 20 bags, I asked, this should be the cheapest ......" The assistant was still explaining what he knew about the coffee in Brooklyn's hand, and Brooklyn quickly interrupted.
He took a shallow sip, and the flavor mixed with the sweetness of sugar water, under the influence of a strange bitter taste of burning the tongue, surged, quickly filling his mouth and rushing into his nose.
Brooklyn almost threw up. He placed the cup on the table, coughed, and said to Winston
"You're a good assistant, and you're serious." Winston still pulled his face and commanded
"Get out!" The assistant looked puzzled and withdrew.
"It's just a donkey." Winston picked up his cup, poured out the coffee his assistant had bought, threw it in the trash, and brought Brooklyn another cup of hand-ground coffee.
"That." Brooklyn gestured to the trash can
"It's really hard to drink."
"Nonsense. It's less than 10 cents a big cup, and I'm afraid even the manufacturer himself doesn't know what's in it. The two chatted for a while, and the topic slowly got to the point.
Winston's proposed education reform law had been carefully studied by Brooklyn, and he was very skeptical that this playful flower guy had been fooled by Ray and joined Ray's organization.
The federal education system did not start out as it is today. In the past, the federal education system was also very advanced.
Brooklyn consulted Harvard professionals, and it is now widely accepted in academic and political circles that the federal history of education has undergone six reforms.
The first reform was in the fifties and sixties of the last century, coinciding with the successful launch of the first artificial satellite by Maozi.
This incident shocked the entire federation. The public was shocked and turned their attention to public education.
It is believed that the backwardness of the Federation is due to the deterioration of the quality of public schools. In 1958, the Federal Government promulgated the National Defense Education Act, which established a new system of education aimed at cultivating high-tech talents.
The second reform was in 1965, when the Federal Parliament passed the Law on Primary and Secondary Education. The law requires that funds be allocated according to the number of poor children in each school district, and that funds be controlled by state and local governments by providing textbooks, utensils and objects to elementary and junior high school students to ensure that poor students have adequate learning materials.
The third reform took place in the 70s. The government's credibility has continued to decline in the wake of Watergate, and inflation and recession have increased uncertainty about the future labor market.
During these 10 years, there have been many educational problems in the Federation, such as declining enrollment, declining test scores, declining public trust, and changes in progressive policies to promote equal education for all.
Among them, the continuous decline in academic aptitude test scores is considered to be a sign of many serious problems in education.
There is a beginning to rethink how children should be educated to deal with the energy crisis, urban congestion, increased crime and a changing labor market.
At the time, there was a view that schools and educators should be responsible for their actions and that they should be responsible for developing competent and adaptable students.
Parents, civic groups, and politicians who are dissatisfied with the low academic performance of many students have joined forces to launch the Restoration of Foundations and Teacher Responsibility Movement.
The movement, which valued the teaching of basic knowledge and basic skills, demanded that elective courses be reduced, compulsory courses increased, and the leading role of teachers should be restored.
The Restore Foundations movement emphasizes reading, writing, math, and verbal communication among students. In the 70s, the promotion of equal opportunities in education remained an important task of federal education reform.
The federal law has brought success and inspiration to those on the margins of the education system. In 1972, Congress passed the Education Amendment Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.
In 1975, President Ford signed the Education for All Children with Disabilities Act to guarantee the right of children with disabilities to receive free and appropriate education.
[Note 1] It sounds like the federal government has used an education reform to successfully reverse the decline, change the social situation, and solve many sharp social contradictions.
There are many similarities between the environment then and today. There are many similarities between Winston's education reform law and this one.
And even a lot of places simply copied it. One of the core of Winston's reforms was to make education more accessible.
The reason for the three subsequent reforms of the federation was almost always that the education system at that time could not keep up with the development and changes of society, or the country's demand for talents.
It can be said that both the foundation of the first three reforms and the direction of the next three reforms have clearly achieved that education serves the country – at least in a good direction.
The last federal education reform took place after 2000 in order to integrate schooling with the demands of work.
It's been almost twenty years since then. From 195x to 199x, in less than 40 years, the federation has carried out five educational reforms, constantly establishing the foundation and goals of education, adjusting the direction of education, and allocating educational resources, so that the federation has achieved rapid and rapid development.
In just four decades, federal education reform has provided the Federation with countless talents who are still the mainstays of all walks of life today.
Twenty years have passed since the sixth education reform. It's not that the federal government hasn't carried out education reform, in fact the education reform law is proposed almost every year, discussed every year, talked about every government, and every candidate in the general election draws a beautiful blueprint to win votes.
But blueprints are just blueprints. Education reform has now become a political tool to either increase one's own approval ratings or suppress one's opponents.
No one seems to care about education reform itself. This may also be the reason why both academics and educators have always insisted that the last federal education reform took place at the beginning of the new century, not last year or the year before that.
In the eyes of many scholars, they do not deserve to be on a par with the six educational reforms in federal history. Winston wanted to be a good governor, and he thought it should start with education.
There's nothing wrong with that. But Brooklyn feels that the Union is not a cure for education reform laws at all.
Today's federation is similar to, but different, the federal government of the Third Education Reform. The current Union is sicker than it was then.
Even one day when Texans plant the Lone Star flag in government buildings and Washingtonians storm the White House, Brooklyn won't be surprised.
Hell knows what else the Federation will do.