Chapter 249 "General Nine" Inspection

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In the past few days, Zhao Zhiqiang has been busy welcoming the work of the Dongzhou City and Huxian County Education Bureau to "popularize nine-year compulsory education".

On April 12, 1986, the Fourth Session of the Sixth National People's Congress passed the Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China, which came into force on July 1, 1986.

On February 29, 1992, with the approval of the State Council, the State Education Commission promulgated the Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China by Order No. 19 of the State Education Commission on March 14, 1992, which provided specific guidance on the implementation steps of the Compulsory Education Law, students' schooling, education and teaching, implementation guarantees, management and supervision, etc., and further promoted the implementation of compulsory education in China.

As an open coastal city and an economically developed area, Dongzhou City has taken the lead in popularizing and popularizing the nine-year compulsory education system within Dongzhou, raising funds from various sources, fundamentally improving the dilapidated and dilapidated primary and secondary school buildings and the serious lack of teaching equipment, and basically putting an end to the situation of urban and rural students dropping out of school and dropping out of school.

From November 10 to 14, 1995, the State Education Commission and the Ministry of Finance jointly held a report meeting on the work of nine provinces and autonomous regions in Guilin, Guangxi. The meeting focused on studying the idea of the "two basics" work in Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Guizhou, Tibet, Qinghai, Ningxia, Gansu, and Yunnan provinces and autonomous regions, so as to ensure that nine-year compulsory education will be basically universalized throughout the country by the end of this century. Zhu Kaixuan, director of the State Education Commission, made a report at the meeting, and Liu Bin, deputy director of the State Education Commission, made a summary report at the closing ceremony.

After the end of the work report meeting of the nine provinces and autonomous regions, other provinces and municipalities were moved by the wind and formulated work plans and responsibility targets for the popularization of nine-year compulsory education according to the actual situation of each region.

Dongzhou City, as the vanguard of the province's "popularization of nine-year compulsory education," now needs to "look back and plug up loopholes" and further consolidate the victorious fruits of the work of popularizing nine-year compulsory education.

In accordance with the spirit of the document issued by the Dongzhou Municipal Education Bureau, the Huxian County Education Bureau has formulated detailed rules for the inspection of primary and secondary schools in the Huxian area, and requires all schools to resolutely put an end to the phenomenon of primary and secondary school students dropping out of school on the basis of vigorously improving the conditions for running schools. At the end of November, the Huxian County Education Bureau and the Huxian County Government will set up a special joint inspection team to go deep into the front line of school teaching and thoroughly investigate the problem of students dropping out of school and dropping out of school. In townships or schools where the dropout rate of students or dropouts does not meet the standard, the directors of the township education committees and the principals of the schools shall be dismissed on the spot.

The detailed rules for the "general nine" inspection of the Huxian County Education Bureau can be called the most severe regulations in the history of Huxian education; for a time, all the large and small education cadres in the Huxian area were in danger of themselves, and they tried by all means to find and make up for their own loopholes in the light of the inspection standards.

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At this time, Zhao Zhiqiang looked at the "Pujiu" inspection rules issued by the Hu County Education Bureau on his desk, and was secretly worried with a sad face.

As the director of the Hushan Town Education Committee and the principal of Hushan Middle School, Zhao Zhiqiang is well aware of the conditions of the schools under his rule, and the dilapidated school buildings and backward teaching facilities are all problems that need to be solved urgently. However, although Zhao Zhiqiang holds the supreme power of the education system in Hushan Township, he is powerless to deal with these problems, and he has no ability to improve teaching facilities and repair school buildings with the meagre tuition and miscellaneous fees collected by the schools. However, the Toyama town government is just as poor as it is, and the town treasury simply does not have the extra funds to do these things. There are only three or five collective and private enterprises in the town, and the little profits and taxes paid each year are simply not enough to maintain the huge turnover and expenditure of the government. Most of the revenue of the Hushan town government also depends on collecting land contract fees from farmers and raising funds to retain money. However, most of these peasants' hard-earned money is used to pay the salaries of town government officials and public officials in education, health and other departments, and even then they are often stretched thin, and it is not uncommon for teachers and other public officials to delay their salaries for two or three months in Toyama Town.

Zhao Zhiqiang reported to the town government three times and twice about the problems that needed to be dealt with urgently in the "Pujiu" inspection, and also complained to Feng Gui, the deputy mayor in charge of education, several times. Feng Gui was also full of bitterness and had nowhere to confide, so he had to comfort Zhao Zhiqiang with good words, and encouraged Zhao Zhiqiang to base himself on reality, use his brains, and try his best to deal with this "Pujiu" review.

Zhao Zhiqiang had no choice but to arrange for the schools to squeeze out a small amount of funds from the office funds to do their best to repair the dilapidated buildings of the schools, repair the doors, windows, tables and chairs, clean up the sanitation inside and outside the campus, and paint the walls of the school buildings. As for the teaching aids that must be provided in the document requirements, the schools simply cannot afford to buy them. However, Zhao Zhiqiang has already thought of a countermeasure. Because the inspection of the Huxian County Education Bureau's "review of the work of the general nine years" was not carried out simultaneously, but was carried out in turns in sub-districts and townships, Zhao Zhiqiang saw the light from this. He has already contacted several primary and secondary schools in the county, and when the time comes, he will borrow some teaching materials from his brother schools and distribute them to primary and secondary schools in Hushan Town to cope with the inspection by the Education Bureau.

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The rest, which is the most headache for Zhao Zhiqiang, is the problem of students dropping out of school and dropping out of school.

Student dropouts and out-of-school have always been a perennial problem in schools in Hushan Township. Hushan Town is located in a remote mountainous area, with blocked transportation, backward economy, low income of farmers, and many families with many children, which cannot afford to support several children to go to school at the same time. As a result, some students drop out of school and return home to help with farm work or take care of younger siblings in the third and fourth grades. In the face of this situation, Zhao Zhiqiang has also tried every possible way to urge schools to strengthen home visits or communication with parents, and also tried his best to pull children back to school and into the classroom. But it often backfires, and the word "money" is a problem that these teachers are simply unable to face.

Hushan Middle School is the hardest hit area of students dropping out of school and dropping out of school, Zhao Zhiqiang once asked Sun Chengzhang, the director of teaching, to make a statistic, the whole school 18 classes, except for the spring as the class teacher of the class no students dropped out of school and out of school, other departments at all levels, each class has different degrees of student loss. The most serious is in the third grade of junior high school, and some classes have lost one-third of students. A small number of the lost students are working in the family farms, and most of them have gone out to work. Faced with such a situation, Zhao Zhiqiang, as the principal, was at a loss.