月29日12时许，新疆的阿克苏[1]第五小学发生踩踏事故[2]。当时正是课间操时11间，学生从楼上蜂拥而下，前面的学生摔倒后引起踩踏，楼梯扶手被挤歪，造成孩子被挤伤或摔伤。据悉，住院人数已上升至41人，其中7人受重伤。
盘点一下这些年发生的校园踩踏事件，让人感觉这似乎已经成为未成年人的灾难。同样是在新疆阿克苏市，2005年10月就发生过一起学生踩踏事故，造成13名小学生受伤，其中1名女生身亡；去年12月7日晚发生在湖南湘乡市育才中学的踩踏事件，造成8人罹难，26人受伤。
令人难以承受的是，每一次悲剧的原因都那样相似。几乎每次都是学生拥挤、楼梯狭窄、缺乏疏导等等。事实证明，在校园里，非常容易制造出此类悲惨的踩踏事故。
现在从教育行政官员到老师以及学生，都只看重分数。应试教育[3]为教育行政官员提供政绩，为教师提供工作绩效，也为学生提供所谓的前途。在应试教育模式下，教育越来越背离以人为本[4]、尊重生命的价值。所以学生失去对一些公共价值和公共秩序应有的坚持。因为学生缺乏生命的价值信仰，缺乏对公共秩序的坚守，他们自身的生存环境也变得更加脆弱。
A trample accident took place on November 29th, 12pm, in the 5th Akesu primary school in Xinjiang. At the time of the recess exercise, pupils swarmed down from upstairs. The pupils in front fall down, leading to a trample. The handrails in the staircase were squeezed, making the kids injured from falling or being squeezed. It is reported that the number of hospitalized children has already climbed to 41, among whom 7 children have severe injury.
Checking for a moment the several trample incidents that took place in schools this year, could make people feel that this already seems to be a minor calamity. The same is true for Xinjiang's Akesu city, where in October 2005 a student trample incident has took place, causing injuries to 13 primary school pupils, among whom one female pupil died. A trample incident that took place on the evening of December 7th last year, in Yucai ('educate the talented') middle school, Xiangxiang, Hunan, resulted with 8 victims, and caused injuries to 26.
What is difficult for people to endure is the fact that each time the reasons for the tragedies are quite similar. Almost every time students are pushed and squeezed, the staircase is cramped, there's no way out, etc. Evidence proves that such kind of tragic trample incidents are very easily taking place in school campuses.
At present, everybody, from the educational administration staff, to teachers and pupils, only value grades. Exam-oriented education leads to the success of the educational administration personnel, gives the teachers good outcomes as well as provides a so-called prospect to students. According this exam-oriented education system, education is becoming more and more deviated from the view that puts the person in center and the values of cherishing of life. Thus, students have no persistence when it comes to maintaining common values and public order. Because students lack belief concerning the value of life and don't stick to public order, the environment of their own existence is also becoming more fragile.
[1] 阿克苏 (ākèsū) - Aksu, a city in west Xinjiang province, near the Yarkant river.
[2] 踩踏事故 (cǎità shìgù) - 'Step-one' or 'trample' accident. This is a type of incident when people get crashed by a crowd, in extremely crowded and chaotic conditions.
[3] 应试教育 (yìngshì jiàoyù) - Literally 'respond-to-exam-education', meaning education which is exam-oriented, which pays attention only to students' success in exams and not to moral or value education.
[4] 以人为本 (yǐ rén wéi běn) - 'Regarding the person as the essence', a humanistic approach which promoted the nurturing of a person and moral values concerning interpersonal ties.
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