One yuan per year for tuition fees, plus the miscellaneous costs of textbooks, was a significant burden for a peasant family. Moreover, children could earn a few points by cutting grass for pigs at home each day, making it more than just a few yuan in cost.
For the Victory Team, which struggled even to feed themselves, this expense was unnecessary.
Cao Manfu, hands clasped behind his back, gazed longingly at the farmlands of the Ten Miles Team.
"What's the use of studying?" he shook his head and muttered to himself, "Studying to the end is useless, studying in the city is also useless... in the end, you still have to come to the countryside to scratch out a living."
Principal Wu stood beside him, her brow furrowed.
She had only heard from Wang Hong that the Victory Team was very poor, but she never had an accurate understanding.
To her, education was of utmost importance, something that should never be neglected no matter what.
