Shangdongdu is not very big. If the Beijing city wall on the Second Ring Road were still there, it would be possible to put Shangdongdu inside and almost circle it. On a national scale, it is a very ordinary town; but in Jiangxi, it is a place where myths are born – myths about education, and to be more precise, the myth of Linchuan High School’s college entrance exams.
Shangdongdu is best known for the two schools in town, Linchuan No. 1 Middle School and Linchuan No. 2 Middle School. The former was ranked 43rd in the list of “Top 100 Middle Schools in China” in 2021 and first in Jiangxi Province. Almost every year, dozens of graduates are admitted to Qingbei from here. For nearly two decades, these two schools have attracted students from Jiangxi and across the country. Education has boosted the economic development of Shangdongdu town and even Linchuan district, and even the tides of the town day and night, including the opening and closing times of most stores, are indicated by the school bells.
There are two kinds of people in town: students and their mothers. The most important purpose of the latter is to accompany the students to school. In addition to taking care of the children, most of the mothers earn a living in supermarkets, housing agencies and handicraft workshops. But it is important not to lose sight of your “job”. Chaperone mothers can be found in almost all corners of Kamitondu. Eighty percent of the younger women in Kamitondu are chaperones” – some would even say so. Some would even say so.
But now, the mothers are leaving. A quick stroll around town reveals that landlords have more empty rooms, some stores have posted signs to close and sublet, and many of the new properties built by real estate developers are languishing.
With the relocation of several high schools, the glory of Shangdongdu as a “chaperone town” is dissipating.
But “chaperones” will not disappear. In the new site of Linchuan No. 1 Middle School Experimental School, the decline of Shangdongdu is occurring at the same time as the establishment of a “new Shangdongdu”. The “Scholar’s House”, tutoring classes, small workshops, and chess stalls are all being built in this area called “7:00, 12:00, 17:30 and 22:00, the time for students to go to and from school, were given a new meaning by the school bell in Bailing New Village. The chaperoning mothers start to breathe again as their children migrate here.
Myth
Shangdongdu is recorded to have existed for a thousand years. According to legend, this place was originally named “Dunxi” when it was first built, which means “dun dwelling” on the bank of the river. For thousands of years, the Yihuang River flowed through here, making it an ancient ferry with trading posts and meeting houses.
The old ferry is long gone. Today, the living water here is students. Living here with them are the mothers who accompany the students. The latter has a special name – Linchuan Mengmu.
The new-age Mengmothers come from Fuzhou and even other cities in Jiangxi, and even from all over the country, and they flow like water into Dunxi, so that their children can merge into the army of college entrance exams. Their targets are the two middle schools in Linchuan, Linchuan No. 1 Middle School and Linchuan No. 2 Middle School.
Zhao Yindi has lived in Shangdongdu for 73 years. In her memory, the first middle school and the second middle school are almost the oldest buildings in Shangdongdu, even the county government was built later than them. She lives in an alley opposite the west gate of Linchuan Second Middle School and turns out to be the old street of Shangdongdu. Zhao said, Shangdongdu originally only this one big road, running north and south, a middle school in the north, the second middle school in the south.
The “Town of Talents” is a contemporary myth. In the view of many older Shangdongdu people, including Zhao Yindi, the first and second middle schools experienced a “burst of popularity”, and only after that did Shangdongdu gradually become associated with After that, Shangdundu gradually became associated with “talented children”.
These two high schools first made the news in the 1980s. At that time, the concept of “extraordinary education” was hot – in 1978, the University of Science and Technology of China In 1977, Ning Bao, who entered the class at the age of 13, was from Jiangxi. Statistics show that from 1982 to 1986, the Fuzhou area has sent 66 students to the youth class of nine institutions of higher learning, including the University of Science and Technology of China, 34 of whom came from Linchuan. At one time, the town was buzzing with “prodigies”. In Zhao Yindi’s memory, these teenage college students were admitted to the university called “Junior University of Science and Technology”.
Another key point was in 2002.
At the beginning of the new century, Linchuan District faced a severe financial crisis. Fuzhou Linchuan District, then secretary of the district party committee Yao Xiping in an interview in 2002, confessed that the financial shortfall of about 80 million, in 2001 was 70 million. In this context, the district government “financially ‘weaned’ the first and second middle schools in Linchuan “. The two middle schools were thus pushed into the market.
In 2002, Linchuan Education Group was established; in 2015, the group’s Fuzhou No. 1 Middle School, Linchuan No. 1 Middle School and Linchuan No. 2 Middle School were established as “famous schools with private schools”, respectively In 2015, Fuzhou No. 1 Middle School, Linchuan No. 1 Middle School and Linchuan No. 2 Middle School were established as private pilot schools under the leadership of the board of directors.
This dual system has given the education group more freedom and autonomy under the current education system, attracting a number of foreign students, and these outsiders have made Shangdongdu what it is today. In a 2007 report, Xiong Shuihai, then director of the administrative office of Linchuan No. 2 Middle School, recalled that the two middle schools began to see a massive influx of “foreign” students starting in 2002. In 2009, the new Linchuan No. 1 Middle School was opened.
In 2009, a new campus for Linchuan No. 1 Middle School was built. Along with the new school building was the completion of ten residential communities in the east, west, north and south, and their names also had a “literary atmosphere”. -There were even properties named “Nobel”. That was the hottest years of Linchuan property market. A local who had been a nanny to foreign students for several years told the whole now, the south gate of the school Wen Ding Yuan property, after the opening of not more than a week will be sold out.
Zhao Yindi lives in a three-storey private house, a wall, is a high-rise property built in 2018. The newly opened house, a square meter price of nearly 10,000. The real estate agent of the “Lishui Haocheng” project next to Wang Anshi Park told All Now that the current price of the property is 5,680 yuan per square meter, with only two sets left for sale and the rest All have been sold out. She said that the general manager of the developer came from Hebei Gaocheng, precisely aiming at the market driven by the school on Tondu, to invest in this.
Zhao Yindi’s family’s original farmland was requisitioned to build a new building. She used the compensation money to build another small building, a parsonage, the second floor for self-occupation, the third floor is two pairs of second secondary school mother and child, in the streets of Shangdongdu, you can often see the real estate developers advertising, “let the children win in the starting line of life “. The slogan and the myth of college entrance examination it builds are stacked in Shangdongdu, weaving dreams about the future.
Accompanying students
For homebuyers, buying a house is to have an account in Shangdongdu; with an account, children can win at the starting line.
Lina, 25, and her mother run a handicraft workshop in Shangdongdu, producing plastic hair clips. In her spare time, she looks after the store while taking care of her three-month-old son. Although her son is still young, she is already preparing for accompanying him to Linchuan First High School. A few years ago, she and her husband, who works as an elevator repairer in Fuzhou City, bought a newly built property in town in order to settle for her son. From the nine-year compulsory education stage to enter the school in Linchuan, to receive a better education, in order to have a higher chance to move to the town’s high school. She told Quan now that the household registration policy in Linchuan district has been changing over the years, and now it takes seven years to officially settle down after buying a house. Before that, the time limit was five years, and before that it was three years. With a household registration, children can enter Linchuan’s nine-year compulsory education schools. For a sure future, they have to prepare early.
“(Those who come) to us are all chaperone mothers,” says Lina. Her small workshop is located in a three-story cluster of resettlement houses on the east side of the old street. There are many other similar small factories in this area, which will make gloves, headbands and other small items, respectively, in addition to clips. In their spare time, the mothers will do some odd jobs in the workshop, and if they live far away, they can also take the “materials” home.
In Lina’s workshop, a clip can earn a point, the boss net 2 percent. The “mother worker” is the lowest link in the chain, these products from their hands after leaving, will go through three or four layers of intermediaries, and finally arrived in Yiwu, Zhejiang. Li Na revealed, like this Yiwu small goods, the source of the manufacturer, are the fourth line or the following city mothers. A day down, one can mostly earn twenty to thirty dollars, which is a drop in the bucket for the average monthly expenses of three thousand dollars. “Passing time” is the biggest meaning of this job for the mothers.
There are three or four small tables in the store, each with three female workers sitting at the table, with handwork flying up and down between their palms. What does it feel like to be a chaperone mother? It’s boring. “Tang Li said. She is 39 years old, a native of Linchuan, with three children, two in elementary school and the eldest daughter in Linchuan First High School in her second year of high school. Tang Li’s husband has been working in Guangdong as a construction worker, alone with the life of the school, she has lived for seventeen years.
The afternoon is the busiest time for the small workshop, because after the children go to school in the morning, the mothers need to prepare lunch, and this period from late afternoon to evening is the longest and most complete time they have at their disposal. Tang Li, who is slightly chubby and has some sweat seeping through her hair, sits on one side of the table, takes out two grains from the plastic pile, then takes a small needle and pushes it into the hole with tweezers, and in a few dozen seconds, a hairpin is ready. This is a job that can not be finished, the raw materials always have to be done and then take, the finished pile is full that clear, two piles of broken pieces of material from each other.
Tang Li’s life is submerged in this endless repetitive action. In addition to this “dead tired” and low income work, she has to wash and cook on time every day, and take care of the logistics of the children. She envied her husband’s work: “How good it is to work outside the home, one mind to make money, earn money to get off work, off to bed. “
Lina never worries about business. The flexible hours and piecework wages of the handicraft industry make it an ideal job for mothers, who “graduate” from one group to another. She sometimes shares a little bit of life in the workshop on the shake, there are always comments below: “Where to get the goods? “
“You go to the street, see a younger woman, you go up and ask, 80% of them are escort mothers. “Living in town for ten years, Lina can feel that more and more young mothers are coming to accompany students, and the number of years spent with them is getting longer and longer. She told All Now that in the past, the mode of chaperoning in Shangdongdu was that parents brought their children to town to chaperone after the children reached the admission line of the first and second middle schools in Linchuan in the middle school exam; about six years ago, more and more mothers would come to Linchuan when their children were in middle school or even elementary school.
“Nowadays, people’s thinking is not this way, people are going to the lively place is not it? “The town of a network of drivers think,” rural education, rural education can educate what to do? Out of the famous talent campus is better cluck. “His hometown in the village below Linchuan District,” now the village primary school are no one, a school a student, three students have. There are students, on a semester not on, (home) to other schools to arrange. “
The decline of village schools and county schools has long been an indisputable fact. Winning at the starting line, the examination to the big city, is the idea of more and more parents, including Lina. And in order for children to get good grades and get out of the town, there must be someone to stay, and that person is usually the mother.
“If you don’t work hard yourself, you can only pin your hopes on the next generation. “As a backup to the Tangleys, Li Na is already worrying about education. Before her son was born, she worked as a kindergarten teacher in a national education institution in Wuhan. Thinking she had seen “education in the big city”, she was not willing to send her children to the village primary school like her fellow villagers, but came to Linchuan to settle down. She was interested in the excellent school resources and the more “extracurricular education” available here – Shangdong There are many extracurricular tutoring institutions on the street, including dance, elocution, musical instruments and many other disciplines.
“Everything is for the children” is carried out by every mother in Shangdongdu. The school bell not only directs the students’ lives, but also legislates for the mothers’ lives.
At 12:00 noon – the lunch break of Linchuan No. 1 Middle School – the bell rings and about 10,000 students pour out of the school, diverging at one intersection after another, and eventually disappearing into the large and small buildings of Shangdongdu town. There, mothers prepare the day’s lunch, and after arriving home to eat and do some homework, it’s nap time for the kids. According to the distance from the school, the price of renting a room also varies. In the “Wen Ding Yuan” neighborhood across from the south gate of Lin Chuan No. 1 Middle School, a bedroom in a house can be rented for up to 20,000 a year; in poorer conditions, a garage can be rented for Four thousand dollars. Some parents will choose more expensive housing in order to let their children sleep for ten minutes more. Time has its price tag.
From 1:00 to 2:30, the small square in the Wendingyuan district will be full of mothers, which is their “wind-down” time, and the most lively time in the district. Some people play cards, some people gossip, there will be mothers sitting on the bench, pull out a pocket of white gloves of half-finished products to continue to do work. Although they only get about five hours of sleep at night, at noon they must stay awake. If they fail to wake up their children because they overslept, they will be in big trouble.
Binding
Zhang Xiufen’s son took the college entrance exam this year, and her hometown is in a village more than a hundred kilometers from Shangdongdu. 2014, when her daughter got into Linchuan No. 1 Middle School in the primary school entrance exam, she transferred to Linchuan with her son, who was in fifth grade at the time. By now, she has been living in Shangdongdu for seven years. Before that, she worked as a cashier in a supermarket near the school, and after her son’s senior year, she started to help him prepare for the exam.
Zhang Xiufen calls herself a “country person”, unlike the locals in town, she doesn’t talk to people and never runs to the benches to play cards. In the afternoon, when the mothers are “relaxing” collectively, she wears a long red dress and sits on the edge of the square, scratching her phone. Zhang Xiufen is always defensive of strangers, “I’m afraid of being cheated in the village,” she explains.
These seven years, she socialized very little, even at home, but also dare not talk much. Linchuan a high school study pressure, her children basically every day to write homework to write more than 1:00 am. Zhang Xiufen elementary school culture, her son’s homework can not intervene, but also afraid to manage more than the birth of the matter. Many chaperone mothers are now saying to the whole that the children now “dare not control”, because “There are always students who can’t think straight”. Every year, Tang Hui hears rumors of children jumping from the two schools. On Sept. 14, 2013, a senior student at Linchuan Second High School reportedly killed his class teacher by slitting his neck in his office because he was dissatisfied with the strict management.
In Shangdongdu, almost every building has protective bars on the windows, and in a caged room, mothers have to spend several springs with their children. Lack of entertainment, lack of socialization, and more importantly, “no self”-these are the words many mothers are likely to say. And at the same time, they think “this is the duty of a mother”.
Wan Ruo, a 2020 undergraduate from Wuhan University’s School of Social Sciences, spent six years of her high school career at Linchuan Second Middle School. Having experienced chaperoning, she admits that both students and parents are emotionally affected by their performance during the chaperoning process. In this space called “chaperoning,” both mother and child are In this space called “chaperoning,” both mother and child are “dominated by learning. For her senior thesis, she interviewed 13 students who had experienced chaperoning at Upper Dunwoody. In her opinion, “the excessive focus on grades by chaperoning parents creates psychological pressure on students, where the better the grades, the more pressure they internalize the high expectations of their families and the sacrifices made by their parents. “
It is impossible to explain these differences in general, but it is certain that the purpose of education is to develop people with independent personality and thinking skills, and chaperones need to respect for the subjectivity of the student. In her thesis, Wanruo wrote this.
Wanruo hopes that chaperoning mothers will pay less attention to their children and have more space for independence. But the reality is that most mothers accept this kind of bondage and stake their entire lives on their children’s every test paper.
In 2019, Zhang Ruolan shut down her clothing store in her hometown of Ganzhou because her daughter took the independent admissions test at Linchuan One Experimental School after graduating from junior high school and received a notice that she was eligible for free admission – according to rumors among parents, this treatment is exclusive to the top 60 students in the test.
Zhang Ruolan thus came to Linchuan, rented a house across from the school, and began her career as a chaperone.
In Linchuan’s high school, classes are divided into three classes: Class Zero, Class A, and Class B. Zhang Ruolan’s daughter was assigned to the “zero class”. In the mouths of all the students she met now, class zero is “an existence that can only be looked up to. Compared with other classes, class zero has strong teachers, fast pace, and high homework and study pressure. According to a sophomore, students in class zero have to work until 2 a.m., and then they have to go to school the next morning to finish the rest of their homework.
In the first middle school, grades not only divide the students’ classes, but also the treatment of parents. Some locals told the whole now, in the old Linchuan one school campus, the current senior students with good grades, parents can accompany them in the school dormitory. Zhang Ruolan said that the teachers in her daughter’s class are graduates of East China Normal University, the annual salary can reach more than 200,000, “A class B class what situation we do not know”, she said with some She was proud of herself. The daughter told her that there is a student in the class who dropped out of the computer science program at Peking University and is repeating his studies.
I’m not sure what I’m doing here if I’m not here for Tsinghua University,” she said. When she first arrived at Shangdongdu, Zhang Ruolan was very high-minded. But the first monthly exam of the first year of high school told her to recognize the situation. According to the past admissions list, even in good years, it is only possible to reach the admissions line of Qingbei if you are in the top twenty of the grade. Her daughter’s ranking was at eighty.
At first, she felt that her daughter occasionally did not play well, but a year has passed, the ranking is still stable in the sixty to seventy position. When her daughter’s performance did not come up, Zhang Ruolan “could not sleep one night after another”. On the surface, she reassured her daughter that “one or two bad exams is okay”; but when she was home alone, she would sit in silence, cut off all social interaction, and hang up on her husband’s calls. But when she is home alone, she sits in silence, cuts off all social interaction, and hangs up on her husband.
She will not go to the place where parents gather to chat, let alone go to the mahjong stall to play cards – rumor has it that a student’s parents came to accompany him to school, and as a result, after arriving in Linchuan, the father became addicted to mahjong, the mother became addicted to square dancing, and the child even had to call her parents back from outside in the middle of the night to sleep. Entertainment, in Zhang Ruolan’s opinion, is the performance of “irresponsibility”.
Zhang Ruolan firmly believes that today’s academic performance is equal to tomorrow’s fate in life: “You learn well, you can help more people. You yourself can also live a life of the upper class, you feel that you will not be lower, and then you contact people and society are different, the crowd is different. You say those children who did not study in high school, slowly slowly, he contacted the social status of all the people are different. “
Reproduction
In August 2019, Zhang Ruolan experienced a move. She moved from Shangdongdu to Fuzhou Station New District, where the new site of Linchuan No. 1 Experimental School was built. Across the street from the school is a farmer’s resettlement house called “Bailing New Village”, and with the arrival of the school and parents, the village, which was originally inhabited only by the elderly, came alive. Tutoring classes, college entrance exam buildings, and small workshops opened one by one. The village’s delivery points are all labeled “Mom’s Post”.
In this place, about eight kilometers from Shangdongdu, the “escort town” seems to be copying and pasting.
At 10:30 a.m., Zhou Guixia was working in a glove factory in the village. It is no different from those small workshops in Shangdongdu, also converted from the first floor of a self-built building, with a dozen sewing machines neatly arranged in a rough room of several dozen square meters. Zhou Guixia’s child is in junior high school, after the school moved from Shangdongdu to here, she also changed places to accompany the students, but the type of work did not change, still do gloves. Although the experimental school can choose to live in school, but she still rented a house next to the school, “from the birth of their own with, has been this way”.
Zhou Guixia calculations, their own children every day to sew gloves at 6:30 after dinner to school, 11:00 back to cooking, the children after school at 2:00 pm then do gloves. A day down, she can probably do two or three hundred, a 20 cents.
Xu Jianlong also moved the tutoring class “Reed Boutique Tutorial School”, which was previously opened in Shangdongdu, to here. He claims to have been an extracurricular teacher in Linchuan for more than ten years, mainly tutoring geography and mathematics. As mothers are generally not highly educated, Xu Jianlong such teachers, just cater to the needs of parents homework help. His “tutorial school” offers two types of classes, homework help and weekend tutorial classes, the price varies according to the grade – high school students for the weekend class price for the high school students. -Weekend classes for high school students cost 4,000 yuan per semester, and homework help costs 1,200 yuan per month.
Bailing New Village is turning into the next Shangdongdu, and this is bringing in money for the indigenous people here. First, there’s the rent. Mothers say that when the students first came here, the rent basically stayed at 16,000 yuan a year, and then basically every two or three months, the landlord would “raise the price”. Now, the house closest to the school gate, has risen to 24,000 a year. There are some houses, not yet fully built, the information for rent has been posted. On the advertisement, “Bai Ling” has been written as ” white collar”.
Even the school has a mother living in it. The whole now in the Linchuan a middle school experimental school communication room met a work in the cafeteria to accompany the mother, 6:00 a.m. clock, 7:10 p.m. off work, a month’s salary of more than two thousand. She is a local of Fuzhou, before in the Shangdongdu chaperone, last year the school moved to this side, in the new school canteen to find a job. She told All Now that there are many other mothers like her in the school. Some parents say that some mothers will work in the school as hostesses in order to earn money while taking care of their children, working 12 hours a day and earning three thousand dollars.
Xiao Caihui is a new tenant in the “White Collar New Village”. Xiao Caihui returned to her daughter, Zhou Nana, a month before the college entrance exams, and rented a room in Bailing New Village for less than 30 days, and the landlord charged 2,600 yuan.
Daughter is a “senior” repeater, before the Nanchang Normal University Annex, because the college entrance examination results than the estimated score of nearly thirty points lower than the University of Nanchang. Zhou Nana felt “shame”, in order to enter the 985, she chose to take another test.
Because of the good results of the college entrance examination, Linchuan one directly help Zhou Nana for household transfer and admission procedures, but also exempted from tuition fees. Some parents say that in order to help the school out, the school will provide preferential treatment for some repeaters according to their scores. Students from Linchuan One Experimental School told All Now that the school will provide preferential treatment to top students; while students with lower scores will need to be graded according to their ranking and charged a loan fee of 6,000 to 18,000 yuan per academic year. The student from Yingtan also revealed to Quan now that there is no shortage of “big bosses’ children” in the school. “Ten (poor students) to feed one (top students),” he described. According to the data provided by the official website of Linchuan First High School, the total revenue budget of Linchuan First High School in 2021 is 136,541,100 yuan.
“My happiness disappeared along with a college entrance exam,” said Nana Zhou, who made the decision to repeat her studies almost immediately after getting her college entrance exam results. “I wish I had scored much higher last year, because my year was just too painful”. Nana Zhou said she didn’t care that much about her grades before that college entrance exam, and that losing the entrance exam made her “feel like I had no value” and start thinking “Grades are the most important thing in my life”.
In Linchuan First High School, the pressure to study came more real. When she was studying in Nanchang, Nana Zhou only took four exams in the second semester of her senior year, but since she arrived at No. 1 Middle School, she has counted that their senior students have gone through at least 15 exams.
She describes life here as “prison”: sleeping on iron-framed beds, cafeteria food is not fresh, teachers will stress “The only way to rest is to sleep. ” and students would not even be recognized for going out for a walk.
“Depressing”, this is what Nana Zhou felt the most from her life at Linyi. She described, during the residential school, every night at 12 o’clock after going to bed, with eyes closed, until about three in the morning to sleep. Finally, one month before the college entrance exam, at the request of her daughter, Xiao Caihui came to Linchuan.
Reality
Before her daughter resumed her studies, Xiao Caihui had been a chaperone mother in Nanchang for six years. During the time when her daughter was in middle school, Xiao Caihui had the impression that parents and students were the most anxious.
Zhou Nana’s ideal career changed several times, the first was a psychologist, then a broker, and recently changed to finance during this period of repeating, for three words, “very profitable “.
The same around the Nanchang Normal University High School lived a lot of accompanying parents, Xiao Caihui claimed to be one of the more “Buddhist”. In Zhou Nana’s high school class, students and parents are almost always worried about whether their children will “fall out of class”. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. Once they drop to the regular class because of a poor test ranking, students and parents will be under great psychological pressure during that time.
Xiao Caihui still remembers that in her daughter’s senior year, a girl in the same class jumped to her death from a 27-story building she rented near the school after a monthly exam. After the incident, the teacher organized a special parents’ meeting, and the alleged trigger for the accident may have been the girl’s father surrendering his daughter’s cell phone, and the two had a big fight. A few years later, that student’s father, a police officer, also fell to his death from the 19th floor of his own building.
Compared to some full-time chaperone mothers, Nana Zhou felt her own mother “didn’t do a good enough job”. For example, some mothers set up a daily plan for their children down to the minute, “what to do from what time to what time, all arranged”; others are The company’s main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers.
“70% of her energy goes to those kids”, said Nana Zhou. Xiao Caihui runs a kindergarten in Nanchang, from where her daughter entered elementary school. Nana Zhou remembers that several times, her mother sent her to school, and when she opened her mouth, all she said was “kindergarten”.
Perhaps because she spent so much time with young children, Xiao Caihui was a bit “big-hearted” and taught her daughter to be simple. If she stays in Bailing New Village for a longer time, she will be able to feel the reality of the “mothers’ group” here.
From just after dark, the streets here become a world of mothers. After serving dinner to the children, the mothers are basically finished with their work for the day, and they finally have a break before the children finish school at 10:00. At this time, some mothers will walk together, the older ones set up a card booth to play cards; the younger ones sit on the stools in front of the mahjong hall and exchange their “reading with the beast” experience. The older ones set up mahjong stalls and played cards; the younger ones sat on the stools in front of the mahjong hall and exchanged their experiences of “studying with the beast.
Compared to the public school mothers at Shangdongdu Linchuan No. 1, who are mostly from Fuzhou, the mothers at the experimental school are from all over Jiangxi due to a more relaxed policy. For them, the cost of chaperoning is greater, and so are the expectations for their children.
“I’ll take him (the child) as an investment, no matter what you learn, you come out or want to make money? Who does not want a better unit, earn more money, easier to make money? “”Look at that teacher teaching that class, people said, even if you earn a lifetime of money, maybe your son a year to you consumed. You so to accompany the study, maybe you can not earn a lifetime of money, he earned you a year. “This is the statement of a mother in front of the mahjong stall, the second half of the content from the video she seems to be in the shake. Listen to this paragraph, she is more determined to accompany the road, “are accompanied by the school, you do not accompany the line? “
This offline “moms group” members a total of seven, most of them are put down business to Linchuan, some are even the children from Zhejiang, Shanghai brought over. For some of these mothers, chaperoning is a choice of necessity, “My daughter was originally placed in the county high school to read, and then saw that it was not right, others are running to (Linchuan) this side, I also hurried to send the children to this side. “There are also mothers say, their middle school children’s class and several sent from Beijing, to read in Linchuan and then go back to the exam, “there the paper simple “.
“This year’s Jiangxi college entrance exam candidates more than 30,000 people,” said the mother of a senior high school student. The side of the mother “to bring children as an investment” immediately to talk. “Now the admissions score is getting higher and higher, blame it on these parents, and so on, the score called them to get higher and higher. “
There is also a mother a bit distressed. Recently, her son suddenly asked her a question.
“People live, why do we have to be so tired ah? “
(All characters in this article are pseudonyms except Wan Ruo and Xu Jianlong)
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