I am a born in the 1970s. Our generation is in a difficult period of national construction and has not enjoyed the national education benefits. We have to pay for it when we go to elementary school to junior high school.
Although the country charges not high, in rural areas, several children go to school at the same time and need to pay a sum of money at once, which is a great burden.
Our family is in the countryside, and there are six brothers and sisters in total. When I was in the third and fourth grades of elementary school, our family had six children studying at the same time, and their older brothers and sisters went to junior high school. My younger brothers and I went to elementary school.
In the non-compulsory education stage, it is a huge expense to support these children to study, eat and drink.
My father attaches great importance to his children's reading. No matter whether he can read, he will support him with a spirit of selling his own money!
When we were young, our family opened a small winery. We provided wine shops in local convenience stores or some fishermen for a long time. In addition to doing this job to support the family, my father also did some small business and purchased some special agricultural products from our hometown to sell them up, such as watermelon seeds , cashew , rosewood . A father with a little economic mind also cooperates with some bosses, and they provide funds, and his father is responsible for mobilizing people to acquire them and make some profits.
Because of my father's little ability, when my six children paid for their studies at home, our family never faced the difficulty of paying tuition.
My father never revealed it to us, and he had no money to study for us.
Anyway, every time we start school, we can be happy and bring our schoolbags to school.
Although it is not like the children in the city, wearing new clothes and carrying a new schoolbag.
But we are still like little magpies out of the cage, rushing towards the school in groups, revealing a joyful mood.
Thank you for meeting my father and mother. They use their hard work and wisdom to support the carefree sky of childhood for us.
We have never had money to study and worry about it.
The friends I play with sometimes hear them sighing and say that they may not be able to go to school this year and their parents cannot afford the tuition fee.
Every time I see some friends worried, I feel very sad.
This kind of hope arose when we were young, hoping that one day we will not pay money when we go to school.
At that time, one person signed up, sometimes it was dozens or one hundred yuan. If a family has several children going to school at the same time, including accommodation costs one or two thousand yuan a year.
In the 1990s, a civil servant's salary was only one or two thousand yuan a year. (In our area)
Now, the annual salary of civil servants here is 100,000 or 80,000 yuan per year.
That is to say, if the country does not implement compulsory education now, our parents will spend at least 100,000 yuan in the education stage of their children.
This is a considerable amount of money.
At that time, because there were many children, education had to be paid. Many parents in rural families cannot afford to pay tuition fees, either owing tuition fees or borrowing money everywhere.
I have witnessed that my classmates in the class could not afford to pay the tuition for a long time because they owe tuition fees. The teacher would pay the tuition fees in front of everyone in the class.
Every time the teacher pays for tuition, the students in the class will look over in unison.
The students who owe tuition fees always lower their heads sadly and dare not face teachers and classmates.
Now think about it, shouldn’t the teacher urge the tuition fee in front of his classmates?
But in that special era, teachers may not have a choice, and urging tuition fees is also one of their jobs.
In childhood memories, every time such a scene occurs, the sky above the classroom must be gray.
We sympathize with students who owe tuition fees, but students who cannot pay the tuition fees must be even more sad!
Helplessness is our common feeling!
Some students dropped out of school because of owing tuition fees. Although it is a minority, there are indeed some.
had no policy of preventing dropouts and ensuring school attendance before. Free dropout.
I heard from my husband that when I was a child, my mother-in-law and father-in-law were very anxious every time the school started.
Five or six children in the family go to school at the same time, the younger ones are in elementary school and the older ones are in junior high school.If there were no natural disasters and man-made disasters, the crops at home were well harvested and the pigs raised at home just happened to be released, so there should be no problem with the tuition fee.
If the climate is bad, the tuition fee is like a mountain, pressing on the shoulders of parents-in-law.
I heard from my husband that one year the harvest was not good, and the pigs raised in the cage got sick for no reason and had no source of income.
school starts in front of you. My father-in-law and mother-in-law sold several big trees they planted many years ago, but the tuition fee was still not enough.
I borrowed it from a few relatives and friends, but they also have children studying, so they really can't get it.
My father-in-law and mother-in-law were anxious like ants on a hot pan. When they had no choice, my father-in-law summoned their brothers and sisters to discuss.
said that I really can't afford to pay tuition this year. Some of you may not be able to study. If this is really the case, who would rather not go and give it to others?
When their brothers and sisters heard their father's words, they all lost their eyes, and their eyes showed great panic about dropping out of school.
Mr. html said that when he saw his father's helpless and extremely sad expression, his younger brother and sister lowered their heads and remained silent, twitching the corner of his clothes and wanted to cry but did not dare to speak, his heart seemed to fall into a hole, which was particularly uncomfortable. Finally, he proposed that if he couldn't raise money, he could drop out of school.
Because he can already go to junior high school, his younger brother and sister are still young.
Later, with the separation of my mother-in-law and father-in-law, the tuition fee was also collected!
I heard from the teacher that in the past few years he has been in elementary school to junior high school, he often worried about himself or his younger brother and sister dropping out of school because of paid education.
In that era, education was a luxury for some rural children, and it was also a burden, which made parents short of money.
That day, in the office, I talked about the era of not compulsory education. I called two people born in the 1970s and one person born in the 1980s to talk about how their parents collected the tuition fees.
Sister Li said that they are also a big family, with six brothers and sisters, and she is the eldest.
When she was in junior high school, her younger brother and sister also went to school!
Her parents are particularly hardworking. Grow vegetables and sell them one batch after another. Tuition is collected from selling vegetables.
In the twelfth lunar month, parents carried bundles of vegetables watered by their blood and sweat to the market to sell them in order to get a stack of tuition fees!
The green vegetable garden is tuition, hope, and the future of children!
Another colleague said that they don’t have many children, only three.
Their tuition fees are all based on raising pigs. Her parents have to raise pigs every year. I sold a pig and collected the tuition for several children.
The piglets who are trapped in cages grow up day by day are the source of education costs for a family, or rather, the hope of the family!
Another colleague, parents are both teachers.
She said that their family has three children. But at that time, the teacher's salary was particularly low, and it was difficult for his parents to support them in school.
In that era, both working class and rural families were not having a good time. In addition to the payment for compulsory education, going to school has become a burden for a family.
Fortunately, our parents are well aware of the profound significance of education to a child, and they all support their children to go to school with a spirit of burning their boats.
I wrote this article today to thank the development of the country's economy, realize compulsory education, and make many families unload the burden of education expenditure.
is also particularly grateful to the parents of that era. In that poor era, they sent their children to campus without any rewards in a difficult and pattern!
Once I shared my insights about love with my daughter.
"Your grandparents are all farmers. In that era of lack of material resources and favoring boys over girls, they did not dislike me as a girl, but instead gave me all their money to study!
I am particularly grateful and satisfied!
The material conditions given to you today are much better than our era.
But compared to many wealthy families, this is nothing.But my parents and grandparents also love you with their grandparents, providing you with the best of our ability and creating the best living and learning environment for you. ”
Love cannot be measured by the amount of effort and giving, but it is amazing for parents to love as much as they can!
In that era of non-compulsory education, rural parents tried their best to support their children's studies! It's not easy!
Thank you for our parents!
