I was reborn without dreams

Chapter 207 Preschool Education in Progress

After arranging all the trivial matters, Chief Instructor Zhang immediately threw himself into the work of "core business".

First, this year's college application process should be more goal-oriented, as this year's students have stronger future learning and career plans than the previous two cohorts. Second, the recruitment scope has been expanded, and a speech will be arranged in Luzhou City, Jianghuai Province. The competition for the establishment of Xindongwei Port Middle School in Jianghuai Province will depend on the local government's concessions. Third, this year, the focus has shifted to the school's employment direction, participating in the provision of job opportunities in the labor market.

The increase in output value is significant, but the key point is not the increase, but the nature of the increase.

In other words, "Zhang An Education" has begun to create a closed loop from school education to post-graduation employment. At present, the number of people who can be "guaranteed to be assigned jobs" by "Zhang An Education" is not large, but the nature of the program is there.

A true "mini-society" model, also known as "corporate-run society".

It's just that because it's not public property, people don't perceive it as strongly, at least not as strongly as the management departments do.

Strictly speaking, when graduating high school students from Xindongweigang Middle School fill out their college applications, Zhang Da'an's collection of two to three thousand yuan in consultation fees is actually a form of interference in the future job market.

Even minor adjustments may seem small in scale, but their impact is significant.

A "three-time top scorer" has a strong social influence both during and after the exams.

Every year during the college entrance examination season, Zhang Da'an appears in major newspapers.

The reason they haven't made many public appearances this year is because the Hu family was eliminated. Some newspapers and magazines are quite sensitive and well-informed, so they're just observing.

After discovering that the "three-time top scorer" still holds up to widespread discussion, I naturally continued to join in and participate in the reporting of top scorers from all walks of life during the college entrance examination season.

However, no matter how you try to avoid it, you can't get around Zhang Da'an; he has become a social symbol.

"Exam God Talismans" have become an absolute bestseller during the college entrance examination season, with approximately two billion pirated "Exam God Talismans" of all kinds of materials available nationwide.

Small commodity markets across the country are overflowing with them; no matter what kind of temple it is, if it can consecrate or offer blessings, it will have this kind of business to some extent.

During the college entrance examination season, we hope that parents will be rational, objective, calm, and against superstition...

think too much.

Even the experts and professors from various universities in the Jiangning cluster were not immune to this trend.

There's nothing I can do. I can get into a good university and become an expert, at most I can provide an environment for my child, but as for providing intelligence... that's impossible.

Intelligence cannot be inherited, which is a fairly fair thing.

During the college entrance examination season, Zhang Da'an signs the wish cards of his students every day, as they plan to keep them for their younger siblings to use in the future.

The students who were the first to ask for autographs were all from families of highly educated intellectuals.

That's why selling health supplements requires targeting people with retirement pensions.

During the summer vacation, the main focus of promotion was the "98 Plan" students. Because Yangtai Teachers College and Shanghu Teachers College had this additional pathway, they sought Zhang Da'an's advice on which majors to offer in their enrollment work this year.

It was called a suggestion, but it was actually just matching the new positions that Zhang Da'an wanted to create.

At first, I thought it was primary and secondary school teachers, but later I found out it wasn't; they were actually targeting kindergarten teachers and childcare workers.

Normally, preschool teachers in Jiangkou Province are mainly vocational school graduates, but "Zhang'an Education" is preparing to build a kindergarten, and ordinary preschool teachers cannot meet the demand.

Unlike ordinary kindergarten teachers who take on all the responsibilities, "Zhang An Education" breaks down the functions of kindergarten teachers in many ways.

The reason is simple: young teachers have a limit to their energy levels, and women's physical condition changes during menstruation. Therefore, like pediatrics, early childhood education is a profession that requires a large number of teachers.

However, the problem is that children's issues are very sensitive, and the state of mental tension is high-frequency within a unit of time. So, if you can do it for a long time, you are actually quite ruthless to yourself, not much worse than working on a construction site for a long time.

Zhang Da'an didn't want to get involved in early childhood education from the bottom of his heart, but he had no choice. The number of employees was expanding too fast. One factory area was like a small town. The employees of "Zhang'an Food" could form a small class of children, let alone units like "Zhang'an Electronics" and "Zhang'an Health" with even more concentrated and larger numbers of employees.

Parents are more willing to pay for their children to attend kindergarten rather than send them to "children's playgrounds".

The inner feelings are completely different.

Two years ago, Shazhou City suggested that Zhang Da'an develop preschool and compulsory education programs, but it didn't work out. At that time, Qiu Jianmin was still the CEO of an education investment company.

Following the small success of the "Thousand-Person Illustrator Team" this year, children's comics and preschool picture storytelling series books have also become bestsellers. The "Little Champion Series" is now a golden brand, similar in nature to "Champion's Treasure Book" and "Zhang An's Secret Scrolls". Therefore, not only Shazhou City, but also Chongzhou City and Wudu City hope that "Zhang An Education" will open kindergartens in some industrial zones.

There's a pitfall here, or rather, it's not really a pitfall; it's more like a bit of wisdom from the two cities in attracting investment.

Normally, the business of "Zhang An Education" and the business of "Zhang An Industrial Alliance" are parallel. However, the only kindergarten that Zhang Da'an is actually operating now is the original village-run kindergarten in Xianlin East. After the village land was requisitioned, the function of this kindergarten ceased.

It was originally a village-run kindergarten, but it has now been transformed into a kindergarten for the children of employees of the "Zhang'an Industrial Park".

This is the only one that is actually in operation, even earlier than the kindergarten in the "Hanlinyuan" community that is currently undergoing renovations.

Many people know about "Hanlinyuan" kindergarten, but few cadres think about the issue from this perspective.

Both Wudu City and Chongzhou City thought to themselves, "You can't catch a wolf without risking your cub."

Originally, the "Zhang'an Industrial Alliance" factory area and employees were established first, followed by a kindergarten for the children of employees. This was the approach of attracting investment first and then building education.

Kindergartens are also schools, and schools are supporting facilities for the centralized management of the "urbanized" population.

So, if we do the opposite and first complete the supporting infrastructure, can we then attract investment later?
Absolutely. Kindergartens are unlikely to be built in mass graves or chemical plant storage areas; they must be located in residential areas, requiring paved roads, and essential amenities like water, electricity, and telecommunications.

Building roads can attract investment, building subways can attract investment, but can building a school do the same?

can.

The premise is how to repair it.

Wudu City and Chongzhou City's strategy is that as long as "Zhang An Education" builds a kindergarten, that kindergarten will become an affiliated kindergarten of a certain unit in the future. It can be a local middle school, vocational school, or junior college, or of course, a vocational school under "Zhang An Education".

This is quite a strategy. From kindergarten to affiliated kindergarten, then to attracting investment, and finally to attracting investment, there was no deception or fraud. Throughout the process, the local government showed its attitude and sincerity. As for the support from the central government, the local support depends on the local finances. There is always a limit to how much there is. For a large company like "Zhang An Education", the local attitude in the industry is more important than local policies.

Even if there is a 10% difference in tax rates, from a timeline perspective, the total benefits brought by long-term operation and long-term enrollment are actually higher. Of course, in reality, the difference will not be 10%.

According to the internal plan of "Zhang'an Education", the kindergarten will simply start registration in August and then start school in September. However, in order to show their sincerity, Wudu City and Chongzhou City have added some extra tricks in addition to the preferential policies on land for school construction and tax fees.

During the previous "Celebrating Children's Day" activities, a large number of authoritative figures from various industries across the country came out to express their support for various children's rights. Of course, there were also some pretentious people from the education sector who crossed over into other industries to give their opinions.

Among them, firearms toys, a type of children's toy, suffered an unexpected blow.

A leading figure in the cultural field, with the theme "Toys are a microcosm of different stages of social civilization," proposed that in order to adapt to the requirements of early childhood education today, a healthy and positive "toy culture" concept should be established throughout society, embodying systematic and advanced humanistic ideas.

At first glance, it seems fine, but the content is problematic, especially the comment made on behalf of parents: "These days, I wonder how many guns boys will have to break before they grow up."

Then it spread to the assumption that if a child is constantly involved in fighting and killing from a young age, over time, they will become numb to terror and bloodshed in their subconscious.

Furthermore, it cited many examples of boys imitating the brutal fighting in war movies, deriving pleasure and excitement from the carnage...

The statement wasn't necessarily wrong, but for Wudu City and Chongzhou City, it was tantamount to cutting off their source of income.

The reason is that a significant portion of the plastic toys produced in both regions are toy guns. This is because both regions have highly developed injection molding capabilities and excellent toy design skills. Whenever new weapons and equipment are introduced internationally, both regions can quickly produce blueprints and samples.

In the past two years, they were even able to produce a batch of knock-off models. Many members of the "thousand-person artist team" originally worked in similar studios doing model retouching.

Now, because of the "Great Power" (or "Big Dipper"), whether it's a rash decision or a deliberate attempt to undermine the industry, it seems they've taken advantage of the national crackdown on toy guns to shut down other toy gun production lines as well.

Several factories even went bankrupt a few days before Children's Day, and now their equipment and factory buildings are just waiting for someone to take them over.

While offering discounts to help Coach Zhang sell equipment and factory buildings to both Wudu City and Chongzhou City, they also provided some entertainment for Coach Zhang, who was busy with his "core business."

So here's the question: what's the fun that Coach Zhang has?
It's undoubtedly an insult.

"Mr. Zhang, this Shi Xiangdao is quite influential. He used to hold meetings in Luzhou and Wudu, and all he did was point fingers at industrial production. He's supposed to be a compiler of classics, but he hasn't published many decent books. He just relies on seniority to act like an old hand. We've disliked him for a long time, and now he's even more outrageous. On Children's Day, this old bastard actually ruined our plastic products factory in Wuxian District, and also that children's toy trading company in Chengnan District of Chongzhou City. The losses are considerable."

"A business worth tens of millions, and you have the nerve to ask me for help? You're not helpful at all."

Zhang Da'an didn't show any impatience. On the contrary, he was very friendly to the guests from Wudu City and Wuxian District who came to his door. Even the people from Chongzhou City realized that this matter was promising.

“Oh, Mr. Zhang. Shi Xiangdao has also written an article saying that the pursuit of top scorers in the middle school and college entrance exams is a kind of pathological mentality. He said it is a deep-rooted flaw in our nation that needs to be changed and that we should learn from the Jews.”

"How is this related to Jews?"

"Don't you know, Mr. Zhang? Before becoming editor-in-chief, Shi Xiangdao always claimed in his column that he came from a Jewish family called Sheba, and that his grandmother was a foreigner, and that he took his grandmother's surname."

"What the hell is this? It's all nonsense, is it real or fake?"

“It’s true, it really is. Let me look… Look, Mr. Zhang, his name is She, right? His column name in Huzhou used to be Sheba.”

"..."

Although he didn't know what the word meant, Zhang Da'an thought it couldn't possibly be called "shoot".

The people from Wu County didn't hold back their words either.

But it doesn't matter, Coach Zhang has now become interested.

"Your name is Shi Xiangdao, right?"

"Yes, yes, he also has a screen name on the 'Golden List Blog' called 'One Heart Towards the Way,' where he praises the Jews every day, saying that the Jews are the most intelligent people and have had a great influence on history."

"Let me see."

Zhang Da'an opened the computer and glanced at it. Then, a strange, ancient smell wafted out, a familiar scent and a familiar taste.

Damn it...

Normally, Zhang Da'an wouldn't stoop to the level of someone like that.

However, since our friends in Wudu City and Chongzhou City have been so accommodating and flattered us so well, we have no choice but to lend a hand.

It's also my small way of contributing to my hometown.

(End of this chapter)