1187 Score Decides Everything

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

The work of a parliamentarian is not so specific. Catherine won the election because she promoted education reform. 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 since there is no local university, her job is relatively easy.

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

If this career is a bit like anything, maybe it's like a deputy mayor.

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

In fact, it is not easy to be a council member. The difficulty is that being a city council member is a "loss-making" job.

Councilors have working time requirements and a minimum number of days per year.

Because salaries are relatively low, many city councilors actually serve part-time.

These people have other decent jobs. Most of Catherine's "colleagues" are lawyers, teachers, and business owners, as are those who were unsuccessful.

To them, being a member of Parliament is just a layer of status.

Sabine City is not a big city and does not have particularly obvious social conflicts. Therefore, the working hours of local city councilors must not be less than ninety days per year.

So how do you tell if this person is working?

This means that when people can find congressmen in their offices, they can be said to be at work.

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

Day to day of the week, time to time of the week.

Catherine has an advantage over others. She has no other part-time job. She can even take a vacation directly after working for the first three months. Anyway, this job does not pay much.

But her staff advised against it, and neither did Lynch.

Lynch suggested that she work as long as possible, about four days a week, which works out to 200 days a year.

She has much less experience than those who come from political families. Young people from those political families will often be exposed to such things since they were children.

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

They have been exposed to various government affairs since childhood, and after they go to school, they can enter the student union for early "internship". When they actually join 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 continue to be politicians, the children of capitalists will continue to be capitalists, and the children of the exploited will continue to be exploited.

Perhaps this is why the education reform plan has received strong support. After all, for the middle and lower classes in 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 Bupen, Lynch was approached by the 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. He spent the previous year coordinating the relationship between various departments of the federal government and placing some important people in important positions.

There are too many behind-the-scenes transfers and transactions involved. If you take away a position from others, you have to give others some corresponding compensation.

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

Time flies so fast, and it is almost halfway through his victory. If something is not done, people are likely to think that he is a president who only deceives voters.

He is always smiling, but in fact he is anxious inside. He does not want to become a joke, a president who cannot even be re-elected in such a good situation.

Education reform has become the most suitable weapon for him to seek re-election. No matter how far he achieves it, the people will support him because he really does it. Whether he does it well or not is another matter.

Familiar office, familiar bad coffee.

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

Sometimes those idle people are really idle. They will always stare at the hot water room. When there is a new coffee machine or a hand grinding coffee machine in the hot water room, they will jump up and down. Crazy attacks on the President and the Presidential Palace in the media.

Blame the President for spending taxpayers' money on enjoyment.

This has also led to an extremely booming business in cafes around the Presidential Palace. A large number of people need to work in the Presidential Palace every day. When they sit down after finishing their high-intensity work and need a cup of coffee to comfort themselves, they certainly don’t want it to be... Smells like shit.

Ordering takeout has become the fastest and best way to do it without making people excited.

In fact, many graduate interns who intern at the Presidential Palace have the job of ordering and picking up coffee for everyone.

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

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

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

He is the President of the Federation and is very busy at work, so busy that he has almost no time for private life.

"I read the York State Governor's report 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. Trueman likes about him.

He is gentle, not irritable, and easily persuaded. At least working for him will not affect his mood due to his bad temper.

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

Mr. President began to think about the strategy of the conversation. In about ten seconds, he said, "Admit more people from the bottom?"

It is not new or unexpected for Mr. President to say the word "lower class", because society is inevitably divided into classes.

As long as there is some kind of unified rule, there will inevitably be hierarchies surrounding the ruling class. The Federals do not intend to eliminate classes, and the people at the bottom will not be offended by this. They themselves admit that they are the bottom class. Ground floor.

Lynch shook his head, "Wrong, Mr. President, fairness requires a measurement, something that can provide us with a yardstick in certain aspects."

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

"Students who study well and students who study poorly just need to look at their test papers."

"A child from a capitalist family will not get a few points more than others just because his family is rich."

"Similarly, a child who is born into an ordinary family will not have his test papers dozens of points 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, "What about the interview and recommendation part? Will it affect the fairness?"

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

"Equity schools are just 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 standing on the top of a mountain."

"Perhaps it is fair to let someone do something."

Mr. President seemed to have understood. He nodded in agreement with Lynch and said, "You are right. If they have such great ability, they can go to Holy Peace College. There is no need to go to Fair College. "

He took a deep breath and straightened his chest slightly, "But if we set the admission criteria to only refer to scores as a condition, wouldn't it be too harsh?"

"As far as I know, the educational 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 among people in this era. Many people think that after going to college, they can get a good job. In fact, this idea itself is wrong.

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

College only gives people more opportunities to start high, but it is not inevitable.

"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 study well, why should they go to university?"

"Rather than paying expensive tuition, I would rather they save this money and invest it in improving their lives."

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

“Let those who are willing to learn, continue to learn.”

"Those who are unwilling to study will still be kept 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 still has a price (conditions apply)!"