The General Office of the Ministry of Education of China recently issued the Notice on Doing a Good Job in Enrollment of Compulsory Education in 20 17 Years. It is mentioned that the deadline for the birth date of children attending the first grade of primary school is determined by the provincial education administrative department according to the law and the actual situation. A stone stirs up a thousand waves. Many people think that the loose school hours mean that children can enter school early, but it is not necessarily so.

For many years, China's education department has stipulated that children who have reached the age of 6 before August 3 1 can attend primary schools. After the announcement of this notice, some media explained that the deadline for the birth of primary school students could be postponed to 65438+February 3 1. This means that children aged 5 years and 8 months can enter school.

Some parents think that this solves the problem of "losing at the starting line". In order to enter school before September 1, there are not a few Chinese mothers who choose caesarean section at the end of August. It was immediately pointed out that relaxing the deadline to 65438+February 3 1 will also allow a group of children who should have been born in 65438+ 10 to land early.

In fact, in the past, in some provinces and some rural areas, there were also cases of entering school at the age of seven or eight. For extraordinary children, it is not without precedent to enter school before the age of 6. Liu Jian, dean of China Education Innovation Research Institute of Beijing Normal University, said that it is more in line with the educational law to let local governments decide the time for children to enter school, and even let schools decide the time for admission in the future.