“Hence, for the competition every year, we would always lose . ” Principal Liu shook his head . “And it’s a complete loss . Our intention as principals is not to win the whole competition in the end . It’s for some of our students to at least win some segments, even if it was only one round .
“It could more or less help us earn some pride back,” Principal Liu said . “So that we won’t always be a joke to the other side . Every time, after we send students over to learn and still have to be treated like a joke, it makes us feel terrible also . There were many times when we were so angry we wanted to end the partnership and just develop on our own, but in the end…”
Principal Liu gave a bitter smile and shook his head . “Of course, this is only part of it . There’s also the internal competition between our schools . As the students come from four different schools, we will surely have our own competition between the students from the different schools . Whichever students perform better and get better results, the school which the student came from will have even more pride and can laugh at other schools . ”
Lu Man roughly guessed it by now .
These few schools were all not working with team spirit but competing with each other .
In this way, even if 10 teams of students were sent to New York University, they would start to fall apart from within because they were not united .
In the process of preparing for the competition, they would not see eye to eye with each other and compete with each other for scenes and other things .
Their original capability, for which they could have scored 8 points, ended up scoring them 5 points .
The chances of winning could possibly have been 50-50 but ended up becoming 30-70 .
It was no wonder that they could not win like this .
When Lu Man thought of this, Principal Liu said, “Lu Man, I really feel that among so many students, you have the biggest chance of winning . ”
Even if Lu Man could not win, at least she would not lose too badly .
After all, Lu Man’s acting skills were really yards apart from other students .
If Lu Man could not win, then the others could stop dreaming of winning either .
Lu Man smiled and told him what was on her mind . “If there is no team spirit, there is no use no matter how good their acting is . They act their own part and compete on their own . It’s like a hodgepodge of expensive herbs that are all good individually but conflict each other when they are mixed together . There is no less effort put in, but they ultimately do not mix together, making it a waste of effort .
“It would be of no use even if I went,” Lu Man said . “I don’t think I have such a huge personal charm to make everyone band together . On the contrary, there are many people who hate me . If I am there, everyone might become even more competitive and refuse to admit defeat . Because of my presence, I think this team would probably never work together .
“It’s precisely because we have internal competition that even if everyone puts in 10 marks’ worth of effort, we will only get half the results, making it 5 marks . If the four schools can temporarily cast aside their competition and unite to compete externally, the results should be much better,” Lu Man said .
How would Principal Liu not know this?
It was not just him . He believed the principals of the other three schools also knew this logic .
Everyone knew, but no one was willing to bring up the topic first . No one was willing to compromise first .
No one wanted to admit defeat . Everyone was afraid that they would be on the losing end first .
In the end, the results remained as such for so many years and had never changed .
Ever since they started the partnership with New York University, the students in the country had never once won .
Principal Liu was depressed too .
However, he could not force Lu Man either, mainly because he had no right to!
Principal Liu did not immediately agree to Lu Man’s request . Just like Teacher Liang, he delayed it first and said, “Alright . I understand your matter . Let me think about it . You should reconsider too . On this matter, Teacher Liang has already told you right, it ends before Year 3 starts . Before that, you can change your mind anytime . ”
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