"We can only expand the class size."
In fact, the phenomenon of queuing to enter the park many days in advance is also staged in many places. The reporter learned that a public kindergarten was originally scheduled to start enrolling students on July 1 day, but more than 20 parents lined up at the door in the early morning of June 30 in order to "register their children as soon as possible".
Kindergarten staff said that last year, parents usually started to line up at four or five o'clock in the morning, and waited until around seven o'clock before another parent came to see their children off. "But this year, parents came earlier than last year and fed mosquitoes all night."
It is understood that the kindergarten plans to enroll 240 students this year. Of the children currently registered, 278 are eligible. When asked how to deal with it, the kindergarten staff said that "the class size can only be expanded". In this kindergarten with a standard capacity of no more than 720 children, the actual number of children in the kindergarten has exceeded 800.
This is not the only kindergarten that exceeds the standard class size. Some kindergartens increase the class size without increasing the class size.
"Related households" also give kindergartens a headache. On the eve of entering the park, many kindergarten directors' mobile phones are turned off. "It is difficult to enter the park, and many children want to come in through relationships. The relationship is very hard, no one takes care of it, so I can only shut down and escape for a while. "
The city is "crowded" and the countryside is "unmanned"
"Difficult to enter the park" is not the "patent" of big cities. Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province is a county-level city, and Mishan Experimental Kindergarten is the only provincial model kindergarten, and its enrollment index is also in a state of serious demand. Director Wu Cui said that there are more than 500 children in the kindergarten, which is already surplus.
According to Wu Cui, compared with local private kindergartens, public parks have certain advantages in terms of hardware conditions, teacher level and security. "The admission fee for provincial model kindergartens was originally one month in 780 yuan, but we only accept 480 yuan after comprehensive consideration, so it also has an advantage in cost."
Compared with the "popularity" of urban kindergartens, in some rural areas, it is difficult for kindergartens to enter the park, and the phenomenon of low admission rate is prominent, and the contrast between one cold and one hot is obvious.
Xingkaihu Township Central Kindergarten in Mishan City, Heilongjiang Province is a local rural kindergarten. The three-story teaching building is exquisite and beautiful. However, Director Sun Xiufang told reporters that such a large teaching building only used two floors. "The kindergarten is designed to carry 300 children, but at present there are only more than 80 children. This is still the number when the farm is busy, and there are fewer people in the school during the slack season. " With the increase of migrant workers, there are fewer and fewer students in kindergartens. Many parents send their children to kindergartens in county towns, and kindergartens in better counties are overcrowded.
In addition, some high-end private kindergartens make use of the advantages of small class capacity, international classes, "Montessori classes" and other special education, and the admission fee is relatively high and the admission difficulty is relatively low.
The structural contradiction of quality education resources is prominent.
Public and private, urban and rural, high-end and ordinary ... Many pairs of keywords about kindergartens describe the current situation of preschool education resources. Experts in the industry believe that with the implementation of the comprehensive "two-child" policy, the phenomenon of "difficulty in entering the park" caused by the supply structure will become more prominent.
Reation Wu, a professor in the Department of Social Work and Social Policy at Zhou Enlai School of Government Administration of Nankai University, believes that with the continuous improvement of the living standards of China residents, parents pay more attention to the quality of their children's education, and related high-quality resources are becoming scarcer and scarcer.
Xiong Bingqi, an educator, believes that the difficulty in entering the park reflects the current situation that the investment in preschool education in China is still insufficient. "In recent years, the state has repeatedly proposed to develop preschool education and encourage inclusive kindergartens, which requires all sectors of society to pay more attention to basic public education and relevant departments to increase investment."
Xiong Bingqi analyzed that at present, the investment in preschool education in China has exceeded the world average, but the pace of making up the historical debt cannot be stopped. Xiong Bingqi suggested that the number of public kindergartens still needs to be further increased, and at the same time, the support for private kindergartens and rural kindergartens should be strengthened to realize the relative equalization of quality education resources.