Rebirth of the Burning Era

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A Spring Festival is over in a blink of an eye, and the lunar year of 1992 officially arrived.

Unconsciously, the Spring Festival of 1992 has completely become a memory. At the beginning of the new year, the eyes of the whole country are focused on the Southern Tour, and the economic spring breeze has sneaked into everyone's life.

At the beginning of the year, the price of pork began to rise sharply. From last year's 50, 55, and 60 cents, it was suddenly mentioned 80 cents, and some cities even approached 90 cents a pound.

However, the common people did not feel that they could not afford to eat pork, because the wages generally increased from last year, and then increased by a small amount after the New Year.

Take Liang Yicheng and his cannery as an example. Last year, after the inventory was sold, the full salary was restored. Liang Yicheng's one-month salary bonus was about 202 yuan. In November, it reached 230 yuan. After the new year, it has exceeded 240 yuan. dollars.

This is not an isolated phenomenon. Not only Liang Yicheng, who has performed well at work, has a salary increase, but as long as he is an employee in the factory, whether you have strong business ability and a good attitude, or you are a day-to-day grinder, everyone will get a salary increase.

All the workers in the factory are very excited. At this rate, after 1992, the per capita salary will probably exceed 300.

The economy is rising fast, and people's lives are getting better and better. Some products that were considered high-end consumption in the past, such as bicycles and plum watches, have gradually entered thousands of households, and they are not distressing to buy.

However, with the development of the economy, some new high-end consumption has appeared, which is still completely inaccessible to ordinary people.

For example, in the Big Universe Entertainment City, whether it is a meal or a dance hall full of Yingyingyanyan, the threshold is still so high that it is just a legend.

There are also many enjoyment types of consumption, mainly aimed at the wealthy people.

For example, buying washing machines, color TVs, and recently popular VCRs, such 'high-tech products' and 'large home appliances'.

For example, English tutoring.

From the very beginning, English tutoring is not a business for the poor. Even private tutoring costs seven or eight yuan a class, two or three classes a night, once or twice a week, and it will cost more than half of an ordinary worker. Wages, most of the people who work in the factory and earn dead wages simply can't afford English tutors.

In contrast, the two schools in the private teaching market, although the one-time fee seems to be a bit high, but it is evenly distributed to each session, which is actually cheaper than tutoring. Of course, tutoring is one-to-one, and tutoring school teaching is one-to-many. However, the level of tutoring is not uniform, and the level of tutoring classes is another level of disparity, especially the level of the new era, which has now established a reputation.

Rao is so, there are still many people who want to learn English, but they are discouraged by the tuition fees of cram schools.

Although Huanyu's tuition is cheaper than New Era, and it is guaranteed to be refunded, it is still on the order of a few hundred dollars, which is not fundamentally different.

Tian Liangliang, a college student, is one of them. He is a child from the countryside. His family is in poor conditions. Since he started high school, his family could not afford to pay. With Laotian's family looking for a way to sell food, the village party secretary even pulled his cheek to help borrow money himself, and just sent Tian Liangliang from the northern Jiangsu mountain area to a big city to become a college student.

Tian Liangliang has become more and more aware of the importance of English after coming to a big city, especially in college.

Simply speaking, the state requires that college students must pass the fourth level to obtain a degree certificate, which is difficult for many college students.

People go to school step by step. It is natural for him to go to school like Tian Liangliang. For him, going to school is to fight against the sky and change his fate, so it is natural to work hard in this school.

However, it is very difficult, and the United Nations University is not a particularly good university. The university only restarted enrollment in 1978. Most of the current teachers' English proficiency is not flattering, and the CET-4 and CET-6 tests have only been implemented for five or six years. , the teacher has less experience in this area, and can only rely on the students to work hard to explore.

Studying is different from exams. Learning cultural knowledge requires a lot of hard work, and in the end, you can learn very good results; but in exams, if you review the wrong way, you work very hard, and you can only get four or five points of results.

I heard from my classmates that there is a new era cram school in the city. Last year, the TOEFL pass rate for going abroad was as high as 22%. No.

Don't talk about paying 300 yuan at one time, even if you take out 50 yuan, he doesn't have it.

On this day, Teacher Zhu, as usual, finished an English class with a strong Shanghainese accent. Just before the end of the get out of class, he suddenly took out a book from under the textbook and shook it.

"Dear classmates, what do you know about the new era in the city? This year they have published several English tutoring books, including CET 4 and 6, TOEFL, I have read them, it is very good~www.wuxiahere.com~ If everyone If you need it, you can buy it yourself!

Where is it for sale? All major bookstores in the city have them on sale! If you go and say it was introduced by our school, you can get a 20% discount, because it is published by our school's own publishing house.

If you find it troublesome, you can buy it directly from me, and I can get a 30% discount! "

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Unlike university leaders who are always department-level cadres and vice-ministerial-level cadres, high school and junior high school principals do not have that much authority. Teachers with senior qualifications and teachers with high teaching level often do not buy the account of school leaders. Many The school is more like a small state-owned enterprise. Teachers and school leaders all live together. They look down and see each other, like neighbors.

This has led to the fact that many regulations and policies in junior high and high schools are not implemented as strictly as universities, and schools are not as good at managing teachers as universities.

For example, it’s a big trouble to take a class outside privately. It’s a big trouble to get it out of college. In middle and high school, it’s commonplace, and sometimes leaders don’t bother to ask when they know about it.

Privately offering supplementary lessons to students in their own class and selling various extracurricular textbooks is the most common and most effective way for middle and high school teachers to earn extra money.

"You parents, don't talk about earning extra money. Our teachers don't earn as much a month as workers, and we also have to support our families! Besides, I've read these textbooks, and they're quite good for students to learn English. help!"

City No. 4 Middle School, the best public school in Binhai City, Mr. Zhang, the head teacher of Class 5 of Senior Two, directly recommended textbooks for the new era when he held a parent-teacher meeting.

"Of course, whether you buy it or not is up to your parents. I don't force it. But I want to remind everyone that next year will be the third year of senior high school. The college entrance examination, English is a main course!"