In the mid-70s of the 20th century, due to the rapid growth of the population, the elves who were born disorderly in the 50s and 60s have reached the age of junior high school and high school. Although the whole country is still immersed in the movement of the "Cultural Revolution", and the "theory of reading as an official" makes people talk about it with a bit of fear of changing their color, and although the "theory of the uselessness of reading" is not as fiercely criticized as it was in the early days of the "Cultural Revolution," he still occupies the entire cultural market, such as Zhang Tiesheng's white paper and Huang Shuai's diary, which was deliberately hyped up by some people, all for the sake of artificial political needs.
In this somewhat confusing era, the loess mine area is worthy of the profound cultural heritage left by the ancestors, and there are also contemporary education executors who also have foresight, a commune of 17,800 people, running two junior high schools, one high school, more than 1,000 students studying in middle and high schools, and four or five hundred junior high school students graduate every year. The entire Suining County may be unique, and this is the only one.
However, the completion of Yangjiaqiao School was also a masterpiece of the spirit of the teachers and students of the entire loess mine at that time. It is also the crystallization of the hard work of the teachers and students in the entire loess mine at that time to make bricks, burn bricks, transport bricks, and carry floor slabs. If it weren't for the hard work and selfless dedication of thousands of students at that time. In those days when funds were scarce, it was impossible to accomplish such a difficult and arduous task. It will not be able to serve the students of contemporary Zisang.
Since ancient times, loess mines have the habit of attaching importance to education, Yuan Baolin, Peng Tianfang, Peng Changdeng and others founded the "Resource Academy", Liu surnamed Ronghua Ergong ethnic group founded, Liu Yingjue, Liu Tianqing and others taught the "Ronghua Agricultural School", loess mine 20 row industry construction and Liu Yingnan and others taught the "Resource Middle School". All of them show the glorious traditional virtues of the people of the region who respect education, love education, and inherit education.
It is precisely because there are people who attach importance to education and run schools, so before and in the early days of liberation, the loess mines were indeed full of talents, and the pillars were everywhere, until the 60s and 70s, no matter whether you entered a certain department of a county-affiliated unit, and a district and township-level unit, you would encounter the voice of shouting "Wa Xuan", and that kind of intimacy naturally arose. This kind of vernacular is difficult to change, and everyone doesn't need to change it.
Yangjiaqiao was able to upgrade and run a high school, thanks to the careful design of the leaders of the ruling Loess Mining Commune at that time, and also thanks to the full support of the far-sighted people on the education front, as well as the leaders who were engaged in leadership work in the loess mining education system at that time, they made even more contributions. Without their planning and active efforts, it would have been difficult for the heavens to drop pie in the loess mine, and then the loess mine will have a very low illiteracy rate in the whole region in the next few decades, and the school enrollment rate and pass rate can deservedly be among the best in the county.
In September 1977, the past educational forbidden zone was broken and the first college entrance examination since the "Cultural Revolution" movement was held. All the teachers of Yangjiaqiao High School were moved by the wind and devoted themselves wholeheartedly, actively opening cram schools in various disciplines free of charge to cheer for the college entrance examination. More than 5.7 million candidates took part in 1977, and the actual number of students admitted to colleges and secondary schools nationwide was only 273,000, with an admission rate of less than 5 percent. Some towns and villages have empty guns. Although the loess mine examination in 77 years was not ideal, only three students were admitted to the college degree or above, they were Yan Song, Mengyan and Siyu. The secondary school has admitted Weiwei, Junrui, Binghua, Pingjiang, Hualiang and others, among which Yangjiaqiao High School has accounted for many of them. The college entrance examination in '77 belonged to the spring enrollment of '78, and the education reform was carried out in '78 and the autumn admission rules were adopted, so the two admissions were only half a year apart. But you must know that this is a single-plank bridge crowded by tens of millions of people, which determines the outcome of the winner being the king and the defeat being the king.
In terms of time, there was only a little more than half a year between the 1978 college entrance examination and 1977, and 6.1 million people across the country applied for the examination, and 420,000 were admitted. There is another set of figures that can be said to be the largest in the world, that is, in the winter of 1977 and the summer of 1978, China ushered in the largest examination in the history of the world, and the total number of applicants reached 11.86 million. Among them, there are many students who have studied in Yangjiaqiao. The number of admissions in '78 was far ahead of '77.
In the first half of 1978, in order to adapt to the situation, some schools gradually set up remedial classes for the college entrance examination, because the targets of the resumption of enrollment in the college entrance examination were workers, peasants, young intellectuals who had gone to the countryside and returned to their hometowns, demobilized soldiers, cadres, and fresh high school graduates. Their experience is different, the level of knowledge mastery is also different, through the second examination, everyone knows that only the college entrance examination can change fate, if you want to change your fate, only by getting good results in the exam, can you get your wish.
Since the restoration of the college entrance examination system in '77, China's talent training has once again entered the correct track of development. According to relevant data, in the more than 40 years since the resumption of the college entrance examination, more than 40 million students in China have graduated from ordinary colleges and universities, and nearly 10 million graduate students have taken up jobs one after another. They have contributed their due strength to the rise of the Chinese nation.
Because of the emphasis on education, those famous teachers were transferred to the first and second middle schools, Mr. Ou, who played well, was transferred to the second middle school, and Mr. Huang Shenghan was transferred to the first middle school, all of whom were responsible for the mathematics teaching of the graduating classes of the previous college entrance examinations, and Chen Mingqi and Qin Qifu were also transferred to the first middle school. Zeng Xiangmao, Liu Tieyan, He Lianggui, and Chen Yu were all transferred to the No. 2 Middle School, and Xiao Chengji was transferred to the No. 3 Middle School. With her beauty and ability, Li Xiuqin entered the Broadcasting Bureau as an announcer, and she was in the limelight every day. Zeng Xiangbai and Yuan Jianqing also took advantage of this east wind of heavy education, found this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, left the place where they had worked for more than ten years, and transferred back to their dream hometown.
There is such arbitrariness in society, when knowledge is devalued, these masters can be left to fend for themselves. When society needs these people, it is a random order. It was as if they had encountered an amnesty, and they rushed to their new posts. I should also be grateful to Dade for saying that he has done his best and died to show his loyalty.
The establishment of Yangjiaqiao High School can be said to be a lucky one, and an outcast abandoned by the times. When knowledge is devalued, there are many talented teachers, although they have a talent, they can't display it, and they have become a useless teacher who is a scholar, and they have also become a mediocre person who is a monk and hits the clock. But their teaching style and intellectual charm may still have a subtle influence on the audience who has received their education. Because from the three grades in the heyday, many young talents and outstanding students have passed the college entrance examination.
Yangjiaqiao has been opening an "agricultural middle school" since it was opened. With a history of more than 50 years, although its foundation was built from those ancient ancestral tombs, especially at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Principal Yang Wencheng not only coordinated the entire construction progress, but also accepted criticism from students anytime and anywhere. Now that I think about it, it was really difficult for him and his colleagues to take one step at a time and complete such a goal of building the school regardless of honor and disgrace in that difficult period.
Later, it was renamed "Loess Mine No. 1 Middle School", and with the support of Liu Ying, the secretary of the commune, and under the leadership of Xiang Liangyuan and others, the school building was expanded, the playground was repaired, and the mountain runway was built to hold various activities. The school is changing with each passing day, thriving, and has made immortal contributions to the cultivation of talents in the loess mining area.
In the past few decades, the mainland's system lacks long-term planning, and there have been many swings, such as the jurisdiction of the loess mine, there have been many changes, before the liberation of the loess mine, Taoping, Baozhai, magnolia, paulownia all belong to the same Yuexi Township, in the 50s of the 20th century was the loess mining commune. In the 60s, it was divided into loess mine and Taoping commune, in the mid-60s it was merged into loess mining commune, in the 80s it was divided into loess mine and Taoping commune, and in the 90s it was merged into loess mining township, in the late 90s, under the selfish interests of some people, the original Taoping was assigned to Hongyan Town.
With the change of the political system, Yangjiaqiao Middle School has the same fate. In the 60s of the 20th century, it first built an "agricultural middle school", in the 70s it became "Loess Mine No. 1 Middle School", in 80 years it was changed to "Lixi District Middle School", in the 90s it became a county-affiliated "No. 8 Middle School", and now it has become a county-affiliated "Second Vocational Middle School".
The name change was originally a fitting mutation, but after each change, it brought a lot of updates and expansions, and the school buildings became bigger and more advanced, but a strange phenomenon appeared. During the period of the "agricultural middle school", the wooden houses were crowded with more than 300 students. During the period of "Loess Mine No. 1 Middle School", there were more than 300 students in that row of two-story teaching buildings. Now the many classrooms are empty, and the buildings are empty. Due to the fierce competition in education, sometimes only about 100 students remain. The declining birth rate and the flow of students are one reason for the school, but the more important reason is the lack of competitiveness in educational performance. This problem is not only the problem of this school, but also the whole of Suining, the loss of excellent students caused by the low college entrance examination rate, the more excellent students are lost, the better the teachers will be lost, and the lower the college entrance examination rate, this is a vicious circle, and the education system alone is powerless to reverse this vicious circle. It is necessary for county-level leaders to re-establish educational ideas and use a lot of financial resources to retain excellent teachers and students. But who would do such a laborious and thankless task? Who could do it well without a few years of hard work? If this development continues, it may only be people's disappointment.
Loess miners like to call this place "Yangjiaqiao" school, he and a hundreds of years of wooden bridge next to him to name, Du Xi this school like this wooden bridge, generations of prosperity, through the ages, but, the development of things can be as expected, can it?
2019.4.21. Yuwuling Yuanxibu Street