Rebirth: Starting from a Trainee Teacher

Chapter 122 Selection of Poverty Subsidy

The selection of poverty subsidies has begun. The general poverty subsidy is 500 yuan per person, and the extremely poor students are given 1,000 yuan per person.

The number of places in each class in the first year of high school is 25% of the class size, which is about 14 people. Among them, the number of places for extremely poor students accounts for another 25%. If the number is less than one, it will be counted as one, so there are about four places in each class.

The selection criteria given by the school are very general. Single-parent children or orphans are given priority, and those who wear branded clothes and shoes or use expensive mobile phones will not be given any. The class teacher will be responsible for the specific implementation.

Most class teachers ask students in their class who need subsidies to write a written application of no less than 500 words, which requires a detailed description of the family situation, including the number of children in the family, income, parents' occupations and physical condition, etc.

Zhou Jing did not plan to ask students to write applications, as poverty subsidies were not a test of one’s literary talent for complaining about poverty and misery.

When it comes to crying poor and complaining about one's misery, people who are well-off are not necessarily worse than the truly poor.

Some people obviously have well-off families, but they write about their poverty and misery in their applications. However, truly poor students may not be willing to write about their family’s misfortunes and difficulties due to their self-esteem.

There is a sentence in "Norwegian Wood" that Zhou Jing likes very much. The general meaning is that it is more natural for rich people to cry about poverty than for poor people. In other words, it is Versailles for rich people to cry about poverty and act pitiful, but it is really miserable for poor people to cry about poverty.

Since the beginning of the school year, Zhou Jing has paid attention to the daily performance, attire and mobile phones used by all students in the class.

Real life details can best reflect the actual situation of students. Zhou Jing took out a class list and directly assessed the allocation of poverty subsidy quotas for the class based on his impression. After all the selections were made, he went to the classroom during self-study class to announce them.

"There are 14 places for poverty subsidies in our class, including 10 ordinary poverty places and 4 special poverty places. This has nothing to do with study. I have preliminarily decided on the following people based on my usual observations of you."

"The two most vulnerable ones are Liu Chunxia and Zhao Hailin."

"Ordinary Poverty Ma Jiawei"

"Since it is a poverty subsidy, it will definitely be given to those who really need it. Those with good family conditions should not think about it. Of course, my understanding of everyone may not be accurate. I accept the supervision of everyone in the class. If you find out who among these fourteen people is not eligible for extravagant consumption based on your usual understanding, you can send me an anonymous text message to explain."

In some matters in class, Zhou Jing is both authoritarian and democratic, with appropriate levels of democracy based on authoritarianism.

"No comment."

When the students thought about the daily lives of their classmates, they realized that the head teacher had really observed them carefully. The fourteen people selected lived a simple life and had a low consumption level, so there was nothing to say about giving them the quota.

Feng Yuhua is not on the list, which shows that the class teacher's original intention was to be fair and just.

They think that it is a good thing for the class teacher to do this, so that some students with better conditions will not show off after receiving the poverty subsidies. Compared to not getting any subsidies, it is more infuriating to see students with better conditions wasting the poverty subsidies.

"Although the poverty subsidy has nothing to do with academic performance, I hope that students who receive the subsidy will use it as an incentive to study harder. Coming from a poor family is not something you can choose or decide, but your future is in your own hands, and the future of your family is also in your hands."

Zhou Jing said as he glanced at all the students.

After hearing this, all the students perked up, especially those from poor families. They looked at their head teacher with eyes full of respect and admiration, saying they were really lucky to have such a head teacher.

Zhou Jing walked around the classroom corridor.

Zhou Jing had said before that he hoped to see an idiom dictionary on every table. Students are quite conscientious, and we don’t know whether they read it or not, but at least everyone bought an idiom dictionary, and many students also bought 300 Song Dynasty poems.

"I bought it to read regularly. I looked at your Chinese test papers and found that many students were terrible at the idiom selection questions. They couldn't even tell whether some idioms were suitable for the context or for describing people. After two monthly exams, you should have realized the importance of idioms in the Chinese test, right?"

Zhou Jing picked up a student's idiom dictionary and said.

"Yes, it's very important. Idioms account for at least six points."

"It is a great progress to be able to improve Chinese by six points steadily. It doesn't need to be much. If you insist on reading a few idioms every day, you can finish reading a whole idiom dictionary in three years. Learning Chinese and English requires more accumulation. If you can remember three English words every day, how many words can you remember in three years? Is it 3285?"

Zhou Jing calculated it mentally in less than two seconds.

"3265."

A student calculated on a piece of paper. "That's 3285."

"Mr. Zhou is very good at mental arithmetic."

"Oh oh, I miscalculated."

"It's shameful that you even use a pen to calculate."

"Don't ever say that math was taught by Teacher Zhou again."

It was really embarrassing for the student who calculated wrong. He was so embarrassed in front of the head teacher and the whole class.

"There are only about 3,600 key vocabulary words in the college entrance examination. It's not that difficult to pass the vocabulary test."

Zhou Jing continued.

"But if you remember it, you will forget it again!"

“The English word forgetting curve looks something like this.”

Zhou Jing returned to the podium, drew a coordinate graph, and then explained it.

“Memorizing words doesn’t mean you don’t need to look at them after you memorize them today. You should at least memorize them in a weekly cycle. For example, if you memorize ten words on Monday, you should go back and memorize the ones on Monday on Tuesday, and so on. You don’t need to memorize the ones on Monday next week, and you don’t need to memorize the ones on Tuesday next week.”

"With a one-week review cycle, the forgetting curve is basically overcome. It all depends on whether you can exercise self-discipline."

“Is this how people who are good at English memorize words?”

This is how Zhou Jing memorized words back then. As long as he perseveres, he will definitely be able to overcome the forgetting curve.

"Correct."

“No one can memorize English words in one day without forgetting them. You need to review them frequently.”

"An Mengni was the first in the English class in the last monthly exam. She came up to share her experience in learning English. Ma Jiawei is next. The first in other subjects should prepare."

This class happened to be a class meeting time. Originally, Zhou Jing had not planned to hold a class meeting this week, but since we were talking about learning, he let them interact with each other.

"Learn English. Actually, just like what Teacher Zhou said, the most important thing is to overcome the forgetting curve. The two main focuses of English are vocabulary and grammar. No matter what grammar or personal sense of language, they are all based on understanding semantics. So, in the final analysis, vocabulary is the foundation of learning English."

"The specific method of memorizing words is to develop a good habit, carry a vocabulary manual with you, and look it up when you eat, before going to bed, and when you go to the toilet."

An Mengni is a tall, fair and plump girl. She is generous, natural and very confident.

After she finished sharing, Zhou Jing led the applause.

"Everyone's learning style and method may be different, but the core is the same, it is all basic. The so-called practice makes perfect and can be applied to other situations. This can only be achieved on the premise of mastering the basics."

“Learning is like building a building. The foundation determines the height of the upper floors.”

"For example, if you know less than 100 key vocabulary words in the college entrance examination, you won't get 50 points. If your vocabulary is more than 500, you can get 50 or 60 points. If your vocabulary is more than 3,000, even if your grammar is not so good, it won't be too difficult to get 90 points."

"The most direct manifestation of an unstable foundation is obvious fluctuations in grades. This month's test results showed a large fluctuation in grades, so you should reflect on whether there is a problem with your foundation."

After all nine top-ranked students in each subject shared their experiences, Zhou Jing summarized and wrote “The bottom foundation determines the upper height” on the blackboard.

The students copied this sentence in their books.

(End of this chapter)