Chapter 226: The Poor Have No Right to Choose
Zhu Hanwen and the others didn't hear Lu Yiming's obvious ridicule. They were still being ravaged by Zhiyin and Yilin, and had no idea what the so-called ideological output was.
But Li Huishan understood it because she grew up with this kind of rhetoric.
However, she was not ashamed of Lu Yiming's teasing but proud of it, because her dream since childhood was to go abroad. She had no attachment to the land where she was born and raised, and even felt extremely annoyed because she was born on this land.
"Yes, Xia Country is not very free."
Li Huishan had an arrogant attitude and a cold tone, and did not make any excuses for her alma mater.
After listening to this, Lu Yiming smiled meaningfully, and then said to Lin Yuzhen: "Did you see? This is the historical legacy I mentioned."
Lin Yuzhen looked confused: "What?"
Lu Yiming waved his hand without further explanation, only looking invincible yet lonely: "Nothing, continue the tour."
Yue Guodong was very enthusiastic about leading everyone to go through the relevant procedures for study and exchange. Lin Yuzhen and others were listening very carefully, but only Li Zhengkai kept staring at the back of Li Huishan in front of him.
Li Huishan, who was fashionable and had a good figure, activated his primitive DNA.
"Senior Li Huishan, we are here to study and exchange ideas. We are alumni now. We are new here and are unfamiliar with the place. I hope to have more exchanges with you in the coming time."
Li Huishan stopped and looked at Li Zhengkai with a bad face. She rejected him coldly and mercilessly: "Please call me Sandy, thank you. In the future, please don't bother me unless you have any problems in your studies. Even if you have difficulties in your studies, you'd better learn to solve them by yourself. Don't run around in an unfamiliar place. School is a place for learning. Put away those messy thoughts in your mind."
To be able to become the president of the Student Union, Li Huishan not only has outstanding academic ability, but also has good looks and figure.
Over the past few years, there have been at least eight hundred boys who have approached her. For a guy like Li Zhengkai, who is a newbie in the love field with low ability, Li Huishan knows what he wants to say as soon as he sticks his butt out.
Obviously, Li Huishan clearly showed her indifference and alienation, and did not take Lu Yiming and the others seriously at all.
Li Zhengkai's face turned livid and his hands were shaking with anger. The undisguised contempt and disdain in Li Huishan's eyes deeply hurt his self-esteem.
Although everyone did not support the fact that Li Zhengkai inexplicably approached Li Huishan, now that everyone is together, at least they are a team, and it can be said that they all rise and fall together, so everyone feels very indignant.
Lin Yuzhen was about to argue with Li Huishan, but Lu Yiming spoke first and said jokingly, "President Li is right. We will all be adults soon and should take care of our own affairs. In this case, let's not bother each other in the future and just be strangers to each other. This will save us a lot of trouble."
Li Huishan could see that Lu Yiming also didn't take her seriously, which made her feel very unhappy. After all, arrogant people hate meeting the same kind of people the most.
In Li Huishan's eyes, people like Lu Yiming who came from the mainland were clearly inferior people. They should just stand there and be scolded. Even breathing loudly was wrong, and they actually dared to look at her in a bad light?
Li Huishan glanced at Lu Yiming from the corner of her eyes, feeling even more disdainful in her heart: "I have something else to do, so I'll leave first. Teacher Yue, you can help them with the rest of the formalities."
After Li Huishan finished speaking, she turned around and left without asking for anyone's opinion.
Although Ren Guodong is a teacher, the president of the student union is not a good person in the school. Ren Guodong opened his mouth several times, but in the end he didn't say anything. He had no choice but to say to Zhu Hanwen and others : "The student union has a lot of things to do. Li Huishan must be busy again. Please forgive me."
Zhu Hanwen quickly stepped forward to smooth things over: "It's okay, it's okay. The student union has a lot of things to do and they are complicated. I can understand."
Lin Yuzhen was a little angry and snorted, "Why is she like this? Isn't she too contemptuous of others?"
Zhu Hanwen quickly stopped her and said, "Lin Yuzhen, how can you say that?"
Lin Yuzhen curled her lips, thinking that this was Hong Kong, and she didn't dare to continue arguing with Zhu Hanwen.
Lin Yuzhen was afraid of Zhu Hanwen and was afraid that he would have a bad influence on her in other places, but Lu Yiming was not afraid. He saw Lin Yuzhen pouting and looking unhappy, so he patted her on the head and comforted her, saying, "Don't worry, the world is so big, you will always meet some stupid people, they just like to look down on you, what can you do?"
Lin Yuzhen was originally snorting, but after hearing this, she burst into laughter and punched Lu Yiming twice: "You have a really mean mouth."
Zhu Hanwen scolded Lu Yiming with a dark face, "Xiao Zhen is ignorant, and you are making trouble too! Stop talking and listen carefully to what Teacher Ren is saying."
After introducing the relevant matters needing attention in the formalities, Ren Guodong talked to everyone about Hong Kong's education model.
Hong Kong's school system follows the British 3223 system, which is three years of junior high school, two years of high school, two years of university preparatory courses and three years of undergraduate studies.
Students here have to study in middle school for seven years before they can go on to a three-year university.
There are only two years of high school, from Form 4 to Form 5, and two years of preparatory courses, from Form 6 to Form 7.
Students ' test scores are evaluated using the "level reference model" and are divided into five levels, with level five being the highest level.
If you want to get into a good university, you have to take the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination starting from Form 5, but only about one-third of people can make it to Form 6.
The biggest difference from China is that middle school students in Hong Kong can choose seven or eight subjects to take, and then the scores are calculated based on the top six subjects with the best scores. Each subject score is divided into five levels: A, B, C, and D. Among them, the A level is five points, and each of the remaining levels decreases by one point. There are six subjects in total, so the full score is 30 points.
The grades are divided proportionally, such as A is the top 5% of each subject, so there are almost no people who get a perfect score of 6A.
A score of more than 20 points is considered outstanding.
After obtaining the Hong Kong High School Diploma, candidates can apply for admission to the eight participating colleges in Hong Kong through the "Joint University Admissions System".
Unlike the college entrance examination in China where thousands of people compete for a single spot, Hong Kong's British-style education system gives students and schools greater autonomy, more choices and more flexibility.
Li Zhengkai said with some envy: "This is great. You can know which school you want to enter and then start working hard step by step, so that you don't waste your time."
Lu Yiming shook his head slightly and commented: "This school system seems to give parents and students the power to choose schools, but when it is put into practice, it will cause many problems."
When Li Zhengkai heard this, he immediately became unhappy. He felt that Lu Yiming was targeting him and that no matter what he said, he would jump out to refute it.
If it wasn't in public, he really wanted to have a duel with Lu Yiming on the spot.
"Lu Yiming, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. Why do you think Hong Kong's education system is not excellent? If Hong Kong hadn't cultivated a large number of outstanding talents over the years, would the economy here have taken off? Could Hong Kong have become one of the Four Asian Tigers?"
In Li Zhengkai's opinion, Hong Kong's education system has obvious advantages. It does not rely solely on the college entrance examination to determine how high one's life will be, but places great emphasis on usual academic performance. Only people with consistently good academic performance will have a high total score and can choose a school at will.
For top students, this is simply the perfect system!
Even if you do not perform well in the college entrance examination, you can still use your high regular scores to choose a good university.
However, Lu Yiming said that this system has many problems. Isn't this just arguing?
Lu Yiming squinted at Li Zhengkai and said sarcastically, "If you are stupid, you should read more books. You believe whatever others say. Are you three years old this year?"
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Seeing that the two seemed to be about to quarrel, Wu Qiuya hurried forward and asked softly: "Student Lu Yiming, do you have any basis for saying this?"
Compared to Li Zhengkai's rage, Lu Yiming was quite calm. He did not directly answer Wu Qiuya's question, but asked everyone: "There are two schools in front of you for you to choose, one is famous and the other is not famous. How will you choose?"
Li Zhengkai shouted without hesitation: "Of course I'll choose the one with the biggest reputation! Even a fool would know that."
Lu Yiming sighed, "Yes, even fools have the same idea as you, so won't there be fewer people applying for admission? In the end, prestigious schools will inevitably choose to raise the admission threshold for students, and then stipulate that children who live close to the school will be admitted first. In this way, many families will move to the vicinity of the school, and then cause the real estate prices near the prestigious school to rise sharply. The result of this is that only children from wealthy families can go to prestigious schools, which will increase the class differentiation."
The thing called school district housing was also introduced from abroad, and many prestigious universities in Europe and the United States have done it more thoroughly. Even if your grades are not good, you can still be admitted through various "recommendations". The operation process is quite capitalist.
In comparison, Lu Yiming still recognizes the college entrance examination more. Its advantage lies in that the poor can get the greatest fairness from it.
Because for children from poor families, choice has always been a luxury, something that is out of reach. To put it bluntly, poor people actually do not have the right to choose. From the moment they are born into this world, they can only be chosen.
Only the college entrance examination is the opportunity that is easiest for them to seize - the opportunity to change their destiny!
As for the so-called quality education that some people are advocating, Lu Yiming feels nothing but contempt and disdain. When children in mountainous areas can afford to go to school properly, Xia Country will be qualified to consider this issue.
It’s like everyone knows that beef is more nutritious than sweet potatoes, but the question is how many people can afford to eat beef every day?
If a horse riding subject is added to the college entrance examination, it is called quality education and seems to be an all-round development of morality, intelligence, physical fitness and aesthetics, but in fact it is just sending the poor to death.
After all, how many families in the country can afford to raise a horse?
Lin Yuzhen nodded slightly. It was obvious that she was not stupid. She could understand and agree with Lu Yiming's point of view: "You are right. The most important thing about the college entrance examination is fairness. This is a way for the poor to move up in society."
After all, to learn subjects like Chinese, math, and English, you only need textbooks, the cost is extremely low, and most people can afford it.
As for "quality education" such as painting, dancing, and piano, the cost is not something that everyone can afford.
After hearing what Lu Yiming said, Yue Guodong couldn't help but look at Lu Yiming with admiration.
In fact, everyone has thought about what Lu Yiming said, but Lu Yiming is only a teenager in his senior year of high school, and he thinks it is a very remarkable thing that his thoughts can reach such a depth.
Look at the students around him, who is not confused? Obviously, they have never thought about these things.
For a moment, Yue Guodong could not help but look up to Lu Yiming. He felt that this young man in front of him, at such a young age, could have such insights, and looked at problems much more deeply than his peers. He had a bright future.
As he was speaking, Yue Guodong had already led everyone to the place where the formalities were to be handled.
With Yue Guodong's presence, the relevant staff did not make things difficult for them and handled the procedures very quickly.
"You have worked hard on the journey. I will take you to your accommodation. Have a good rest first. Tomorrow we will start the formal exchange and study."
Zhu Hanwen said: "Thank you."
Yue Guodong led everyone to a small alley at the back door of Huangren College, which looked like an old residential area, and stopped at the gate of a courtyard.
"Please bear with me here for the next few days. This is the closest hotel we can find to Huangren College."
The hotel's environment is so-so, and it is obvious that Huangren College has no intention of making a fuss about it.
Not only that, after entering the yard, several tenants who were basking in the sun in the yard stared at Lin Yuzhen and the other girls with malicious eyes, without any concealment.
Lu Yiming frowned immediately: "The environment here is really too bad. It's no problem for a few men like us to live here, but I'm afraid it will be dangerous for a few girls. How about we stay in a hotel? It doesn't matter if it's far away, at worst we can hire a car to go in and out of the school."
Although Yue Guodong admired Lu Yiming, these were arranged by the school. He was just an official and had no right to make so many decisions. If he went out to stay in a hotel, who would pay for the extra expenses? It couldn't be that Yue Guodong paid for it, right?
"The environment is a little worse, but it's not as embarrassing as you say. This is all arranged by the school, and it's also for the convenience of being nearby. You just have to make do with it."
Although Zhu Hanwen was disgusted in his heart, after all, the money was paid by Huangren College, so he couldn't say anything. He could only put on a stern face and lecture Lu Yiming: "We are here to study, not to enjoy ourselves. Why should we stay in a hotel? Even if there are difficulties, we must try our best to overcome them."
Hong Kong practices capitalism, and here everyone is very stingy when it comes to anything related to money.
Although Huangren College covets the high-quality students from the mainland, the wool comes from the school board, and it is not public funds that are spent, so of course they are stingy.
If they were not afraid of affecting the school's reputation, they would even want to let Lu Yiming and others sleep on the streets, which would save money.
Lu Yiming curled his lips, his eyes full of disdain: "I see there's not even air conditioning in here, how can we get through this hot weather? I'm afraid of the heat, and I can't sleep without air conditioning. Old Yue, tell me, which is the most expensive hotel around here?"
