Their grades were always either first or second, and neither of their families was well-off at Fitz.
The income from Gu's Painting and Calligraphy Gallery of Gu Weijing's family was at the bottom among the wealthy international students, not much better than a working-class family. It was only because Dongxia's traditional families valued education that the elder gritted his teeth to send him and his cousin Gu Lin to international school.
Miao Angwen's family was similar.
Each year, to not make it seem like the international school only accommodated a group of young masters and misses and looked too much like class enemies while at least pretending to support Myanmar's local education business, it takes some government subsidies.
Similar private international schools always have a few scholarship spots specifically for recruiting ordinary students with good grades but average family conditions.
This can reduce more than half of the tuition fee.
