Chapter 2870

How could Guo Houde accept this? He had dedicated more than twenty years to the cause of education and had received countless awards. A few years ago, the state also introduced a policy to convert community-run teachers into public-run teachers. At that time, he was very happy, thinking that he was going to be converted into a public-run teacher. This was his lifelong wish.

At that time, he even had a good drink to celebrate. But who knew, there was no news for the next two or three years. When he finally waited for news, it was a dismissal notice, which he could not accept no matter what.

For the past six months, he had gone to the County Education Bureau many times to report the problem, hoping that the County Education Bureau could give him an explanation. But every time, the explanation given to him by the County Education Bureau was a few cold words—implementing the community-run teacher policy.

What is the community-run teacher policy? The policy indeed said that the number of community-run teachers should be gradually reduced, and by the year 2000, the term "community-run teacher" should become a historical term.

But the policy also said that community-run teachers should be gradually converted into public-run teachers, and that assessment and examination should be resolutely combined.

Assessment should be based on ideological and moral character, work ability, teaching level, and contribution to rural education; examination should be based on relevant subjects. According to the actual situation of the local area and community-run teachers, a certain exemption policy should be formulated for community-run teachers who have been engaged in community-run teacher work for a long time, have taught in remote and poor areas for many years, have served as teaching leaders in schools, and have outstanding teaching achievements.

The policy also said that unqualified community-run teachers should be resolutely dismissed. However, Guo Houde never thought that he was an unqualified community-run teacher. He had received so many awards, and he felt that he could participate in the assessment. He was very confident in the assessment.

He once naively thought that he belonged to those who had been engaged in community-run teacher work for a long time, had taught in remote and poor areas for many years, and had outstanding teaching achievements, so maybe he could even be exempted from the examination and converted into a public-run teacher.

Who knew, the County Education Bureau just reduced the number of community-run teachers in this way. They directly cut everything with one knife. Even people like Guo Houde could be dismissed. After dismissal, they were only compensated with a meager amount of compensation.

The County Education Bureau didn't care about his business, so he went to the County Government to report the problem, but there was still no result.

This time, their family didn't even have a good New Year. Now that it was just the seventh day of the lunar new year, these community-run teachers who were also dismissed linked up and came to the municipal government to report the problem. If this problem could not be solved, they would continue to report to higher levels.

After reading this material, Su Xinghui was very shocked. He looked at Guo Houde. It turned out that he was only forty-five years old, but he looked like sixty years old, and people would believe it. His hair was all gray, and the wrinkles on his face were like deep gullies, as if they were carved by a carving knife.

Su Xinghui also flipped through other materials. These materials were much the same, all the blood and tears of these community-run teachers in front of him.

Su Xinghui believed that the situation reflected in these materials was a fact, because in Guo Houde's material, there were copies of his previous award certificates, and such things were also easy to check. He couldn't have lied.

After reading these materials, more than an hour had passed, but Shi Fengnian and Wei Ziming still hadn't come. Su Xinghui asked Xia Song, and Xia Song said that he had already notified their accompanying staff, but he didn't know why they hadn't come.

Su Xinghui understood that they were probably afraid of causing trouble and were playing dumb. However, even if they didn't come, Su Xinghui had to handle this matter.

The state required that all problems of community-run teachers be solved by the year 2000. Su Xinghui had seen this document. This policy was a good policy. The introduction of this policy was because the income of community-run teachers was too low, leading to an unstable teaching force, and their education level was also uneven, so the problem of community-run teachers had reached a point where it had to be solved.

In the 1990s, the number of community-run teachers in the country had reached several million, which was already a very terrifying number. They held meager incomes but took on a large part of the task of basic education for this country. It could be said that many of them were the backbone of this republic.

Could their problems not be solved? And to solve the problem of community-run teachers, it was necessary to fully implement the current policy of "closing, converting, recruiting, dismissing, and retiring."

Closing means resolutely closing the door to adding new community-run teachers. No region or unit shall add new community-run teachers for any reason.

Converting means planning to convert qualified community-run teachers into public-run teachers. The specific method is to conduct examinations or assessments for community-run teachers, and those who are qualified can be converted into public-run teachers.

Recruiting means further expanding the number of community-run teachers recruited by normal schools, so that these community-run teachers can become qualified public-run teachers after training.

Dismissing and retiring means resolutely dismissing unqualified community-run teachers. For dismissed personnel, local finance shall provide one-time living subsidies according to the situation of the teachers.

In addition, there are a series of good news for community-run teachers, such as establishing a community-run teacher insurance and welfare fund, promoting the method of community-run teachers leaving their posts and retiring, so that the lives of elderly, disabled, and sick community-run teachers can be guaranteed; and implementing the provisions of the "Teachers Law" on equal pay for equal work for community-run teachers and public-run teachers.

According to this policy, people like Guo Houde should belong to the ranks of qualified community-run teachers and can be converted into public-run teachers after examination. Why were they cut with one knife without even participating in the examination?

Su Xinghui's heart was full of doubts. He couldn't help but look at Luo Guoxiu. Luo Guoxiu winked at him, signaling him to go out and talk.

Su Xinghui asked Xia Song and Zhai Yingjie to talk to those community-run teachers for a while and listen to their requirements. He then walked out, and Luo Guoxiu also followed him out.

After Su Xinghui went out, he frowned and asked, "Old Luo, what is going on? You have to give me a reasonable explanation."

Luo Guoxiu said with a bitter face, "Mayor Su, that Guo Houde did receive many awards and is an excellent community-run teacher. I also know him. I issued several of his award certificates. But last year's city-wide unified dismissal of community-run teachers was also something that couldn't be helped."

Su Xinghui asked, "Tell me, why couldn't it be helped?"

Luo Guoxiu said, "This is because the city's finance can't stand it. There are at least ten thousand community-run teachers in the whole city, and the annual salary expenditure is ten or twenty million. If they are all converted into public-run teachers, or even half of them, the annual salary and other expenses will increase to over 100 million. How can the city increase so many expenses on this?"

Su Xinghui understood. This was still caused by money. The annual fiscal revenue of the entire Baozhou City was at most over one billion. If more than 100 million was spent just on this expenditure of converting to public-run teachers, that was obviously impossible.

It seemed that this matter was not so easy to solve. If there was any trickery in it, then he, Su Xinghui, could help them uphold justice. But now that the city's finance had no money, what should he do?

No wonder Shi Fengnian and Wei Ziming didn't come. It turned out they knew what was going on. This matter couldn't be solved without money. Anyway, this work happened to be in Su Xinghui's charge, so they left this difficult problem for Su Xinghui to solve.

Su Xinghui said, "Do you dare to be sure that there was no trickery in the process of converting to public-run?"

Luo Guoxiu said, "What trickery could there be? If there was trickery, then it must be people with connections. Since there are connections, why would they be community-run teachers? People who have become community-run teachers, where would they get the connections to engage in any trickery? This time it was purely because the city's finance couldn't stand it, so they came with a one-knife cut."

Luo Guoxiu made sense. These people who were community-run teachers, where would they get the connections to engage in trickery in the conversion to public-run? Even if they wanted to spend money to find a way, they probably couldn't afford the money. The salary of these community-run teachers was at most one or two hundred, and the low ones were even less than one hundred yuan.