The President is Being Shameless Again

Mo Jinxi lowered his head as teardrops started falling from his eyes. His little feet shuffled uneasily on the floor as he replied, “I… I wanted to see the old principal, as well as my brothers and sisters. I’ve been staying at home for a few months now, but Grandma refuses to take me to see them. Grandpa promised me that if I did well in school, he and Uncle would take bring me there for a visit even if Grandma refused to.

“I’ve already done well with my homework. Jixia Academy’s textbooks may be different from my previous school, and the syllabus might not be the same, but I managed to catch up. I even tried my best and caught up in the classes that I’ve never attended before in my previous school and am now on par with everyone else. I’ve done all my homework well. No matter how difficult it was, I’ve managed to overcome it,” Mo Jinxi said. He felt a little upset about the matter.

Lin Chu was aware that Jixia Academy was different from normal schools. There were many schools that practiced a form of education that involved shouting out slogans about all-round development, but those slogans were nothing but hot air. At the end of the day, schools would still need to prioritize learning. It was fine if Standard One and Two students did not focus too much on education as they did not have that much homework. However, for Standard Three and above, there would start to be a heavier focus on Cultural Classes* [TN: Classes to help students catch up with the syllabus or improve their results by focusing on self-development]. This was especially so for when a student reaches Standard Six, the threshold for getting into Middle School. By then, schools almost exclusively operated with systems surrounding test papers. Even if their class schedule had allocated time for more well-rounded classes, most teachers would, instead, use these sessions to teach important subjects and give extra tuition to students. After all, exam results would represent everything in school.

What was different about Jixia Academy was the school’s focus on all-round development. From Cultural Classes to the student’s physical and even mental development, everything was taken into account. Besides the normal school syllabus which included the Cultural Class, there was also horseback riding, archery, Karate, Taekwondo, and Chinese Kickboxing, all of which were taught to develop students’ physicality. Students would need to pick two options from the selection on offer, and Mo Jinxi chose archery and Taekwondo.

Apart from these classes, there was also the experience of camping in the wild, where student would need to prepare their own food, clothes, accommodation, and mode of transport. After this, students would be given certain necessities and would need to figure out for themselves how to start a fire or cook. There would be impromptu disaster drills too, which include fire and earthquake drills. This trained students to prepare themselves for the possibility of natural disasters occurring and allow them to practice how to survive in case of such occurrences.

Even their Cultural Class was different from that of normal schools while their learning path differed as well. However, strangely enough, when the students reached High School and needed to take their exams, they would have no problems tackling the exam questions. They were no different from students from normal schools who woke up early and slept late to immerse their entire being into Cultural Classes. It was as if they were running down different paths but were still able to meet at the same junction before heading down the long, lonely road up ahead.

For Mo Jinxi, who had just changed a new environment, it was a challenge to adapt to his new surroundings. In this scenario, getting along with his classmates was the least of his worries.

Yan Ningbai was in the same class as him, and he made sure that Mo Jinxi would not get boycotted. As for Mo Jinxi himself, he was the first grandson of the Mo family, which gave him leverage over his classmates. Thus, no one attempted to boycott him as his old classmates did, nor did they say anything mean to him.