What is the magic of off-campus training institutions? How do they get nutrients from barbaric growth?
"Olympiad fever" born from "Xiaoshengchu"
The children in Liu Shengyu are now in Grade One. When my child was in the third grade of primary school, some students in the class signed up for the Olympic math class. He thinks the child is too young to sign up. When Liu Shengyu was chatting with a friend, he learned that the director's children were also in the Olympics class. The director said, what if you don't go up? Although there is no shortage of schools for further study, good schools recruit excellent children from training courses, and children will feel inferior after entering school.
When the child was in the second half of the fourth grade, Liu Shengyu enrolled the child in the Olympic class. This olympiad class, hiding in Youyi Road, occupied more than 0/0 classrooms on the third floor, under the guise of "XX English training class", to cope with the inspection by the education department. After one semester, the tuition fee was 3,200 yuan, and the children were still ranked lower, so Liu Shengyu transferred the children to another Olympic Mathematics training class. "The key to teaching well is that the teacher has a way." After some probing, Liu Shengyu was moved, although the annual tuition fee exceeded 1.6 million yuan. After the fifth grade, the teacher asked him that there are five top classes in famous schools, and the cost has nearly doubled. Can you go in? Watching the children go to the Olympics class exhausted, Liu Shengyu refused.
In junior and senior high schools, a class of 48 students, with 18 students, was admitted to a prestigious school. Familiar parents told Liu Shengyu that they were all spelled out by several sets of real questions in the Olympic Mathematics class.
"Now as long as children face further studies, they will go to training classes. Young, early, early, until the college entrance examination, there are corresponding institutions. " Han Xiaoping, the parents of the students, said, "Existence is reasonable, which means that everyone has needs."
Tutorial schools make up for the "senior high school entrance examination" of famous schools.
Despite repeated orders, there is always an undercurrent of "choosing a school" at the beginning of junior high school. Those hurdles that have passed through relationships are likely to still face problems in middle school. The little lady's children are in a second-class key middle school in the south of Ancheng, with 50 students in one class. According to the last semester's test of Senior Two, the children still haven't got rid of the ranking of the whole class 10.
Xiao Yujin said that the teacher's long-term treatment of the child's eyes made the child lose confidence. In the second semester of the second grade, under the introduction of other students' parents, she and her husband contacted a cram school with a semester of 25 thousand. The school keeps its student status, and children go to school twice a month.
The children did make progress there. Xiao Yujin said that the study and life management of the tutorial school is very strict, the teachers keep a close eye on it, and the children can only study alone. "This is not the original school. I think this is the basis for children's progress. "
"The tutorial school undertakes the cultivation of underachievers in key middle schools, but the enrollment rate of prestigious schools has nothing to do with itself and benefits from it." Yang, the principal of the training school, said.
The tutorial school has teachers with a monthly salary of 80 thousand
Chen, who has left an education and training institution, told reporters that in this training school, training teachers charge by class hours. A very capable math teacher once earned 80,000 yuan a month for lectures. Of course, this is not the norm. "20 14, the best teacher can get more than 300 thousand a year, and the whole Shaanxi school district has more than 10."
Regarding the source of training teachers, Chen said that part of it is to hire excellent teachers from local schools to work part-time; Some of them are recruited college students, and these teachers have no teacher qualification certificates. Training schools recruit college students through human resources, teach after training, and assess according to the feedback from students and parents.
Chen also revealed many "tricks" for extracurricular training institutions to attract students: organizing free lectures, collecting phone calls from parents of students and calling them; Packaging "famous teachers", with the click-through rate of senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination as the propaganda point, sent famous teachers to give lectures to attract students to sign up, but after registration, famous teachers disappeared, and students who often give lectures to their children may be newly graduated college students.
In previous years, the fees charged by training schools were all receipts, and there was no formal invoice. Later, with the invoice, the parents asked to open it. Training institutions are suspected of tax evasion and have been criticized.
Training institutions act as "brokers" of school selection fever.
At present, Xi 'an's extracurricular training market can be described as "a mixture of fish and dragons, mud and sand". Zhao Qian, the head of a training institution, said frankly that when the coal was in recession, some coal bosses also entered the training field with capital. At this stage, there are bank employees and various business people. Government social training forces, such as some youth activity places, also participate in extracurricular training institutions. "Because this industry is profitable and profiteering." Zhao Qian said.
Zhao Qian said that in the late 1990s, when Xi 'an's extracurricular training market first rose, it was aimed at the poor students in the class. At that time, the participants in the training class were basically retired teachers from the school, belonging to teachers. At that time, a class at school cost 1 yuan. If the substitute is only 70 cents, then in the training class, it takes two hours to substitute for 80 yuan. 2003 was a watershed, and some state-owned branches, affiliated universities and private schools handed over to local governments began to rise. A group of famous principals and teachers who retired from public schools entered private schools and became the main force in running schools. After 2008, private schools began to stand out. During this period, the Olympiad fever in the extracurricular training market gradually warmed up, and training institutions began to act as "brokers" of the school-choosing fever. Extracurricular training has changed from a supplement to school education to a necessity. The students in the training institutions are obviously stratified, and there are super-top classes that specially receive students from five famous schools.
At present, the four ministries and commissions have jointly launched a special governance action for off-campus training institutions. We expect the "barbaric growth" of off-campus training institutions to be effectively curbed.
The Committee members had a heated discussion.
Remedial education is a "big industry"
Some teachers earn 2 million yuan a year.
"I found that there are two kinds of education systems: one is a system composed of public schools and private schools; The other is a tutorial school, from tutoring courses such as mathematics and English to training specialties such as calligraphy and piano. I feel a little abnormal that tutorial schools are so popular. " On the afternoon of 5th, Simon Du, President of Normal University, spoke with Kan Kan at the CPPCC Independent Symposium.
Simon Du said that on the way to Beijing on June 5438+0, he asked some people at random, and all of them said that their children couldn't keep up with their studies because they didn't go to cram schools. "After I listen to, more nervous. In this case, it is definitely not enough to rely on a competent education department to reform. Because the training institutions are all from industrial and commercial registration, this has become a market behavior. Du Weiyuan cited local reports in Zhejiang as an example. The annual income of some training teachers has reached 2 million yuan.
"Some parents send their children to cram schools in order not to lose their children at the starting line. Some parents send their children to cram schools to save trouble. But the serious situation is that some teachers can't speak well in class, and they can only speak well in another class by collecting a sum of money. Therefore, there is a situation in which children don't tutor and their studies can't keep up. " Simon Du said.
"The children are busy from Monday to Sunday, from morning till night. Even in winter and summer vacations, many children come out of school classrooms and enter various training classes. Children's contact with society, family communication, family training and other issues have been neglected, and their physical and mental health has also been affected. " Simon Du said.
"This issue is related to thousands of households and the growth of the next generation, which cannot be avoided. Although the education department has also issued many documents to govern, I think it is still necessary to comprehensively implement policies. " Simon Du said.
"Tutorial education is now a big industry, and many people want a piece of it." Some members answered the phone. "Don't allow cram schools, just change the form and go underground or at home. The root of this problem is that the criteria for entering a higher school are too single. " Professor Li Daokui from Tsinghua University said.
The topic of "tutorial fever" immediately set off a discussion climax ...?
A set of data
The length of homework for primary and secondary school students in China is 2.82 hours per day.
It is nearly three times the global level.
On 20 17 12 19, Avanti, an artificial intelligence education platform for primary and secondary schools, released the Report on the Stress of Homework in Primary and Secondary Schools in China. The report shows that in the past three years, the average length of birthday homework in primary and secondary schools in China has decreased from 3.03 hours to 2.82 hours, but the latest data of 20 17 is still nearly three times that of the global level. As an Asian country, the length of homework for primary and middle school students in China is 3.7 times that of Japanese and 4.8 times that of Korean.
As far as the situation in different regions of China is concerned, students in Huanggang, Hubei and Shanghai have the longest average daily homework time, exceeding 3 hours, ranking first in the country. However, the duration of students' homework in third-and fourth-tier cities is gradually consistent with that in Beishangguang.
The report also shows that nearly 80% of parents accompany their children to do homework every day. The higher the students' grades, the longer the parents spend on homework. 7% parents of high school students spend more than 4 hours on homework every day. Accompanying writing has become one of the main reasons for the decline of parents' happiness in China, and it is also the killer of parent-child relationship. The data shows that 3/4 families "go to war" because of homework.
There are about 654.38+42 million students in compulsory education in China, and the number of parents has doubled. If you count grandparents, grandparents and teachers, the adults caught in the torrent of "homework" can be called mighty.
In addition, a large number of students and parents are caught in the "quagmire" of extracurricular remedial training. According to the data of China Education Association, in 20 16, the market size of extracurricular tutoring industry in primary and secondary schools in China exceeded 800 billion yuan, and the number of participants exceeded 654.38+37 million. Although there are price differences in different places, it has become a common phenomenon that the share of "tutoring expenses" in family expenditure is rising. In previous media reports, some family education and training expenditures even accounted for two-thirds of the family's annual income.
expert opinion/advice
Schools and extracurricular tutoring institutions should perform their respective duties.
Every weekend, children and parents are on the way to make up lessons, not make up lessons. Why do primary and secondary school students have a heavy extracurricular burden? Is the less burden the better? How to reduce the burden?
Where does the schoolwork pressure and burden of primary and secondary school students come from? Liu Peng, an education expert and president of Hancheng Basic Education Park of Xi Jiaotong University, believes that the opportunities for high-quality higher education are scarce, and the senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination are obviously selective. However, selective examination will inevitably bring exam-oriented education. The most common is the "double-cold teaching method", that is, listening to lectures coldly and assigning homework (Shaanxi dialect, meaning "non-stop"). In addition to homework, parents will take the initiative to spend a lot of money and time looking for extracurricular tutoring institutions to strengthen teaching and training in advance.
The burden reduction has been called for many years, why can't it be reduced? Liu Peng believes that there are several misunderstandings in the current measures to reduce the burden. First, he thinks that letting students leave school early can reduce the burden. In fact, shortening school time and pushing students to society and family can only bring greater burden to parents; Secondly, I think reducing the difficulty of teaching materials can reduce the burden. In fact, the difficult thing is the test questions. Some people think that reducing the difficulty of the exam can reduce the burden, but in fact, a test paper lacking difficulty will lose the meaning of selecting the exam, and even bring serious confusion in enrollment.
So how can we help students reduce their schoolwork burden scientifically and reasonably? Liu Peng believes that one-size-fits-all mechanical burden reduction will become a dead letter in practice, and the most reasonable method should be: the school should earnestly assume the leading responsibility of students' learning and not be absent; As a supplement, extracurricular tutoring institutions undertake students' individualized learning needs and should not exceed their authority. A consensus must be reached that private tutoring institutions should not bear the main responsibility of education. Parents should make reasonable choices according to their own economic strength and their children's learning situation, and never blindly follow suit. Pursuing the perfect combination of quality education and exam-oriented effect is the ideal of most parents.