According to the Notice of the General Office of the Ministry of Education on Further Standardizing the Order of Senior High School Entrance Examinations in Various Places issued by the Ministry of Education in 2008, in addition to giving extra points (or less points) to students with excellent academic performance, children of martyrs, children of overseas Chinese, students from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and ethnic minority students in accordance with laws, regulations and national policies, some places link enrollment with various economic factors as a measure to attract investment and attract talents, which should be corrected and announced to the public in time.
In fact, local governments often choose between implementing policies. 3 1 provincial capital cities all give extra points to minority candidates, 29 cities give extra points to overseas Chinese and returned overseas Chinese children, and some places also give extra points to rural one-child families.
3 1 Among the provincial capitals, 13 won the bonus points of "three excellent students" and "excellent students (league) cadres" at the provincial level. Some people in the education sector said that some areas had previously included municipal students in the bonus program, but they were gradually cancelled because of strong opposition.
The winners of sports, art and science and technology competitions are 13, 8 and 15 cities respectively, and most of them clearly stipulate the competition items and rankings that can be awarded extra points. However, the extra points in these aspects are precisely the focus of public opinion. In this incident of adding points to the senior high school entrance examination in Harbin, which caused strong dissatisfaction among parents, some parents reported that in the basketball competition for middle school students in Harbin in 20 13, the junior middle school women's team had two first places, and everyone gave 5 points! Some parents questioned the results of printmaking, comics and seal cutting competitions. A cartoon has 23 first prizes and 8 second prizes in some schools. What is the gold content of this award?
Deng, director of the Basic Education Department of Chongqing Municipal Education Commission, said that the original intention of adding points to the senior high school entrance examination is to promote students' development expertise and give corresponding care to special groups according to law. Now some places cheat in the senior high school entrance examination, mainly because of operational problems, because power has not been supervised accordingly. Deng believes that the key to reforming the system of adding points to the senior high school entrance examination is to establish a more reasonable comprehensive evaluation system for students.
How to ensure fairness and justice
The emergence of various problems has triggered a dispute over the retention or abolition of the extra points system in the senior high school entrance examination.
Some experts, especially those in the education sector, believe that although the scoring system for the senior high school entrance examination is not perfect, it represents an educational orientation. For example, giving extra points to outstanding students who participated in scientific and technological innovation competitions, robot contest and model competitions is to guide the cultivation of students' innovative spirit and practical spirit, which is also the core of quality education and is of great significance to the future development of children and the promotion of national innovation strength. Extra points for minority students and martyrs' children belong to a kind of compensatory fairness.
Fan Xianzuo, a professor at the School of Education of Huazhong Normal University, does not fully agree with this view. He believes that educational corruption, such as adding "hidden rules", not only undermines social fairness, but also affects the authority and credibility of the national examination system.
A student in Chongqing won the first prize of Chongqing Science and Technology Innovation Competition, and 5 points can be added to the senior high school entrance examination. However, for this award, this student participated in special training courses on scientific and technological interests all the year round, and also participated in summer camps in Europe and America in order to meet some top scientific and technological teachers in China. The cost of a summer camp is between 20,000 yuan and 654.38+10,000 yuan, and the cost of a semester training course is between 3,000 yuan and 654.38+10,000 yuan, which is obviously not affordable for ordinary families.
Some experts said that at present, local authorities have too much discretion on the items, scores and scope of the senior high school entrance examination. In the notice of 2008, the Ministry of Education clearly pointed out that the bonus items, scores and scope that meet the national regulations should be regarded as major public service matters involving public interests and the vital interests of the people in accordance with relevant work rules and regulations, and on the basis of in-depth investigation and research, public opinions should be solicited from the society, and hearings should be held when necessary. However, at present, whether it is the change of the extra points in the senior high school entrance examination or the adjustment of the scores, public opinions are rarely involved. Therefore, how to make the local discretion reasonably restrained and how to make the scores of the senior high school entrance examination absorb the opinions and suggestions of all parties has become a top priority.
At the same time, it is necessary to clear the soil of power rent-seeking and the channels of black-box operation, and intensify the investigation and punishment of corruption. Experts suggest that for science and technology competitions, sports competitions and art competitions, the whole process should be recorded and the results and process of the awards should be publicized. The evaluation link should be anonymous and evaluated by experts from all over the country, so as to formulate more scientific evaluation standards that are more in line with the physical and mental development stage of junior middle school students, and design standards as simply as possible for objective evaluation.