The direct consequence of merging schools and concentrating schools in counties and townships is that there are huge schools and huge classes with a large number of students in towns, especially high schools in county towns, and there are not a few middle schools with five or six thousand students and nearly ten thousand students. Such a huge scale of running a school has brought new problems to school management, school culture construction, school spirit construction and redistribution of educational resources. Too concentrated schools also bring inconvenience to rural students who live in scattered areas. It is not only a long way, but also a potential safety hazard, which increases the burden on parents and students. Boarding system, one-day system or car rental system, the cost paid by parents far exceeds the benefits brought by free tuition and book fees in compulsory education, and parents and children can't see where to win. The increase of economic burden has become one of the important reasons for students to drop out of school.
In order to adapt to centralized education and solve the problem of long distance to go to school, boarding schools were generally developed in rural areas after the merger of schools. Boarding schools will bring new problems, because most schools are not designed according to the standards of boarding schools and cannot meet the basic requirements of students' boarding, such as dormitory, catering, drinking water, washing, hygiene and safety. A dozen people or even dozens of people are crowded on the Datong shop, but the bathroom is far away in another corner of the campus. Even such accommodation can't let all students board, so there are a lot of accompanying students in the town. Most of the accompanying readers are grandparents of students. They rent a house to cook and accompany their grandchildren to school. What has the countryside become? Children's parents go out to work, and grandparents accompany their grandchildren to study in the county. The merging of schools and the concentration of running schools forced the elderly and children left behind in rural areas to enter cities and towns, while in rural areas, houses were locked and fields were abandoned, leaving a desolate scene.
It is not surprising that boarding for high school students is difficult for junior high school students. Now boarding for primary school students has been implemented in many places, and children aged six or seven will live independently at school. No matter how good the school's material conditions and management level are, it can't replace the parent-child relationship between children and parents. It seems that the school and the administrative department of education have not considered for a long time, and what kind of influence children will have on their psychological development if they spend 12 years in boarding from primary school to high school. Some experts suggest that schools should be equipped with school buses to pick up children. Some schools have indeed done this, renting social vehicles to pick up and drop off children, and the safety of vehicles and the qualifications of drivers are not guaranteed. In order to reduce costs, operators are often seriously overloaded. There are also parents sharing agricultural vehicles to pick up and drop off their children, and open agricultural vehicles crowded with children are bumping on rugged mountain roads. Who is responsible for their safety? In developed countries, we can often see yellow school buses on the street. The seat height and safety facilities in buses are specially designed for children, and the qualification requirements of drivers driving school buses are also strict.
The merger of villages and schools will also bring about a deeper fracture of rural culture and the loss of local identity. In the traditional rural culture of China, the school is the center of cultural communication and has the supreme status. Teachers are rural intellectuals, and schools and villages are inseparable. The village will become more complete because of the school, and the villagers will be proud of their school. Schools, villagers and rural culture constitute a complete cultural community. In the process of merging schools, several neighboring villages often have conflicts or even fights because of which village and where to merge schools, which shows the deep feelings of villagers for schools. The villagers are also very helpless to withdraw the manuscript and proofread it. There are really too few students The school that was once proud has become a pain in the hearts of the villagers.
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Liu, a scholar at the Institute of Rural Education of Northeast Normal University, pointed out that school merger has indeed improved the unit area of school buildings and the utilization rate of school funds, and reduced the running cost of local governments. However, the merger of schools has shifted the economic costs of some governments to the economic costs of farmers, the time costs of students and the security risks. His research shows that the average distance from school to school after dropping out of school is 4.05 kilometers, which increases the security risk; The average annual expenditure of boarding students is 1 157.38 yuan, which becomes the extra expenditure of rural families.
A survey by Bai Liang, a scholar of Northwest Normal University, in a county in Gansu Province shows that there is a large-scale waste of educational resources in the local area. By the beginning of 2009, there were 1 1 idle project schools invested by Hope Project or Public Welfare Foundation in this county. Some merged schools, many of which were newly built in 2004 and 2005. Some merged village primary schools only have preschool classes, and a large number of classrooms are idle. On the other hand, a large number of "super schools" were formed after students concentrated in cities and towns, while the state's capital investment in rural boarding schools mainly focused on the construction of school teaching facilities, and the investment in students' living security was generally insufficient.