Chao News Commentator: Zhu Zheping.
Source: Visual China.
A few days ago, the Shenzhen Municipal Education Bureau issued the "Implementation Opinions on Strengthening and Improving School Physical Education in Shenzhen", requiring that from January 1, 2024, schools in the compulsory education stage will open one physical education class per day. In some places, even "10 minutes between classes" cannot be guaranteed, Shenzhen dares to be the first to explore rigid class time to ensure that students' physical education classes are fully opened, which is eye-catching. What the pinion of "1 physical education class a day" can drive is also full of expectations.
Everyone knows the importance of physical education, but in reality, physical education classes are often in the dilemma of "talking about it is important, doing it is secondary, and it is not necessary to be busy". PE classes are being taken up and PE teachers are "sick" is a common problem. Based on this situation, all localities have included physical education in the high school entrance examination, hoping to "force" students to strengthen physical exercise by directly linking it with further education. However, what followed was the increasing popularity of "test-oriented sports", some schools focused on the physical education high school entrance examination test project "what to test and what to teach", and some children only went to off-campus training classes for surprise training before the exam, which deviated from the original intention of including sports in the high school entrance examination. In an interview with Xinhua News Agency, an expert said that at present, less than 60 percent of schools in the country can achieve one hour of physical exercise a day.
The physical education class time is not up to standard and the teaching quality is not guaranteed, which has affected the healthy growth of students. Among children and adolescents in China, there are many small glasses and small fat piers. Recently, topics such as "primary and secondary school students are running out of time to go to the toilet" and "many male students in a university can't do a pull-up" have caused widespread concern across the country.
The importance of school physical education and students' physical fitness can no longer be "talked about on paper", and must be implemented. In fact, in recent years, there has been no shortage of relevant regulations in the state to ensure physical education class time. In 2021, the Ministry of Education issued the Notice on Further Strengthening the Management of Physical Health of Primary and Secondary School Students, proposing that "4 class hours per week for grades 1 to 2 of primary school, 3 class hours per week for grades 3 to 6 of primary school and junior high school, 2 class hours per week for high school, and 1 physical education class per day for schools with conditions". The newly revised "Sports Law", which came into effect on January 1 this year, has written into the law that "schools must open full physical education classes in accordance with relevant national regulations to ensure that physical education class time is not occupied".
The implementation opinions issued by Shenzhen this time are the implementation of the opinions at the national level, and the rigid regulations of "one physical education class a day" are used to promote schools to attach importance to physical education teaching. In the next step, how to strengthen the supply of school sports space and fill the gap of physical education teachers still needs to formulate supporting policies, which tests the innovation ability of explorers.
The value of sports education is being re-examined, and we are seeing other forms of exploration. For example, Beijing recently announced the scoring standards for sports in the high school entrance examination, making it clear that "good is a full score" in the physical education on-site examination of the high school entrance examination. This regulation has diluted the selective characteristics of physical education examinations, weakened the pressure of students' physical education examinations, and cooled down the false fire of physical education examinations, which is a useful attempt.
In short, whether it is Shenzhen to strengthen physical education with rigid class time requirements, or Beijing to adjust the high school entrance examination physical education scoring standards, the form is different, but the goal is the same, that is, to return to the original intention of school education, and truly realize the sports people, so that students can enjoy fun in sports, enhance physical fitness, improve personality, exercise will, and grow up more healthily and sunny.
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