With the continuous advancement of urbanization, the rural population continues to decrease, the scale of township schools is shrinking year by year, and the number of students is also decreasing, which has caused a series of problems and caused a serious waste of educational resources. In this process, several major phenomena have emerged in rural schools, and relevant departments urgently need to take measures to solve them.
First, the scarcity of students leads to a serious imbalance in the student-to-faculty ratio. Some schools have only two teachers but four or five students, while others have more than 20 teachers and only 50 students. The teacher-student ratio is as high as 1:2, far exceeding the national standard of 1:10, which leads to a relatively small workload and relatively easy work for teachers. However, this also means that a lot of teacher resources are wasted.
If the average annual income of these teachers is 100,000 yuan, the state financial expenditure will become a large figure. On the contrary, urban schools are faced with the problem of a large number of students and a shortage of teachers, and need a large amount of financial expenditure to hire substitute teachers, forming a cycle of expenditure that comes and goes. In this regard, the relevant departments urgently need to come up with solutions to prevent the waste of resources.
Secondly, the utilization rate of hardware facilities in rural schools is extremely low. The state has given rural schools a very complete set of books, equipment, experimental equipment, sports facilities, etc., but due to the scarcity of students, these facilities have been idle for a long time. In stark contrast, urban schools face the problem of insufficient hardware facilities due to their large number of students. The failure of the education sector to allocate facilities from rural schools to urban schools has led to an uneven distribution of resources. Relevant departments should consider optimizing the allocation of resources, ensuring that hardware facilities are fully utilized, and avoiding the phenomenon of some schools "overeating" and others "not having enough".
Thirdly, village school buildings are seriously idle. In order to achieve the balanced standard of compulsory education, a certain area spent tens of billions of yuan to build schools, but due to unreasonable planning, rural schools only have four or five hundred students, but they cover an area of 80 acres. After the construction, a large number of classrooms and function rooms were left unused and could only be used as dust places. This phenomenon has worsened year by year, seriously affecting the effective use of funds. In order to prevent the waste of educational resources, the relevant departments urgently need on-the-spot investigation, and the schools that need to be merged and cancelled should be merged and cancelled to reduce waste and ensure that taxpayers' funds are used wisely.
In general, in order to solve the problem of waste of rural education resources, relevant departments should take effective measures. This includes merging and dismantling schools, optimizing teacher allocation, adjusting the use of hardware facilities, and ensuring a fair and reasonable distribution of educational resources. The departments of human resources and social security, finance, and education should make concerted efforts to solve these problems, reduce the financial burden on the state, and promote the sustainable development of education.