At the end of this week, when I contacted the party, some said that they would send their children to learn to swim first, and some said that they were going to learn piano, but they did not say that their children would go to remedial Xi classes or subject training classes. Suddenly, I felt an inexplicable ease and comfort, for our generation of parents, but also for us children. The long-lost "poetry of education" has been kidnapped, eroded, and engulfed by various suffocating social training and discipline training for a long time, and now it is back!
On January 29, 2023, the Ministry of Education held the first national on-site meeting on administrative law enforcement work for off-campus training in Qingdao, Shandong. It is clearly proposed to seriously investigate and deal with illegal training behaviors, especially the behavior of "difficult refunds" and "running away with money" by training institutions. This is a powerful measure to deepen and continue to promote the double reduction work in recent years, which has been fully rolled out in recent years, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and formed an overwhelming trend.
The double reduction work has been carried out for several years, and it has really started from around 2017 from ideological understanding, management methods to organizational measures, including internal and external linkage of education, and the common concern and efforts of the whole society.
On the afternoon of July 14, 2016, Chen Baosheng, the former Minister of Education, went to Tsinghua University for research and research. He said: "Education should return to common sense, return to duty, return to the original intention, return to dreams, in the final analysis, is to adhere to the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people." ”
He has repeatedly mentioned the "burden reduction" of primary and secondary school students. In February 2018, the Ministry of Education and other four departments issued the "Notice on Effectively Reducing the Extracurricular Burden of Primary and Secondary School Students and Carrying out Special Governance Actions for Extracurricular Training Institutions", which aroused widespread concern in the society.
The baby is unhappy and the problem is serious. This is Minister Chen's "famous words", which has made many parents smile and applaud, which is indeed far-reaching.
The burden is as heavy as a mountain, the child can not grow up healthily, our students will be unhappy, the student is unhappy is the baby is unhappy, the baby is unhappy, the problem is very serious. Therefore, we must persevere in governance and never stop until we win a complete victory. ”
Before stepping down as Minister of Education in August 2021 and taking up new positions related to education legislation and education supervision, Minister Chen laid the policy foundation for the "double reduction" work under the new situation.
On July 24, 2021, the General Office of the Communist Party of China issued the "Opinions on Further Reducing the Burden of Homework and Extracurricular Training for Students in the Compulsory Education Stage", and the "double reduction" policy has achieved three "unprecedented" rectifications of off-campus training institutions: unprecedented intensity, unprecedented scale, and unprecedented effect.
In early August 2021, Huai Jinpeng succeeded Chen Baosheng as Minister of Education. The promulgation of a regulatory document requires a process, and the "Opinions" of July 24 above were obviously issued under the auspices of Minister Huai's predecessor. It is precisely because the two ministers, under the leadership of their superiors, have the same ideological understanding and continue to advance, that the results of the double reduction have been consolidated and the overall work has been deepened.
On July 20, 2023, the Ministry of Education deliberated and adopted and promulgated the "Interim Measures for Administrative Punishment of Off-campus Training", which will come into force on October 15, 2023. The first national on-site meeting on administrative law enforcement of off-campus training held in Qingdao, Shandong Province on January 29, 2023 should be a preliminary summary and scheduling one month after the implementation of the "Interim Measures for Administrative Punishment of Off-campus Training".
From "not allowed to increase the burden" to "what consequences should be borne by increasing the burden", from "must be double reduced" to "if not double reduction, we must bear the consequences and pay the price" This is another leap. This makes the double reduction work have a more specific legal basis in terms of punishing violations of laws and regulations, preventing violations, and increasing the cost of violators.
We believe that the double reduction work will continue to be promoted, gradually and fundamentally solve the problem, promote the healthy growth of primary and secondary school students, and promote the high-quality development of primary and secondary education. Of course, we have also noticed that the pressure of the prevention of double reduction work is still very great, and some local discipline training has a tendency to go underground and turn into zero, and some specialty training is still racking their brains to play the side ball, realizing discipline training, and even extending to kindergartens. It is believed that these problems will be addressed and resolved in a timely manner.
When will the double reduction work complete its historical mission, in other words, can primary and secondary education return to normal in terms of not increasing the burden on students?Here is also a little personal opinion to share with you:
1.Higher education resources are further enriched, optimized and balanced, so that everyone feels that whether or not to go to university and what kind of university to go to, including whether to go to universities such as Peking University and SUSTech, including whether to study in a domestic university or to study abroad, is mainly a conscious and voluntary choice of individuals.
2.Basic education and the college entrance examination continue to deepen the reform, so that everyone feels that the university entrance examination is the result of individual students after studying hard and Xi for each individual, and has nothing to do with remedial Xi and training.
3.Employment policies and human resource management work continue to improve, different levels of talents, personnel can get their own place in employment, or all types of young people, all levels of young people, including outstanding talents and ordinary skills and operational talents can find their own suitable jobs, can find their own channels and models to serve the society, not to go to university and people's life happiness is not necessarily related.