● Some schools in Xiamen have provided lunch care services.

● Xiamen is formulating an after-school service plan for primary schools, which will be piloted next semester.

Haixi Morning News (Reporter Liu Yuxi) Where will the children go after school at noon? I believe that many dual-income families are worried about where their children are "entrusted". Recently, the Fujian Provincial Department of Education issued "Guiding Opinions on Doing a Good Job in After-school Service for Primary and Secondary School Students" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), proposing to establish a multi-party after-school service system for primary and secondary schools, focusing on solving problems such as uncoordinated pick-up and drop-off time of some parents and school schedules, and unattended students after school. This also shows that Fujian will encourage schools to offer "morning and afternoon classes".

In this regard, the Xiamen Municipal Education Bureau said that Xiamen is formulating an after-school service plan for primary schools, which will be piloted in some schools next semester.

Explore the government's purchase of services

According to the Opinions, the after-school service hours of primary and secondary school students are generally: after school in the morning to before school in the afternoon and before school in the afternoon to 18.

The Opinions pointed out that in the future, schools should make full use of their resource advantages in education management, personnel, venues, facilities and equipment to provide after-school services for students.

In terms of management personnel, the Opinions mentioned that all localities should establish an incentive mechanism to encourage school staff, retired teachers, social enthusiasts, volunteers and parents to participate in after-school services. In addition, departments at all levels should also strengthen the training and management of staff, improve their professional quality and students' safety management ability, and prohibit those with bad records from participating in after-school services.

Establish a funding guarantee mechanism

Personnel, funds and safety are the key points of school lunch health care service. In this regard, the Opinions put forward some directions. For example, in the pilot areas, it is necessary to establish and improve the funding guarantee system for after-school services for primary and secondary school students, and departments such as finance and trade unions should subsidize and support the funds needed for schools to carry out after-school services; Schools may, in accordance with relevant regulations, pay service fees (not included in the total performance salary) to the staff who undertake extra services for students after completing the prescribed teaching and management tasks without affecting their own work. The service fee standard can refer to the class allowance standard of local supernumerary contract teachers. It is worth mentioning that the Opinions suggest that schools and related institutions undertaking after-school service pilots should promote students' healthy development by organizing students to read independently, complete homework, and provide individual counseling, and carry out various forms of sports, aesthetic education and other activities. It is forbidden to make up lessons and attend classes collectively in disguise.

Schools in Xiamen have set up lunch classes.

In fact, many primary and secondary schools in Xiamen, such as Luxiang Primary School and Jinshang Primary School, have started to provide school lunch service for more parents. Based on the principle of "serving students and reassuring parents", Huli District Party Committee and Government actively do practical things for the people, and encourage primary and secondary schools in the area to set up lunch classes to solve parents' worries.

Journalist investigation

Luxiang Primary School:

Insist on school lunch support to make parents feel more at ease

Morning News reporter Liu Yuxi

In fact, Xiamen Luxiang Primary School has been implementing school lunch health care service since its opening in 2007. From the earliest school to open a canteen, to the Huli District Education Bureau to organize public bidding to purchase services, the school organized a catering committee to participate in supervision and management, and the principle of "voluntary compensation" of the school was praised by parents.

The food in the canteen is delicious and affordable.

At noon yesterday, the reporter came to the canteen of Luxiang Primary School. I see the school canteen is spacious and bright. Lunch boxes are neatly placed on the table marked with grades, including braised chicken legs, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and cabbage in a dry pot. It looks particularly clean. Students eat in an orderly way, and there are tutors at the table.

Fu Kaixuan, a fourth-grade student, came to the table carefully with a bowl of soup. She told reporters that since her parents are at work, she has been having lunch in the school cafeteria since the second grade. "The food in the canteen is delicious, and the food is not repeated every day. Clean, hygienic and nutritious. "

"Students from grade two to grade four come to the canteen to eat. After eating, under the guidance of the teacher, put the plates and chopsticks in the recycling place, and then go back to your classroom to rest; For students in grades five to six, lunch is sent to the classroom by the canteen staff, and then the dishes are collected uniformly, and the students rest in the classroom. " You Hongda, vice president of Luxiang Primary School, told reporters that this arrangement is mainly because junior students can't take care of themselves well and food may spill on the desks. So, let junior students come to the canteen to eat in unison, and the tutor will watch.

It is reported that there are about 200 students receiving school lunch service at present, adhering to the principle of "paid voluntariness". The daily lunch price 10 yuan, and the monthly lunch fee for each student is 200 yuan. This is easier for parents to accept than the price of five or six hundred yuan or even nearly one thousand yuan from the off-campus lunch care institution.

Parental participation in the diet Committee

When talking about the establishment of school lunch care service, You Hongda told reporters that when it was first established, the number of students participating in lunch care in each class was limited due to the small scale of the canteen. "A class can only have a maximum of eight people to participate in campus lunch support," said You Hongda, who was then taken to the school library by his tutor after lunch, where he could read books or do his homework by himself.

So, how does the school arrange tutors? You Hongda said that every teacher in the school has to rotate every week. "Although we will give teachers corresponding subsidies, their pressure is still great." You Hongda said frankly that they also thought about not continuing the school lunch consignment service, but every time they thought that the parents of these children were mostly migrant workers, they persisted.

In September last year, the Education Bureau of Huli District organized all primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in Huli District to apply for the qualification of canteen meals. Each school has formed a diet committee, including teachers and parents' representatives, who participate in and decide on the bidding for purchasing services, thus making parents and students feel more at ease. "I believe that with the development of various noon care work, the future management mechanism will be more reasonable and perfect." Many parents and teachers have expressed this wish. S833 10 17

Advice from others

Shenzhen and Luoyang:

Clear the competent department

Education administrative department

As early as 2009, the Shenzhen Municipal Government promulgated the Measures for the Administration of Off-campus Noodle Care Institutions in Shenzhen, which clearly stipulated that the education administrative department is the competent business department of off-campus noon care institutions, and the civil affairs department is responsible for the registration management of off-campus noon care institutions according to law. Health, fire protection, food and drug supervision, street comprehensive law enforcement, public security police station and other functional departments are responsible for the supervision of catering, fire protection, food safety, public security and other aspects of off-campus lunch care institutions.

Guangxi:

Encourage and support

The school provides meals.

This year, the government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region issued "Guiding Opinions on Doing a Good Job in After-school Services for Primary and Secondary School Students" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinions"), clearly proposing to encourage and support qualified schools to provide students with after-school services such as breakfast, lunch, noon accommodation and after-school interest classes; At the same time, encourage off-campus social training institutions to participate in after-school services.

(Morning News reporter Yuxi Liu)

Reporter's notes

optimize the allocation of resources

Hosted services can be even better.

The "difficulty" of lunch support is a major concern of many parents. For various reasons, many primary schools have stopped providing after-school services such as "school canteens". What followed was the mushrooming of off-campus trust institutions with uneven quality, and the safety of children could not be guaranteed. Therefore, this guidance issued by Fujian Province is worthy of praise.

At the same time, we should also realize that "school lunch care" has solved the worries of many parents, but this is not the only way. The Guiding Opinions on Doing a Good Job in After-school Services for Primary and Secondary School Students also mentioned that qualified social institutions should be encouraged to provide inclusive and affordable after-school services for students, and gradually form an after-school service system for primary and secondary school students with the joint participation and coordinated development of schools and society. This after-school service system should be a model in which all members of the society participate together, so that the market can play a role in allocating resources, and all sectors of society can make joint efforts to standardize management and do a better job in hosting services.