socalfunplaces Chapter 80 Your school is great, after that it's mine.
Chapter 80 Your school is great, after that it's mine.
Chapter 80 Your school is great, after that it's mine.
Regardless of what Sullivan thought to himself, since Zheng En was going to visit the school with Mrs. Gunn, he could only follow behind and wait.
After agreeing to Zheng En's request, Mrs. Gunn did not take them away immediately. Instead, she first called the teacher to inform them that someone was coming to visit and to make preparations. Then she apologized for having to deal with urgent school matters first, which delayed the visit for several minutes before it began.
It was during class time, and as Zheng En and the others passed by in the corridor, they could see what was happening in the classroom through the windows.
The teenagers, in all sorts of poses, sat obediently in the classroom. Some had nose rings and permed afros, while others wore vests that revealed large tattoos. They all looked like typical street loafers.
The teacher on stage is teaching some simple spelling. Although the students read aloud in unison, it was a bit slow, but there were no major problems.
After passing the first few classrooms, the rooms further back were mostly empty, even though they had desks and chairs.
"These are children who went to participate in social practice."
Mrs. Gunn explained, "I believe that while children receive an education, they should also have the ability to apply what they learn to their lives and thereby improve them. After all, they study to escape their current miserable lives, don't they?"
"You're right."
Jung Eun politely communicated with her. On the surface, anyone would think that Mrs. Gunn was a very kind person, elegant and considerate, and very concerned about the children. However, after learning her true colors, this so-called "social practice" became much more meaningful.
This thing shouldn't be thought about too much, because if you do, it will head wildly down the path of gang warfare, robbery, drug trafficking, and other dark and brutal things, and you won't be able to stop it.
After briefly looking around the classroom, Zheng En wanted to go and see the other areas, but Mrs. Gu En clearly didn't want to pay him much attention and politely refused his request.
"I have other teaching activities to conduct next, so I'm afraid I can't take you on a tour any further."
Zheng En was somewhat disappointed, as the school covered a vast area, and he only visited less than a tenth of it.
But he also knew that persisting would only backfire and make Mrs. Gunn wary.
It's okay, your school is great, it'll be mine next.
Jung Eun made this special trip to confirm if the school was the one from the comic. After successfully matching the character, he started planning how to get his hands on the school.
The venue and teaching resources are readily available. Sending Mrs. Gunn to prison will allow him to take over the school through legal procedures without any extra effort. Zheng En was overjoyed at the thought.
Although he didn't know how many of those teachers would still be innocent, he wasn't picky. He could just hire more people. His requirements for teachers were very low; they just needed to be able to teach the homeless children to read.
In an environment where people typically have to work three jobs, many teachers are willing to earn extra money, even if it means teaching illiterate homeless children to read and write.
The literacy rate in America is so low that for the lower classes, being able to spell words correctly puts them ahead of 80 percent of the population in terms of finding a decent job.
As long as one doesn't overspend, doesn't use drugs, and doesn't buy so-called necessities to maintain a respectable image, even illegal immigrants can save a lot of money by washing dishes.
To put it counterintuitively, even during the industrial recession, most factories in the United States were still short of workers.
It's not that factories are very strict in hiring or that the work is very difficult. In reality, most of the operations are done by mechanical equipment, and workers only need to do some assembly line work.
The requirements for workers are also very simple: they must be literate and capable of learning basic operations. The latter may not even be as technically demanding as washing dishes, but the former can employ a large number of people.
Wayne Corporation is a large enterprise involved in many industries and owns many factories like this. As long as these homeless children are willing to learn, Wayne can naturally provide them with the most basic employment opportunities.
Gotham certainly has a lot of psychopaths, gangsters, and criminals, but it also has a lot more ordinary people struggling to survive in this crazy city.
Many people join gangs simply to earn a living.
If you can do an ordinary job to support yourself and your family, who would want to live a life of constant danger and uncertainty?
Those driven by desire and ambition to climb the social ladder are ultimately a minority. Most people simply hope to live a peaceful and stable life, but given the unique exploitative nature of the United States, this is far too difficult to achieve.
Compared to the various exorbitant taxes and levies, even the six or seven curses of unknown origin and the large number of buried sorcerers and demons seemed kind and approachable.
Even with the rampage of various supervillains in the later stages, Zheng En didn't think that more people would die from this than those who naturally fell below the kill line.
To put it bluntly, supervillains kill one by one, but the system? It has to be done in batches.
Given the situation in the United States, with the influx of immigrants attracted by its global beacon of hope, and the subsequent implementation of illegal abortion policies, the fact that it has managed to maintain a population of 300 million since the early days of its founding and continues to this day under this double buffer is astounding. Who knows how many people must die each year?
Over the years, it has waged wars around the world, and the number of soldiers who have died as a result is probably not that many.
Oppressive government is more ferocious than a tiger.
But this overly young country seems not to understand this principle, or rather, it doesn't care.
It doesn't care how the people below are barely surviving, struggling to stay afloat. Like the tiny glow hanging over the head of a fish, the dream of freedom is so sweet that it lures countless people into the abyss, making them fuel to make the flames burn brighter and stronger.
Those who try to gather the firewood before it burns out are destined to be burned by the flames.
Zheng En didn't think she was that noble, but she could still help with some scraps.
[Mission: Mrs. Gunn's School]
It is difficult for people to imagine things they have never seen, just as it is difficult for ordinary old people to imagine the hundreds of ways to use things such as homeless children, vagrants, and corpses.
The children's concerns were not unfounded; there were many like Mrs. Gunn, not only in Gotham, but throughout America.
Is that correct?
That's not right.
You must eradicate the roots of their crime so that new buildings can be built on these ruins.
[Mission Requirement: Expose Mrs. Gunn's activities of using minors to commit crimes]
[Mission Reward: 20 US dollars in simulation points]
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