Sowing 'red seeds' from high schools - still many concerns

FOCUS ON DISCOVERING AND TUTORING OUTSTANDING STUDENTS

In the 2020-2021 school year, Le Viet Thuat High School (Vinh City) had 13 students admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam. Compared to the previous school year, the school's Party cell hadnew party members are studentsincreased by 7 people (an increase of 216% compared to the 2019-2020 school year). This result, according to Mr. Nguyen Minh Sy - Vice Principal, Deputy Secretary of the Party Cell of Le Viet Thuat High School, is a process of implementing many synchronous solutions from the Party Cell, the Board of Directors, the School Youth Union and each class. Through this work, students' awareness has been raised as well as the good feelings of the young generation towards the Party organization.

The Party Cell of Le Viet Thuat High School (Vinh City) has just admitted 13 party members who are students in 2021. Photo: Van Sy

“Along with improving the quality of teaching and learning, the school has done a good job of propagating to all union members and young people about the honor of joining the ranks of the Communist Party of Vietnam, thereby helping them to fully perceive and understand the Party organization. Second, promptly discover the positive factors of the union branches in studying as well as union work through homeroom teachers and the school’s Youth Union Executive Committee. Third, assign tasks for students to affirm and be trained and challenged, thereby maturing in many aspects and being recognized by the collective. From there, send students to participate in Party sympathy classes to enrich their knowledge and understanding of the Party, constantly improve their political qualities, cultivate ethics, and strive to meet the objective requirements. During that process, the Party cell regularly reviews and proposes to superiors to make decisions to admit outstanding students and union members...”, Mr. Nguyen Minh Sy added.

According to statistics from the Department of Politics and Ideology, Nghe An Department of Education and Training, at the end of the 2020-2021 school year, the high school system in the province trained and admitted 412 new party members who were students, an increase of 113% compared to the previous school year (in the 2019-2020 school year, 365 new party members who were students were admitted).

If calculated according to the first 6-month cycle of 2021, statistics from the Provincial Party Committee's Organizing Committee show that the province admitted 246 new party members who are students, an increase of more than 455% over the same period in 2020.

According to Mr. Nguyen Trong Be - Head of the Department of Politics and Ideology, Department of Education and Training, high schools have focused on educating students and creating a favorable environment for them to strive, contribute and mature. In recruiting party members who are students, the role of the Party Committee and the School Youth Union is highly promoted. At the same time, the homeroom teacher is the person closest to the students, so the homeroom teacher is an important factor in discovering and directly guiding and nurturing them in the future.

From the beginning of each school year, the Party Committee has focused on propaganda and political and ideological education for cadres, party members, trade union members, youth union members, and all students of the school about the policy of admitting young party members. Through the activities at the Youth Union, the School Youth Union Executive Committee in coordination with the homeroom teacher has disseminated the conditions for students to grasp the criteria for admitting to the Party.arouse self-motivation, growth in every student.

Candidates taking the entrance exam to Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted (Vinh City). Photo: Thanh Cuong

ENSURE SOURCE REQUIREMENTS

Although there have been positive results and the number of students admitted to the Party in high schools has increased, there are still certain difficulties in this area. To admit new Party members, according to the Party Charter, at the time the Party cell considers admission, the person joining the Party must be 18 years old (calculated by month) or older. Therefore, many students do not have enough time to consider admission at school, leading to difficulties for students after graduating from high school.

For example: Student Nguyen Van A, born on July 15, 2003, according to regulations, will not be old enough for the Party cell to consider admitting him to the Party until July 2021. However, at the end of May 2021, high school students will finish their school activities, so their records must be transferred to their place of residence for continued monitoring and training. If Nguyen Van A is admitted to university in August 2021, just over 1 month is a short time for the ward or commune to have a basis to consider completing procedures and records to submit to the competent authority for consideration of Party admission. Thus, in this case, the records will have to continue to be transferred to the university for monitoring and striving for the next period. And the admission time will also depend on the next stage. Thus, there are delays in the process of considering Party admission for the masses who have been trained at the high school before.

Presenting decisions to admit new party members to students of 1-5 High School (Nghia Dan). Photo: Minh Thai

In training work,admit party members as studentsThere are also differences in high schools in the province. Among the 91 high schools in the province, in the 2020-2021 school year, many school party cells did not admit any students, especially private high schools and some schools in mountainous ethnic minority areas. Meanwhile, many high school party cells admitted many students such as: Kim Lien High School (Nam Dan) admitted 28 party members who were students; Dang Thai Mai High School admitted 22 party members who were students; Thanh Chuong High School admitted 19 students; Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted admitted 15 students, Huynh Thuc Khang High School Party Cell admitted 14 new party members who were students...

Through the discussion, Mr. Nguyen Trong Be - Head of the Department of Politics and Ideology, Department of Education and Training said that in order to effectively recruit new party members who are students, high schools need to continue to implement Project 1501 of the Prime Minister on "Strengthening education on revolutionary ideals, ethics, lifestyle for youth, teenagers and children" and the directive documents of the Ministry, Department of Education and Training, and Party committees at all levels. From there, actively implement solutions to create sources and develop party members in both quantity and quality.

To do wellParty resource work, Party cells and Party committees need to strengthen propaganda to raise awareness among teachers to create conditions for students to actively participate in Youth Union activities, social activities, and improve life skills. Party cells and Party committees of Party groups in schools need to continue to focus on reviewing, nurturing, and educating outstanding Youth Union members in conjunction with creating motivation, encouragement, and motivation for students to actively strive to study and practice, and promote the school's emulation movements more and more effectively.

Students of Nguyen Duy Trinh High School (Nghi Loc) were admitted to the Party. Photo: Nhat Tuan