Compulsory education is divided into two stages: primary education and junior secondary education (including junior secondary vocational and technical education). Popularize primary and secondary education on the basis of universal primary education. The duration of primary education is six or five years, and that of junior high school is three or four years. Article 3 The steps of implementing nine-year compulsory education are as follows:
The province will popularize primary education by 1990.
/kloc-before 0/990, popularize primary and secondary education in cities with relatively developed economy and culture (suburbs with conditions) and a few counties and towns;
Counties and townships (towns) with moderate economic and cultural development should popularize primary education before 1990, and actively create conditions to popularize primary and secondary education before 1995;
In economically and culturally underdeveloped counties and townships (towns), primary and secondary education will be popularized before 2000.
In a few places where the economy is particularly difficult, the number of years for popularizing primary and secondary education can be appropriately postponed. Article 4 All school-age children and adolescents who have reached the age of six, regardless of gender or nationality, must enter school at the beginning of the new school year and receive compulsory education for a specified number of years. Where conditions are not available, the age of admission can be postponed to seven years old.
Children and adolescents who need to postpone school or cannot attend school due to illness or other special reasons may apply by their parents or other guardians, and may postpone school or be exempted from school with the approval of the township (town) people's government or sub-district office where their household registration is located. Article 5 The state, society, schools and families must guarantee the right of children and adolescents to receive compulsory education.
Parents or other guardians shall enable school-age children and adolescents to complete compulsory education.
Township (town) people's governments, villagers' committees, urban neighborhood offices, residents' committees, organs, enterprises and institutions and schools shall cooperate with each other to ensure that children and adolescents enter school on time and complete compulsory education.
Without the approval of the provincial education administrative department, no unit or individual may employ children and adolescents who have not completed compulsory education. Article 6 To popularize compulsory education, we should fully implement the national education policy, strive to improve the quality of education, enable students to develop morally, intellectually and physically in an all-round way, and lay a foundation for improving the quality of the whole nation and cultivating talents with ideals, morality, culture and discipline for socialist construction. Seventh the implementation of compulsory education is an important responsibility of the people's governments at all levels, and it is an important part of the post responsibility system of townships (towns) and village cadres, and it must be assessed regularly. Chapter II Schools Article 8 People's governments at all levels shall make unified plans and reasonably set up primary schools and junior high schools, so that school-age children and adolescents can attend schools nearby and receive compulsory education.
Rural junior high schools should be properly set up.
Each township (town) in rural areas can set up several central primary schools. Villages far from the central primary school can set up primary schools in administrative villages, and simple primary schools can be set up if conditions are not met.
Efforts should be made to create conditions to set up special education schools (classes) for blind, deaf-mute, mentally retarded and other disabled children.
All localities should actively create conditions to hold junior secondary vocational and technical schools while setting up ordinary junior high schools. Junior secondary vocational and technical schools should attach importance to the teaching of cultural courses. Article 9 Enterprises, institutions and social organizations are encouraged to run schools according to law and popularize compulsory education. The local education administrative department should give help and guidance in teachers, equipment supply and education business. Tenth primary schools and junior high schools must accept school-age children and adolescents in their enrollment areas and complete compulsory education. It is necessary to strictly manage student status and not force students to drop out of school without justifiable reasons. Eleventh primary and junior high schools should conscientiously implement the syllabus and teaching plan, reform teaching methods, improve teaching quality, complete teaching and education tasks on time, and train qualified graduates. Twelfth schools should promote the use of Putonghua, which is commonly used throughout the country. Thirteenth within the prescribed period of compulsory education, to reach the graduation level as scheduled, or not to reach the graduation level, issued a diploma. Who reached the compulsory education period, did not reach the graduation level, issued a graduation certificate.
Graduates from junior secondary vocational and technical schools can find jobs or continue their studies. Fourteenth schools should manage the use of education funds and teaching equipment in accordance with the relevant provisions, and do a good job in the collection or reduction of miscellaneous fees and the distribution of scholarships.
Without the approval of the education administrative department of the county (city) or municipal district, the school shall not rent or use the school buildings, equipment and venues for other purposes.
Without the approval of the education administrative department of the county (city) or municipal district, the school shall not suspend classes without authorization. Article 15 The rights and interests of schools are inviolable. No unit or individual may damage or occupy the school buildings, equipment, venues and other property; Shall not interfere with the normal teaching order of the school and affect the school environment.
It is forbidden to use religion or feudal superstition to carry out activities that hinder the implementation of compulsory education.
It is forbidden for any unit to apportion expenses to schools. Schools are not allowed to charge excessive fees to students and their parents.