Raising Babies in the 70s - Chapter 49

Before Wu Min was transferred, she visited and researched a number of state-owned enterprise kindergartens. When she was transferred to Lucheng as the kindergarten director, she herself had the determination to reform.

Children were the flowers of the motherland, and early childhood education must not be ignored.

“You are so irresponsible!” Wu Min glared at Zhou Yuhua. The woman was her main focus. She had discovered several times that Zhou Yuhua was deliberately lazy and ignored the children. She also liked to make fun of beautiful women.

“If something goes wrong with the child, what would you do?! Go back to your class with me…”

Zhou Yuhua had been scolded countless times by her. She didn’t take Wu Min’s words to heart at all. The old woman just couldn’t get along with her and

In her opinion, what did children of three or four years old know? Children of that age in the countryside were all free and ran in the mountains, not all of them could be supported. Parents did not need to take care of the older ones and the younger ones. What kind of kindergarten did they need to go to, and what could happen?

Zhou Yuhua followed Wu Min to Class 3. She was whispering to herself and walked to the door of Class 3. She thought to herself that all those bewitching women were pretty, and they were used to coaxing men. But when faced with a bear kid, they would have an ugly face.

She originally thought that she would hear the crying of the child and the scolding and impatient voice of the woman, but she didn’t expect Class 3 to be extraordinarily quiet, and the quietness made her a little scared.

Wu Min raised her eyebrows and followed her in. She happened to see the children sitting obediently on two rows of small benches, with a beautiful young woman sitting in the front. The woman clapped her palms, and they all sang neatly, “Little pine tree, grow up…”

After singing, the children happily listened to the woman talking to them.

“I want to raise my hand, Sister Qin, look how good I am!”

“We are all good obedient children!”

“Sister Qin, come and be our teacher!!”

…

“This is my little aunt!!”

When Qin Rou turned around, she saw Wu Min, the principal of the kindergarten. Wu Min’s eyes lit up as soon as she saw her, “You taught the children to sing well just now, everyone’s attention is on you, what did you do?”

Wu Min saw the way she was talking to the child, her expression, her tone of voice, was just right.

Her voice was sweet, and her tone and rhythm were particularly pleasant, just as good as singing, which made people fascinated without realizing it.

“You used to be a teacher, right? A primary school teacher?”

Qin Rou smiled and shook her head, “I have never been a teacher. I used to sing in the art troupe.”

“Ohh!” The principal said with emotion, “I think you are born to be a teacher in our kindergarten!”

Qin Rou: “…” No, it was acquired talent.

The principal Wu Min knew that Qin Rou was a new colony member nearby, and immediately invited her to come to the kindergarten as a teacher.

“There are few suitable teachers. We are short of teachers. Your qualifications are good. The children get along with you. To be a kindergarten teacher, one must have an affinity like yours.”

Qin Rou hesitated and said that she would consider it.

– Was she really going to try to be a kindergarten teacher in the 1970s?

After she reached Qiongzhou Island, she had several options. The army could help her connect with local literary and art organizations to join the Lucheng local song and dance troupe as a singer, or transfer to become a primary school teacher, and there were also health nurses which required some studying. Qin Rou was literate. From the outsider’s point of view, it was not difficult for her to change to nursing.

Qin Rou’s sister married into a family of intellectuals. In the first two years, her brother-in-law was keen on literacy, and she was pressured to read for a few years.

But as her brother-in-law’s books were all thrown into the cesspool, no one paid attention to studies those days.

Seeing that she didn’t agree, Wu Min, the principal, immediately guessed, “You have such a good voice and standard Mandarin, are you planning to take the exam to be an announcer of the People’s Broadcasting Station?”

Qin Rou was stunned for a moment, “Yes, yes.”

Before she married Lu Yan, she did plan to change careers as an announcer in Liao Province, but she had just arrived at Qiongzhou Island and had yet to find out the specific situation. Unexpectedly, she learned that an announcer was being recruited there.

“I know they’re recruiting people recently, sign up. If you don’t pass the exam, come to our kindergarten and become a teacher.”