China Youth Daily, the author of the Chinese Youth Daily, is the general editor of the Chinese education online
perhaps many people have not thought that whether it should be reduced, has become a problem, and even fiercely opposed by the parents. Some time ago, "the Ministry of education, please do not give our children to reduce burdens" articles swept the Internet, that morning, on the morning of 100 thousand, praised million. During the NPC and CPPCC sessions, this topic has been constantly fermented, and such theme articles are constantly emerging and widely spread. This at least indicates that no burden reduction is a part of people's view.
reminds me of a similar scene 20 years ago. In 1998, when the first large-scale burden reduction was made in Beijing, all the off campus counselling institutions were required to close down. At that time, Wang Guoxin, the headmaster of the principal Cultural School of Beijing's biggest outside school training institution, was the most headaches not to shut down the school and reduce the revenue, but the fierce protest of the parents: you can't shut down!
20 a cycle, the load is wrong?
for the overall development and healthy growth of the children for several decades, especially in the last 20 years, the reduction is one of the major educational policies that have been continuously emphasized by the education department following the administration of the examination oriented education. However, the government's policy of reducing burdens is constantly being opposed by some parents. It is not the first time for the government to be thankless, but it is certainly not the last time.
the burden is a psychological feeling who is the God assists of the training organization
the Chinese children are the world's heaviest burden of education, and this general conclusion should not be wrong, and there is not much controversy. Since the burden is heavy, why is it against the burden of burden? Why in the end? After this upsurge, it is necessary for us to analyze the reasons calmly.
people with different positioning, the burden is different, there is no difference, one size fits all reduction policy, there is no shortage, need to reflect and appropriate adjustment.
burden is a psychological feeling. If you like playing games, you won't feel tired for 3 days or 3 nights. If you don't like studying, 10 minutes will be a burden. The absolute value of the burden is directly related to the expectation of each person and his position. For students and parents who have great aspirations and aspirations, the burden on them is heavy, but once they become active, they are not necessarily burdens.
for a long time, some false experts and public opinion have created a false story and misplacement for the public: the British and American advanced education is no burdens, happy and happy education, and at last the children have a great achievement. As a matter of fact, the British and American education is totally two roads. For the private schools as the representative (including the school district public schools) the elite road is not less than our burden and even more heavy. If you want to be a good person, you will never be easy anywhere. Objectively speaking, the burden is heavy. This is something we all need to realize.
Chinese parents are influenced by cultural traditions and attach great importance to their children's education. Most of them have very high expectations, so the burden on them is bound to be heavy. Recognizing these basic realities, we know it is necessary to be in the school system, for students with higher expectations, and to some students who have some spare power, whether it is for utilitarian or not utilitarian, so that they can learn a little more, write more homework, go back a little later, rather than have to No superclass study, not all school hours. At the same time, more important and ideal is to take various measures to improve the teaching quality of teachers and to improve the efficiency of school education. To the greatest extent, the needs are met in the school and the burden of students is reduced to a minimum.
but it is regrettable that, although the burden of burden reduction is subtracted from the excess academic burden and psychological burden, some of the subtractive practices in some places have neglected this part of the difference, and they must be reduced and must be relaxed and without burdens. This inevitably leads to a higher pursuit of parental opposition.
some places are very exaggerated, there is an infinitely magnified practice, even request the cancellation of the normal final period of the examination, even if the final test, also can not get the results, called Le Kao.
accompanied by high expectations of children's education, whether it is right or not, the demand is objective, and it has grown out here.
in recent years, with the government's strong negative measures for the school, the learning burden is transferred to the extracurricular class, which has formed the so-called subtraction of the class, and the extracurricular addition, objectively resulting in the limitless scenery of the extracurricular guidance institutions.
according to the annual report of good future (academic thinking), the average annual growth rate in the 2012 to 2017 fiscal year is 646%. In the past 3 years, the market value has increased by nearly 10 times. In terms of training time, the good future will increase from 820 thousand in 2013 to 3 million 930 thousand in 2017, showing an accelerated growth trend.
better than the future. Since 2016, the main business of New Oriental is no longer a study abroad examination, but has been converted into domestic primary and secondary school training. According to the latest data, the revenue scale of New Oriental middle school and bubble English is almost the same as the future.
about the rapid growth of off campus tutoring in recent years, the vice president of a listed company joked with me: thank the government God for assisting! First, early school, the children have no place to go, go to the tutorship class is better than the Internet bar; second, it is the school to do subtraction, the need to learn more is transferred to extracurricular class.
This reminds us that we need to have an accurate understanding of reasonable burdens, not giving them opportunities in class, but in class. More importantly, it needs economic support to transfer from class to extracurricular activities. From another perspective, this burden reduction has further increased the gap of education and affected the realization of educational equity. This is indeed what we did not anticipate before our burden reduction policy. We need to consider it in the future.
if the school teaches much, the assignment of the homework is compelled to work hard, then every penny in the extracurricular training class is the parents' active queue to the training institutions. Why do they pay for their own children?