1974 School report
Translation:
Quotation from Chairman Mao
Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture.
Report
To the parents of Wang Jianfen:
The school’s winter holiday will commence on 18 January, finishing 25 February, 1974. Registration for next semester and tuition fees should be paid on the 26, 27 and 28 of February, and on 1 March classes formally begin. This report is to inform you of the moral, intellectual and physical performance of student Wang Jianfen in Class 10, High School Grade 1 [=16 years old]; during the holiday period please educate, supervise and encourage the student accordingly in her homework, which should be handed in during registration.
| Comments | Merits:
Diligently studies Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought. She is eager to improve, works well with her classmates and respects her teachers. Her spirit of [class/revolutionary] struggle is strong, she takes care of public property, and is morally correct. She speaks well during meetings and actively participates in group activities. Her study objectives are clear, she has a proper attitude and good grades. Her homework is completed on time, and she respects the regulations and discipline of the school. In physical exercise she is active and participates in group activities, and is enthusiastic in recess exercise 1 . She actively participates in labour [this means tasks much like community service - street cleaning, etc] in which she displays a definite aptitude to endure hardship. She is active in her agricultural training [meaning farm labour, but only part-time], and carries out the tasks assigned to her. Shortcomings: Sometimes she is not strict enough in demands on herself, not patient enough in helping other students, and does not discipline herself enough in bearing hardship 2 . She occasionally talks during class. |
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Achievements By subject |
Politics |
Chinese |
Maths |
Physics |
Chemistry |
English |
Agriculture |
Geography |
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Good |
91 |
99 |
99 |
87 |
99 |
- |
- |
|
History |
Physical Education |
Music |
Art |
|
85 |
- |
- |
- |
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Attendance Record |
Absent |
Late |
Left Early |
Sick |
Personal Affairs |
Public Errands |
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2 |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
Holiday homework: 1, Write a daily diary entry; 2, Choose a maths question from the practise book; 3, comprehensive revision of subjects in which examinations were failed.
No. 1 Middle School, Wenshan Prefecture
18 January, 1974
- recess exercise 课间操kè jiān cāo They still have this, it’s when the kids line up in the play ground doing callisthenics to military music. Before, these exercises used to start in the class when the students were still at their desks. The teacher would announce, “Protect your vision for the revolution! Begin healthy eye exercises!” (“为革命保护视力，眼保健操开始！” Then the students would file out into the school yard, and they would announce “Do physical exercise to defend the mother land!” (“锻炼身体，保卫祖国！”) before the gymnastics began.
- To endure hardship 吃苦chī kǔ Literally “eat bitterness.”
