I think it was relatively easy in the countryside before 2008, but it was much more difficult to get another 985 college student in the countryside afterwards. The reasons are as follows: in the era when house prices have not been rising, the current situation of rural schools is not like this. I remember that around 2000, there were 10 classes in a middle school in our town, and four of them were key classes. There are more students in the town next door than in our town, and there are also ordinary classes and key classes.
At that time, the students who were able to attend key classes in rural schools, except a few who came in through relationships, were all excellent in primary school. Students in key classes have strong learning ability, so do teachers. Only teachers with outstanding ability can be appointed as teachers in key classes by the school.
The most important point is that rural schools at that time gave students free make-up lessons, and the learning tasks of key classes were very heavy. For example, I used to be a student in a key class. The regular class has two days off every week, and we only take half a day off to go home and get a week's daily necessities.
The summer vacation is given to ordinary classes for two months, and we will give them half a month at most. In winter vacation, there is only one week's holiday. Normal school hours, get up at six o'clock in the morning to do morning exercises and have morning classes, and finish classes at 2 1: 30 or even 22: 00 in the evening.
In this high-pressure learning environment, most students have excellent grades and have been admitted to local key high schools. The most important thing is that even if you can't get into a key high school at that time, you can choose to repeat the grade. However, after 2008, nine years of compulsory education is free, and it is really difficult to repeat grades in junior high school.
After entering key high schools, there are also differences between poor classes and excellent classes. High schools are assigned to excellent classes, and the chances of being admitted to 985 prestigious schools are relatively high.
However, it is much more difficult for rural children to be admitted to 985 schools after the house prices naturally rise and the burden on students is reduced. First, with the advancement of urbanization, many rural children go to school in cities, which also makes it difficult to find a room in urban school districts, and at the same time makes the loss of students in rural schools more serious.
For example, before 2003, there were 10 classes in one grade, with more than 60 students in each class, but this year the middle school in our town stopped teaching. The reason for stopping teaching is that the school has always been a junior high school that can only recruit less than 30 students, and the three grades add up to less than 100.
The rural children in our town either buy a house at home and go to a public school in the city, or they have to find a relationship to spend money on a private school in the city. There are fewer students in rural schools, and good teachers don't want to stay in rural schools without students anymore. Many of them are hired by private schools in cities with high salaries.
Then, with the school banning students from making up lessons, even if it is free, it also makes rural teachers just relax. The teacher is relaxed and the rural students are not there. Some people say that cramming is to treat children as learning machines and obliterate their nature. But for rural children, their parents are not educated enough to help their children with their lessons, and they have no time to care about their studies when they go out to work.
Put the children in the same class as the original key class, there will always be someone to supervise the children's study, so don't worry about the children being left unattended. However, with the cancellation of make-up classes and key classes, children are neglected during the holidays, and their grades are hard to rise again.
On the other hand, in the city, although no school makes up lessons like before, there are many institutions outside the school that will pay for them. Although tutoring is not everything, it is not necessarily that children's grades will improve, but there is basically no chance without tutoring. For people with poor families in rural areas, they have to buy a house or spend a lot of money on private schools to go to school in cities, but since their families are in financial difficulties, how can they have money?
Conclusion: In the past, in rural areas, school tuition was free, or teachers were given symbolic tens of dollars. For the sake of students' enrollment rate, teachers in key classes are also very strict with the students in their classes. If there are disobedient students, it is corporal punishment. There is really no choice but to let students study in ordinary classes, which will affect the overall performance of the same level.
At that time, the proportion of students from key classes in rural areas admitted to key high schools under the supervision of teachers day and night was still considerable. In high school, there is also stricter learning management than in junior high school. As long as you work hard, the chances of being admitted to 985 prestigious schools are still great.
However, there are fewer and fewer students in rural areas, famous teachers have been poached by cities, and rural families want to train another 985 child. Unless parents have the money to send their children to the city, they can give them a holiday and find various cram schools so that their grades will not be taken away by the children in the city and they will have a chance to enter the 985 school. In other words, it is basically difficult for rural children to be admitted to 985 schools if their family economy is not good, except for a few people with abnormal learning talents.