Compulsory education is a national education that all school-age children and adolescents must accept, and the state, society and families must guarantee it according to the Constitution. Its essence is a system of compulsory education for school-age children and adolescents for a certain period of time in accordance with the provisions of the law. Compulsory education is also called compulsory education and free compulsory education. The meaning of obligation includes the obligation of parents and families to make school-age children go to school, the obligation of the state to set up schools to promote learning so that citizens can enjoy education, and the obligation of the whole society to eliminate all kinds of adverse effects that hinder the sound development of school-age children. Compulsory education has the basic characteristics of compulsory, public welfare and popularization. China's Compulsory Education Law stipulates that the length of compulsory education is nine years (six years in primary school and three years in junior high school), which conforms to China's basic national conditions and is appropriate.

public welfare

The so-called public welfare means that it is clearly stipulated that "tuition and miscellaneous fees are not charged". Public welfare and free are linked. For rural areas, tuition and miscellaneous fees will be completely waived from this year to next year, but for cities, it still needs a process. In fact, the exemption of miscellaneous fees in compulsory education involves many financial problems. Now the country is determined to solve this problem. Article 2 of the revised Compulsory Education Law stipulates that the state implements a nine-year compulsory education system. Compulsory education is a compulsory education for all school-age children and adolescents and a public welfare undertaking that the state must guarantee. The implementation of compulsory education, free of tuition and fees. The state establishes a mechanism to guarantee the funds for compulsory education to ensure the implementation of the compulsory education system.

consistent

Unity is always an idea. From beginning to end, the new law emphasizes the implementation of national unified compulsory education, including the formulation of unified teaching material setting standards, teaching standards, funding standards, construction standards, student public funding standards and so on. These contents related to unification are all reflected in the revision of laws in different forms. For example, Article 4 of the revised Compulsory Education Law stipulates that all school-age children and adolescents with People's Republic of China (PRC) nationality are regardless of gender, nationality, race, family property status, religious beliefs, etc. , enjoy the equal right to receive compulsory education and fulfill the obligation to receive compulsory education according to law.

coerciveness

Coercion is also called coercion. It is the obligation of schools, parents and society to let school-age children and adolescents receive compulsory education. Whoever violates this obligation will be regulated by law. If parents don't send their students to school, they should bear the responsibility; Schools do not accept school-age children and adolescents to go to school, and schools should bear the responsibility; Schools do not provide corresponding conditions, but also are subject to legal norms. For example, Article 7 of the revised Compulsory Education Law stipulates that compulsory education is led by the State Council, and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government make overall planning and implementation, with the county-level people's government as the main management system.