In addition, compulsory education in the United States ranges from 9 years to 14 years, and in some areas it is 12 years.
China is working hard, and some areas have implemented 12-year compulsory education.
Twelve-year compulsory education:
Twelve-year compulsory education refers to bringing high school education into the scope of compulsory education and implementing twelve-year compulsory education. Many places in China, such as Zhejiang, Guangdong and Hebei, have tried free high school education, and achieved good response. However, it is mainly concentrated in developed areas such as coastal areas and has not been widely popularized. ?
From 2065438 to March 2007, during the National People's Congress, delegates discussed 12 year compulsory education. Some CPPCC members suggested popularizing 12-year compulsory education throughout the country. There are different opinions from all walks of life. Some scholars believe that the time is not yet ripe, while others believe that China's basic conditions are already in place. Therefore, the proposal of popularizing 12-year compulsory education in the whole country is still being further demonstrated.
The proposal supports the view that:
Four reasons:
First, China has the economic strength to implement 12 year compulsory education. In 20 10, the national GDP was 39,798.3 billion yuan, the economic aggregate was the second in the world, and it had enough financial resources to implement 12-year compulsory education;
Second, the high school education of rural and urban children can be guaranteed by law, which relatively eliminates the problem of unfair education;
Third, we can improve the quality of young and middle-aged workers in China as a whole. The development of modern economy and science and technology requires workers to have at least a high school education.
Fourth: "Education is the cheapest national defense"-this sentence deeply influenced post-war Japan. High-quality workers can not only bring higher benefits, but also make the country long-term stability.
Against:
Nine-year compulsory education coverage Compulsory education is compulsory for all school-age children and adolescents, which must be guaranteed by the state and compulsory for the government, parents and students. Wei Zhaung, member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice chairman of Xiamen CPPCC, questioned the rationality of extending the compulsory education period of students from nine years to twelve years, and put forward three reasons against the implementation of twelve-year compulsory education.
The first is the lack of financial resources. Committee member Wei Zhaung believes that China, as a big country with a population of 654.38+0.3 billion, only exempted tuition and miscellaneous fees in recent two years, and many local governments are under considerable pressure for this, and the per capita funds can only be maintained at a low level.
Secondly, the situation of rural compulsory education teachers is generally worrying. He pointed out that many rural schools still have temporary substitute teachers, and the quantity and quality need to be strengthened. Secondly, nine-year compulsory education has not been fully popularized. Wei Zhaung said that there are more and more migrant workers, and a considerable proportion of migrant workers' children have not entered public schools, so they can only go to private primary schools and junior high schools, where they still have to pay tuition and fees; In some remote and backward rural areas, the task of "popularizing nine-year compulsory education" is still very arduous, and the proposal of 12-year compulsory education is bound to aggravate the existing educational injustice.