Chapter 102 Becoming an Apprentice
Without university, the state won’t assign you a job, and high school is not like junior high. High school is in the county, and the tuition is higher. You have to pay for your own living expenses every month, and it really costs a good deal of money over a year.
The family isn’t very affluent, and honestly, they can’t afford to support two students. At this point, having Shen Mianmian drop out seems like the best option.
Shen Jianhua believed that even if Shen Mianmian couldn’t understand now, in a few years, when she became a mother and knew the difficulties of managing household necessities, she would gradually understand.
"Who says high school is useless if it doesn’t lead to a job assignment?" Shen Mianmian calmly cited an example, "My first-grade teacher in elementary was able to teach after just junior high, and they were on the state’s payroll too."
Shen Mianmian had attended elementary school in the neighboring village, where they only had preschool to first grade, with roughly two hundred to three hundred students and seven or eight teachers.
The teacher for the first grade had only completed junior high.
In their era, there were even fewer educated people than now, so junior high graduates were considered relatively well-educated. Plus, that teacher’s father was also a teacher. After his father retired, he took over his position.
The only difference was that he wasn’t made permanent; he was a substitute teacher and wouldn’t have a pension when he retired.
There are many such teachers in the countryside, so when they are about to retire, they choose to hide their age. That way, they can teach a few more years and earn a few more years’ salary.
"If a junior high graduate can teach, you’re in junior high too. If you’re capable, why don’t you go?" Zhou Lanfang scoffed, "With your attitude, if you went to teach, it’d be a miracle if they didn’t beat you to death."