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"10,000 people sending the test" is an amazing scene that will appear in the examination delivery activities organized by Maotanchang during the college entrance examination season every year.
This year, not only the police car opened the road, but also the "91666" license plate as the first car, leading a convoy of 88 buses to the battlefield of the college entrance examination in the earnest wishes of the surrounding parents and teachers.
Although it is exciting, whenever people mention Maotan Factory, they will talk about its title of "Asia's largest college entrance examination factory".
Is the existence of Maotanchang reasonable?
Everything "serves" the college entrance examination
"In 2024, the number of applicants for the national college entrance examination will be 13.42 million, an increase of 510,000 over last year, and a new high in the number of people taking the college entrance examination in previous years......"
However, compared with the number of admissions to colleges and universities across the country, it is the old saying "thousands of troops cross a single-plank bridge".
Last year, there were 12.91 million students in the college entrance examination, while the number of students admitted to "985 universities" was about 180,000, with an online rate of 1.5%, and the number of students admitted to "211 universities" was about 900,000, with an online rate of 7%.
The online rate of one book is only about 22%.
The above three grades of colleges and universities have placed the expectation that most students will be on the list even if they have squeezed their heads, and the "two colleges" below have schools, but under the social status quo of "merit-based admission", it means that there are fewer opportunities to choose from in the future.
Therefore, how to get more and better opportunities for the students of Guangzhou University can only desperately go upstream.
Maotanchang Middle School exists to meet such needs.
Maotanchang Middle School is located in the small town of Maotanchang in the Dabie Mountains of Anhui Province.
Different from other small town high schools, all the buildings and environments in Maotan Town exist for this middle school.
There are no billiard halls, no electronic game halls, no Internet cafes, except for the business places where clothing, food, housing and transportation provide necessary survival needs, the rest are related to the college entrance examination.
Like the "Champion Supermarket", "Learning Star Bookstore" and so on.
In 1939, the predecessor of Maotanchang Middle School, "Anhui Provincial Third Temporary Middle School", was established, and survived the war. Although it does not have a historical background of 100 years of existence, no one could have imagined that it would make a name for itself in modern society.
Everything starts in 2007, when CCTV reported for the first time the spectacular situation of "Maotanchang 10,000 people sent to the exam", and also pushed it to the "altar".
And it does deserve a high reputation from the outside world.
Since 2014, the number of undergraduate students in Maotanchang Middle School has exceeded 10,000 for 9 consecutive years, and the online rate of one class has remained above half all year round.
However, behind the fruits, there are thousands of days and nights that have not stopped.
Wake up at 6 o'clock, read and exercise early at 6:30, have breakfast and fetch water after 1 hour, take four classes, eat and break at noon from 11:40 to 13:40, self-study for 1 hour, start three classes in the afternoon, half an hour of dinner time after 5:15, and then take four more classes, until 10:50 p.m., end the day's trip.
This is just the schedule set by the school. In Maotanchang Middle School, if students want to achieve better results, they can only use all the compressible time such as eating and resting like squeezing a sponge, and study hard.
There was a video on the Internet in which a foreigner looked at the school that was still lit up at 9 o'clock in the evening and asked suspiciously: "What is that place?" ”
The person next to him replied, "Maybe it's the school!" ”
"What school will keep students in school at night?"
"High school!"
Throughout the conversation, the foreigner's tone was full of shock. However, for Chinese college entrance examination students, it is just the norm, and in Maotanchang Middle School, it is not worth mentioning.
Because the students of Maotanchang are basically people who have experienced a college entrance examination, that is, "repeat students". Some of them did not do well in the exam, and some of them had poor grades, and they pinned their "admission to a good university" on the hard work again.
Moreover, behind the students here are parents who are exhausted.
In the 2017 enrollment season, Maotanchang Middle School announced the school's fee standard.
The last college entrance examination score was very high, and the minimum tuition fee was less than 3,000 yuan, and the highest score was about 50,000 yuan.
Even so, there are still students from other places rushing to come. For the safety of their children, most parents choose to accompany them to school and live in a small house with a rent of tens of thousands of yuan a year and less than 20 square meters.
Therefore, there are about 30,000 people in the town, and nearly 8,000 households are accompanied.
A reporter once interviewed these accompanying parents: "Isn't it distressing to send your children here?" ”
"If you don't suffer from learning now, you will have to suffer from society in the future!"
In addition to the three meals a day and study around their children, parents do part-time work.
The factories here don't have to worry about less money and more people to do, because there are more accompanying parents who want to earn extra money.
It's not just physical exertion, it's more about the stress in the heart. Because parents never want to mention anything about the college entrance examination.
If a child has good grades or physical problems, they will become irresponsible parents and even be blamed.
It is no exaggeration to say that the students and parents of Maotanchang Middle School have gambled almost everything in order to change their fate.
Relying on the hope of thousands of families, Maotanchang Middle School has also been "deified".
Someone said: "Stepping into Maotanchang Middle School is equivalent to stepping into the door of a college with one leg." ”
Some people disagree: "Maotanchang Middle School is the Foxconn of the college entrance examination." ”
But for Maotanchang Middle School, the reputation is insignificant.
Desire to succeed
In recent years, the reputation of Chinese-style education has declined rapidly.
Some people say that "the top students under the college entrance examination mechanism are just machines that can do questions"; "There is no future for small-town problem-solvers"......
The person who said these words definitely did not yearn for water in the desert, eager to pass the college entrance examination.
In Maotanchang Middle School, there are many fresh graduates with mediocre grades and repeaters who failed the college entrance examination, and their commonality is that they have an ordinary family background and want to rely on the college entrance examination to change their fate, or in other words, to fight for a better future life than the present.
A netizen who claimed to be a graduate of Maotanchang Middle School once said:
"I never thought that I would study hard so that one day I could talk and laugh with you at Starbucks in Lujiazui, nor did I dare to hope that one day I could stand in front of a group of venture capitalists and talk about the Internet. All I thought was that I could get out of the country, listen to it, see your bustling world, and be able to afford a McDonald's meal on a date with a girl in the city. ”
In addition to getting good results in the college entrance examination, they have no better chance of getting a good one.
Not only Maotanchang Middle School, but also Hengshui Middle School in Hebei Province, and Principal Zhang Guimei's Girls' Middle School.
They can't assert that the future will be good, but they can be sure that every drop of sweat left for the college entrance examination and every question done has paved the way to success.
As bystanders, they are least qualified to ridicule and denigrate students, parents, and teachers who have worked hard.
The 2024 college entrance examination is coming, and I hope that thousands of students will adjust their mentality, believe in themselves, and strive to perform extraordinarily!
Resources:
Farmer's Daily: 2024-11-06: Accompany "Maotanchang"
Fuyang Public Network: 2024-06-05: On June 5, dozens of buses from Maotanchang Middle School drove out of the mountains carrying college entrance examination students, and 10,000 parents saw off in the rain, with the license plate of the first car: 91666, and the driver's surname was Ma: Ma to Success. #金榜题名 #高考