America 1982

“Support doubling the homework for high school students! Save America’s future!”

"It is urgent to let high school students feel the pressure of college homework in advance! We cannot lose to the Soviet Union!"

A group of Stanford men and women held signs and shouted their slogans to passers-by.

This is an event to support education reform and increase the amount of homework in primary and secondary schools in the United States. A U.S. government survey found that basic education at home is worrying. More than 20 million American adults have difficulty even facing difficult reading and writing questions in junior high schools. Get satisfactory scores.

American public high school students show little interest in studying. Dating, sports, parties and other activities unrelated to study occupy most of their time every day.

In the past, Americans thought that their happy education was very good. But not long ago, the British were bored and made a simple comparison between American high school students and Soviet high school students, and made a documentary. Then the Americans discovered that the daily life of Soviet high school students was very Enriched, I attend classes on time under the strict requirements of the teacher, do physics experiments, read world famous books, etc. After school, I also go to the military camp to participate in some student experience activities. The day of my high school students is to chat up the girls I like in various classrooms. Date each other, party, buy some prescription drugs secretly...

Although it was very dissatisfied with being exposed by the British, the US government found after its own investigation that the quality of its own high school students was not only inferior to that of the Soviet Union, but also had many gaps between its own high school students in Japan, South Korea, Germany and other countries.

This makes the U.S. government feel that it is necessary to carry out educational reforms. For example, first increase the workload of high school students so that they have no time to pick up girls. At least on the surface, high school students will look as fulfilling as high school students in the Soviet Union.

So in the past few years, a bunch of people who like to join in the fun have appeared in various universities across the country, supporting high school students to increase their workload. Anyway, they are already in college and do not need to feel this pain. Teachers in various public high schools have united to oppose this reform. After all, Once the reform is successful, their workload will also increase significantly.

"If you are qualified to participate in this kind of position game like those big companies, which side should you support?" Tommy sat in front of an outdoor coffee stall on Greek Avenue at Stanford University and asked Susan sitting opposite with a smile. Said: "I remember that when I was in school, the school held this kind of parade. After all these years, everyone is still happy to help the younger students improve their homework."

"Of course I support reform." Susan watched a group of men and women passing by, smiled at Tommy and asked, "Would you like to visit ONE's fraternity house?"

Compared with her previous student temperament, Susan is now much more mature. Her long hair is spread on her back like waves, and her elastic legs are sitting on top of each other. Although she is not a top beauty in appearance, at this moment she is The coquettishness inadvertently revealed by the leisurely movements still made the part-time waiter who came over to serve coffee to the two of them couldn't help but sneak a few more glances.

"No, don't break the fraternity rules." Tommy looked at Susan: "I guess you didn't just want to buy me a cup of campus coffee when you called me?"

Susan looked at Sophia, who was not far away, holding a camera to take pictures by returning to Stanford campus, and then looked at Tommy: "I'm about to graduate, Tommy."

"I know, but now you don't need me to provide you with a job like I did back then." Tommy picked up the cigarettes Susan brought on the table, lit one and looked at Susan.

Today, Susan Curtis is the president of the ONE fraternity at Stanford University, which has eleven members. Although Tommy has not deliberately inquired about Susan's situation at Stanford, occasionally Sophia will talk about Mark, Holly and others. What I learned about Susan.

In the second year of enrolling at Stanford, Susan took ONE, a group of only five people, to the agricultural area of ​​the Central Valley of Saramento to work with major local farms. Due to the large number of Latino smugglers who were snatching jobs at low prices, life was difficult. Lower class American families offer a business called "pig banking."

ONE provides two young pigs, one male and one female, as well as feed, medicine, etc. The other party only needs to feed the pigs provided by ONE every day and raise them for breeding and expansion, or prepare them for sale. It is up to them, but ONE needs to charge The interest on a fat pig means that one of the two pigs raised by the other party is raised for ONE.

At that time, both Mark and Sophia felt that Susan was imitating Tommy. Only Tommy knew that Susan had begun to try to understand the most basic political games.

It seems that the interest is as high as a pig, but Susan and her ONE are not planning to become California breeding tycoons. Instead, they have the capital to cooperate with those politicians who want the votes of bottom voters. Susan and ONE can help them. Then they will naturally not be stingy with kindness.

"A black congresswoman in Saramento County wants me to be her speechwriting secretary after graduation." Susan looked at Tommy: "What do you think of this job?"

Tommy looked at the looming SSD fraternity house in the distance and gave his opinion: "Many political science graduates will start their careers as parliamentary assistants and official assistants, which is quite satisfactory. If you like to go, I Of course I have no objection.”

"How is your black TV station?" Susan did not continue to ask the other party's opinion, and then asked about BT TV station.

Tommy withdrew his gaze and looked at Susan: "I asked Delia to help me find a black lawyer, and then the program was also being planned. Nowadays, TV program production has been industrialized, and everything can be left to the TV program production companies in Hollywood. , as long as you are willing to pay the bill.”

"I want to work at your TV station." Susan hesitated for a long time before she couldn't help but raise her head and said to Tommy: "I have thought about this issue for a long time. I should go to Saramento or find you, but I think I still have to go to you." Go work beside you.”

Tommy shook his head slightly: "Do what you should do. My TV station currently doesn't have what you can do..."

“The extramarital birth rate among black people is 32%, 67% of black children are born out of wedlock, and 70% of black children are born to unwed mothers. There are two types of black family structures. One is that the father is regarded as the head of the family and The only worker, the mother is a housewife, taking care of the children, and the other type, the family is fragmented, the mother raises the children alone, the family is more like a matriarchal society." Susan looked at Tommy and spoke out some data.

Tommy sighed: "This is the first time I've seen a job seeker call his employer to his site for an interview, Susan."

"Less than 30% of the former type, and the rest are matriarchal families. In other words, 70% of the lower-class African American families today are black matriarchal families, and these single mothers cannot take care of their children alone. They will rely on a Extended family members to help themselves, maybe mom, aunt, grandma, etc. For every 100,000 black men, the number of criminals in prison can reach 3,000, while whites are 460. In order to go to your TV station, I have the system I studied a lot of black information."

"I work in television, Susan, you should do the job you want to do."

"You are my hope, Tommy." Susan looked at Tommy and said seriously: "I don't want to help the black congresswoman write her speech and correct her typos."

(I was also hospitalized for infusion today. Finally, all four members of my family were infected. Except for my daughter, three of them are in the hospital. There will be no update tonight. I’ll talk about it tomorrow. The fever hasn’t gone down yet and I’m feeling dizzy. Please bear with me.)