Chapter 790
However, the teaching quality in the countryside was poor. In a class of 30, it was considered good if even 6 or 7 students passed the exam. Later, the province’s education reformed after the Cultural Revolution occurred, which led to junior high and senior high being connected. The 6-year study was decreased to 4, so there was no need for examinations to enter junior high school. Basically, anyone who had the money, time and willingness to attend school were eligible to enrol.
So the level of high school graduates in this time period was about the same as that of the elementary school kids, which was not useful at all.
No one cared whether the children were good at studying or not. As long as their families were able to afford the school fees, any kid could study.
Hence, there really wasn’t any pressure.
Han Qingping thought that the idea was alright.
After all, he was witnessing the once-gangster-like-son start to study so intensively, as if he was making up for lost time. In fact, it looked like Dawang was trying to catch up so desperately that it made Teacher Han feel a bit of admiration surge within him as well.
After all, in this era, with such a closed and bleak future, who would want to study hard?
It’s nothing more than literacy and it was considered good enough to be able to not be completely illiterate in the future. There wasn’t a standard measurement to test the kids’ book smarts either, so what was the correlation? Why would they still study hard? And why did they even need to?