In Anji Economic Development Zone, Zhejiang Province, the magnificent and beautiful campus of Zhejiang Yuxiang Foreign Languages Institute looks deserted. Three years later, this once bustling key project in Zhejiang Province is now left out in the autumn sunshine.
This college was founded on the basis of the development of Anji Shangshu private high school. Its founder, Tang, is currently a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Political Consultative Conference, a liaison member of the Democratic Progressive Party Central Committee, a vice president of Zhejiang Private Education Association, a principal of Zhejiang Anji Shangshu Private High School, and a chairman of Shangshu Education Group. He has successively won the titles of "The Cover Person of 2 1 Century", "The Reformer of China in the New Century", "The Top Ten Outstanding Persons of National Private Education" and "The World Successful Person". Anji Shangshu Private High School, founded by him, was awarded the title of "Excellent Private School in Zhejiang Province" by the Zhejiang Provincial People's Government and evaluated as a national key vocational school by the Ministry of Education.
200 1 Zhejiang yuxiang foreign languages college was approved as a key project in Zhejiang province, with an investment of1.200 million yuan. In 2002, it was approved by the Provincial Department of Education as a pilot school for higher education diploma examination and began to enroll students. In the past three years, the school has developed rapidly, enrolling more than 500 students every year, and the school is thriving.
Just as Tang was about to make a big splash, in 2005, the Ministry of Education decided to stop enrolling students in the higher education diploma examination in colleges, which almost knocked him down.
This private college has been developing vigorously for three years, but due to policy reasons, it has stopped enrolling students, and most of the buildings are idle, with poor prospects. Since the establishment of 1984 Anji Shangshu Private High School, Tang has experienced numerous ups and downs, and all the difficulties have been overcome by him. This time, can he overcome this difficulty?
One afternoon in the golden autumn of 65438+2008 10, Tang sat in his office in the development zone of Anji County, Zhejiang Province, looking back on his bumpy experience in running private education for more than 20 years. The development history of the past 20 years is a pioneering history of hard struggle, and also a history of struggle for existence. With unswerving and tenacious struggle, Tang persisted in the predicament to this day.
1984, the sixth year after the reform and opening up. Shangshu Township in Anji County, like other rural areas in China, began to glow with vitality. Shangshu farmers who are gradually getting rid of poverty are eager for the next generation to receive better education.
But when Anji graduated from junior high school, the enrollment rate was only about 30%. Every year, more than 2000 junior high school students drop out of school after graduation. The dropout of more than 2,000 students is the ardent hope of more than 2,000 families.
The day when the annual list is announced is "Black July" for most of them. 1984, another black July has arrived. ...
One night, several parents who failed in the class crowded into Tangjiali, who was teaching in Shangshu Township Middle School at that time, and put forward bluntly: "Old Tang, so many children can't study now. You are very active. Running a school! "
Tang, who was determined to devote his life to education, was very moved: "Only by running a good school can more children continue to study."
He didn't make a statement on the spot because he knew the difficulty of running a school. School buildings, teachers and teaching facilities will only be a mirage without the support of huge funds. More importantly, however, does the policy allow private schools?
In the middle of the night, the businessman couldn't sleep, so he simply turned on the light to draft the application report for running a school.
He didn't realize that what he wrote would become a chapter in the history of education in new China, and his behavior would be criticized by some people, admired by later generations and praised by students. He didn't realize how much pressure it would bring him and how much he would pay for it. From then on, he will fall into a desperate predicament.
The report was approved by the county education bureau. Excited, he needs to calmly face practical difficulties such as classrooms, equipment and teachers, but eager parents ask him to do it at once. Tang understood the feelings of students and parents and began to choose a site for the school. Finally, I chose an old warehouse in a factory as a classroom and moved the desks and chairs of my friends into the classroom. Then he went to several public middle schools in Anji and hired six teachers to take part-time classes at the school.
On September 1984 and 1, Anji Shangshu Private High School, the first private high school in China, opened in a remote mountain village in northern Zhejiang. 60 students returned to the classroom from the ridge to form an agricultural vocational class. At this time, Tang's face was dark and thin, and his weight was lighter than that of the first half of the year 17 kg.
Since it is a school, it can't always be in the warehouse. Tang discussed with his wife and decided to build a school building on his own land as the foundation of his new house.
/kloc-in the winter of 0/984, a 690-square-meter three-story building on the Tang family reservation was under intense preparation. At this time, Tang's accumulated deposits for many years totaled only 10,000 yuan. No way, Tang got on his 28-inch bike called "old tank" and begged everywhere. Villagers and friends all know him, and know that he runs a private high school for his children in Shangshu Township, and soon borrowed more than 30,000 yuan. In addition to lending him 1 10,000 yuan in cash, the village committee of Yaocun in this county also provided 3 wagons of timber at preferential prices. Shanyangwu Cement Plant also extended a helping hand, providing more than 20 tons of cement and 30,000 carbonized bricks at preferential prices.
I can't forget those dark nights. Don followed the tractor to the mountains hundreds of miles away to transport wood. In order to save loading and unloading fees, he worked as a loader himself. When the last batch of wood was put back from a distance, it was already New Year's Eve. At this time, there was no one on the street, firecrackers in the night sky were blown to pieces, and people gathered at home to eat New Year's Eve.
When Tang finally dragged his tired body into the house, there were bowls of home-cooked food on the dining table, and the two children were still wearing old clothes. His wife couldn't help turning her back and her eyes were wet. But these are nothing compared with the bumps in the future.
Half a year after the start of school, Tang was informed that private school students could not take the junior high school entrance examination of 1985, which was a bolt from the blue.
Tang felt deeply wronged. Is there any reason not to go to school? Private schools don't need a penny of government funds to share the problem of insufficient educational resources for the government. Why don't they let exams stop them from entering colleges and universities? With the report, Tang got on his bike and went straight to the county seat 15 kilometers away. He found the Admissions Office of the County Education Bureau and wanted to give the report to the director of the Admissions Office in person, but the director was soon "absent".
The real reason for "absence" is that the director doesn't want to see him.
Hit the wall again and again, complain again and again. However, the faint hope gradually turned into despair.
However, suddenly, when the college entrance examination was approaching, Tang received a phone call from the county admissions office. The information on the phone is excellent: the Education Bureau agreed to the entrance examination for our students! When I got a call from Tang, I froze. It turned out that the leaders in charge of education in the county expressed deep sympathy after learning about Tang's school-running actions and difficulties, so they greeted the Education Bureau, and Tang saved his life.
1985, Shangshu private high school, which was composed of former agricultural classes, was officially listed. 1988, the first ordinary senior high school students took the senior high school entrance examination, 7 students were admitted to universities, and some were admitted to technical secondary schools. The average score of college entrance examination is only 0. 1 point lower than that of public key middle schools. As soon as the news came out, they became famous in the countryside.
However, the sunny days did not last long.
199 1 year, the suppression of Shangshu private school reached its peak. A certain department has sent personnel to mobilize Tang to close Shangshu private middle school. Since then, the county education bureau announced that Shangshu private high school would stop enrolling students in the new school year, and the school was closed immediately.
1991March, the name of Shangshu Private High School was erased from the enrollment plan issued by Anji County Education Bureau. In Shangshu's private life, people are in turmoil, and students and teachers are not interested in class. Don was cornered.
Not everyone is on the opposite side of Tang. On the contrary, many people in society support private schools. Students, parents, government officials and the media. In May of that year, when Zhang Tianlai, a famous reporter from Guangming Daily, interviewed in Zhejiang, he went to investigate the private life of Shangshu and reflected the predicament of Shangshu's private life to the central government in the form of internal reference. Since then, China Youth Daily, Xinhua News Agency and other mainstream media have issued urgent appeals to the Central Committee, asking the Central Committee to write internal reports about what happened to Don.
However, the day when the freshman starts school is coming, and the enrollment index has not been fixed, Tang can't enroll students. On August 29th, Tang found the reporter station of the central media in Hangzhou. The tough guy couldn't help crying when he complained about his difficulties.
It really answers the old saying "God never shuts one door but he opens another". On August 30, the county education bureau suddenly called Tang and asked him to enroll students. The urgent appeals of many media in the central government have attracted the attention of the relevant leaders of the central and provincial governments. Wang, secretary of Anji County Party Committee, gave instructions after seeing the internal reference of "Shangshu Private Middle School faces enrollment difficulties this summer". On September 6th, Zhejiang Education Commission officially issued the Notice on Adding the Enrollment Plan of Shangshu Private High School 199 1 year in Anji County. When the haze cleared, Tang finally crossed another difficulty.
Today, the new campus of Shangshu private high school is divided into two teaching areas: ordinary high school and vocational high school. It has local first-class facilities and a standard playground with 400 meters and 8 runways. The teaching office area of ordinary high school is a beautiful arc building, and the teaching area of vocational high school is three connected teaching buildings. Strolling through it, you can see that the whole campus is lush with flowers and trees. During the evening break, the students walked around the campus in twos and threes, and the fiery sunset covered the whole campus. What maintains the most vigorous vitality of a school is naturally its teaching quality. In private life, we strive for survival by quality and development by characteristics. After the college entrance examination in 2007, Anji released the good news of Shangshu Private School in two full pages today: among the 142 Anji students who took the college entrance examination in Shangshu Private School, there were 4 students in the key line and 58 students in the undergraduate line, with a total number of 138, which achieved excellent college entrance examination results.
"Everyone wants to go to school, and everyone wants to become a talent", which is the tenet of Tang. Later, he put forward the educational idea that "education should make everyone succeed, not cultivate losers". From the first day when Shangshu Private School was listed, the door was opened to junior high school graduates who failed in the senior high school entrance examination and were called "six seedlings" by local people. The goal of running a school in Tang Dynasty is to educate people to get rich, change the fate of these failed students who are excluded from public schools, and change their lives with education. It is an indisputable fact that the overall quality of students in private schools is not as good as that in public schools. Based on this fact, Shangshu Private School attaches great importance to the development of diversified quality and tries its best to help students give full play to their personal strengths.
In the center of the teaching building hall of the new campus, there is a meticulous flower-and-bird painting called "Zhu Xiang flies out of golden phoenix". This painting was a teacher's day gift from 1997. The author Fang Ronggen is currently a lecturer in the Fine Arts Department of Zhejiang Normal University and an alumnus of Shangshu Private Middle School. It is hard to imagine that he was a failed student.
Fang Ronggen grew up in a remote village in Zhang Cun Town, Anji County, and his family was very poor. 1985, after he failed in the senior high school entrance examination, he gave up the idea of continuing to go to school and went home to do farm work with his father. By chance, Tang heard that he was good at art, but he dropped out of school at home, so he went there specially. It was the third day of the first month of 1986. On the beach where Fang Ronggen helped his father sift the yellow sand, Tang found him and persuaded his father and son to let him go to Shangshu private school after the Spring Festival and pay his own tuition. After that day, Fang Ronggen's fate was changed. After graduating from Shangshu Private School, he was admitted to China Academy of Fine Arts and later became a young artist who stood out in the country.
There are many such examples. Tu, who was employed as a teacher at the Japanese Children's Japanese School in China founded by the Japanese Embassy in China, is a doctoral student majoring in economic management at Kyoto University in Japan, the founder of Deqing Wood Industry Co., Ltd., the first "vocational education star" in Zhejiang Province, etc ... They are all underachievers in exam-oriented education. Tang believes that from the beginning, our school has always adhered to the principle of "teaching without distinction", implemented "teaching students in accordance with their aptitude" and strived to create an education suitable for all students.
Therefore, Tang attached great importance to the education of students' comprehensive quality and constantly practiced the creed of "only seeking talents". Since 1993, foreign language majors such as Japanese, Korean, English and German have been set up one after another. To 1997, try out the earliest directional "order enrollment" in China. 1998, cancel the selection of "three good students" and carry out "four-member activities" (school spirit supervisor, propaganda reporter and study consultant).