10. Chapter 10
Ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and Anna became familiar with the teachers in the office. In the fourth grade, there was a teacher Wang Saiying who taught Chinese. She used to have a good relationship with Li Mei's mother, but now she is very caring for her. Anna soon became familiar with the school environment and became ease with her new job. She got up late that morning, and thought that it was her turn to check the appearance at the school gate, she washed up randomly and rushed to the school.
You have to cross a river beach to the school. The river beach is about ten meters wide, but the water is not deep. It reaches the knees in summer and only reaches the ankles in winter, and often freezes. There is a bridge that can be passed by a few hundred meters away. However, adults and school students who come and go every day like to take shortcuts, put some stones into the river beach, and just step on the stones.
Usually Anna takes Xiaoni on the bridge. Today, Xiaoni doesn’t go to kindergarten, and time is tight, so Anna follows others to take shortcuts.
The stream was frozen, but the ice layer could not support an adult's weight. Anna stepped on a slightly slippery stone and walked carefully halfway through. When she raised her foot to step on a stone, a voice came from the front: "Teacher, wait a moment!"
Anna looked up and saw that it was a boy named Xu Bing in Class 41.
The boy looks taller than his classmates, but during class, Anna clearly felt that he was out of place with his classmates and was very silent. The classmates next to him seemed to never pay attention to him, so she was very impressed.
"The stone in front is a little loose. I'll give you some cushion, so you can go there."
Xu Bing put his schoolbag on the ground, ran to the side of the road and picked up a flat stone. He came back and put it under the stone that Anna originally wanted to step on. He stepped on it with his feet. He felt stable and said, "Okay! You can leave now. I almost slid down just now."
Anna smiled and said, "Thank you Xu Bing."
The boy showed a embarrassed expression, turned around and went ashore, grabbed his schoolbag and ran towards the school.
Anna passed the stream and went to school. When class was over, the teacher in the office began to discuss self-employed people again.
Now the country has begun to encourage the commodity economy. Although it is still the dream of most people to hold an iron rice bowl in a state-owned unit, it is not new to self-employed people. Various professionals are more like mushrooms after a rain. Teachers will also talk about these things when chatting. Some envy and some look down on them, and think that the iron rice bowl is more superior.
The first household in Luoping County, 10,000 yuan was a professional grain grower. Last year, Liu boldly bought hundreds of acres of land. This year, he sold more than 100,000 kilograms of commercial grain to the state, and his annual income was said to reach nearly 20,000 yuan. This has become explosive news in the local area.
"I heard that Lao Liu also hired a short-term worker to help him farm. Many people came to Lao Liu to cry poor, but he wanted 5100 yuan to let Lao Liu carry forward the revolutionary style." Teacher Hu, who teaches mathematics, usually pays great attention to this aspect, and likes to talk about these things in the office after class.
"He has ten thousand yuan of households, and he took out fifty-one hundred to help others. It's like a hair pulled from a cow. What's the point?" Another teacher took the conversation.
"Hey, Teacher Sun," Teacher Hu turned his head and asked about his ideology and morality, "You said, we worked hard for thirty years and returned to the time of liberation that night! Old Liu hired short-term workers. Is this exploitation? The country allows this?"
The ideological and moral teacher must read the county newspaper every day and said: "Just a few days ago, the county government asked Lao Liu to attend the county-wide wealth competition conference to introduce his experience in getting rich. I think there is no problem, and the policy should not change!"
Teacher Hu sighed, "Oh, I can buy four or five houses in the city for a year. Our salary is so small that it is not as good as a fraction of the other person. Just a few days after my salary was paid, I was worried again. There are a lot of money-using places at home..."
"Hey, Lao Hu, why did I hear people say that you are doing the account for others outside?" The teacher of ideological and morality asked.
Teacher Hu was drinking water and choked.
"What nonsense! Nothing is wrong! Don't talk nonsense, the impact is not good..."
While Anna was listening, she saw Teacher Wang Saiying pushing the door open and waved to her and hurried out.
"Li Mei, are you free next class?" She looked a little anxious.
Anna nodded: "I have no class next class. What's wrong?"
"My mother fell and went to the hospital. I want to go back. Last time, I heard you say you had taught Chinese before? How about you help me with the get out of class? I have prepared all the classes, just follow the lecture notes."
Anna knew she didn't want to ask for leave and deduct money.
After coming here for so many days, she also knew that the school was not strict in this regard. If the teachers had something to do, they would privately transfer classes. It would be very common for you to help me today and I would help you tomorrow. Seeing that she was in a hurry to leave, she agreed.
"Second Four One."
Teacher Wang Saiying stuffed the lecture notes into her hand and turned around and left in a hurry.
Before class could begin, Anna quickly passed the lecture notes.
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There were more than forty students in Class 41. After the bell rang, Anna went in with a smile and stood on the podium.
Anna taught this class twice music classes. The students all liked this young, beautiful and easy-going music teacher. She was not like other teachers, and asked them to sit upright behind their hands when listening. She was a little excited when she suddenly came to take Chinese class.
In this class, Wang Weina's poem "Weicheng Song" was taught by Anna. When she was reading, she saw Xu Bing sitting in the corner of the back row and asked him to read it casually.
Xu Bing seemed to have not expected that he would be named and stood up to read the text. He showed a panic expression on his face. He stood up at a loss, holding the book, staring at the text, opening his mouth, but he couldn't make any sound.
The classmates next to him began to whisper, showing an expression of wanting to watch the show.
Anna felt a little strange. Seeing that Xu Bing seemed very nervous, she smiled and encouraged: "Don't be nervous. It doesn't matter if you read it wrong. The teacher will help you correct it."
“…City…Rain…”
Xu Bing finally stammered and made two sounds, and the whole class burst into laughter.
"Teacher Li, his nickname is stupid! He has been reunited for several years! He can't study! He has a bad mind! He is often pulled to the door by the teacher to stand!" a naughty boy shouted.
"Quiet!" Anna stopped the noise, "Give the nickname of unfriendly to the classmates is a very uneducated manifestation! I hope I will never hear you laugh at any classmate in this tone again!"
Anna's smile disappeared and her tone became severe.
The students calmed down and stopped talking.
Anna looked at Xu Bing, and saw that his face was bloody and drooping, she asked him to sit back.
After class, Anna subconsciously glanced at Xu Bing, and saw him sitting alone in her seat. She found herself looking at him, with a shame in her eyes and lowered her head deeply.
Anna returned to the office and couldn't help asking a teacher sitting next to her about Xu Bing's situation.
"Oh, that stupid guy from Class 41!" The teacher said indifferently, "I have a brain problem and my intelligence is low. I should have graduated a long time ago, but I still have to stay in the grade. I don't know how many times I teach a set of pinyin, but I still learn it in a mess. I recognize the simplest one as two. This semester, the principal originally persuaded him to give up and let him not study, but his mother came to the school to cry, so she left him. According to me, what else can I study with such a pig brain? I'm dragging my legs and going home to help his father raise cattle!"
When Anna remembered the scene in the morning, she always felt that he shouldn't have intellectual problems as this teacher said. But no matter how stupid a normal student is, after studying for so many years, he shouldn't recognize one as two.
When Anna went home at night, she was still thinking about what happened in class during the day. Before going to bed, she suddenly thought of a possibility.
This student named Xu Bing is likely to suffer from dyslexia. Only in this way can he explain why he has such poor learning performance.
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The next day, when Anna got to school, she called Xu Bing out after class.
Xu Bing's head was kept lowering.
"I'm sorry yesterday. The teacher didn't know your situation, so he called you up and read it aloud. The teacher apologized to you."
Xu Bing slowly raised his head and looked at Anna in disbelief.
"In one sentence, you can already recite it. But if you read it or write it down, you will find it very difficult. Or if you clearly know a line of words, you will feel that they are not the original words after blinking your eyes. Are you in this situation in your studies?"
"Teacher...you...how do you know..." Xu Bing stuttered.
Anna smiled and said, "Believe me, your intelligence is no worse than your classmates, and you may even be better than them in some other aspects. You just can't coordinate your vision and hearing, and the pressure is too high, so the situation is getting worse and worse. I have a friend who had this kind of trouble when he was a child. But after correction and treatment, he has now become a very good architect. If you believe in me, the teacher is willing to help you, we will learn slowly in the future and work hard to help you improve this situation."
Xu Bing nodded vigorously.
"Teacher Li, Teacher Li!" Anna was talking to Xu Bing, and someone was calling behind her. She turned around and saw that it was another teacher.
"Principal Li has something to ask you for trouble, so I'll call you over!" the teacher shouted.
"The teacher has something to do, so let's do it first. If you put too much pressure on yourself, you must believe in yourself. You are not stupider than others. When the teacher returns, he thinks about how to help you."
Xu Bing's eyes were a little red, he wiped his eyes, turned his head to the classroom, took two steps, and suddenly turned around and said, "Thank you, Teacher Li!"
Anna smiled and said, "It's okay. Go to class."
Anna watched Xu Bing enter the classroom and turned to the principal's office.
Anna knocked on the door and went in. Principal Li was bent down in front of the stove and poked the coal stove with an iron rod. Seeing that Anna came, she put down the iron rod and signaled her to sit down.
“How is the class going on recently?”
Anna didn't know what she was going to talk to her. She thought she didn't seem to be in violation of the rules, except for helping Teacher Wang Saiying teach a Chinese class that she shouldn't have taken yesterday. She was afraid that she would know about it. She was not bad for Teacher Wang Saiying, so she said carefully: "... Fortunately, my colleagues are very caring. The school is like a big family..."
"That's good. Teacher Li, I'll call you here today, and there is a major task to hand over to you."
Chapter completed!