Chapter 11 Primary School Teachers

At that time, the Xuejiaqu No. 23 Primary School was in the hands of Zhe Keda, the leader of the militia, and Lei Zhifu and Xue Junying, the local tyrants and evil gentry.Xue's nephew holds the power of the school, and the teaching content is all old feudal culture. The Anding County Committee of the Communist Party of China instructed me to start with changing the teaching content.We organized progressive teachers from the No. 1 Senior Primary School in Anding County and the No. 2 High School in Wayaobao to come forward and propose to the County Education Bureau: to follow the relevant regulations of the Republic of China, change the outdated and backward teaching content of the No. 23 Primary School, and implement a new school system .This request was reasonable and legal, and the county education bureau had no choice but to order the school to comply with the regulations, and agreed to send me to teach at the school.However, the bully forces who have occupied the school for a long time, and the incompetent people who stick to the feudal dross, are unwilling to withdraw voluntarily, and secretly gather to prepare to compete with us.

At that time, I was the secretary of the North Second District Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xue Yurui was the organizing committee member, He Bingzhang was the propaganda committee member, and Xue Zhenchang was the committee member. Everyone was determined to complete the task of transforming the school. We first divided more than 30 students into 4 grades, replaced the old textbooks with the textbooks uniformly issued by the Education Bureau, and re-established courses such as Chinese, arithmetic, natural knowledge, historical geography, and physical education. The first section is Chinese class.I invited the former teachers and asked them to try out the new textbooks.This required an explanation of the text, but a few "talented talents" knew nothing about the new cultural knowledge, and they hurriedly bowed and declined.The second section was a nature class. They were asked to come to the stage to explain natural phenomena such as wind, rain, thunder and lightning, but the results were irrelevant.His superficial and ignorant embarrassment made the students burst into laughter.I came to the stage to use easy-to-understand language and vivid narration to impart scientific knowledge to the students.The fresh teaching content and methods have aroused the interest of the children who are used to "Zhihu Zheye" and are welcomed by them.Scholars and judges felt ashamed and fled the classroom with various excuses. The few so-called high-ranking and respected people who remained were already at a loss, and they were afraid that they would be allowed to demonstrate the new textbooks on stage.

I always treated the old teachers with courtesy, solicited their opinions on the curriculum arrangement, and pointed out: You must not mislead your children, and you must use new knowledge to cultivate talents for the founding of the country in order to live up to the trust of your parents.They said yes again and again, saying that they would no longer interfere with the future teaching work, and agreed to my suggestion that Xue Yurui be the school director.As a result of this struggle, the number of students at the school increased to more than 50 in less than two days. But the struggle is far from over.The second day of the second month of the lunar calendar is commonly known as "dragon raises its head", and the local people have the custom of writing "pray for rain and offering sacrifices". "Sacrificial texts" have always been written in classical Chinese by inviting scholars and candidates.This time the reactionary authorities entrusted me with the writing of the "sacrifice". If I, a teacher of the new culture, used classical Chinese, they would accuse me of false progress; .Xue Yurui and I jointly drafted the "Sacrifice" written in vernacular, changing the content and writing method of the past.The article explains that although natural disasters and man-made disasters are not conducive to people's livelihood, "man-made disasters" will make natural disasters more serious.We exhaustively listed all kinds of bad deeds of bully landlords, and pointed out that these are man-made disasters that are not conducive to agricultural production.Only when the society changes can the country live in peace and the people live in peace, and it is also possible to overcome natural disasters and obtain a real bumper harvest.This "sacrificial text" was well-founded, well-organized, and neither "broken the rules" nor used classical Chinese.

Not long after this incident, Xue Junying invited me to dinner.The table is full of fried noodles with shredded pork, fried eggs, noodles with noodles, oil cakes and other top-quality dishes in northern Shaanxi.He boasted: "Mr. Li has changed the school greatly in less than half a year. The students have made a lot of progress, and they are full of praise."I am neither humble nor overbearing: "I just did my best. According to the past education law, I ruined my children and grandchildren and my nation. In order to reform teaching, I am willing to endure misunderstandings, framing, and making things difficult." "Mr. You are knowledgeable and well taught, and no one dares to make things difficult for you, I am afraid that you are worrying too much."

"In the past six months, I have been plotted against many times." I listed a series of facts.Xue couldn't sit still, and immediately changed the subject: "Let's not talk about this. Mr. Li Guigeng?" "Under twenty". "Surely you're having a good time?" "As the saying goes, 'If you have two buckets of grain at home, you can't be the king of children'. As a last resort, I went to the Provincial No. 4 Normal School, and it was all supported by teachers and friends." "A poor family has a precious son! Are you married? How about I be a matchmaker?"

Before I could answer, he shouted: "Dongmei, Shangyou cake, Yike!" Then a seventeen or eighteen-year-old rural girl came in, acting coyly, and I felt uncomfortable in the bottom of my heart.Xue lowered his eyebrows and said squintingly: "This is my niece, she is not engaged yet, what do you think?" "I can't be the master of marriage matters, let's talk about it later." After returning to school, I immediately summoned Xue Yurui and Xue Zhenchang to study the situation, but He Bingzhang was unable to participate because his family lived in Nangoucha far away.Everyone believed that this was a "beauty trick" by Shi, but in order to stabilize the other party, further understand their situation, and consolidate the position of the elementary school, they unanimously agreed with my opinion of "just follow the tricks".The next day, I gave Xue Junying an ambiguous answer.Since then, school work has been less disruptive.

In two years, the party's strength has also continued to grow.The number of party members has grown from five or six to more than 30, and many labored and poor peasants with high awareness have been absorbed into the party organization, such as Ma Shenghai and others.The guerrillas led by Shi Fazhi (formerly known as Hao Xinmin) and Qiang Shiqing often used primary schools to carry out activities.We also got in touch with the underground party members He Jixiang and Luan Xinchun of the Shiyaowan Zheda militia, and conveyed to them the instructions of their superiors and the actions of the enemy in time.We finally made the No. 23 Primary School a reliable base for the Party.