In 20021year, the "two sessions" proposed to revitalize the education of county-level ordinary high schools, and the Ministry of Education and other nine departments issued the "Action Plan for Developing and Upgrading County-level Ordinary High Schools in the Tenth Five-Year Plan". According to the planning requirements, it is strictly forbidden for schools in developed areas and urban areas to grab outstanding principals and teachers in weak areas and counties, strengthen the construction of ordinary high schools in counties, and promote the high-quality development of basic education.
? In recent years, except for a few counties at home and abroad, most counties in China generally face five major problems, such as "difficulties in students, teachers, hardware, safety and quality".
One is the difficulty of students.
First, super middle schools, private schools, provincial and municipal middle schools in some areas compete for students across cities, counties and districts, and the "pinching the top" enrollment behavior has intensified. With the gradual loss of high-quality students, the remaining students are either "self-exiled" or "small wealth means security" because of the lack of "catfish effect", and it is difficult for the county to have any school achievements that are generally recognized by parents and based on college entrance examination results. The decline in school performance will aggravate the panic and distrust of parents and students. When cross-regional enrollment exists, parents often "vote with their feet". Even if cross-regional enrollment is restricted, some "discerning" and "capable" families will make plans well in advance, and choose schools for further study or "escape" with their families through speculative means such as buying school districts in advance and moving their household registration, often "saving the country by curves".
The second is the difficulty of teachers.
It was once a strategic choice for China to concentrate on running key schools to solve the contradiction between insufficient investment and educational development. Coupled with the one-sided view of educational achievements, the gap in the allocation of educational resources between high schools and middle schools in the county is getting bigger and bigger. In some counties, there is a situation that one high school is "dominant" and other high schools are weak in development. With the rise of some super middle schools and the society's thirst for high-quality educational resources, many parents choose to send their children to super middle schools. Especially students with excellent academic performance often have certain preferential conditions to study in super middle schools, so the brain drain is more serious. At the same time, some private high schools promise generous salaries, even without personnel relations. As long as there is a policy of resignation report and poaching people, excellent teachers in the county are constantly losing. "This kind of loss is often a net loss, because once the loss of high-quality teachers gradually becomes a trend, it is even more impossible to introduce outstanding talents. In the county, there are often restrictions on the establishment and the number of professional titles, and the treatment is low, the pressure is high, and the evaluation of professional titles is difficult, so that a considerable number of teachers can't see hope. In contrast, if there were no rural subsidies, the salaries of rural teachers would not be so high; In contrast, the county's fiscal revenue is less, and the salaries of teachers in the county are not as high as those at or above the prefecture level, and the treatment is far lower than that of the municipal schools. Compared with junior high school and primary school teachers, they go out early and return late, study by themselves in the morning and evening, and watch classes on weekends without any additional subsidies, all of which depend on the teachers' educational feelings and dedication. "The above reasons are superimposed. The county not only can't keep outstanding teachers, but also can't recruit high-quality talents.
The third is the difficulty of the basic part.
? The problem of large class size is also particularly prominent in county education. Large classes in counties account for 50% of the country, and super-large classes account for nearly 60% of the country.
? However, the ratio of students to teachers in the county is difficult to meet the needs of curriculum reform such as selecting courses and leaving classes. The basic conditions of county curriculum reform and education model reform still need to be consolidated. The new curriculum reform puts forward that senior high school courses are mainly divided into subjects, and students can realize their personality development on the premise of meeting the basic requirements, which puts forward new requirements for the allocation of educational resources in senior high schools. Some areas have been exploring the new college entrance examination and new curriculum reform for several years, and some achievements have been made, but some areas do not have the basic conditions and are still in preparation.
The fourth is the difficulty of quality.
? In some counties, the high school education and teaching work has not improved for a long time, or the admission of Qingbei has not achieved a breakthrough for a long time, or the online rate of various subjects is low, or there is a lack of pragmatic measures in running schools with characteristics and expanding students' enrollment opportunities in higher education. The quality of education is worrying. This situation has reduced the reputation of the county and aggravated the difficulties of students and teachers.
5. Difficulties in guarantee
? As a public school, county high schools are mainly influenced by educational policies and government finances, and some aspects cannot compete with private schools. Self-infrastructure construction and improvement of conditions are totally dependent on finance, and it is difficult to fully meet them.
Where is the way out for "Xing County"?
1. To solve the "county problem", it is necessary to clearly take "strengthening government responsibility" as one of the basic working principles. It is the key for local governments to strengthen overall planning and form a joint force to revitalize the county. "None of the seven cities and counties in Nantong has collapsed, because Nantong has always prohibited cross-county enrollment, and there will be no situation in which a famous school' sweeps the top students' and other schools' disappear'. To get out of the development dilemma, the county must first stabilize the students. If this phenomenon continues, the educational gap between urban and rural areas will become wider and wider. To solve the "county dilemma", we need to reform the enrollment method of senior high school entrance examination, balance regional educational resources, and support schools to innovate the enrollment method of senior high school entrance examination.
? 2. To get out of the "county dilemma", the fundamental task is to improve and improve the treatment and conditions of teachers in the county. Only by raising teachers' salaries and improving conditions can we retain excellent teachers, introduce high-end talents and solve teachers' problems.
? 3. To revitalize the county ordinary high school education, on the one hand, we should improve the school-running conditions of county middle schools; On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the top-level institutional arrangements, optimize the county-level school-running pattern, allocate educational resources in a balanced way, and narrow the differences in resource allocation and school-running level among schools, so that all senior high schools in the jurisdiction can compete fairly, develop in a misplaced way, run schools with their own characteristics, and form a healthy competitive ecology. It is not conducive to the educational ecology of the whole county to build a large-scale high school with high quality in one county. To run more senior high schools in the county is not to focus on further education, but to transform hierarchical development into classified development, and to consider diversification and characteristics to form a benign school-running ecology in the county.
? To promote the high-quality development of education, without the development of county high schools, there would be no high school development of the whole ordinary high schools. Therefore, it is necessary to make an upgrade plan in the county. Development is to make up for shortcomings and promote fairness. The upgrade is to achieve overall high-quality development.