In dozens of bus stops in this harbor town, the enrollment posters of Pinghu School in Hengshui No.1 Middle School (hereinafter referred to as "Pinghu Hengzhong") still occupy the whole window of the publicity window of each station. The poster has a deep red background and a yellow font, highlighting the words "national enrollment, unlimited household registration". The top line claims that Pinghu Hengzhong is a model high-quality school in the Yangtze River Delta jointly built by Hebei Hengshui No.1 Middle School, Jiaxing Port Management Committee and Guangzhou Gaoxin Group, and one of the top ten high schools in China.
On March 26 this year, Pinghu Hengzhong held an unveiling ceremony, and then questions and controversies broke out one after another.
The school is located in the northeast corner of Zhapu Town. I got on a bus in the center of town. I read the job advertisement six times and arrived at the school gate. The security guard registered every stranger who was going to enter the school gate and asked carefully about the purpose of entering the school.
More than a month ago, at the height of the controversy, more than a dozen journalists poured into the school gate. Xiao Jiaxing, the legal representative of Pinghu Hengzhong, left his mobile phone number on the enrollment poster for enrollment consultation, which became a special interview line for reporters. In addition to being interviewed by a certain media before the dispute, Xiao Jiaxing has always said politely that the interview needs the approval of Jiaxing Port Social Development Bureau, the school's competent unit.
After more than a month of debate, Xiao Jiaxing rejected the reporter's interview request with the same set of rhetoric. Zhang Weigen, director of the Social Development Bureau of Jiaxing Port Area, hung up the phone after hearing the reporter's intention, and every subsequent phone rang three times and prompted "The phone you dialed is power off".
On the other side of this argument are education officials, educators and other middle school principals in Zhejiang Province.
The most disgusting and willful "stepping on the line to enroll students"
"Advance enrollment and reward enrollment, Pinghu Hengzhong enrollment is stepping on the line; The practice of rewarding enrollment is tantamount to tempting students to gamble, and educational development rejects naked business logic. " The first speaker was Fang Hongfeng, Director of Basic Education Department of Zhejiang Education Department. In an interview with Zhejiang media, he bluntly said: "Hengshui is a typical exam-oriented education. It only sees scores, no one. It is inconsistent with our people-oriented educational concept in Zhejiang. They feel advanced, we feel backward, and Zhejiang does not need it. "
Wang Jianyong, vice president of Hebei Hengshui, responded to Fang Hongfeng's boycott with confidence in an interview with the media: "Whether other places need Hengshui mode is not decided by local officials, but the needs of local parents."
According to Zhang Feng, deputy director of the Teaching and Research Section of Zhejiang Education Department, from the very beginning, public opinion interpreted the boycott of Hengshui in Zhejiang education as a criticism of exam-oriented education, which deviated from the core of the problem and easily covered up the real problems in Pinghu Hengzhong.
"Pinghu Hengzhong has aroused the resentment of people in Zhejiang education circle. First of all, it adopts some enrollment methods that we don't quite agree with. In the norms of enrollment and running schools, we have been stepping on the line from the beginning. " Zhang Feng said that stepping on the line is mainly manifested in enrolling students in advance and rewarding enrollment.
Fang Zhanhua, director of the Education Research and Evaluation Center of Zhejiang University School of Education, expressed the same meaning. He thinks these two behaviors in Pinghu Hengzhong are "too capricious".
Pinghu Hengzhong Senior High School's 20 17 enrollment brochure shows that the first batch of freshmen will report to the school on April 15, two months ahead of the Zhejiang senior high school entrance examination. Xiao Jiaxing explained to the media that registration is not the beginning of school, but the preparation for freshmen to adapt to the high school curriculum.
When answering the media's question about whether it is illegal to enroll students in Pinghu Hengzhong in advance, Fang Hongfeng made a statement that Zhejiang does not need Hengshui. He said that no matter what word games the school plays on the word "registration", it obviously violates the requirements of the "Guiding Opinions on Improving the Junior High School Graduation Entrance Examination and the Enrollment Reform of Ordinary High Schools" formulated by the Provincial Department of Education 20 14.
Subsequently, Pinghu City Education Bureau verified the illegal enrollment behavior of Pinghu Hengzhong, and the school postponed the student registration time until after the senior high school entrance examination in June.
Regarding incentive enrollment, according to the school's enrollment brochure, Pinghu Hengzhong will give a one-time award of 500,000 yuan to students who have passed Tsinghua and Peking University after graduating from high school; Students admitted by the University of Hong Kong, Shanghai Fudan University and Shanghai Jiaotong University will receive a one-time award of 65,438+10,000 yuan each; Admission to the top ten domestic famous schools in the country will be rewarded with a one-time reward of 30,000-50,000 yuan. This is 300,000 yuan more than the 200,000 yuan awarded by Hengshui Hefei Branch on 20 15 to students who have passed the Tsinghua of Peking University.
Zhang Feng pointed out that the practice of rewarding admission is not an educational act in itself. In his eyes, this way is tantamount to luring students to gamble, while Ye Cuiwei, president of Hangzhou No.2 Middle School, said that it is more like a bribe to students.
"Defeat opponents, achieve yourself, do whatever it takes to maximize benefits, and education development rejects such naked business logic." Zhang Feng said.
"National enrollment in middle schools, nonsense"
"Hengshui finally points to the same goal-pinching. The education sector in Zhejiang has reacted so strongly that the biggest worry is that it will destroy the educational ecology of relatively balanced county-level middle schools in Zhejiang. "
As an educator who has studied Hengshui model for many years, Yang Dongping, a member of the National Education Advisory Committee and a professor at the School of Education of Beijing Institute of Technology, felt a familiar sense of disgust when he saw the provisions on early enrollment and reward enrollment in Pinghu Hengzhong Admissions Guide.
According to him, these small moves on the edge of laws and regulations are the usual means of Hengshui, Hebei. In addition to early enrollment and rewards, it may also involve super-scale school running and cross-regional enrollment.
According to the survey of Pinghu Hengzhong, the school will set up two departments: high school and junior high school. With the continuous expansion of the school scale, the school will no longer be limited to household registration, but will recruit students from all over the country, with a development scale of 144 classes and 6,000 students.
According to the Standards for the Construction of Ordinary Primary and Secondary Schools in Cities and Towns issued by the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development in 2002, the maximum size of ordinary high schools is 36 classes with 50 students in each class, with a total of 1.800 students. 20 12 Opinions on Strengthening School Capital Construction Planning during the Twelfth Five-Year Plan issued by the Ministry of Education requires that the service radius and school scale of schools should be rationally planned, and the number of ordinary high schools should not exceed 3,000 in principle.
"Although these regulations are not mandatory, the estimated scale of Pinghu Hengzhong obviously far exceeds the recommended scale of the country." Yang Dongping said.
As for cross-regional enrollment, Yang Dongping said that in order to promote private education, the state has given private schools the right to recruit students independently. Pinghu Hengzhong, as a private school, has the right to recruit students across regions, but there is a principle that high school education belongs to basic education and has a strong territorial nature, serving the residents in the region. "That the national enrollment, it is a mess. Is it a university or a high school? "
According to the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Enrollment of Private Primary and Secondary Schools issued by Zhejiang Education Department on 20 12, schools organize enrollment to students from different regions. If the enrollment scale of the same student source exceeds 10, it needs to be made clear in advance and included in the enrollment plan of students from different regions.
According to Yang Dongping, these means of enrolling students in advance, rewarding them, running schools on a super scale and enrolling students across regions all point to the same goal-pinching the top. That is to say, in the case of expanding the scope of enrollment as much as possible, we will snatch high-quality students from all over the province by enrolling students in advance and providing incentives, and finally build a super middle school.
"The essence of the cross-regional pinching behavior of super middle schools is to suck blood and plunder regional educational resources, which will lead to' soil erosion' in regional education, and' poverty in the county' will appear in serious places, which will directly reduce the opportunities for rural students to enter universities and damage educational equity." Yang Dongping said that destroying the regional education ecology, and then damaging the educational opportunities of rural students, is the biggest harm to the super middle school represented by Hengshui.
"Zhejiang's education sector has reacted so strongly to Hengshui's participation. One of the biggest worries is that the invasion of such a barbarian will destroy the educational ecology of relatively balanced county-level middle schools in Zhejiang. " Yang Dongping said.
The so-called "county decline" means that after the super middle schools in the region concentrate all resources including students and teachers on themselves, the county middle schools in other areas in the region will be unsustainable.
Take Hebei Province as an example. According to Southern Weekend, in the 20 10 senior high school entrance examination, only 30 students in Xingtai 10 stayed in Xingtai, and nearly 70 of them went to Shijiazhuang No.2 Middle School and Hengshui School. 20 1 1 There were 200 students in Zanhuang County before the entrance examination, and only 60 students stayed in Zanhuang Middle School.
"The destruction of regional basic education by' dying in the county' triggered a domino reaction, which ultimately endangered the compulsory education stage." Yang Dongping said that the practice in central Shanxi and other places shows that only by stabilizing senior high schools can junior high schools be stabilized. If a county's high school collapses, compulsory education will be difficult to stabilize, and junior high school students and teachers will be seriously lost.
Yang Dongping further stated that in the decline of basic education caused by "county depression", the biggest victims were rural students and poor students, and the super middle school eventually damaged the education equity of these students. "Super middle schools like Hengshui and Maotanchang Middle School, because they are located in economically underdeveloped areas, are easy to give people the illusion that this is a school that creates an upward channel for rural children, but this moral justice is false."
According to media reports, according to the student source structure of Hengshui No.1 Middle School, nearly 80% of the students come from areas outside Hengshui. It is hard to say that it is for local students, let alone local rural students.
Yang Dongping believes that only by running every county-level middle school well can rural students and poor students have a better educational outlet and ensure the relative balance of high school resources in the province. This is the right way.