The efficiency of the newly established Ministry of Science and Education was extremely high. Early the next morning, the teacher assessment results for New Primary School on Pays Street in Angers had already come out. Langlois found his name and score on the notice outside the principal's office and let out a long breath. "B+. Now I won't have to tend the flower beds."
Then he saw the "shining" A+ after Lemay's name and happily clapped his old friend beside him on the shoulder. "So that means you'll be able to get a salary of eighty francs every month from now on!"
In the past, even their vice dean's annual salary had only been one thousand francs. Lemay was already close to matching his income.
Lemay shrugged. "Who knows how much I'll actually get."
According to the custom of Church Schools, salaries would be cut every which way by the superior order, and generally only about three quarters of it would reach their hands.
Langlois was just about to tell Lemay to treat him when he saw the newly appointed principal, who had just been transferred from Reims, walk out with a document in hand and call out loudly, "Father Drome, please come in for a moment."
A mean-looking fat cleric answered, then went into the principal's office with his head hanging.
Langlois had already seen it on the noticeboard just now. Drome's assessment score was D+.
A moment later, the fat cleric came out, shouting with a face full of anger, "I'm not going to watch over a Warehouse. I'm going back to Saint-Locard Abbey!" Immediately afterward, the principal called in two more clerics one after another. One of them accepted the job of managing the Warehouse, while the other "followed" Drome back to the abbey.
The principal shook