Needless to say, the news released by Chen Deyuan was quite reliable, and the resumption of classes soon became a real fact.
October 14, 1967, became a very important day in the history of education in our country. On this day, the Central Committee of the State, the Military Commission, the National Academy of Sciences and the "revolutionary" group in power at the time jointly issued the "Concerning the Education of Colleges, Middle Schools and Primary Schools"
Notice on resuming classes to start a revolution.
More than a year ago, due to the outbreak of the "Ten Years Movement", all school enrollment and course operations were at a standstill, in the so-called "suspension of classes for revolution" period. After this notice was issued, except for the college entrance examination system, which has not been restored, since 11
Since March, most primary and secondary school students have returned to the classroom one after another, and new students have also begun to enroll.
It should be said that the family and neighbors can be described as "looking forward to it" for Hong Yanwu to be able to go to school. Everyone hopes that this kid can change his temperament in school and learn some principles of life.
However, everyone's expectations are destined to be disappointed. Because this is the most special period in the history of education, in fact, schools have become different from what most people imagined.
First of all, we must know that the main purpose of resuming classes this time is actually to gather back those children who have been "floating" in society all day long.
Because during this period, there were a lot of shitty things in society, all caused by this group of children who "wasted in the society". It can even be said that they have seriously affected the public security situation of the society. If nothing is done anymore
The rectification will probably get worse.
In fact, this cannot be entirely blamed on the restlessness of the children. When people are idle, they will naturally "get angry" (a dialect that means causing trouble, causing trouble.) How can these most energetic half-year-olds stay at home?
Stay? If you can't stay at home, why don't you go running around on the streets to have some fun, have some fun, and look for some excitement?
Fortunately, the suspension of classes was only for a short period of time, and these children have not completely "broken off the reins". Therefore, under the joint request and supervision of the school and parents, most of the children returned to school on time.
However, since culture is no longer valuable at this time, after the children return to school, the school will naturally no longer be able to follow the wrong "white college route" as before (white college is a specific term for a special period, which refers to people who only know how to study business and
academics, but did not pay attention to the behavior of political study), so the higher authorities proposed the slogan of "resuming classes and making revolution" in universities, middle schools and primary schools. As a result, the main task of going to school at that time became "making revolution".
Since it is a "revolution", going to school is not something you have to worry about. Even if you are a "student" who has failed a few subjects, you can still recommend your children to this school. Damn it!
, there is no such thing as an exam at all. Because when you go to school, what you learn is not culture, but how to "revolution."
In general, the curriculum of all primary and secondary schools in Beijing has been completely revised from form to content.
Because the original textbooks were accused of being "feudal" (i.e. feudalism, capitalism, revisionism), they were all discarded. The authorities hastily printed a batch of temporary textbooks that closely followed real politics. However, at that time, schools across the country
Under the common situation of trying to compress learning time, even these simple and concise teaching materials are still not guaranteed to be completed within the standard class time, which completely shows the impact of "revolutionary".
After this change, the school can no longer maintain much of its duty of learning. In addition to simply recognizing words, the most common things students do on weekdays are to hold meetings, listen to the radio, read big-character posters, and publish blackboard posters.
Sometimes, according to the social situation, they have to visit exhibitions, practice, study engineering, and study agriculture. From this, you can imagine what the cultural level of this generation of students is.
A few years later, when someone commented on the students of this period, some said that their cultural level was the lowest and they were also the most noisy in school. But these people just forgot one thing. What these children originally responded to was
The call for "revolution".
"Revolution". You say, can this not be a revolution?
In addition to the above, the biggest change in the school is the relationship between teachers and students. These days, students are not afraid of teachers at all.
Because even though the "revolutionary" activities such as checking in during the school suspension period, joining together, and being reviewed by the great leader, as well as the resulting noisy energy, have passed, the shock wave of this movement has not weakened.
Specifically, it is reflected in the struggle, criticism, and reform that are going on in every school.
In order to complete the teaching reform, almost all the principals of primary and secondary schools were overthrown, and the administrative body of the school was temporarily represented by the Revolutionary Committee, waiting for the "military propaganda team" and "work propaganda team" to move into the school to transfer power.
At this point it is very clear that even the principal has been knocked down. Do you think the teacher can still speak?
In fact, the status of intellectuals at that time had become extremely low. According to the order of "rich landlords, rebels, bad rightists", teachers were intellectuals, ranked ninth, commonly known as "Old Nine", preceded by "stinky"
"Character.
In addition, teachers who were cleaning up their class ranks at that time and whose family backgrounds were a bit poor, all of them had their tail between their legs, and could even live in an extremely miserable life.
Because even if you are still working as a teacher in front of students today, you may be found out tomorrow. And being found out is equivalent to being "cleaned out" from the revolutionary ranks.
Teacher? Just Lao Jiu.
So in this situation, you think, who can still have the heart to teach well? The so-called teachers are just trying their best to deal with the students every day and getting by. It is no exaggeration to say that if all the schools are added up, in this
During this period, there were only a few teachers who could control students.
It is simply a fantasy and unrealistic to expect such a school and such teachers to reshape Hong Yanwu's "soul".
Anyway, whether you believe it or not, this was indeed the real situation in most schools at that time. Moreover, if we compare the schools after the resumption of classes with those before, there are several strange and interesting special phenomena, I might as well talk about them here.
First, in both primary and secondary schools, freshmen from both age groups are admitted to school together. This is probably the first time in the history of modern education since the establishment of Xuetang schools.
The specific situation is roughly as follows. Children in the two age groups of 1959 and 1960 entered primary school at the same time. After that, most children born in 1959 graduated early and entered middle school at the end of fifth grade in 1973. However, students in the two age groups of 1953 and 1954
They entered middle school at the same time, and later they were generally referred to as the "69th class" and the "70th class".
Second, the schools at that time implemented quasi-military management.
The specific measure is that the former three-good students will be called five-good soldiers. Students will be divided into classes according to companies. As for the school, the establishment is a "regiment". Therefore, after graduation, the students of this period will meet with the alumni of the same class.
, never asked which class you were in, but what company and row you were in. Those who knew, they were talking about school, and those who didn’t know, they thought they were all soldiers.
Third, at that time, various grade boundaries were abolished in primary and secondary school admissions, and a unified policy of nearby admission and mixed admissions was adopted in recruiting new students.
Before the "movement", primary and secondary schools in Beijing were still divided into city key schools, district key schools, children's schools or ordinary schools. Middle schools were even divided into male, female and mixed schools. But after the "resumption of classes", like this
All grades were automatically cancelled, and there was no longer any entrance or further education examinations. Which schools recruited students from which areas were divided into alleys and regions. At that time, primary and secondary school students were all based on their residence.
Enrollment will be allocated based on the location of the nearest school.
Similarly, it was precisely because of this that both Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan were sent to Banbuqiao Primary School not far from their homes.
Banbuqiao Primary School is located on the north side of Baizhifang East Street, adjacent to Wanshou Park on the west. It is named because it is opposite the Banbuqiao Hutong entrance.
The school is not large, and the green iron gate faces due south.
After entering, you are faced with a screen wall. On it are handwritten letters with red background and white characters, warning the great leader's earnest teachings - "Study hard and make progress every day." There is also a round flower pond made of white cement under the screen wall, which is full of flowers.
Pots of blooming flowers.
It can be said that this model was the standard facade of almost all primary schools at that time, and it was pretty decent. But as long as you bypass this "face", you can see the unseemly simple teaching building behind it, and an equally simple yellow building.
Land playground.
From these "hardware", it can be determined that this is a simple, poorly equipped, and most ordinary elementary school for civilian children.