Linking unpaid blood donation to children's school enrollment not only makes unpaid blood donation utilitarian, but also affects children's equal right to education.
According to a news report, recently, some netizens posted that a school in Wuyi County, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province issued a notice, saying that if the child wants to go to primary school in the local area, the more points will be in accordance with the point system, in addition to the longer the number of years of residence, the higher the points, but also through unpaid blood donation, hematopoietic stem cell sampling, participation in volunteer services, and donations to charities, of which blood donation is worth 2 points per 100ml, and the maximum score is 30 points through blood donation.
In this regard, the staff of the Wuyi County Education Bureau responded that the content of the online notice was one-sided, and the county did follow the point system for the compulsory education of the children of new citizens, and blood donation and donation were only a small part of it. The Wuyi County Administrative Service Center said that the higher the score, the more priority you can choose to the ideal school, even if there are no points, it will not affect the children's schooling, but you will not be able to choose the ideal school.
To put it simply, blood donation, as one of the points items of "integral enrollment", does exist in the local area, but the points do not affect the enrollment in the end, but affect the sorting of the choice of schools, first meet the enrollment of children with high scores, and then make overall arrangements for other school-age children. However, due to the impact of this policy, non-local household registration personnel who have children enrolled in school will undoubtedly try to get high scores.
From a practical point of view, it is reasonable to take the number of years of residence and social security payment as points, but it is unreasonable to link unpaid blood donation with school admission points. This not only makes unpaid blood donation utilitarian, but also forces people with household registration in other places to donate blood for their children's schooling, but not everyone is suitable for donating blood.
The implementation of the Compulsory Education Act to guarantee the equal right to education for every child should be accompanied by lowering the threshold for enrolment, not raising it. The work to be carried out by the relevant departments is included in the points-based enrollment policy, which undoubtedly increases the anxiety of the children of non-local household registration personnel to enroll in school.
China's "Compulsory Education Law" stipulates that "if a school-age child or teenager whose parents or other legal guardians work or live in a place other than his or her household registration receives compulsory education in the place where his parents or other legal guardians work or live, the local people** shall provide them with equal conditions for receiving compulsory education." ”
It can be seen that the children of migrants should receive compulsory education on an equal footing and enjoy the same education as local students. However, due to the different educational resources in the compulsory education stage in various localities, certain requirements have been put forward for the children of migrants to receive compulsory education, some of which require migrant workers and their children to meet the requirements of "five certificates" such as residence certificates, work certificates, and social security certificates, while others implement a points-based enrollment system.
In order to ensure the equal right to education of the children of migrants, the Ministry of Education requires that from 2021 onwards, all localities shall not require parents to provide proof of family planning, over-age schooling, and unsupervised household registration, and encourage qualified localities to enroll in schools with residence permits only. Obviously, linking school enrollment to blood donation not only makes unpaid blood donation utilitarian, but also affects children's equal right to education, which runs counter to the spirit of education reform.
On the basis of fully listening to the opinions of non-local household registration personnel, the local government should reasonably set up points points, implement the policy of enrollment according to residence permits, and ensure education investment according to the permanent resident population rather than the registered population, and at the same time promote the balanced development of compulsory education, and finally realize that all school-age children can enter the school without a threshold, and fully protect the equal right of migrant children to go to school.
Xiong Bingqi (Education Scholar).
*: Beijing News.