However, for the post-80s generation, the most popular middle school was not the gentleman above, but my alma mater Huanggang Middle School.
More than ten years ago, I just went to college. My classmates heard that I am from Huanggang City, Hubei Province. Generally, the expression suddenly changes, and the mouth, nose and eyes expand at the same time, just like being electrocuted. It took me a long time to say the next sentence: You are not from the legendary Huanggang Middle School, are you?
I calmly replied, a little proud, yes, I am a student of Huanggang Middle School.
I am a little proud that the reputation of my alma mater has spread all over the country at that time when people all over the country knew the world through newspapers and television.
However, my classmate's next sentence made me fall to the bottom: I often made your "Huanggang Secret Book" in high school, which is really fucking difficult. I heard that you all think it is extremely simple?
As a student in Huanggang, I naturally know all the details of the "Huanggang Secret Book Volume", which is nothing more than a bunch of mercenary people piecing together the test questions at random, and then rubbing the signboard of their alma mater to swindle everywhere. The alma mater has always been cautious about publishing supplementary teaching materials. How can the reputation saved by generations of teachers and students who diligently teach and educate people be so wasted! But after all, the influence is too great, and students from other provinces are convinced of this and take it for granted that Huanggang Mijuan comes from Huanggang Middle School.
This is Gui Li, but Li Kui jy is very famous. Students all over the country admire Huanggang Middle School from a fake prize, which is ridiculous!
In Huanggang, a prefecture-level city with poor economy in the central region, Huanggang Middle School can rise against the trend, thanks to the local cultural atmosphere of respecting teachers and attaching importance to education, the spirit of diligence and enterprising in the past 100 years, and the grasp of historical opportunities.
The ultimate battle of exam-oriented education in China is the college entrance examination, and the results of the college entrance examination are the touchstone for testing everything. But realistically speaking, for so many years, Huanggang Middle School's college entrance examination scores are not among the top few in the province, and it is good to be in the top eight. The last time HZ Middle School won the top spot in the college entrance examination was more than 30 years ago.
So why is Huanggang Middle School famous at home and abroad?
1990, two senior three students from Huanggang Middle School won the gold medal and silver medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad, which caused a sensation throughout the country. Among them, the gold medal winner has won the laurel twice, and once in the second year of high school. What a rare genius. At that time, China had participated in two sports Olympic Games, and a gold medal was enough to excite the people of the whole country.
Huanggang Middle School has always been regarded as a township middle school because of its narrow location. Taking this opportunity, Huanggang Middle School entered the ranks of national key middle schools, and in the next ten years, it explored a set of methods and systems to train top students in international competitions, winning gold and silver for the country many times.
The alma mater has repeatedly created miracles with poor and weak teachers, which cannot but impress the domestic education sector. It can be said that the Olympic gold medal opened the road to the rise of the alma mater.
Thanks to the light of Huanggang Middle School, Huanggang has become a golden signboard of education, and all teaching AIDS stained with these two words are hot as soon as they are sold. At that time, my headmaster joked that I didn't know about the official university until I arrived in Beijing, and I didn't know about it until I arrived in Guangdong, and I didn't know about the college entrance examination until Huanggang.
By 2000, Huanggang Middle School had become an important force affecting the direction of college entrance examination. I saw with my own eyes that even a prestigious school like the High School Attached to the National People's Congress should learn from her papers.
"Zuo Zhuan" said that it is here and it is here.
Starting from 20 14, the state education commission stipulated that the results of the Olympic Games were no longer a necessary condition for sending them to universities, so the results of the Olympic Games were no longer as concerned as before. At the same time, the national college entrance examination reform is also deepening year by year, and provinces often make their own propositions. The influence of Huanggang Middle School on the proposition of college entrance examination is gradually weakening. What's more, students with superior family circumstances in first-tier cities are fully capable of directly surpassing the college entrance examination and applying for famous foreign universities. For many students, the college entrance examination has become one of the options, and it is no longer a necessary wooden bridge.
For example, milk tea MM's alma mater, Nanjing Foreign Language School, the leading famous school in Jiangsu Province, has only a small number of graduates attending domestic universities.
While the aura of Olympic Games and college entrance examination faded, the internal and external environment of Huanggang Middle School also tended to deteriorate.
Source of students
For middle schools, the importance of high-quality students is unparalleled, which is simply the lifeline. In the past, in order to ensure the source of students, Huanggang Municipal Education Commission forced the students with the best results in junior high school and junior high school to be included in junior high school and senior high school.
In all fairness, this forced admission is unfair to other schools. In the modern society that emphasizes fairness and justice, no matter how strong or weak the teachers are, every school would rather lose in the brutal competition than be discriminated by the policy like an illegitimate child and be inferior.
As a result, there are policies on the top and countermeasures on the bottom, and the middle schools in the lower districts and counties of Huanggang City have also begun to go their own way. Every year, top students will be stopped before they are admitted to high school, and they will be attracted to study in County No.1 Middle School by playing hometown cards, discount cards and other preferential conditions. Even some key middle schools in Wuhan, the provincial capital, have reached out to Huanggang to grab students.
High-quality students are slowly losing.
Before I went to middle school, there was such a hidden rule in Huanggang Middle School enrollment: for example, there were 200 students enrolled in one session, of which only about 100 was accepted. If the score of the other half is not enough, you can find a relationship, pay the sponsorship fee and get the admission qualification. How much to pay depends on the score from the admission line. Before 2000, it was 3 thousand to tens of thousands, and that era was not a decimal. The reason is still insufficient funds. Can you imagine that Beijing No.4 Middle School can get in by paying money?
This situation will naturally cast a negative shadow on the young minds of students and greatly reduce the reputation of the school.
Under the pressure of internal and external speculation, the quality of students in Huanggang Middle School is declining.
teacher
So are teachers, teachers and resources. Huanggang itself is a poor place, and only a little resources have been absorbed by the surrounding Wuhan. Excellent teachers grow up little by little, and are hired to Wuhan with high salary, even as far as the north. The signboard of Huanggang Middle School adds a lot to their job search.
At school, due to lack of funds, the teachers in Huanggang Middle School were famous, but it was difficult to hide the embarrassment of life. Many teachers don't get full pay.
Poor economic conditions have also spawned some bad habits. Some teachers usually take the opportunity to ask the parents of rich and powerful students, such as using the car, using money, solving their employment and so on. At that time, there was still some influence at home, so it was inevitable to help the teacher. Later, my mother told me that in the past six years, I have contacted countless middle school teachers, and only the head teacher in high school has never asked for benefits.
From the past to the present, the shortage of funds has always been a set of shackles that restrict the development of the alma mater. Later, I went to Beijing to work and live. Looking at Niu Xiaohong's hardware facilities and exchange activities in Europe and America, I deeply felt that my alma mater was using millet and rifles to fight against aircraft cannons.
Under the general trend of national economic development, talents and resources are desperately concentrated in first-and second-tier cities, and the decline of middle schools in the mainland is inevitable. But some people will ask, why is Hengshui No.2 Middle School a poor school, but it can rise?
This is where I want to thank my alma mater.
When it comes to Huanggang or Hengshui, everyone will think of "fascist" management and hard work. But as a person who has studied in Huanggang Middle School for six years, I will never admit that my alma mater is a faithful executor of exam-oriented education. On the contrary, the alma mater is a rare school with a bottom line for teaching and educating people.
All previous school leaders have adhered to the concept of all-round development of morality, intelligence and physique, and have never regarded students as machines to get high marks. With limited funds, the school insists on holding various activities to enrich students' extracurricular life. Many famous teachers personally lead students to expand after class and apply what they have learned to practice. Or hold a forum to let students know about world events and future trends. Even in the sprint stage of the college entrance examination, students will not only take half a day off a week.
Today, with the increasing utilitarianism, the leaders and teachers of Huanggang Middle School still stick to their beliefs and are highly responsible for the students' future, which is commendable.
It's a good thing that my alma mater stepped down from the altar. In my opinion, the first thing a school should do is to teach and educate people. As for whether it is a top 100 school, it is a thing apart. Huanggang Middle School will always be the pride of Huanggang students and the first stop for them to become adults.