After the liberation of Huangmei County, there are many things to do, but education is the focus of the county magistrate Qiong Cai and the county party committee. Therefore, primary education has developed rapidly. Two years before liberation, the "persuasion system" was implemented. It was Zhao, the principal of Xunian Central Primary School, who advised me to study. It is said that there were 1200 primary school graduates in this county in 953. The county party committee and Huangmei Middle School did their best to build three bungalow classrooms and decided to recruit 150 junior high school students that year. There are 1000 primary school graduates who can't go to school normally and have no jobs, which has become a prominent social problem in Huangmei County.
Therefore, the county party Committee decided to solve the problem of "only reading high" ideologically and carry out large-scale "labor education" throughout the county. Mobilize primary school graduates to "aspire to return to their hometowns to farm". The momentum is as great as 1968, when Chairman Mao called for "educated youth to go to the countryside and receive re-education for poor middle peasants", which is irreversible.
I am a cadre of the Young Pioneers Brigade in a primary school, assisting counselors to publicize "labor education". Every day after school, I shouted slogans and propaganda articles such as "glorious work" to the villagers through the radio, and I was prepared to respond to the party's call to "return to my hometown to farm".
These propaganda have brought great mental pressure and confusion to the fresh graduates and parents of primary schools. What should I do?
Someone organized a cram school before the middle school entrance examination, and asked the teacher to attend classes at his own expense, while I worked in the fields all day.
My parents, like people in society, are "inferior in everything, but high in reading". One day, I found that I didn't go to school to review for the exam and mistakenly thought I was playing truant. At the dinner table, my father raised his hand and hit me, and I cried. I grabbed my father's beaten hand and cried and said, how much money, how many meters, bedding, mosquito nets and so on. Apart from a few liters of rice, my family has no daily necessities. I know you're doing me good, but I'm afraid I won't spend money for nothing. Besides, it's so hot, it's 38 degrees every day, and there are many valleys to cut at home. My younger brother is young and his feet are covered, so he can't help you. I can't help you unless I help you. I sympathize with you and pity you. I didn't go. The whole family cried sadly.
Parents' feelings are understandable. Like most farmers, this concept of "glorious labor" is difficult to make sense in my family.
The day before the senior high school entrance examination, I didn't have a rest, but I was desperately cutting mid-season rice and picking up rice in the field. It's already past five in the afternoon. After eating the leftovers fried by my grandmother, I took some books to the county seat and stayed at my relatives' house for one night so that I could enter the examination room on time the next day. I want to review well at night, so I lit a candle and fell asleep with a book in my hand. I woke up the next morning with my book in my hand. Do you think it is difficult for me to get into Huangmei County Middle School?
I took four courses. After the exam, I feel fine. There is no problem with the basic knowledge of Chinese, but the difference lies in the composition part. The arithmetic estimate is 100 point; Common sense (politics, history, nature, geography) is ok; Excellent oral test (excellent, good, good). When taking the oral exam, do it alone. Examiners are Cheng Daoheng, an authoritative Chinese teacher in Huangmei County Middle School, and Xu Jiarang, a math teacher. At that time, after I entered and sat down, Teacher Cheng asked me, "Why do you want to study?" ? I blurted out, "I want to be a tractor driver." The teacher said: Good! So I remembered a word "excellent". Just let me quit the examination room. I'm surprised. Is it that simple?
To think of it, my answer is very pertinent, just in line with the educational idea of "aiming at agriculture". I was influenced by the words "female tractor driver" in the fifth grade textbook. I have been farming for two years and deeply feel the suffering of farmers. Ever since I read this text, I have been longing for one day to sit on a tractor and plow. That would be great, which was my greatest ideal in those days. This answer was not invented at the last minute.
Ten days later, Huangmei County Junior High School 1953 Autumn Admissions Notice was published. This list was written in print by calligrapher Yue Shijie. The red paper is written straight, with five names in each line, arranged from high score to low score. First place Zhang, second place Ouyang Fang, third place Mao Hanhua ... 25th place Tian Xijin, 26th place in Jinniu, ...
In this test that determines a person's fate, I won! I was admitted to the county middle school, which made my parents very happy, and my fate began to turn from here.