In August 2020, Ms. Wang, who lives in Chaoyang District, Beijing, reported an English training class to the children who were attending primary school, but the result was unexpected. Ms. Wang signed up for Yize English, an off-campus organization that trains English for primary and secondary school students. Now it is empty. Ms. Wang said that soon after she came into contact with this institution, the other salesperson tried to persuade her to buy as many courses as possible.
As early as 20 18, the general office of the State Council issued a document clearly stipulating that off-campus training institutions must obtain a school license after approval, and the one-time fee should not exceed three months. At that time, Ms. Wang only considered the discount, so she didn't think too much. However, at the end of 2020, Yize English suddenly issued a notice of suspension, and then the teachers and managers lost contact. At this time, parents discovered that only one educational consulting company was responsible for operating Yize English, and it didn't get a school license at all. At present, the company has been listed in the business exception list because it cannot be contacted.
Yolanda, the parents of the students in the training institution, said: "The parents we can contact now have more than 800 children in six campuses, and the total amount of unfinished class fees is about 1 1 ten thousand yuan."
It is not uncommon that the money is collected and the training class is gone. However, this is only one of the chaos in various off-campus training institutions in recent years. If money "classes" bring immediate economic losses to some families, then the disorderly expansion of off-campus training institutions in various disciplines in recent years has brought more far-reaching harm to the whole society. The first is to increase the child's physical and mental burden. 20 17 survey shows that the overall participation rate of primary and secondary school students' off-campus training in China is 48.3%, and the overall scale exceeds 1 100 million. In 20021year, the survey of Beijing Normal University showed that 88.8% of primary school students and 95.7% of middle school students could not meet the national standards, and even 34.2% of primary and middle school students slept less than 7 hours a day. Many off-campus training institutions not only directly increase children's physical and mental burden, but also cause panic to students and parents, increase family burden and waste a lot of social resources by creating pressure and marketing anxiety. The advanced, over-class and over-standard competitive training under various names deviates from the origin of education, turning learning into a competition between money and time, and turning training into a business of brushing questions and raising points. Many families are deeply involved, but they can't get out.
The off-campus training market under the banner of education is expanding year by year, which makes families lose more than they gain, and society pays a heavy price, but the biggest beneficiary is training institutions. The data shows that in 2020, the scale of China's off-campus training market will exceed one trillion yuan, and in 20 19 and 2020, the number of off-campus training institutions will increase by 70,000 to 80,000.
In order to completely eradicate the chaos of off-campus training, the newly issued Opinions on Further Reducing Students' Homework Burden and Off-campus Training Burden in Compulsory Education clearly put forward the restrictions on off-campus training institutions. Limited quantity: adhere to strict examination and approval institutions. All localities no longer approve new off-campus training institutions for students in compulsory education, and existing discipline training institutions are uniformly registered as non-profit institutions. Price limit: In Beijing, Shanghai and other pilot cities, the fees for off-campus training of compulsory education will be included in the government-guided price management, the pricing method will be determined scientifically and reasonably, and the charging standards will be clarified. According to the relevant regulations of the Ministry of Education, the subjects here refer to: morality and rule of law, Chinese, history, geography, mathematics, foreign languages, physics, chemistry and biology. Professionals pointed out that the unified registration of these discipline training institutions as non-profit organizations and pilot price guidance are to return education to public welfare orientation.
Hu Wei, executive vice president of China Private Education Association, said: "Education is a non-profit undertaking. Whether public or private, for-profit or non-profit, it is an important part of socialist education. We must uphold the leadership of the party and return to the leadership of the party as a conscious cause, and we must not be kidnapped by capital funds. "
While limiting the number and price of off-campus training institutions, the opinion also clearly puts forward that time should be limited: off-campus training institutions should not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days and winter and summer vacations to organize subject training. Prior to this, the relevant regulations have made it clear that the end time of off-campus training institutions should not be later than 20: 30, that is to say, in the future, the subject training of off-campus training institutions can only be conducted before 8: 30 pm on the teaching day of primary and secondary schools.
At the same time, the Opinions strictly restrict capital involvement in off-campus training institutions. The opinion puts forward that discipline training institutions should not be listed for financing, and capitalization operation is strictly prohibited; A listed company may not invest in discipline training institutions through stock market financing, nor may it purchase the assets of discipline training institutions through issuing shares or paying cash.
While controlling the capital, the Opinions further clarified the need to control the capital: some pilot cities should control the pre-paid fees of off-campus training institutions through third-party custody and risk reserve, so as to effectively prevent problems such as "difficulty in refunding fees" and "running away with money". It is necessary to strengthen the management of off-campus training advertisements and ensure that mainstream media, new media, billboards in public places, residential areas and online platforms do not publish or broadcast off-campus training advertisements. Unfair competition in the form of fictitious original price, false discount and false propaganda. It is absolutely forbidden. The opinions not only control capital, capital and marketing, but also point out the direction for the next development of off-campus training institutions.
Training institutions should be located outside the campus to reduce the burden on students and parents, but what else should be done on campus? The viewpoint also gives the answer. The opinion puts forward that the total amount and duration of homework should be reduced in an all-round way to reduce students' excessive workload. Schools should ensure that no homework is assigned in the first and second grades of primary school, and the average completion time of written homework in the third to sixth grades of primary school is no more than 60 minutes, and the average completion time of written homework in junior high school is no more than 90 minutes. Strengthen the guidance of homework completion, teachers should guide primary school students to basically complete their written homework at school, and junior high school students should complete most of their written homework at school. In principle, the end time of after-school service should not be earlier than the local normal off-duty time. In the primary school affiliated to Capital Normal University, pilot exploration began in the second half of 20 18. The school provides homework counseling service from 3: 30 pm to 4: 30 pm, and guides students to participate in the activities of the recreation and sports beauty club from 4: 30 pm to 5: 30 pm.
Off-campus governance and on-campus security, with the release of opinions, various localities have introduced specific measures to implement them. Beijing clearly stated that it is strictly forbidden to divide key classes and experimental classes; Promote the flow of teachers in the region, and gradually increase the proportion of high-quality ordinary high school enrollment indicators allocated to junior high schools in the region; It is strictly forbidden for schools in Shanghai to organize primary and secondary school students to take any form and scope of joint or monthly exams, and there is no mid-term exam or exam in primary schools. In random interviews with parents of some students, the reporter learned that parents generally agree, but they are also worried about reducing the burden of students' homework and off-campus training.
For parents' concerns, the Opinions also put forward solutions. The opinion calls for promoting the balanced development of compulsory education, promoting the growth of new high-quality schools, expanding high-quality educational resources, implementing grading of test scores, and resolutely overcoming the tendency of scoring theory. Gradually increase the proportion of high-quality ordinary high school enrollment indicators allocated to junior high schools in the region, standardize the enrollment order of ordinary high schools, and put an end to illegal enrollment and vicious competition. It is strictly forbidden to issue entrance examination indicators or unilaterally evaluate schools and teachers by the enrollment rate.
Dong Shengzu, director of the Institute of Private Education of Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, said: "The fundamental reason is that the allocation of educational resources is not balanced enough, and the deep-rooted concept of educating people has not been broken. It is particularly important that the evaluation system and reform have yet to achieve greater results. "
Promoting the high-quality and balanced development of compulsory education has a long way to go, and it is imperative to standardize and rectify off-campus training institutions. Just before the broadcast of the program, the reporter made a random unannounced visit to some off-campus training institutions. It is found that some off-campus training institutions are still using the summer vacation to train their children. In another small organization, although calligraphy and Go training were written at the door, the staff revealed that they actually provided subject training services. With the release and formal implementation of the opinions, it is necessary for relevant departments to make early judgments and strengthen governance for this illegal off-campus training.
Reducing students' burden in compulsory education is not a new topic. However, this time, the efforts are unprecedented. The Opinions set a specific timetable: 1 year will effectively reduce the students' excessive homework burden, off-campus training burden, family education expenditure and parents' corresponding energy burden, and the results will be remarkable within three years, and the people's educational satisfaction will be significantly improved. At present, the education department has formulated the implementation rules and started to implement them.
According to statistics, at present, the number of off-campus training institutions for primary and secondary school students in China is very large, which is basically the same as that of schools. Among them, the good and the bad are mixed, and the problem of violation of laws and regulations is outstanding. There are also some teaching and training institutions trapped by capital, eager to sell and over-publicize, which violates the public welfare attribute of education and destroys the normal ecology of education. Therefore, the goal of "double reduction" is to further improve the quality of education and teaching and the service level of the school, so that students can "eat enough" and "eat well" at school; On the other hand, the training behavior of off-campus training institutions is fully standardized, all kinds of chaos in off-campus training are basically eliminated, and the enthusiasm for off-campus training is gradually cooling down, building a good educational ecology. To achieve the expected goal, parents, schools and the whole society need to combine and cooperate with each other, so that education can develop in a fairer and higher quality direction and people's expectations for a better life can be better realized in the education reform.