blackstone code

Chapter 1187 Score Determines Everything

After watching Catherine put on professional attire and began to gradually like the work of the city councilor and integrate into it, Lynch left.

The work of a member of parliament is not so specific. Catherine won the election because of promoting education reform, and her main scope of work is education.

The current education system in Sabine City is no different from that in other parts of the Federation, and there is no university locally, so her job is relatively easy.

Just mediate the conflicts between the students and the school, resolve the school's demands, and deal with some problems by yourself or hand them over to the mayor.

If there's anything this profession is like, maybe it's like a deputy mayor.

Her job is to help the mayor solve these relatively special tasks within the scope of her duties.

In fact, it is not easy to be a councilor. The reason why it is not easy to be a city councilor is that it is a "losing money" job.

City councilors have working hours requirements, at least how many days they need to work each year.

Because the salary is relatively low, many city councilors are actually part-time.

These people had other decent jobs, and most of Catherine's "colleagues" were lawyers, teachers, business owners, and so were the losers.

Members of Parliament are a layer of identity to them.

Sabine City is not a big city, and there are no particularly obvious social conflicts, so the working hours of the local city councilors should not be less than [-] days a year.

So how to judge whether this person is working?

That is to say, people can say that they are working if they can find congressmen in their offices.

There is a sign at the door of each congressman's office. In addition to the names of the congressmen, there are also their working hours.

From the day of the week to the day of the week, from what time to what time.

Catherine has an advantage over others. She doesn't have other part-time jobs. She can even give herself a vacation after the first three months of work. Anyway, this job doesn't pay much.

But her staff did not advise her to do that, and neither did Lynch.

Lynch suggested that she work as long as possible, about four days a week, so that there are two hundred working days in a year.

She has a lot less experience than those who come from political families. Young people from those political families have been exposed to such things since childhood.

When they show a certain political talent, their parents or uncles and aunts will take them to various activities.

They have been exposed to various government affairs since they were young, and they can enter the student union for an early "internship" after they go to school. After they really enter the job, they can immediately show the gap between them and ordinary people.

Sometimes you have to admit that it makes sense that the powerful get more powerful, the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.

The children of politicians will remain politicians, the children of capitalists will remain capitalists, and the children of the exploited will continue to be exploited.

Perhaps, this is the reason why the education reform plan can receive strong support. After all, for the middle and lower classes of society, the only relatively cheap and peaceful way to change their own situation is to study.

Catherine needs more exercise, so more work.

She doesn't need to worry about money, Lynch has money.

After returning to Bu Paine, Mr. Lynch was approached by Mr. President. In fact, he was also very concerned about education reform and was very anxious.

This is actually quite normal.

It has been a year and a half since he took office. In the previous year, he was mediating the relationship between various departments of the federal government and placing some important members of his own staff in important positions.

This involves too many behind-the-scenes benefit transfers and transactions. If you take a position from someone else, you have to give them some corresponding compensation.

Now that the framework of the entire federal government is basically established, he has to do something.

Time flies, he's almost halfway through the election, and if he doesn't do something, there's a good chance people will think he's a president who... just cheats voters.

Usually he is always smiling, but in fact he is also anxious. He doesn't want to be a joke, a president who can't even be re-elected under such a good situation.

Educational reform has become the most suitable weapon for him to seek re-election. No matter what level he achieves, the people will support him because he really did it, whether he did it well or not is another matter.

Familiar office, familiar bad coffee.

"I've already ordered takeaway!" Mr. President comforted Lynch with a smile.

Sometimes people who are idle are really idle, they are always looking at the hot water room, when the hot water room has a new coffee machine, or hand grinder, they will jump up and down Crazy attacks on Mr. President and the Presidential Palace in the media.

Blame Mr. President for spending taxpayers' money on enjoyment.

This has also led to the extremely hot business of the cafes around the Presidential Palace. Every day, a large number of people need to work in the Presidential Palace. When they finish their high-intensity work and sit down and need a cup of coffee to comfort themselves, they must not want that. Smells like shit.

Ordering takeaway has become the fastest and best way without making the people boil.

In fact, many of the graduate interns who are interns at the Presidential Palace have the job of ordering coffee for everyone.

Lynch pushed the coffee into the table slightly, "It's okay, I don't like coffee very much."

"It's against my will!" Mr. President commented, and said with a smile, "In fact, I am too."

After a short pause, he started the core content of this conversation. He didn't have so much time to go around in circles with Lynch, and then had a superficial chat, then went to have a meal, and then had an in-depth talk.

He is the President of the Federation, and he is so busy at work that he hardly has time for his private life.

"I read the report of the governor of York State and Catherine's report. I am very interested in this fair university. Can you tell me about it?"

Mr. President is very gentle, he is an old man, not all old people are gentle, maybe this is what Mr. Truman likes about him.

Gentle, not easily angry, easily persuaded, at least working for him will not be affected by bad temper.

Lynch nodded, and at the same time asked Mr. President, "What conditions do you think a fair university should have?"

Mr. President began to think about the strategy of the conversation. It took about ten seconds, "Recruit more low-level people?"

It is not new or unexpected for Mr. President to say the word "lower class", because society is necessarily stratified.

As long as there is some kind of unified rule, it will inevitably revolve around the hierarchical classification of the ruling class. The federalists do not intend to eliminate the class, and the people at the bottom will not feel offended because of this. They themselves admit that they are the bottom class. bottom layer.

Lynch shook his head, "That's wrong, Mr. President, what fairness needs is a measure, something that allows us to provide a yardstick in some respects."

"School is a place of learning. If there is anything that can provide a relatively fair measure for everyone, then it must be academic performance."

"Students who do well and students who do not do well just need to look at their test papers."

"A child from a capitalist family will not have a score higher than others just because his family is rich."

"Similarly, a child born in an ordinary family will not score scores lower than others just because his father is just an ordinary workshop worker."

"Capital families, rich families, poor families, no matter what family background these students have, they are all equal in terms of scores."

Mr. President nodded as if he understood something, "Then what about the interview and recommendation part, will it affect this fairness?"

Lynch asked again, "Why do we rely on interviews and recommendations? If a child can get a good recommendation letter, such as yours, or wants to be admitted through an interview, I will recommend them to a private school."

"Going to a fair school is a waste of their true talents, Mr. President, and everyone has different talents."

"Some people are born with the ability to learn, some people are born extremely rich, and some people are born and stand on the top of the mountain."

"Let someone do something, maybe this is fair."

Mr. President seemed to have come to his senses, he nodded his head in agreement with Lynch and said, "You are right, if they have that much ability, they can go to the Holy Harmony College, there is no need to go to the Fair College. "

He took a deep breath and puffed up his chest slightly, "However, if we set the admission criteria to only refer to scores as conditions, wouldn't it be too harsh."

"As far as I know, the education content of most high schools in China is relatively slow. If the scores are too high, most children may not be able to go to college."

This is actually a misunderstanding of people in this era. Many people think that they can get a good job after going to college. In fact, this idea itself is wrong.

There are also many college students who do not have a good job, and there is no necessary connection between going to college and a good job.

University just gives people more opportunities to start high, not necessarily.

"Mr. President, fairness does not mean that everyone is equal. If everyone is equal, then the university will lose its value."

"Students' job is to study, if they can't even study well, why should they go to university?"

"I'd rather they save that money and invest it in improving their lives than expensive tuition fees."

"The fairness we can provide is to give them a relative fairness."

"Let those who are willing to learn continue to learn."

"Keep those who don't want to study out of the university."

"We all know that college is the cheapest way to change the family environment, but no matter how cheap it is, it has a 'price (condition)'!"

(End of this chapter)