owlsbooks Chapter 2208
Chapter 2208
Chapter 2208
"Emma!! Don't bully your sister!" At this time, Raven in the kitchen stuck her head out and raised her finger at Emma.
"I didn't!" Emma said aggrievedly. She was just a little stressed out by the movie. To be honest, Emma liked the movie very much, but no matter how much you like a movie, watching it a dozen times will make you want to vomit. Only little Bernard enjoyed it and watched it over and over again... Oh, and there's also the theme song, Let It Go...
She also felt like vomiting after hearing it!
"Okay, okay! Emma is a good girl, she won't bully her sister!" Kai saw Emma's aggrieved expression and immediately touched her head to comfort her.
"Little Bernard, can we watch something else? Wait a minute, I'll watch it with you. I haven't seen it yet!" Then Kai turned to little Bernard and said.
It can be considered as mediating the dispute between the sisters.
Little Bernard sighed, then said helplessly: "Well... Really, you are so old, but you are still so willful."
That little expression made both Kai and Riven laugh.
Emma was so angry that she wanted to catch little Bernard, but little Bernard quickly hid behind Kai.
They played and quarreled, and for a moment, they actually looked like an ordinary family. But Kai didn't dislike this kind of atmosphere. In fact, Kai had never experienced such an atmosphere in his previous life or this life!
He is an only child. His father used to be the workshop director of a production workshop. He is not a high-ranking official, but he is a serious person by nature. His mother is very gentle, but she doesn't like to talk much. Even when the family gets together, it is quiet. His father reads newspapers, his mother knits sweaters, and he watches TV. No one disturbs anyone else.
The silence was a little awkward. Of course, this was the norm for families of their generation, not so enthusiastic and very reserved.
But it doesn't mean his parents don't love him.
But there is always something missing.
Kai really enjoyed this noisy atmosphere.
At this moment, the door suddenly opened and Theresa rushed in!
Well, the only reason why she is not in the harmonious and happy family is because she has to go to class!
That's right!
It's the end of the world, and high school students still have to go to class. The worst off of them is Spider-Man Peter. He missed too many classes because he went to help others. Their head teacher was very angry and even threatened that if Peter couldn't make up for the missed classes, he would definitely expel Peter!
There's no way, Peter hasn't been to class for a long time recently.
The world has been unsafe lately, so the superheroes have been very busy, including Spider-Man and Sucker Punch.
But the problem is that Emma is only an elementary school student. It is very easy for her to ask for leave. She can just use a voice changer to imitate Raven or Kai's voice and call the school. Raven and Kai... to be honest, they are not qualified parents. They didn't even think of verifying such things. After all, Emma's grades are very good, so they generally assume that Emma is a good girl.
As for Keith and Liz… they don’t have to worry about it. Although Kai is Keith’s guardian, the problem is that Keith has always been very independent and it is difficult for Kai to control her. She only comes to live with Kai when she is in a good mood. Most of the time, she still likes her secret base in the sewer. She only goes to school because Kai forces her to, and usually she doesn’t go out for a while. The teacher can’t control her!
As for Liz, although she looked like a good girl, she was actually the best liar. She lied to both sides. To her mother, she went to class every day. To school, she had to take care of her sick mother, and even cried to her teacher and told her that she wanted to drop out of school!
The teacher was moved by this child. Seeing that Liz's academic performance had not declined, he did not let her take a leave of absence. After all, if she took a leave of absence, the follow-up would be very troublesome. It would be better for him to approve the leave directly.
So the only unlucky ones are Gwen Stacy, Harry the Green Goblin, Peter the Spider-Man, and the eldest sister Theresa of the three little ones!
Theresa has always been the difficult child in the Wayne family. Emma's academic performance is very good. In fact, if Kai and Raven hadn't insisted, Emma could have directly applied for college. They hope that Emma can have a complete childhood... They don't need Emma to be a genius or something like that. After all, with Kai's wealth, even if Emma does nothing, she will live better than 99.9% of the people in this world!
She just needs to grow up happily.
Little Bernard... is still too young to worry about this.
Only Theresa is terrible at studying!
So neither Riven nor Kai felt very confident about her.
Plus, her lying skills are not even as good as Emma's, and then it was exposed.
Then Raven was furious, and then she went to make up lessons with Peter and the others. Well, Harry and Gwen also had to make up lessons. There was no other way. Although Harry's family was wealthy, their Osborn Group was a super enterprise. But the problem was that their family had been Harvard alumni for generations, and all of them were top students! They didn't just rely on donations and alumni benefits to get into school.
The so-called alumni benefits refer to inherited admission!
When filling out the American college application system, there will be a small box asking you to check whether any relatives have also attended the school. If you choose yes, then this identity is very likely to bring you preferential treatment. This is not an "unspoken rule", but an admissions policy generally implemented by most prestigious American schools-legacy admissions, that is, the children or relatives of alumni, faculty and staff will be given priority admission by the university. Take Yale University as an example. Although it has been promoting the diversity of freshmen, the college still adheres to this admission tradition. Among the freshmen, 14% of the students are descendants of Yale graduates. This regulation really makes some people lose at the starting line at birth. Legacy admissions can be traced back to the 20s. Elite universities have traditionally been the territory of wealthy Protestants. At that time, they were worried that the quotas would be occupied by Jews and Catholics, so they set a precedent for legacy admissions. The exact number of schools that adopt legacy admissions is unknown. But a 2018 survey found that 42% of private schools (including most of the country's elite institutions) and 6% of public schools adopted this strategy. Many university officials believe that legacy admissions are only a small part of the screening process. But in reality, they help universities manage their enrollment and expected tuition revenue. The children of alumni, the “legacy” students, have a higher chance of being accepted if they are admitted, which increases the “revenue” for the school.
This is also a way of class division in the United States!
Let’s first talk about the history of famous American universities. When the earliest group of colonists came to the American continent, some of the elites established a number of church schools in order to make European civilization take root in the New World. These schools only recruited the descendants of top colonists. For example, the first batch of students at Yale University had only 18 people.
Later, as education became more popular, the efforts of children from ordinary families far exceeded those of the rich and powerful, so top universities began to change the assessment items, requiring candidates to master courses that are not available in ordinary public schools, such as Greek, French, Latin, and equestrianism and golf, which are known as high-quality education. Students who can meet these admission requirements must be from the upper class. Over time, these famous schools have become top private schools, not national public education schools. These top universities and powerful families have existed for longer than the founding of the United States. Here we compare domestic higher education. In fact, the domestic college entrance examination can enable some children who study hard to cross classes, while the top universities in the United States divide classes. Having the title of a top American university is like having a noble title. So in the United States, it is not that you work hard to enter a university and reach the pinnacle of life, but that you are born to enter a university that is equal to you, and famous schools are where the connections of the rich and powerful gather. So what is the modern admission method of famous American schools in order to distinguish different students? Unlike the current score-based theory in our country, scores are not the key factor at all in admission to prestigious private schools in the United States (I mean Americans, not foreigners who give you a few places every year), and these prestigious schools have never announced their specific admission criteria.
Some education experts are willing to tell parents that Americans don’t look at grades, but quality, but quality is actually looking at the money and influence of the parents. In fact, there are four ways to get your children into prestigious American schools: 1. Directly spend money. Build a building for the school, introduce famous teachers and advanced teaching tools (Pan Shiyi who was exposed a while ago?) 2. Relationships. If your family is a generation of alumni of a prestigious school, you can also get your children into a prestigious school (the Bush family, President Bush Jr. who entered Yale University with a C in English, an IQ lower than that of ordinary people, and was uneducated?)
30% of students at prestigious universities enter in this way. Otherwise, how can you enjoy everything if you are a super rich person in the evil capitalist United States?
3. Become a member of the sponsorship committee of a prestigious school. How to become a member? Spend money! However, this method does not require as much money as the first method, which is several million or tens of millions of dollars, but it still requires hundreds of thousands of dollars. Similarly, if the money paid is not that much, the school will give priority to you instead of directly admitting you like the first two methods.
4. Spend money on your child's resume. Learn equestrianism, golf (note that it must be the purest form of learning, and must be from a large internationally certified institution), take various honors courses, take college courses in advance, have a third world volunteer resume, and have internship experience in large companies or governments, so that you look high-quality and meet the tastes of prestigious schools.
In fact, all four types rely on their fathers. The fathers of the first two types are very powerful and can get in directly, into the powerful circle of the United States; while the fathers of the last two types, in addition to being rich, also want their children to be more ambitious - that is, the social elites in the United States want to climb into the powerful circle.
Here is a comparison with the domestic education environment. I still remember that there was a saying in society that the college entrance examination system should be reformed. An examination that only looks at scores and not quality will destroy people's talents. Now it seems that this statement is really ulterior motives. The college entrance examination is currently a rare selection method for children in China to get a fair result through their own efforts. If it is only about quality and ability, what will the situation in China be like?
The Osborne family is also considered to be the authentic Anglo-Saxons of the old American Stars and Stripes, and is considered the aristocracy among the upper three flags. However, the Osborne family has always produced academic masters, and it would be embarrassing to enter through the back door.
There's no way old Osborn would let Harry mess around!
Gwen's family doesn't have that kind of power. Her father is only the director of the New York branch, not a high-ranking official. He himself only has a high school diploma. Her mother is a college student, but only from a community college. Their family plans to rely on Gwen to achieve "class advancement."
Plus, Gwen herself is very strong-willed, so she has to take extra lessons too!
Look, it was originally Saturday and Sunday, but they still have to go to make up classes!
Midtown High School is a top high school, and the academic workload is very heavy!
"Dad! Dad!" Theresa rushed in and asked Kai, "What's going on? What's going on? People on the Internet say that it was you who prevented the world from being destroyed!"
During this period, many students at Zhongcheng High School were absent from class. It was too scary. And many of the students in this high school were from high-income families, so as the situation got worse, many children did not come to school.
But in the past few days, things have calmed down, and the government has called on civilians to return to normal life as soon as possible.
So everyone came back.
But I didn’t expect that this damn high school actually let everyone take extra classes!!!
Many students think that the end of the world is worse than that! At least this way, it doesn’t take up their rest days!
But now that we are here, we naturally have to talk about what has happened recently.
Combined with the discussions on the Internet, I somehow pieced together a rough idea!
I have to say that netizens are talented no matter where they are.
This group of people searched the internet for the whereabouts of all the superheroes in recent days... This is easy to find. After all, the world is in such a mess, and all the superheroes are working very intensively, with their exposure rates being frighteningly high!
Then find a superhero who hasn't appeared in a while... and guess who hasn't appeared.
First of all, the Knight King... This has not appeared for a long time. Although there are many fans, it is not very useful. But there are still many people who insist that the Knight King must have taken action during this earth crisis... They guessed correctly!
The second is Batman... He doesn't appear very often, but he is very popular. Many people firmly believe that Batman must be working hard to protect the earth in a place where no one can see!
Well...this guess is not wrong!
Then there is Kai!
Kai's whereabouts have remained a mystery in recent months!
But it wasn’t like this before, Kai didn’t need to wear a mask, and other people had jobs!
Just check and you will know that Kaishang is not at work!
In fact, the police did not specifically block any news about Kai... Police officers also chat online, and there was no internal order to keep it confidential, so the fact that he was missing for several months was not a secret!
Well then, Kai is also a suspect!
But Theresa is Kai's daughter, and she knows very well that her father has hardly appeared in public in recent months. If Kai wasn't a good person, Theresa would probably suspect that her father abandoned his wife and daughter and ran away from home.
Of course, more importantly, Ah Fu and Mei Lin are both there, and the family property is also there. I have never heard of a scumbag abandoning his wife and daughter without even taking the money!
So Theresa wants to know the details now!