On December 27, the General Office of the Ministry of Education and other four departments jointly issued the "Notice on Further Regulating the Work Related to Compulsory Education After-school Services", which strictly prohibits arbitrarily expanding the scope of after-school services, and specifically emphasizes that the services provided by schools for students such as early arrival at school and self-study, lunch and lunch break care, and evening self-study shall not be included in the scope of after-school services, and shall not be included in the after-school service fee items such as early arrival at school supervision and self-study, lunch and lunch break care, and evening self-study. This policy has sparked heated discussions among netizens.
Some teachers believe that students are invited home for lunch breaks, and teachers go home to cook on time in the morning. They want to ensure that teachers work an eight-hour day, that they don't work even a minute, and that parents don't have a reason to complain about teachers disturbing their children's rest. At the same time, they also said that after-school service fees are not rare, and they just hope to be able to go home from work on time and take care of their children.
Some parents believe that after starting to volunteer for after-school services, students are pinched and blinded. In order to keep the children from being physically and mentally harmed, they had to be "voluntarily" enrolled in after-school services. They think that teachers have big opinions and can pay overtime according to the regulations, and they will not be paid if they do not attend classes during winter and summer vacations, so as to balance the work treatment of teachers.
How to balance the interests of teachers and parents and make after-school services more reasonable and effective is a question worth asking. From a teacher's point of view, they do have a lot of work pressure and need to have enough rest time and a reasonable pay package. But from a parent's point of view, they also have their own needs and concerns about having convenient, safe, and quality after-school services to take care of their children.
To solve this problem, we can start from the following aspects:
Protect the legitimate rights and interests of teachers. ** and schools should pay overtime or other compensation to teachers who participate in after-school services in accordance with regulations, and should also respect teachers' working hours and rest periods, and should not arbitrarily increase teachers' workload.
Improve the quality and efficiency of after-school services. Schools should reasonably arrange the content and form of after-school services, and carry out diversified, personalized, and interesting activities according to students' ages, interests, and needs, so that students can learn knowledge, cultivate abilities, and enjoy fun in after-school services.
Strengthen communication and consultation. **Schools, teachers and parents should establish an effective communication mechanism to understand each other's opinions and suggestions in a timely manner, solve problems together, and reach a consensus.
Improve relevant policies and systems. ** According to the actual situation, the relevant policies and systems of after-school services should be continuously improved, the rights and obligations of all parties should be clarified, and the management and supervision of after-school services should be standardized.
After-school service is an important measure that is conducive to the all-round development of students and alleviates the problem of difficult pick-up and drop-off for parents, and it requires the joint efforts of all parties to make it play a better role.