Is "free high school" a cure for retaining local students?
Wang Ying. According to ** reports, high schools in many places have implemented a free policy, and all localities believe that this move is conducive to "retaining local students".
Objectively speaking, ordinary high schools are free in a certain area, and high schools in other surrounding areas are not free, which can indeed achieve the purpose of "retaining some local students", which can be regarded as a "dividend" for some children from poor rural families. However, there must be a premise for doing so, that is, there is little difference between the local high school and the high school in other surrounding counties and cities in terms of school running level and teaching quality.
However, the current fact is that there are still big differences in the quality of teaching between rural and urban areas, between large and medium-sized cities, and between small counties, districts, and cities. In the face of this reality, even if the local high school is free, if the teaching quality does not improve, it will be difficult to retain the local excellent students.
The implementation of free admission to ordinary high schools in a certain area does not necessarily "retain local students". Moreover, according to the views of relevant experts, the conditions for the implementation of free high school education in the whole country are not yet ripe, and it is difficult for local financial resources to provide strong support. In order to truly retain students, free of charge is not the root cause of the problem, but also need to eliminate inter-school differences, strengthen the development of connotation, and improve the quality of education.
First of all, it is necessary to optimize the allocation of resources for ordinary high schools and eliminate the differences in the level of running schools between schools. Due to geographical reasons, the distribution of ordinary high schools in the vast rural areas is uneven, forming a situation in which the key high schools in counties and districts dominate the world. Whether it is financial investment, teachers, or other preferential policies, key high schools cannot be compared with ordinary high schools. Such a pattern of setting up schools will inevitably lead to the flow of high-quality students to key high schools, and it is difficult for other ordinary high schools to retain high-quality students even if they are free.
To promote educational equity and retain students, it is necessary to change the current pattern of key high schools being established by one university, optimize the allocation of resources for ordinary high schools at the county level, eliminate the difference in the level of running schools between schools, and create an educational environment of fair competition. To this end, the departments in charge of education at the county and municipal levels should strengthen the top-level design, rearrange the existing ordinary high schools, allocate educational resources in a balanced manner, evenly match teachers, and rationally distribute students according to students' wishes, so that all high schools in their jurisdictions can stand at the same starting point, compete fairly, develop their own characteristics, and improve the quality of ordinary high school education as a whole.
Second, it is necessary to strengthen the development of school connotation and strive to improve the quality of ordinary high school education. In addition to external reasons, poor teaching quality is the main reason why ordinary high schools cannot retain students. Some ordinary high schools have poor students, low self-goal positioning, chaotic internal management, and superfluous faculty and staffStudents do not have lofty ideals, lack of motivation to study Xi, and are not highly motivated to study Xi.
Ordinary high schools shoulder the important task of providing high-quality talents for colleges and universities and laying the foundation for students' career development. The education departments should further promote the reform of the "principal rank system" and the "teacher appointment system," guide ordinary high schools to improve the content management system, formulate a scientific teacher evaluation and evaluation mechanism, and fully arouse the enthusiasm of the vast number of teachers in teaching and educating people. Schools should adhere to the orientation of cultivating virtue and cultivating people, adapt to the needs of the college entrance examination reform, strengthen student management, improve students' enthusiasm for independent Xi, and help students realize their life ideals.
Finally, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of the teaching contingent to provide a guarantee for improving the quality of teaching. Teachers are the main force to improve the quality of teaching, and whether they can build a high-level teacher team determines whether they can retain excellent students. Compared with primary and junior high school teachers, high school teachers are constrained by the baton of the college entrance examination, and the intensity of teaching reform is not great, and some teachers have outdated educational concepts and follow the step-by-step process, still using the "naval war" and "war of attrition", which has led to no significant improvement in the quality of teaching.
With the smooth progress of curriculum reform and college entrance examination reform, independent subject selection and class teaching have become the main organizational forms of high school teaching, and improving students' core literacy and key abilities have become the main tasks of general high school education. High school teachers should adapt to the needs of the reform of the college entrance examination under the new situation, change the concept of education, take the promotion of students' initiative and independent development as the goal, improve the way of educating people, and vigorously improve the quality of teaching disciplines. As long as schools and teachers are diligent and effective in education and teaching, retaining excellent students can become a reality.