Chapter 44 Who do they think they are?
In this era, no one can understand what John wants to do.
For example, while he led the weapons and equipment for Nie Shicheng and other bloody Qing generals to give them greater strength to resist the invaders, he watched indifferently the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War and the Eight-Nation Alliance entering Beijing, silently waiting for the collapse of the Qing Dynasty; while he tried his best to help the young students, he urged Yung Wing to expand the number of people, and wanted to reserve more talents for China, while using huge amounts of funds to rob those things that were about to be lost...
Only John himself knew what he could do in this era.
John believed that apart from those information that transcends the times, he was essentially an ordinary person, so he could only do things he could think of. So he would not rashly support the so-called anti-Qing righteous men, nor would he slap the corruption of the Qing government, nor would he throw himself into that huge vortex. Because he knew that reality was not a time travel novel, and that a person's power was too small in the face of the tide of the times.
On the contrary, John had to collect money for the arms of Nie Shicheng and the Beiyang Navy, even if it was just the cost price; the Shanghai branch of Hunterrall Bank was not much different from other foreign banks. Even the many antiques purchased, John had to ship to New York and put them in a large museum he specially built...
The road is a long way to know the power of horses, and people's hearts will be seen over time.
Perhaps for many Chinese people in this era, what John did was the same as other foreigners because they could not see everything John did privately. But ten years later, twenty years later or even fifty years later, many of what John did would slowly show their value...
On February 1, 1901, the Qing government signed a peace talks with the eight countries.
Although it was still early to sign the final treaty, the peace outline that had been postponed for more than a month showed that the Xinchou Treaty in history might have changed. However, unlike the Japanese who suffered losses, the enemy of the Qing government was too strong this time, and even John could not guarantee whether this change was good or bad. So he did not put too much energy on it, but frequently wrote long letters to Yung Wing, who was far away in China, persuading him to increase the number of students sent to New York every year, even if the number of young international students exceeded 100 last year, John still felt that it was far from enough!
Today's Hunteral Primary School has a very rapid development speed!
In order to give the students the best education, John's Dewey almost hollowed out the entire New York City. A large number of like-minded educators joined the Hunter Lar School. Hunter Lar Middle School has also been prepared and will be officially recruited after this summer vacation. In order to cooperate with Dewey's educational philosophy, John built a large number of construction, sports and scientific facilities in the school, instantly leaving many aristocratic schools in New York!
In order to protect these future seedlings, John even invested in a farm!
This era was the darkest era of the American food industry. Poisonous milk and expired meat filled the entire market. After visiting the slaughterhouse or food factory in New York, you will find that the future of China's black-hearted workshops are simply too kind. So John simply bought a super farm in New Jersey and pasteurized milk from his own schools, hospitals and companies. For Hunteral Elementary School, John has always taken the free route.
The educational conditions that transcend the times began to attract a large number of children to school.
Earlier, because the school did not set up courses such as theology and Latin, many employees of the Hunteral family were unwilling to send their children to school, and now they are a little regretful. Therefore, when Hunteral Primary School started enrolling again, the number of applicants suddenly showed a big explosion!
The number of children of Heinz Pharmaceuticals, medical devices, medical schools and three hospitals alone has exceeded one hundred!
Americans in this era have no scruples to have children.
There is no effective means of contraception, and even if it is available, it is illegal. This makes Americans in this era have no restraint. A woman will have five or six children in her life. If it is earlier, this number will be more than eight! In a sense, women with low status are a means of reproduction. Poor nutritional conditions and frequent childbirth are undoubtedly a destruction of every woman's body...
OK, the topic is far from the crowd.
The number of students that broke out made John Dewey happy, and John was quite happy. Of course, he was not interested in cultivating any talents for Americans, but he did not want those young international students to simply live in their own world, study, live and integrate with the children of the same period in the United States. This is John's purpose. Therefore, facing the surging application, John fully authorized John Dewey to make a decision and recruit students at will while ensuring that all Chinese children can enter school.
Then……
One day in mid-March, Dewey frowned and found John, the actual boss of the school: "Mr. Hunterlaer, there is a very bad phenomenon in the school now!"
"Hmm? What's the phenomenon?"
John, who was originally very happy to see Dewey and planned to have a good chat with the big bull, frowned and asked quickly.
"This...is about those Chinese students."
After hesitating for a while, Dewey sighed and said, "Before, the number of white students was not large, and the number of Chinese students had an absolute advantage, so it was not very obvious. However, this year we recruited hundreds of white students. In addition to first-grade children, there are many older students who fill in all grades, especially those white students in the upper grades, who are a little unfriendly to Chinese students..."
"What?"
After hearing Dewey's words, John's face suddenly became gloomy!
There are many people, so there are more right and wrong.
John is naturally very clear about this, so John can be said to spare no effort to protect these young children who have traveled across the ocean. This time, the school recruited white students on a large scale. John reminded Dewey early on, asking him to pay attention to this point and never let racial discrimination spread in the school. Unexpectedly, there was a problem that could make Dewey come directly. Could it be a small problem?
Sure enough, seeing John's face turn gloomy, Dewey quickly explained with a wry smile: "Sir, the students are on the one hand. As long as the school strengthens management, it is still okay, but... the key is the parents of the students!"
"Uh, what does this mean?"
John was slightly stunned when he heard this and asked in confusion.
"well……"
With a wry smile, Dewey explained what happened recently.
In order to allow Chinese students to integrate into the United States more quickly, Dewey and John have tried their best. One of them was to completely break them up and divide them into various classes. This is similar to the fact that children studying in the United States have lived in American homes in history. After all, if they are kept together, although they are more familiar with each other, they will lose the original intention of training them.
But this policy has caused dissatisfaction among many parents.
In the past period of time, with the surge in the number of students, many older white children have begun to bring about various problems. For a long time, the US government and the media have spared no effort to smear and attack the Chinese, and it is fine for younger children. This time, many older white children are attracted to them, and their attitude towards these young children studying in the United States is quite bad! In addition to verbal humiliation, discrimination in attitude and even attacks have caused a headache for Dewey and others. What's more important is that just yesterday, a group of parents came to the school and blatantly asked the school to isolate these Chinese children to class, or simply drive them out of the campus...
"Bang!"
He suddenly threw the teacup on the table to the ground, and John stood up with a rubbing look, his face suddenly became gloomy and terrible: "Isolation? Exit campus? These bastards...who do they think they are?!" (To be continued.)
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Chapter completed!