Chapter 989 (1/2)
At the end of the morning schedule, a group of high-level people attending the meeting were invited at noon. In the afternoon, several industries located in downtown Livni were visited. Simon arrived at the ufms children's school in the west of the city at 4:00 in the afternoon.
Of course, the name after the official opening is not this, but the West City school in livny.
Until now, the school, which is still expanding, provides all-age education from kindergarten to high school, mainly for the children of ufms mercenaries and the children of Rovno executives.
Because of the super high quality of the school, there are many parents who want to send their children in, but they don't refuse. The only difference is that the education of the children of ufms mercenaries and the children of senior executives of the Rovno Gang is completely free, which is regarded as a special welfare. Other foreigners need to pay expensive school fees.
In the eyes of many people, the most powerful thing about livnisi city school is that the total number of students in this school is about 3700, while the number of teachers is more than 2100. Regardless of other functional personnel, the pure teacher-student ratio is only 1.7 to 1, which is terrible for a school providing primary education.
This is mainly due to Simon's original strategy of recruiting a large number of talents.
Because of the collapse of this country, Ukraine, which used to have a very developed education system, has to find another way out because of its financial constraints and a large number of teaching and administrative personnel can not even pay their salaries. As an elitist in his heart, Simon instinctively didn't want to see this kind of thing. Coupled with the fact that a top physics professor couldn't even give out his $5 pension, he had to write to beg for a job, so he asked the school to open up recruitment.
As a result, there are more than 2100 teachers, most of whom have doctorates or above, and many of them are university professors from Ukraine and even Russia.
Simon's average salary level is $500, which is a joke in the United States. On the Ukrainian side, it is already the top salary level, which is more than ten times of the average monthly income of Ukrainian residents at the present stage, and is enough for these elites to live a very rich life in Livni.
There are more than 2100 teachers to deal with 3700 students, and the surplus is almost inevitable. Therefore, many teachers do not attend classes. After all, not all the elites recruited by Simon are suitable to go to the podium. The surplus talents can either open up interest groups for students according to their own majors, or engage in their own research in the research institutions that have just set up rudimentary forms in Livni, and they are not suitable for teaching Or simply provide various consulting services for enterprises of westero system here.
I really have nothing to do. It's OK to be idle.
Even if these people are paid more than a million dollars a month, it doesn't matter to Simon.
According to the ancient Chinese saying, it should be regarded as a thousand gold scholars.
However, with Simon's relatively generous salary in Ukraine, not many people are deliberately lazy.
Although Simon entered the school during the summer vacation, there were still many people in the campus.
Simon has long understood that the key to a person's life is not university education, but primary education. Therefore, when he first determined the direction of charity of the Westeros family, he had the idea of making efforts for it.
Finally, face the reality and give up.
However, for this school here, even without the relevant expectations of Sowell college in Los Angeles, Simon's education style is still called strict elite education, rather than the happy education that Europe and the United States generally cheat the bottom. Want to be happy, want to have a childhood, sorry, go out and turn left, rivney city school doesn't offer happy childhood.
Although as long as the eligible students can enter the school free of charge, they will not refuse other self funded students, but from the primary school stage, the students in this school will be in a state of competition.
No one will be expelled unless they do something particularly bad. However, all the students will be divided according to their academic performance. If the students with good grades enter the top class, the poor students will get together with the poor students. Of course, because the teaching staff is strong enough, the school will also teach students in accordance with their aptitude.
For example, between arts and science, or really not interested in all cultural courses, but have good sports, can be cultivated.
Simon also customized scholarship regulations, not only from primary school to secondary school, as long as he can enter a designated University in the future, he will continue to receive funding from the westero system, and even study abroad directly under the arrangement of westero system.
As for parents, if they can't accept this Spartan education, it's optional.
However, since the start of the school, only more and more people want to send their children in, and no one has let their children drop out because of the strict school education system. Attaching importance to education and looking forward to the success of their children are definitely not only the educational concepts of Chinese parents, but also the instincts of almost all parents in the world.
Simon walked through the campus. The whole campus, even the kindergarten, has a lot of students.
It is obvious that some parents in kindergartens don't have time to see their children take the initiative to send them. After all, the quality of kindergarten teachers here is also the highest after careful selection, not to mention free. In other primary and secondary school areas, there are students in every classroom, either receiving summer tutoring, or various interest groups, or taking physical exercises.On the whole, the campus is filled with a kind of determination that this dilapidated country does not have.
Simon also met Sergei yersakov, a physics professor at Kiev National University, who wrote to ask for a job. He was 68 years old and still hale and hearty. He was tutoring a group of students in high school physics. Simon also listened to a passage. Compared with the physics course of his high school career in memory, the difference was obvious .
Finally, after a few words, the old man expressed his thanks to Simon. His present job has almost supported a large family.
And then there was the inevitable sigh.
Simon stayed at school for two hours and didn't leave until six o'clock.
The evening was another party.
This time it was quite special. The reception was aimed at some senior military officials in Ukraine.
With the establishment of Ukraine's constitution, Ukraine's political and military system has begun a new round of adjustment. On the military side, Kiev authorities have begun to brew another military reform.
To put it bluntly, we should continue disarmament.
Even when the Soviet Union just disintegrated, the 700000 troops in Ukraine had been reduced to 200000, Ukraine still can't afford to support them.
Simon also got some information in advance.
In this reform, the entire Ukrainian army will be planned and integrated into three major military regions, mainly the northern combat command with Kiev as the core, the southern combat command with Odessa as the core, and the Western combat command with Livni as the core.
The three major military regions, Kiev and Odessa, are no surprise. One is the capital, and the other is the Black Sea estuary. However, the Kiev authorities intend to set up the base of the Western combat command, which integrates the Nine Western States, in Livni, the capital of Rovno state. This is obviously targeted.
Of course not externally.
Simon is not trying to change that.