Those things about the middle teacher

Self-ordering

Since about 1981, in order to alleviate the pressure of the serious shortage of teachers in rural primary schools, China has implemented a nationwide enrollment policy of recruiting students from among the junior high school graduates to study in secondary normal schools and then teaching in urban and rural primary schools after graduation. After 1999, secondary teacher education was abolished across the country. In the past 17 or 8 years, nearly 4 million junior high school graduates with outstanding academic performance have poured into secondary normal schools.

Some time ago, there was a short article on the Internet called "The Fanghua of Middle School Teachers and Students", which resonated with countless middle school teachers. The article writes affectionately:

"They have a common name - middle school teachers and students.

At the age of seventeen or eighteen, they are like handfuls of dandelion seeds, sown on the fertile or barren land of the motherland. Most of them, since graduation, have been sticking to remote and desolate rural primary and secondary schools.

A generation of middle school teachers and students, perhaps from the day they came to this world, are destined to move forward with heavy burdens, and be in the company of ordinary, poor, and down-and-out.

It is a great fortune for Chinese education to enrich the teaching team of primary and secondary schools and let China's basic education develop without falling, and it is a personal misfortune for individuals to use a lifetime of "Fanghua" to fall into the limited platform of primary and secondary schools. ”

In 1991, I was admitted to the Secondary Normal School, where I spent an unforgettable three years as a middle school teacher. At that time, the learning atmosphere of the school was very good, the students were united and friendly, and they were all positive and motivated, and everyone was working hard to learn cultural and scientific knowledge at the same time, actively exercising their abilities and pursuing all-round development; The teachers are rigorous and dedicated, not only strict with everyone, but also give meticulous care to the students, and place infinite hopes on everyone. How to cultivate primary school teachers with "both ability and political integrity, all-round development, and outstanding ability" has become the common expectation of schools, teachers and students in that era. After graduation, most of these middle school teachers and students have returned to their hometowns where they were born and raised, and have supported most of the rural education with their shoulders and wisdom.

Someone said: "It is not easy for middle school teachers and students, they carry half of the sky of Chinese education when they are ignorant." Most people are rooted in poor rural areas, and their meager wages are not enough to support their parents and provide their children with high-quality educational resources and an educational environment. They are sorry for their families and themselves, but they are worthy of other people's children and national education! ”

I think so. I tried to write some words in clumsy language, dedicated to that fiery era, to the generation of secondary school students who had gone to middle school teachers all over the world, and to myself, as a warm memory of that glorious time.

This novel takes "Zhao Hongyi" as the main line, recalling his and his classmates' three-year life as a middle school teacher. I would like to start from the life, study, and activities of the teachers and students to show the characteristics of the times that the middle school teachers and students are "active in thinking, positive, hard-working, outstanding, and comprehensive". "Zhao Hongyi" has my shadow, he is a more ideal representative of middle school teachers and students in my mind, he has the tradition of hard work, studiousness, innocence and simplicity and beauty and kindness of peasant children. The reason why I continue to use it in this novel is that it is difficult to give up my love for this class collective, but she is also a microcosm of countless excellent class collectives, and she represents the class spirit of "truth-seeking, forging ahead, loving beauty, and innovation" normal school. In short, all the names, place names, class names and school names in the story are not specific, so please do not sit in the opposite seats.

"Once, we naively thought that we were the proud sons of God's favor, and we also thought that we were the wind, but in the end we realized that it was just grass."

Some people lamented, "Middle school teachers and students are a generation of knowledgeable passers-by who have withdrawn from the stage of history." They watched the times change rapidly, but they couldn't catch up with the times because their steps were too heavy.

I don't see it that way, although the title of middle school teacher and student has gradually withdrawn from the stage of history with the reform of the national enrollment system, the spirit of middle school teachers and students will never become obsolete, and she also points out the direction for how to revitalize teacher education in the new era.

Looking back at history, you, me, him (her), countless middle school teachers and students, we are all a group of people who look up at the starry sky and count the stars.

I would like to dedicate this article to our middle teacher era.

Chapter I

Many years later, when facing many high school graduates filling in their volunteers after the college entrance examination, Zhao Hongyi recalled the distant afternoon when he went to fill in the normal volunteer after the secondary school examination.

In July 1991, it was called the black July by many students who took the high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination. Zhao Hongyi, who has always ranked first among the fresh graduates in the school, failed by one point in the secondary school examination that year! He clearly remembers that the admission score of the secondary school in Liushu District, where he was located, was 409 points, and he only scored 408 points. This year, all the students who were admitted to the secondary school were reviewers, and the fresh graduates were almost wiped out, and the vast majority of the reviewers in the examination had more than three years of review!

There are many people who fell off the list with Zhao Hongyi this year, including his fellow ——— Zhou Lei. When Zhou Lei was in his first year of high school, Zhao Hongyi had just entered the first grade. After Zhou Lei finished high school, he went down to the first year of junior high school, re-enrolled in junior high school, and after finishing junior high school again, the secondary school examination was still named Sun Shan, so he changed his name and re-established his school status, and re-read the second and third years of junior high school. In the repeated tossing, the two people, who were seven or eight years apart, turned out to be classmates at the same level. It's just that Zhao Hongyi is in the third class of junior high school, and Zhou Lei is in the third class of junior high school. The third class of junior high school was nicknamed the "Fan Jin" class by the students, and it was not easy to enter the third class of junior high school that year, at least the number of years of review for the third year of junior high school reached more than three, and it was necessary to pass the rigorous entrance exam. The class of junior high school graduates often has to spend more than half a year teaching new courses, and then review and prepare for the exam, while the third class of junior high school enters four rounds of review as soon as the school starts, and the goal is directly aimed at secondary school.

Zhou Lei's score is 405 points, three points lower than Zhao Hongyi. After reading the list, his face was blue and he didn't say a word. Years of losing in the examination room had obviously made him numb and accustomed to it, and at the same time his heart seemed to have become extremely strong. On the contrary, it was Zhao Hongyi, who was quite melancholy at this time: will he find a way to return to school next year, or will he go to high school?

From elementary school to junior high school, along the way, Zhao Hongyi has always been a "benchmark" figure in the class, and was once known as the unborn "prodigy" in Willow District. In Willow Middle School, he created one of the most glorious history: in the final examination of the first semester of the second year of junior high school, he won the first place in his grade in Chinese, mathematics, English, physics and politics, and scored perfect marks in English, mathematics and physics. The principal of the school encouraged all the students to learn from Zhao Hongyi, learn from his "nail" spirit of learning one subject and loving one subject, and praised him for creating the history of the school without any one before or after him! Zhao Hongyi was rated as a good student in Liangzhou that year. Teachers and classmates generally believe that Zhao Hongyi can be admitted to the secondary school as a fresh graduate without any suspense.

Zhao Hongyi became a celebrity in the school because of this, and he couldn't help but feel a little young and frivolous, a little fluttery. Who wants to fall to Sun Shan today with a difference of one point, how can this make him embarrassed? Pack a simple bag and go home! Zhao Hongyi really couldn't imagine how to face the disappointed eyes of his family and how to deal with the endless care and greetings of the villagers.

All worries are superfluous. It turned out to be better than he expected, and he was confronted by several villagers, and no one came to ask him about this annoying topic. When he got home, his father listened to the results very calmly and said to him: "Since all the students who have been admitted this year are revision students, you can also go to review in the second half of the year and take the exam again next year." Don't think about going to high school, have you seen how many high school students around us have been admitted to college? Then I was admitted to the secondary school in the third year of junior high school, and jumped out of the farm gate as soon as possible, this is the right way! ”

"I am determined to go to high school, I have learned all the knowledge of junior high school, and eating chewed buns is boring!"

Zhao Hongyi resolutely refused to accept his father's arrangement. The days are passing day by day, and Zhao Hongyi's daily life is to herd cattle, pull weeds, read extracurricular books, and wait for the start of school. Zhao Hongyi's junior high school principal had already communicated with Zhao Hongyi's brother and was ready to recommend him to Liangzhou No. 1 Middle School to attend the rural class of high school. The principal said that as long as Zhao Hongyi works hard enough, he can definitely be admitted to a good university in three years! My father was not happy, he thought that the road to high school and university entrance examination was not reliable at all for a rural family like them, which was not wealthy! Only by reviewing the third year of junior high school and being admitted to the technical secondary school is the last word. For this reason, the father and son had a very unpleasant quarrel, and they haven't spoken for two weeks!

Zhou Lei is dead! When the news came, it was a day in early August. It is said that he fell into the water and died, and before he died, he had committed madness. When he met people, he said, "I got in!" I got in! None of them can do it, their grades are all fake. It's exactly the same as Fan Jin in "Fan Jinzhongju". The difference is that Fan Jin went crazy in the middle of the move, and was later slapped by his father-in-law, sobered up, and finally soared, while Zhou Lei failed in the examination room for many years, and he turned out to be really crazy, and finally ended up dying in the water! This incident gave Zhao Hongyi a lot of stimulation, and also strengthened Zhao Hongyi's determination to go to high school, and his father stopped forcing him because of this incident, and acquiesced in his choice. Zhao Hongyi counted the days with his fingers on his fingers day by day, looking forward to the new semester coming soon, and he was going to start the high school life he longed for.

That day, he was grazing cattle in the Liushu River, and the village chief, Brother Zhu, stood behind his house and shouted loudly: "The third child of the Zhao family, where are you?" Just now, your school called the township, saying that you were admitted to the secondary school, and brought a letter to ask you to go to the school quickly, and you will go to Liangzhou City for a physical examination this afternoon! ”

When he heard this, a fish was caught by Zhao Hongyi, and he happily agreed: "Brother Zhu, thank you!" I know! While almost jumping up excitedly, he thought to himself: Luck is coming, I really can't even block the door panel! Where else did he have the heart to herd the cattle and catch fish, so he hurriedly called the dog baby to help beckon the cow, and trotted all the way to the house, and in a panic he ran away with the slippers he was wearing. The father was not at home, he was doing something on the other side of the river, Zhao Hongyi let go of his throat and shouted, a group of children shouted, the father finally heard it, and immediately rushed home, and for a while he couldn't believe it was true.

It was the middle of August in the solar calendar, which was the hottest time of the summer vacation. Zhao Hongyi hurriedly changed his clean clothes, and trotted all the way to Willow Middle School, leaving his father to chase behind, until he was tired and out of breath. The spring breeze is proud, and you can see all the Chang'an flowers in one day! The dustpan and Naijialiang, which are extremely annoying on weekdays, are so cute in Zhao Hongyi's eyes today, and in more than an hour, the more than 20 miles of mountain roads were easily stepped on Zhao Hongyi's feet.

After trotting all the way to the school, Zhao Hongyi met the principal and confirmed that all this was true, and happiness came too suddenly. Because the secondary school students admitted in front of me are all review students, they were sued and all of them were brushed off, and now they need to be readmitted in the fresh graduates. Zhao Hongyi has now become the first place in the secondary school examination in Liushu District.

There was no time to catch their breath, and the students on the supplementary record took the hitchhiker of the grain station to transport grain, and they will rush to Liangzhou City overnight to fill in the volunteers and participate in the secondary school physical examination.

It didn't take long for Zhao Hongyi, who had never been on a long-distance bus, to have a motion sickness reaction, and the world was spinning for a while. When we arrived in Liangzhou City, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, and everyone found a hotel to stay.

The next day, the students woke up early and came to the county education bureau to prepare to fill in the volunteers. Unfortunately, since it is already mid-August, all secondary schools outside the Liangzhou area have stopped selling. When the students of the secondary school supplement fill in the volunteers, they have little room to choose, and they can only fill in the four secondary schools in the region, namely Liangzhou Second Normal School, Liangzhou Health School, Liangzhou Industrial School and Liangzhou Agricultural School.

After hesitating for a long time, Zhao Hongyi, at the suggestion of the teacher, filled in the Liangzhou Second Normal School. The reason given by the teacher is: Zhao Hongyi's body is too thin, and if he applies for a health school, agricultural school or industrial school, his body is estimated to be unbearable. When it came to the physical examination, Zhao Hongyi's health indicators were normal, that is, his height was less than 1.5 meters and his weight was only 40 kilograms, which seemed to be malnutrition and developmental delay. The interviewer was very responsible, carefully examined his arms, legs and bones, and told the leader in charge of admissions that this student would definitely grow in the future, and it would not affect his future career as a teacher. Hearing this, Zhao Hongyi exhaled deeply, thank God, everything is fine!

The next thing is to go home and wait for a long time, and finally waited for the admission letter of Liangzhou No. 2 Normal School at the end of August. The small mountain village is boiling, this is the first person in the local Zhao family to come out of the old and new society to eat public meals! According to the words of the old Ding Tou in the east of the village, the Zhao family is a "civilized person". On this day, the old Zhao family kept firecrackers from morning to night, and the fathers and villagers from the surrounding neighbors came to congratulate them, and everyone was rarely happy. Lao Zhao's family specially asked the pig killer to slaughter the pig that was ready to be left for the New Year, seven plates and eight bowls, and the dam mat was extraordinarily rich.

The notice said that the school would start on September 17, so Zhao Hongyi had plenty of time to prepare for the start of school. The family bought Zhao Hongyi a brand-new bedding inside and out, went to the township government to handle the transfer certificate of agricultural to non-household registration, went to the grain station in Liushu District to exchange grain for 300 catties of food stamps, and bought him a new set of clothes.

"I'm so anxious, why did Liangzhou No. 2 Normal School open so late, other schools have been open for two weeks, I still have to pestle at home, the days of not going to school are really difficult, my normal life is coming soon!" Zhao Hongyi secretly complained in his heart.