Chapter 11 Lipps
Frank's family has six children, Lip is the smartest one, and the only one who has the hope of graduating from high school and getting into college.
In most people's concepts, it is relatively easy to get into college. If you can't go to Tsinghua University and Peking University, you can find an ordinary university to study for undergraduate degree. No matter whether it is a first-tier or a second-tier university, it is the same. Basically, all of them can go to college.
But it is different in the United States. The gap between the rich and the poor in American education is very large. It is basically impossible for children from poor families to go to college.
In his previous life, Frank often saw people comparing education between the United States and China.
Speaking of Chinese education, children have learned so many things since childhood and have such great pressure. They have cut off their wings and made them lose their creativity, etc.
American children basically don’t attend classes very much, and their learning progress is very low. When they are in elementary school, they still have to study things in kindergartens in China. They don’t have to deliberately learn to teach them in class, allowing children to play and express their nature freely, so they are creative.
However, most people see the content of marketing accounts and should not be true.
There are two types of education in the United States, one is public and the other is private. Most people actually discuss public education, and public and private education is a very different place.
Public schools in the United States are very bad, and they are indeed the same as people are talking about. They are four or five years old in elementary school and are still learning the most basic addition and subtraction multiplier. Basically no one cares about children's studies. Children skip classes and fight. As long as they don't go too far, they basically don't care and turn a blind eye.
But private learning is different. The study is very strict and completely militarized, comparable to the discipline and learning atmosphere of those who prepare for the college entrance examination and the senior year of high school and the third year of high school. Moreover, not only should we learn basic knowledge, but we should also cultivate interests and hobbies and have specialties.
Therefore, there is a huge difference between public schools and private schools, just like one is in heaven and the other is on earth.
Why is the gap so big? Because public schools are free and private schools are handled privately, the tuition fees for private schools are very terrifying.
True rich people who want to raise their children will not send their children to public schools, but will go to private schools to go to elite education from an early age, and then go to top universities.
Celebrities in the upper class of the United States, those who hold the wealth of the nine-tier US, are basically all from private schools. Even those who come from public schools are rare, and only one or two of them can be selected out of a thousand.
In particular, the Frank family lives in the South Side of Chicago, which is a slum in Chicago. It is conceivable what the public schools here look like. They are all poor people. As the saying goes, they do not have the genes to learn in their bones.
Most of the students in the school drop out of school before they finish high school, either go to work or go to gangsters, or have already given birth. They can often see girls who are pregnant and take their children to school in school.
Therefore, in this environment, it is very difficult to persist until high school graduation in this big dye vat, and it is even more impossible to get into college, let alone the tuition fees of college. Even for an ordinary university, the tuition fees are not something that the poor can get.
But there is only one exception, that is, genius, real genius, Lipp is such a genius.
Lip's learning talent should be inherited from "Frank". After all, "Frank" dropped out of the top university Northwestern University.
If the rest of the family saw Frank pounding on the computer, they could not understand what Frank was doing, but Lip could see at a glance what Frank was doing.
So, Lip was very surprised, surprised that Frank actually understood such difficult Chinese, and even more surprised why the drunkard Frank was translating the manuscript.
"I'm going to make some money," Frank said to Lipp.
"Ha, you want to make money, but you don't cheat and translate the manuscript instead?" Lipp couldn't help laughing and said in a tone that seemed to be rising from the north.
"Your amnesia has not yet been cured?" Lipp asked.
"It has been restored. Although there are some things that I want to recall carefully before I can remember them, Lip, I have changed. I am no longer the Frank I used to be." Frank said.
"Haha..." Lipp ignored Frank, took a bottle of beer from the refrigerator, took a few books, a notebook and a pencil sitting opposite Frank.
The family is very tight, with only one computer and one mobile phone, all of which are publicly used at home.
Computers are better than mobile phones. Usually only Lip uses them to learn, otherwise they will search for things on computers, or find some part-time jobs to make money, etc.
Mobile phones are different. They are used rushing to use them when they have something to do, and they have to calculate the phone bill.
Lip knew "Frank's previous virtues and did not rob the computer. After all, Frank was translating the manuscript, not watching any colored videos.
However, he had to study while watching Frank, afraid that Frank would take away the notebook and sell it. In the past, "Frank" did a lot of things like this.
Neither of them spoke, Frank continued to translate the manuscript, and Lip looked at Frank from time to time while reading the book. He had never seen Frank look so focused.
Soon, the other children came back one after another, and the whole family became a vegetable market, and Frank's translation of the manuscript did not attract attention.
Fiona went home last time, carrying a large black plastic bag in her hand, containing fast food burgers and fried chicken and other foods. These foods were not bought, they were all free.
In some fast food restaurants or bakeries and other similar stores, the food is kept for one day. If it is not sold out today, no matter how much it is left, it will have to be thrown away and will not be left until the next day to continue selling. Even if you know that the thing is not broken, you will not be broken after two or three days, and you cannot keep it.
When Fiona works in a fast food restaurant or bakery, she will bring it back to the store. She will bring back the food she plans to throw away. The food is fresh and clean, so she can be eaten for dinner.
Looking at the noisy home, Frank was silent and did not tell the children about Jinji and his credit card.
These things are too big, and the children can't help at all. In the end, Fiona was worried and angry alone. Fiona managed the family and raised five children. There were enough things. He couldn't cause trouble and had to find a way to solve it himself.
Fleck patted his face hard. Although Jinji and the credit card matter were like a heavy burden on him, he had to cheer up for this family and children.
Chapter completed!