Chapter 59: Resumption of Classes

Not to mention, the news released by Chen Deyuan is really reliable, and the resumption of classes soon became a real fact. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info

October 14, 1967 became a very important day in the history of education in our country. On this day, the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China, the Central Military Commission, and the National People's Yuan of the People's Republic of China, together with the "revolutionary" group in power at that time, jointly issued the "Circular on the Resumption of Classes in Universities, Middle Schools, and Primary Schools to Make a Revolution."

More than a year earlier, due to the outbreak of the "Ten Year Movement", all school enrollment and curriculum operation had come to a standstill, and we were in a period of so-called "suspension of classes and revolution". After the announcement of this notice, except for the college entrance examination system, which has not yet been restored, since November, most primary and secondary school students have returned to the classroom, and new students have also begun to enroll.

It should be said that for Hong Yanwu to be able to go to school, his family and neighbors can be described as "looking forward to it". No one doesn't want this kid to change his temperament at school and learn some principles of life.

It's just that everyone's expectations are destined to be disappointed. Because this is the most special period in the history of education, in fact, the school has become different from what most people think.

First of all, we must know that the main purpose of this resumption of classes is actually to bring back those children who have been "drifting" in society all day long.

Because during this period, there were many bullshit things in society, which were caused by these children who were "profligate in society". It can even be said that they have seriously affected the public order situation in society. If we don't put it in order, I'm afraid it will get worse and worse.

In fact, it is not entirely to blame the children for being restless. As soon as people are idle, they naturally have to "give birth to springs". (The meaning of local dialect, trouble, trouble, trouble.) How can these most energetic half-grown children stay at home? If you can't stay at home, can't you run around the streets to have fun, make some trouble, and look for some excitement?

Fortunately, the suspension of classes was still short, and the children had not yet completely "broken the reins", so most of the children returned to school on time under the joint request and supervision of the school and parents.

However, because culture is no longer valuable at this time, after the children return to school, the school naturally can no longer follow the wrong "white line" as before (white school is a specific term in a special period, specifically refers to the behavior of only knowing how to immerse oneself in business and study, but not attaching importance to political study), so the slogan of "resuming classes and making revolution" in large, medium and primary schools was put forward. As a result, the main task of going to school at that time became "making a revolution".

Since it is a "revolution", going to school is not a matter of worry. Even if you are a "squatting student" who fails a few homework, you can still recommend your child to learn this. It's a big deal, there's no exam at all. Because when you come to school, you don't learn culture, but how to "revolutionize".

In general, the curriculum of all primary and secondary schools in the capital has been changed to the end in terms of form and content.

The original textbooks were all discarded because they were accused of "feudal capital repair" (i.e., feudalism, capitalism, and revisionism). The authorities hastily printed a batch of temporary teaching materials that closely followed realpolitik. However, at that time, when schools across the country were trying their best to compress the learning time, even these simple and simple textbooks still did not ensure that they were completed within the standardized class time, which completely showed the impact of "revolutionization".

After this change, it is no longer possible for the school to keep much of its duty to learn. In addition to simply reading and reading, the most common things students do on weekdays are holding meetings, listening to the radio, reading big-character posters, publishing blackboard newspapers, and sometimes visiting exhibitions, training, and learning engineering and agriculture according to the social situation. It is conceivable what the literacy level of this generation of students is.

A few years later, when some people commented on the students of this period, others said that they had the lowest level of education and were the most noisy in school. But these people just forgot that these children originally responded to the call for "revolution".

"Make a revolution". You say, can this still not be troublesome?

In addition to the above, the biggest change in the school is the teacher-student relationship. In this year, students are not afraid of teachers at all.

Because although the "revolutionary" activities of the school closure such as plagiarism, tandem, and the review of the great leader, and the noise that came with it, have passed, the shock wave of this movement has not abated.

Specifically, it is reflected in the ongoing fighting, criticism, and reform in each school.

In order to complete the teaching reform, almost all the principals of primary and secondary schools were overthrown, and the administrative organs of the schools were temporarily endorsed by the Revolutionary Committee, waiting for the "military propaganda team" and the "labor propaganda team" to be stationed in the school for the transfer of power.

Speaking of which, it's already clear that even the headmaster has been knocked down, do you think the teacher can still talk?

In fact, the status of intellectuals at that time had become extremely low. According to the order of "the rich and the bad right", the teacher is an intellectual, ranking ninth, commonly known as the "old nine", and the word "smelly" should be added in front of it.

In addition, the class ranks were being cleaned up at that time. The teacher, who is a bit of a ballast from a family, is a man with his tail between his legs, and he can even talk about extremely embarrassing days.

Because even if you are still a teacher in front of your students today, you may be found out tomorrow. And this is tantamount to "purging" out of the revolutionary ranks.

It's also the old nine.

So in such a situation, you think, who can still have the heart to teach well? The so-called teacher is just trying his best to deal with the students every day, and just get by. It is no exaggeration to say that even if you add up all the schools, there are very few teachers who can control the students during this period.

And expecting such a school and such a teacher to reshape Hong Yanwu's "soul" is simply fantasy and unrealistic.

Believe it or not, this was the case in most schools at the time. In addition, if you compare the school after the resumption of classes with the previous ones, there are also several strange and interesting special phenomena, you might as well talk about them here.

First, both primary and secondary schools are enrolled in two age groups of new students. This is probably the first time in the history of modern education since there was a school.

The situation is roughly as follows: children in the 1959 and 1960 age groups entered primary school at the same time, and most children born in 1959 graduated early at the end of the fifth grade in 1973 and went on to secondary school. In 1953 and 1954, students entered secondary school at the same time, and they were later known as the "Class of '69" and "Class of '70".

Second, the school at that time implemented quasi-military management in terms of management.

The specific measures are that the former three-good students will be renamed the five-good soldiers. Students are placed in consecutive classes. As for the school, the establishment is a "regiment". Therefore, students in this period, after graduation, the alumni of the same class meet and never ask you which class you are in, but how many rows you are in. I know, I'm talking about school, and if I don't know, I think I'm all soldiers.

Third, at that time, the enrollment of primary and secondary schools abolished all kinds of grade boundaries, and the policy of nearby enrollment and mixed enrollment was uniformly adopted in the enrollment of new students.

Before the "movement", there were still city key schools, district key schools, children's schools or ordinary schools in the primary and secondary schools in Beijing, and there were even boys, girls and mixed middle schools. However, after the "resumption of classes", all grades like this will be automatically abolished, and there will be no entrance and entrance exams. Which school recruits students from which area, they are all divided according to the alley and the region. At that time, all elementary and junior high school students were assigned to school in the nearest neighborhood by location.

Similarly, it is precisely because of this that Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan were both "nearby" to study at Banbuqiao Primary School, which is not far from home.

Banbuqiao Primary School is located in the north of Baizhifang East Street, west of Wanshou Park, because of the opposite is the mouth of Banbuqiao Hutong, so it is named.

The school is not large, with a green tin gate facing due south.

After entering, there is a shadow wall, on which is a handwritten letter with white characters on a red background, warning the great leader's earnest teachings - "Study hard and make progress every day." "There was a circular flowerpond made of white cement under the shadow wall, and there were pots of blooming flowers on it.

This model can be said to be the standard façade of almost all elementary schools at that time, and it was quite passable. But as long as you bypass this "face", you can see the not-so-decent simple school building behind it, and an equally simple loess playground.

From these "hardware", it can be judged that this is a simple, incomplete, and most ordinary primary school for civilian children.