UNRULY AT SCHOOL

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31384, 1 June 1967, Page 13

UNRULY AT SCHOOL

(N.Z.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) PEKING, May 31. Peking’s young Red Guards appear to be refusing to settle down to normal school lessons after a year on the rampage in China’s cultural revolution. A new directive, issued in an attempt to restore order in the capital’s primary schools, Indicated that pupils ordered back to school three months ago have become uncontrollable. The teachers are apparently frightened of them. The order, from Peking’s Revolutionary Committee, was printed yesterday in the Communist Party newspaper, “Peking Daily.” Sabotage Charge It said some “Rightists, reactionaries and bad elements” still clung to their stand within the teaching ranks, trying to sabotage the call for a return to normal lessons.” Pupils, however, were dis-

regarding organisational discipline, and this situation could not be allowed to continue. the order said. It added that teachers and other staff should abide by the normal working system

and students should attend punctually, obey classroom discipline and protect state property. Reports in the same newspaper recently said that some young Red Guards were breaking up classrooms, shouting one of Mao Tse-tung’s best known quotations—- “ Rebellion is justified”—and teachers were frightened to intervene for fear of being branded counter-revolution-ary. New Relationship Yesterday’s order said teachers should “go bravely among the students to establish a new revolutionary relationship between teachers and students.” China’s leaders today called on Red Guards, soldiers, workers and Government officials to go into the fields to help gather this year’s harvest. It should be treated as a “work of urgency,” to safeguard the great fruit of the cultural revolution, said the exhortation, published as an editorial note in the ‘People’* Daily.”