Decentralization of educational administrative departments has always been a controversial issue in educational reform. At the same time, the demand for autonomy in running colleges and universities is getting higher and higher. For high school education, which is neither compulsory nor purely attributed to personality education, how to understand decentralization has become a hot topic for educational experts.

Supporters believe that high school students already have the knowledge base accumulated in compulsory education and gradually show more personality. In view of this feature, high school education should advocate the headmaster to run schools, so that schools have more space to do characteristic education suitable for their students.

Basic education should be different from higher education, and should reflect specific directions and goals. We should not blindly expand the autonomy of high school principals, otherwise the imperfect basic education system may lose its norms. Professor Zhu Yongxin, a famous advocate of new educational experiment, regards "educational liberation" as his symbolic view.

He believes that education should free students from the cage of grades, free teachers from the pressure of further studies, free principals from the shackles of administrative assessment and social evaluation, and return the stage of education to them.