This factor is that Xianju Middle School was identified as a provincial key middle school in 198 1. Xianju County Education Records said that after Zhong Xian was identified as a provincial key middle school, it shouldered the dual tasks of "sending qualified freshmen to colleges and universities and sending excellent labor reserve forces to the society".
According to this requirement, in line with the principle of ensuring key points, the county's policies on capital investment, teachers and students began to tilt towards Xianju Middle School.
To ensure the development of key middle schools, first of all, we need to transfer outstanding teachers from the county to enrich the teaching staff of Xianju Middle School. Hengxi Middle School, which has gathered a large number of outstanding teachers, naturally bears the brunt.
Fang Ronghuan, the old headmaster, said that transferring a good teacher is tantamount to "taking a salary at the bottom" for Hengxi Middle School. Therefore, when the county had the idea of supporting the development of immortals and began to transfer teachers horizontally, it resolutely resisted. He said: "At that time, the county education commission held relevant meetings, and I did not attend. The leaders of the Education Committee had no choice but to rush to Hengxi to mobilize me to go to the meeting. " 1984, in order to keep a good teacher, Fang Ronghuan voluntarily gave up the position of principal and let that teacher be the principal.
But this kind of "struggle" obviously didn't play any role-1981year later, more than 10 outstanding teachers in Hengxi Middle School were transferred to the county town every year, or enriched to Xianju Middle School, or transferred to the teaching and research section of the county education commission. The teacher who became the principal finally went to town.
This reason, coupled with the retirement of a group of teaching backbones, directly leads to the decline of teaching quality in Hengxi Middle School. According to Fang Ronghuan, Hengxi Middle School surpassed Xianju Middle School in college entrance examination scores of 1982 and 1983. However, since then, the school's teaching performance has declined year by year.
In order to ensure the enrollment rate of key middle schools, the county has also determined a policy that every year, freshmen will be given priority by Xianju Middle School according to the results of the senior high school entrance examination. In other words, Hengxi Middle School and other high schools in the county can only recruit students from Xianju Middle School. In this way, the students in Hengxi Middle School are obviously at a disadvantage from the starting point.
In addition, in the capital investment of school hardware facilities, the county also focuses on Xianju Middle School. Wang told reporters that except for the experimental building in Hengxi Middle School in 1987, the county's investment in hardware facilities in Hengzhong was basically zero until 1997. In the same period, the county invested millions of yuan in Zhong Xian every year.
The loss of excellent teachers, the recruitment of excellent students by immortals and the lack of government funds all restrict the better development of Hengxi Middle School, which eventually leads to the gradual widening of its distance from Xianju Middle School until it cannot compete at all.
The dazzling aura that once enveloped Hengxi Middle School is also fading year by year.
The change of students' sources eventually turned into difficulties in enrolling students.
If the county's key support for the development of Xianju Middle School only weakens the competitiveness of Hengxi Middle School, then the change of students brought by various factors will undoubtedly hurt the development of Hengxi Middle School.
The first factor is that 1995, the middle school of Hengxi Middle School stopped enrolling students, and the school lacked an important source of high school freshmen.
The second factor is that with the adjustment of the national development education policy, 1997, a private high school appeared in Xianju, namely Hongda Middle School, which began to recruit students for the whole county. Because the school is located in the county seat, it has obvious advantages over Hengxi Middle School in enrollment.
The third factor is the "universal high school" proposed by the state. According to this requirement, the county decided to expand the enrollment scale of Xianju Middle School. 200 1, Baita Middle School and Chengfeng Middle School located in the urban area resumed high school enrollment.
The fourth factor is the introduction of the national policy of vigorously developing vocational high school education, and a large number of junior high school graduates enter vocational high schools.
As a result, the enrollment situation of Hengxi Middle School is getting worse and worse, and finally it falls into the dilemma of "difficult enrollment".
Wang explained this problem with a set of data: this year, the high school admission score of Xianju Middle School is about 680 points, and the scores of Chengfeng Middle School and Hongda Middle School are all above 600 points. Because Xianju Middle School is the provincial key middle school with the strongest comprehensive strength in the county, students who want to enroll in this school are flocking to it. Many parents will do everything possible to let their children study in the bell string, spending thousands of dollars. Chengfeng Middle School and Hongda Middle School have become the second choice for parents and students because of their geographical advantages, hardware facilities and teachers, and have completed enrollment as planned. The score of Hengxi Middle School is 430, even if it is so low, I originally wanted to recruit 8 freshmen, but I failed to complete the enrollment plan.
"At the time of enrollment, the faculty and staff of our school went around to promote horizontal middle schools to students and parents, but the effect was not obvious. Later, in the operation, we lowered the admission threshold and recruited more than 70 freshmen below 430 points, and still only recruited 7 classes. " Wang said to him.
Song, secretary of the Party branch of Hengxi Middle School, said with great anxiety that the current fact is that Hengxi Middle School can recruit very few outstanding students every year. These students are generally from poor families, who can't reach the admission line of Xianju Middle School, and their families can't afford the high school selection fee.
Step by step into a vicious circle
The difficulty in enrolling students highlights such an embarrassing reality: the charm of Hengxi Middle School is gone forever.
What is even more frightening is that the "difficulty in enrolling students" has gradually plunged Hengxi Middle School into a vicious circle.
Wang described the dilemma faced by the school as follows: unable to recruit enough new students-the tuition fees charged are only enough to maintain the normal expenses of the school-unable to reward excellent teachers and invest in the construction of school hardware facilities-unable to control the loss of excellent teachers-the low pass rate of the college entrance examination-unattractive to parents and students-unable to recruit enough new students.
In the past, when there was junior high school, Hengxi Middle School received some financial subsidies from the province every year, and our high school students were also guaranteed. Schools can keep some money for further development every year.
After the suspension of junior high school recruitment, the enrollment situation is getting worse year by year, and now the school's annual tuition income can only barely maintain normal operation.
Because there is no money, Hengxi Middle School has to reduce the college entrance examination award funds year by year. In 200 1 year, the college entrance examination reward expenditure was 48,000 yuan, which decreased to 38,000 yuan in 2002 and only 32,000 yuan this year, with an average of less than 2,000 yuan for each senior three teacher.
So is the reward for freshmen. The school has an entrance award every year, and the freshmen with the highest scores in the senior high school entrance examination can get a reward of 1000 yuan. However, the total amount of this award is several thousand yuan, which can't stimulate school enrollment at all.
Similarly, because there is no money, the school gives little welfare to the faculty every year. As teachers, the annual income of teachers in Hengxi Middle School is about 10,000 yuan worse than that of teachers in county middle schools.
In recent years, the school has transferred seven or eight teaching backbones every year. "There are two main reasons. First, the treatment in Hengzhong is lower than that in the county; The second is to think for the children and hope that the children can receive education in the county, because the county has gathered the best educational resources in the county. " Wang said to him.
In the three years since 2003, the undergraduate and key rate of students taking the college entrance examination in Hengxi Middle School is far lower than that in Xianju Middle School. Even compared with Chengfeng Middle School and Hongda Middle School, it is far less than the former.
Famous schools may just "rot".
"If the county does not support the development of Hengzhong, this famous school in Hengzhong may rot year after year." Song, secretary of the Party branch of Hengxi Middle School, thinks so.
In fact, as the main leaders of the school, President Wang and Party branch secretary Song have always wanted to run the school well and made a lot of efforts to this end.
With the efforts of Wang and others, during the county's "two sessions" in 200 1 year, the county government promised to invest 1.5 million yuan in Hengxi Middle School for three consecutive years to support its development.
By 2004, the county promised 4.5 million yuan to support all funds in place. Wang said that with this 4.5 million yuan, the county has invested more than 5.5 million yuan in Hengxi Middle School since 1997.
"It should be said that in recent years, the county party Committee, the county government and the county education bureau have been very concerned about the development of Hengzhong." Wang said to him.
However, although this money has solved some urgent needs of the school, there is still a big gap with the investment of the school in the same period-since 1997, the total investment of Hengxi Middle School in expanding campus, building new teaching buildings, library building, school tap water project, playground expansion, student apartments, multimedia and equipment has been1kloc-0/.
At present, Hengxi Middle School has a debt of 3.965 million yuan, including 900,000 yuan in bank loans, and the rest is raised by teachers themselves. Every year, the school has to pay nearly 400,000 interest.
During the county's "two sessions" this year, Hengxi Middle School asked the county for a discount, and there has been no reply so far.
The debt of nearly 4 million yuan is undoubtedly a heavy burden for Hengxi Middle School. As mentioned earlier, because of the poor enrollment situation, the tuition fees charged by the school every year can only be barely equal to the school's expenses. The expenses mentioned here include the interest on the debt of nearly 400,000 yuan.
Therefore, both Wang and Song said that the school urgently needed new investment in the county. Otherwise, it will still be difficult for the school to achieve new development.
The reporter learned that although the source of students is not ideal, Hengxi Middle School still strives to cultivate students with all-round development in morality, intelligence and physical education. In recent years, the school has intensified its efforts to strengthen students' moral education, with remarkable results. For example, Song said that few students go to "Internet cafes". This year, Young Heroes Week, which gave his life to save lives and touched the whole province, is a student in Class 5, Grade 1 of this school.
At the same time, the school pays close attention to study and examination discipline. So students learn more realistically. Song said that after three years of high school study, the graduates of Hengxi Middle School have made obvious progress in academic performance and comprehensive quality compared with the graduates of the same schools in the county.
Therefore, although the county has initially determined that the development direction of Hengxi Middle School, Baita Middle School and Xiazhong Middle School is a comprehensive high school with both ordinary high schools and vocational high schools, Wang and Song are obviously "unwilling" because they are confident that Hengxi Middle School has every reason to reproduce its former glory.
"With the current teaching resources in balance and a little support, it can completely meet the requirements of provincial key middle schools. From other parts of the city, it is quite common for a county (city, district) to have two key middle schools, at least 1 is located in rural areas, such as Jinqing Middle School in Luqiao and Xinhe Middle School in Wenling. If the county makes full use of the existing educational resources, it will also support Hengzhong to become a provincial focus and form a competitive situation with Xianju Middle School, which will not only promote the development of Hengzhong, but also promote the better development of high school education in the county. " At the end of the interview, Song said this.
There are few students studying Japanese in Hengxi Middle School, which is a feature. Students with poor English develop well. Hengxi Middle School is also the only school in Xianju that is jointly enrolled by ordinary high schools and vocational high schools. Moreover, the school is in a living environment with good air. It can be said that it is the best among all ordinary high schools in Xianju. Junior high school graduates from the 20th14th session and junior high school graduates from the 20th13rd and 20th12nd sessions enjoy the new canteen.
In the near future, it is inevitable to learn better and better in Hengxi. The construction of greenway and the scenery of Caoyangshan will bring a better tomorrow to Hengxi Middle School. With the emergence of "Five Rivers Governing Together", the streams in the campus of Hengxi Middle School will also be well improved. Here, students are basically unaffected by the outside world (this is compared with other ordinary high schools, but it does not mean that they are absolutely isolated from the world. )