Houses and numbers
The reporter learned that the Children's Palace in Nanjing has at least several thousand square meters, whether at the district level or at the municipal level. Baixia district Children's Palace is an independent four-story building, located in downtown area. Gulou District Children's Palace is the original Peijiaqiao Primary School, Qinhuai District Children's Palace has an indoor playground and an exquisite auditorium, and Xiaguan District Children's Palace is a unique orange-red building. Even the simplest jianye district Children's Palace has four floors ... piano room, sound practice room, painting room and calligraphy room. However, with excellent hardware facilities, the children studying here are not as happy as we thought.
Lens 1: make up lessons, the children's palace classroom is not enough.
At four o'clock on Monday afternoon, the reporter came to Hongwu high-rise residential area in Xiaohuowa Lane. A resident who is exercising told reporters that the independent building in front is baixia district Children's Palace, so it is right to hear mezzo-soprano singing. The reporter hesitated and asked again. What he is looking for is the Children's Palace, a place where children can play. Aunt said with certainty: Yes, the Children's Palace is generally a place for adults to practice their songs. Coming to the third floor, the reporter saw a woman in her thirties practicing vocalization under the guidance of her teacher. Seeing that the reporter wanted to take pictures, she immediately closed the compartment door.
Yesterday was Saturday, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the reporter came to baixia district Children's Palace again. The Children's Palace is more full, but the difference is that this time all the children are studying. The vocal music classroom, painting classroom, taekwondo classroom and accordion classroom are basically full. There is a parents' lounge on the first floor, where there are more than a dozen parents who "study with the prince". The doorman told the reporter that the Children's Palace also has training in major courses such as Chinese, Olympic Mathematics and English. In the summer vacation, the classrooms were simply not enough, so we had to borrow classrooms from the nearby Huowa Lane Primary School and Santiao Township Primary School.
Lens 2: The classroom is empty and the teacher is chilling.
In contrast to the full capacity of baixia district Children's Palace, it is jianye district Children's Palace. At 9 am on Tuesday, the reporter planned to touch the door in jianye district Children's Palace. However, according to the address provided by the information desk, Shuiximen Street 120 is a primary school under construction. Ask the owners of newsstands and telephone booths, and they all say that they have never heard of the Children's Palace nearby. A taxi driver told reporters that he knew where it was, but he finally went to the provincial women and children's activity center on Hanzhongmen Street. When asked by reporters about civil servants from jianye district government, they all said they didn't know. After walking for nearly two hours, a relocated household told reporters that the Children's Palace is on Changhong Road opposite the district government, but the signboard on the door belongs to other units and needs to be carefully read.
Yesterday 12: 30, the reporter came to jianye district Children's Palace again and met a pupil who had just finished class. She told reporters that she is a student of Shazhou Primary School. She just finished her English class and felt very tired. In the afternoon, she will go to other places to learn Hulusi. In the guzheng classroom on the fourth floor of the Children's Palace, the reporter saw six or seven children learning guzheng under the guidance of their teachers. The eldest is in the fifth grade of primary school, and the youngest is only four or five years old. As it is lunch break, both teachers and children are in a bad mood. A teacher Guo told reporters that there are fewer and fewer students in the Children's Palace because the venue is too simple and the equipment is backward, and many children have gone to other places to study, resulting in a serious loss of students. I hope that more children will come to class after the Children's Palace moves to the original site of Mochou Lake Primary School at the end of the year.
Brands and tickets
The Children's Palace must have its own golden signboard in order to win the recognition of parents and solve the problem of survival. In the interview, a director of the Children's Palace bluntly told reporters that the "golden signboard" is a panacea that has been tried and tested. Whether it's a celebrity inscription, an advanced plaque or a self-styled education park, all these can show their identity, get recognition from their parents and make them give generously.
Scene 1: An erhu "propped up" the Children's Palace.
Just after three o'clock in the afternoon on Thursday, the reporter came to the Children's Palace in Xiaguan District and found that from the entrance of the Children's Palace to every classroom, the walls were covered with enrollment brochures for summer classes and autumn classes. In the Children's Palace, there is no one except the janitor. Grandpa said that the Children's Palace is now "difficult to do business". Although taekwondo classes have been launched recently, basically no children have signed up. Only many people learn erhu, because it is taught by famous teachers. Interestingly, the owner of the newsstand at the entrance of the Children's Palace told the reporter that other training here is not so good, but the dance is well taught. After chatting for a while, she took out a pair of dancing shoes and told reporters that children must come to me to buy shoes when they learn to dance. It turned out that she regarded the reporter as a parent who wanted to send her children to school and was selling dancing shoes. The second time I went to Shimonoseki Children's Palace was yesterday afternoon 1: 30. There are twenty or thirty parents and children coming in and out of the Children's Palace. Almost every parent carries an erhu on his back. They are all for the golden signboard of "Erhu Education Park". At the gate of the erhu classroom, the reporter saw such a scene: a little girl just refused to attend classes in the classroom. Her grandmother held the child in her arms and even said "Be obedient and be a good boy", but no matter how coaxed, the child just shook his head: "I hate erhu!"
Scene 2: The exhibition is to win the hearts of parents.
When the reporter came to the Children's Palace in Qinhuai District on Monday afternoon, the Children's Palace was being renovated, and the space originally rented to the bank was also used by the Children's Palace. The staff said that before Children's Day, it is necessary to give children a new environment and organize an open day for parents so that parents can see the teaching achievements of Children's Palace. He did not hesitate to say that this is also to attract more children to attend training classes here.
Yesterday at 3: 40 pm, when the reporter came to the Children's Palace in Qinhuai District again, it had magically transformed, and the parents' open day was on this day. The children's works in the painting class were made into exhibition boards and hung in the activity field for a week, and many parents who sent their children to study gathered around. Their works were exhibited, and the children were very happy and rushed to show their paintings to reporters. A parent who came from Daming Road told the reporter that his son is six years old and intends to let him learn a specialty. He has seen many children's palaces and found that the activities in Qinhuai District are well organized. Now he basically decided to let his children study here. A staff member listened and smiled happily.
In the interview, the reporter also found that many children's palaces have set up intensive tutoring classes for piano, chess, painting and calligraphy in response to the heat of summer grading examinations, and the charging standard is about 20% higher than that of ordinary classes. Painting and calligraphy classes 100 yuan/person or more, and musical instrument classes are generally above 400 yuan. There are no free activities for teenagers. Even in small libraries, books are not rented to foreign primary and secondary school students, and can only be provided for students in training courses to read.
Lens 3: charging, not soft on "the same door"
When I went to the Children's Palace in Gulou District on Thursday, a staff member told the reporter: Because the Children's Palace doesn't have its own small auditorium, it is necessary to borrow an outside venue to organize performances. But even if you borrow the venue of Nanjing Children's Palace, the cost is clear: 500 yuan for scenery, venue, microphone, air conditioning, one hour's cost, and a few dollars for wiring boards are unambiguous. A performance costs at least several thousand dollars. In this case, can the Children's Palace do public welfare with peace of mind? The staff member asked.
The reporter is located in the Nanjing Youth Palace on the square of Shanxi Road. He saw that the first floor of his youth theater had been rented to a foreign fast food restaurant. People can only enter the theater through a small door on the side of the second floor. A citizen who is taking his grandson for a walk said that the doors of the Nanjing Children's Palace Theater should be at least a little more generous, and we should not only consider the fixed income of several million a year.
Professional and top students
In order to cater to parents' desire for success and cultivate "top students", most children's palaces have set up extracurricular language tutoring classes. Yesterday, in the Children's Palace in Gulou District, Yucai education and training institutions posted the courses of foreign language and computer teaching in primary schools during the summer vacation on the wall of the Children's Palace, and also set up a stall in the Children's Palace for consultation. A person in charge of the training institution told the reporter that the starting point is on the second floor of the Children's Palace. The Children's Palace has become a real "second classroom" and a "learning palace" that scares children.
While cultivating "top students", the Children's Palace itself is also facing "professional" exams. The reporter learned from the education department that before the end of this year, the Nanjing District Children's Palace will conduct a star selection, which is divided into one, two and three stars. The selection criteria are mainly the building area, the number of teaching staff, students' awards, the passing rate of examinations, facilities, etc. A person in charge of a children's palace told reporters that according to this standard, there is no three-star children's palace in Nanjing, because the three-star children's palace only has an area of 6,000 square meters, otherwise the software is useless. For example, the Children's Palace, where I am located, is more than 3,000 square meters, but it may not even be two-star. This can't help but remind people that today's 3000 square meters have not been well used. Does the 6000 square meters Children's Palace mean more waste of resources?
Thinking: Children's Palace, can you be more childlike?
Children's Palace undertakes two major functions: quality education and organizing activities. Even in normal times, it should be a paradise for children's extracurricular activities, so that children can improve their quality in the game. However, this week, the reporter visited several children's palaces in the main city of Nanjing. Usually, there are no children. Children's Palace is an empty classroom and an excellent singing room for urban white-collar workers. On weekends and summer vacations, all kinds of assembly line training classes in Children's Palace are surprisingly popular. Parents drag their children around the classroom, and every course is out of their parents' pockets, which also makes children feel at a loss and flinch under the educational concept of "versatility". Children's Palace, can you be more childlike?