As early as the summer of the 9th year of the Republic of China (1920), Chen Zhuling, chairman of Guangdong Guild Hall, and Mai Ciyin, president of Guangdong Concert, proposed to set up private schools in Tianjin to facilitate the children of rural people to attend school. After several plans, a semi-private primary school was set up with Guangdong Guild Hall as the school site. Because many fellow villagers lived in the French Concession, they bought 3 mu of land in the French Concession to build a school building in the tenth year of the Republic of China (192 1). After moving in in the 11th year of the Republic of China (1922), the school was set up as junior high school and senior high school, and the scale of running a school continued to expand. In the 15th year of the Republic of China (1926), junior high schools were established, in the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937) and in the 37th year of the Republic of China (1938). The first president, Wu Yuanji, was a distinguished person in Guangdong, especially a traveler, and was a juror in the late Qing Dynasty.
In the 21st year of the Republic of China (1932), the school hired Luo Guangdao as the principal. He is a professional with strong patriotism and enthusiastic education. During his tenure, Guangdong Middle School became a complete school in Tianjin with relatively complete teaching facilities for both boys and girls.
After the July 7th Incident in the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937), the Japanese invaders occupied Tianjin. Principal Luo Guangdao took an uncooperative attitude towards the Japanese Puppet, resisted the pro-Japanese instructions issued by the Japanese Puppet Education Department, did not organize students to participate in the so-called "hard labor official service" (Japanese translation is "voluntary labor"), and did not require students to wear "concord clothes" and make use of classrooms and classes. In the 33rd year of the Republic of China (1944), the pseudo-Education Bureau revoked the Guangdong Middle School case, dissolved the school board and removed the principal Luo Guangdao. In the thirty-fourth year of the Republic of China (1945), after Japan surrendered, Luo Guangdao was reinstated as principal. In June of that year, 65438+February, Tianjin students launched the "anti-censorship" struggle. Principal Luo Guangdao sympathizes with and supports the students' political activities, and provides the small auditorium and classroom of the school as the meeting place for the students' representatives in the city. The office of Tianjin Student Union is located in this school. In the thirty-fifth year of the Republic of China (1946), on April 8, the Kuomintang government dismissed Luo Guangdao and died of depression soon.
This school has a long revolutionary tradition. The underground party struggle in Guangdong middle schools started as early as the second domestic revolutionary struggle and took part in the famous "December 29th" movement. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, the school underground party continued to grow and develop, at the same time, it also United the vast number of young people and established underground youth organizations. Underground party organizations lead, organize and launch student movements, participate in patriotic anti-Japanese propaganda activities, organize mass meetings, strike struggles, anti-Japanese national salvation marches and anti-hunger, anti-civil war and anti-persecution movements, participate in the movement of respecting teachers and helping students, and protest against the brutal struggle of the US military. On the eve of liberation, we organized a struggle to meet the liberation of Tianjin and protect the school. During the War of Liberation, there were 20 students (14 men and 6 women) in party member underground of Guangdong Middle School. The underground party branch struggled hard in a dangerous environment, strengthened its own strength, attacked the enemy, carried out a very effective struggle, played an important role in the student movement struggle in our city, and wrote a glorious revolutionary chapter with practical actions.
Guangdong middle schools have their own characteristics: first, selecting high-level teachers; Second, there are strict rules and regulations; Third, pay attention to students' moral education, especially patriotism education; The fourth is to absorb advanced educational concepts, educational contents and teaching methods. In the early years, "Guangdong" was as famous as "Hua Yao" and "Xinhua".
Xie Guoxiang, former director of the Propaganda Department of Tianjin Municipal Committee, and Cui, Party Secretary and Director of Tianjin Education Bureau, are alumni of the school.
1949 when Tianjin was liberated, there were two primary and secondary schools in Guangdong, two for boys and girls. 1950 during the summer vacation, Meng Xueting and Li Peichun were appointed as principals and vice principals by the Municipal Education Bureau. 1952 65438+In February, the Tianjin Municipal People's Government announced the notice of taking over private primary and secondary schools, and Guangdong Middle School was changed from private to public and renamed as Tianjin No.19 Middle School.
Tianjin No.19 Middle School has inherited the school-running tradition of the old "Guangdong Middle School" and has become a new middle school with reasonable architectural layout, rigorous scholarship, excellent school spirit, all-round development and high reputation.
The school motto is: diligence, self-improvement, respect for the public and love for society. That is, diligent study, self-improvement, advocating public morality and loving groups (collective, society and motherland).
During the Cultural Revolution, the 19th Middle School was hit hard. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the school was rejuvenated and entered a new period of development.
The school has 24 classes and more than 700 students. Faculty 144, including 35 senior teachers and 69 intermediate teachers. The school has a teaching building and an experimental building, and a playground of 2,000 square meters. There are six well-equipped physics and chemistry laboratories, which can be used for experiments in both high school and junior high school, a computer room, a language laboratory and a special music and art classroom. Multimedia network classroom, audio-visual studio, audio-visual reference room and electronic lesson preparation room constitute the audio-visual center of the school. The control room of audio-visual education center can play 12 sets of teaching programs to each classroom; Computer-aided instruction has gradually entered the classroom.
In the early 1990s, when the new teaching building of 19 was completed, it was at the peak of junior high school students. According to the instructions of the leaders of the former Heping District Education Bureau, No.19 Middle School suspended high school enrollment and assumed the heavy responsibility of compulsory education. From the height of implementing quality education in an all-round way, school leaders put forward the goal of "facing all students and cultivating' qualifications plus specialties'" (that is, ideological and moral character, basic knowledge of culture, qualified physical and mental health, and expertise in a certain aspect). Following the guiding principle of "China Education Reform and Development Program", primary and secondary schools should turn from "exam-oriented education" to comprehensively improve students' ideological and moral, cultural science, labor skills and physical and mental quality, promote students' lively development, and run their own characteristics. School leaders should fully tap the potential of the old school and run its own characteristics.
Since 1995, the school has set up a "special art class". This is an attempt to implement quality education in an all-round way, cultivate qualified talents with special skills and run a characteristic school. They selected teachers with high political quality and strong professional ability to form a "scientific research team", followed the laws of education and teaching, introduced advanced educational theories and teaching methods, and made breakthrough progress in the experiment of "art special class" in the predicament of no experience to learn from and students' dissatisfaction. In the past five years, art specialty students have participated in various art calligraphy competitions held by the whole country, cities and districts for many times. * * * 303 winners (129 national winners and 60 municipal winners). 1998 to 2000, the graduates of the three "special fine arts classes" were admitted to a higher art school with excellent results in morality, intelligence and physical fitness. In particular, among the 28 graduates of "Special Art Class" in 2000, 2 1 was admitted to Tianjin Fine Arts Middle School and 7 were admitted to Arts and Crafts School. Among them, the top six students in Tianjin Fine Arts Middle School were all taken over by students. This achievement made by the school has been praised by the art world and society as "a number of' dark horses' were killed in the Nineteenth Middle School". The characteristic experience of the 19th Middle School has been highly valued by the relevant leaders in the education sector. Their empirical paper "Taking the Road of Running Schools with Characteristics and Cultivating Talents with" Education and Specialty "was included in the book" Running Schools with Characteristics in Primary and Secondary Schools 100 Case "edited by the Central Institute of Education.
In the long-term education and teaching practice, No.19 Middle School has formed a team of teachers with noble morality, excellent professional skills and unity and forge ahead. Guo, a model worker in the national education front, and Chen Zhaogui, a special model worker in Tianjin, are outstanding representatives of the teachers in this school. 65438-0995, No.19 Middle School was named as the first batch of "compulsory education demonstration schools" by Tianjin Education Bureau. 1996, the Party branch of No.19 Middle School was awarded the title of "Advanced Party Branch" by the Education Bureau Committee of Heping District, Tianjin. In the same year, Tianjin Heping District Education Bureau Committee, Heping District Education Bureau and Heping District Teacher Award Foundation jointly awarded the honorary title of "Love your post and dedication to your life".
Comrade Tao Huang, the current principal and secretary of the school party branch, is an excellent moral education worker and educator at the municipal level. Comrade Tao Huang is full of pioneering spirit. Under his leadership, the school's leading bodies are United, pioneering and enterprising, and education and teaching have made unprecedented achievements.
At the arrival of the new millennium, Tianjin No.19 Middle School has entered a new period of development. It is the school's goal to build a high-level new middle school and revitalize the old school.