The logic of experts such as Liang Jianzhang is that the pressure of children's entrance examination is too great, resulting in excessive involution of education; The excessive involution of education makes parents have to invest a lot of time and money; Parents need to invest too much in education, which becomes a "roadblock" and makes people unwilling to live.
At the beginning, this report put forward two important measures to eliminate "obstacles": canceling the senior high school entrance examination to avoid premature stratification of education; Shorten the schooling system of primary and secondary schools by two years and improve the overall efficiency of education. They also suggested that these two measures have greater benefits.
At present, the golden innovation age of talents and the golden childbearing age of women are all around 30 years old, which conflicts with each other. If we cancel the senior high school entrance examination (which can save one year's review time) and shorten the academic system, most people will enter the society earlier and have more time to have children-especially for women, it will achieve the effect of increasing the fertility rate 10%-20%. Canceling the senior high school entrance examination will not make everyone a Buddhist. For example, after the release of the Regulations on the Protection of Minors' Schools, students' test scores, rankings and other information can only be known to themselves and their parents, but the remedial classes are still booming.
In the eyes of people who are used to the examination system, once the senior high school entrance examination is "liberalized", the competition before the college entrance examination will increase. In addition, the school time has been shortened by two years, and the academic pressure is even greater. Perhaps, it will also promote involution. In the final analysis, the fundamental source of educational pressure is the current imbalance of educational resources. The report also mentioned that the proportion of public education expenditure from primary school to high school in GDP is at a low level in all countries in the world-that is to say, the government's investment in basic education is far from enough, and we need state investment to try to narrow the gap between regions and schools.
In the compulsory education stage, children are still a "gold-swallowing beast". If a child is assigned to a high school with poor resource base, will parents feel at ease? Therefore, before the basic education resources are greatly improved and equalized, canceling the senior high school entrance examination and shortening the academic system may not be able to alleviate the pressure on all parties.
Faced with the low fertility rate, countries all over the world generally adopt various encouragement methods. By giving maternity leave and other holiday protection, cash subsidies and other economic subsidies, we will improve the child care service system, provide more employment support for women, and enhance residents' willingness to give birth.
There is no doubt that the pressure of education is really a mountain on the fertility rate. While continuing to increase investment in education, we need to boldly reform the existing education system, and in the future, the school population will slow down or even decline, and the improvement of educational efficiency will feed back the birth progress.
More importantly, it is necessary to adjust the curriculum structure, change the educational concept and upgrade the education and training mode, so that students can have enough autonomy and selectivity in basic education, instead of taking exams for the sake of exams and teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, so as to really reduce involution. Maybe this is what makes sense.