Muong Qua High School: Proud of 20 years of construction and growth
(Baonghean.vn) - After 20 years of construction and development, the school for ethnic minority students in Luc Da and Mon Son communes has made great strides and achieved many successes along the way. However, to achieve today's achievements, few people know the hardships of the early days...
Along with the strong economic and social development, the need for children of ethnic minorities in Muong Qua to learn to read and write is increasing. To meet the desire and need for children of ethnic minorities here to learn and access knowledge, on August 1, 2000, Muong Qua Ethnic Minority High School was established.
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| Muong Qua High School was built spaciously, meeting the learning needs of border students in Con Cuong district. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| The school has now been built spaciously and beautifully. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
The rainy nights at school were heartbreaking, there was no electricity, no television, and no newspapers at that time. There were rainy days when we woke up to find the foot of our bed buried deep in the ground due to subsidence, many teachers were bewildered. On the first Teachers' Day, November 20, 2000, the teachers hugged each other and cried.
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| Many students who grew up from this school have spread their wings and flown far away. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
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| Students at Muong Qua High School in a Geography class. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Most of the students in Luc Da and Mon Son communes have a high rate of poor households, many villages are far from schools. Many children, due to difficult family circumstances, have to stay home to look after their younger siblings, go to the forest to pick bamboo shoots or work for their parents to earn money. Therefore, the dropout rate is still high. In the first course, many students went to school and then dropped out, because they missed the letters, they came back to the school to ask to continue studying. This is the course where the students suffered the most, lack of facilities, lack of teachers, the Department had to mobilize teachers from Con Cuong High School to support. But in return, the students received special attention from teachers, they made tireless efforts, achieving encouraging achievements such as the first provincial excellent student title, the first university admission letter. We can name some students, such as Vi Thi Nhi, Luong Thi Vinh, Vi Minh Ngoc...
The school's difficult journey is associated with the names of the first batch of teachers and staff, headed by the principal teacher Luong Van Quanh - who was once respectfully and affectionately called "father" by the teachers and staff; who is over 50 years old, but still optimistically accepts the new task at the newly established school with countless difficulties. And the first batch of teachers such as Mr. Quang, Mr. Tai, Mr. Bang, Mr. Linh, Mr. Xuan - university graduates who followed the call of their hearts, said goodbye to the bustling city, leaving behind their old mothers and young children in their hometowns to go to the highland students who are thirsty for knowledge, thirsty for new knowledge of the times.
Looking back on the 20-year journey, although it is not long, the teachers and students of the school have made great efforts to compete in teaching well and studying well, overcoming all difficulties to be able to train generations of students with socialist ideal qualities, cultural knowledge, self-study ability and creativity to contribute to building the homeland...
In 20 years, the school has had 17 graduating classes, of which more than 1,000 students graduated, accounting for over 85%. Hundreds of them were admitted to universities and colleges. Among those admitted to universities, up to now, dozens have become engineers, bachelors, teachers, doctors, pharmacists and hundreds of technical workers serving in all areas of the economy; many have become civil servants and public employees working in state agencies and enterprises. In particular, dozens of students have followed the call of the Fatherland and joined the army. Some of the students who have adorned the school's golden board of achievements can be mentioned, such as Truong Thi Huong, an all-round excellent student; Vi Van Hiep, who scored 27 points and passed the entrance exam to two prestigious schools, Hanoi Medical University and Hanoi University of Science and Technology, and is now a doctor; Vi Thi Thuong, a third-place provincial excellent student in Mathematics, is now a pharmacist; Ho Thi Hoai Thanh, 3rd prize winner in Literature, graduated from university and is successful in Hanoi; Vi Thi Duoc, provincial excellent student in Mathematics, graduated from the Academy of Finance, is now a commune civil servant; Vi Van Bach is currently Deputy Head of the Mass Mobilization Committee of Con Cuong District Party Committee and many others are successful in their careers...
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| Students are equipped with English classrooms, making learning this subject easier than before. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Most importantly, through their time at school, generations of students have been equipped with life skills, they can learn by themselves, know how to work, be creative and contribute to their homeland in all areas, from economics, politics, to culture, society, national security and defense. Many of them have become village and commune cadres, or are honest workers who have become rich.
To achieve these important initial achievements, over the past 20 years, under the leadership of the Party cell, the collective leadership and the individual head, the task of building a team of teachers has always been put first. Imbued with the truth that "without good teachers, there will be no good students", the school's teaching staff has worked hard, improved themselves, and improved their skills to meet the increasing learning needs of students.
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| Many students who live far from school have arranged boarding facilities right on campus for their convenience in living and studying. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Over the past 20 years, time has passed without returning, but the memories of the pedagogical talent and the dedication of teachers to their students still live on in generations of students. Those are the passionate literature lessons of Mr. Tran Doan Xuan and Mr. Nguyen Manh Huan; those are the seemingly dry but fascinating Math, Physics and Chemistry lessons of Mr. Dang Trong Quang, Mr. Ho Sy Hao, Mr. Nguyen Trong Tho, Ms. Le Thi Hai, Mr. Nguyen Van Thin... those are the exciting History, Geography and Civic Education lessons of Mr. Dang Van Bang, Mr. Phan Van Dai, Mr. Nguyen Hong Linh, Mr. Pham Binh Minh... Foreign Languages and Information Technology are still very unfamiliar subjects, but thanks to the enthusiasm and love of learning of the teachers, the lessons have created a lot of excitement for the students.
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| From the difficult journey from the beginning until now, the School has had many generations of successful students, spreading their wings and flying far. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Following the remarkable achievements, up to now, despite many shortcomings, Muong Qua High School has made great efforts to improve the quality of teaching; helping ethnic minority students to reach higher and further, giving wings to ethnic minority children to realize their dream of building a better village life.
Muong Qua is the birthplace of the first Party cell in the Western region of Nghe An. Teachers and students of Muong Qua High School have been following the tradition of the heroic revolutionary homeland.
