A parent from Hunan posted an angry reprimand, saying that who treated compulsory education as a leek, and cut it over and over again.
The parent gave three examples. One is that children can't drink the milk they bring from home at school, and can only buy the school's ** milk. Second, after the implementation of after-school services, the after-school service fee per semester has reached 100 yuan. The third is the social practice organized by the school, which costs six or seven hundred yuan a week.
In fact, in recent years, the issue of compulsory education fees has been attracting much attention.
Nine-year compulsory education is a basic education system in China. Compulsory education is implemented in order to guarantee the right of school-age children to receive education, and at the same time to improve the overall quality of the whole population. Since the implementation of compulsory education, illiteracy has been basically eliminated in China, the quality of the whole people has been greatly improved, and a large number of outstanding talents have been cultivated for the development of the country. It can be said that compulsory education has achieved very dazzling results after its implementation in China.
The nature of compulsory education determines that it is free, but now there are more and more compulsory education fees, which has made more and more parents feel that compulsory education is almost unaffordable.
A netizen from Chongqing said that they have an after-school service fee of 810 yuan, a living fee of 800 yuan, a class fee of 500 yuan, a research fee of 420 yuan, and an insurance fee of 100 yuan. In other words, although compulsory education is free of tuition and miscellaneous fees, it still pays 2,630 yuan for one semester. In fact, this fee is definitely not the whole cost, at least there should be teaching fees, school uniform fees, and so on. In this way, if there are two children in the family, it is indeed a big expense for the average family.
Since compulsory education is free, why do so many parents still think it is expensive?The following Fujian netizen explained the reason.
Although compulsory education is free, it is only free of tuition and miscellaneous fees, and other fees are not exempted, such as books, teaching aids, materials, test papers, after-school services, class fees, school uniforms, meals, milk, water, electricity, air conditioning fees, insurance fees, research fees, etc. These fees add up to much higher than tuition and fees, so it's the equivalent of changing tuition fees and then collecting them.
Not only that, in reality, there are more and more fees in primary and secondary schools, and even students have to start charging for lunch in the classroom, and often under the guise of "voluntary". In fact, everyone knows what the so-called "voluntary" is, and the key is that parents still have to accept these expenses. It is the superposition of these various expenses that increases the financial burden of the family and makes parents feel that they cannot afford to read.
In order to solve the chaos of compulsory education fees, it is first necessary to increase investment in education and ensure the relevant funds for compulsory education. Second, it is necessary to strengthen supervision and control over schools, strictly prohibit schools from indiscriminately collecting fees in various names, and severely punish school leaders and even leaders of education departments who collect fees in violation of regulations. Finally, parents should also actively protect their own rights and interests, be vigilant against the school's new fees, and report obviously unreasonable fees to the relevant departments.
Compulsory education is a basic education supported by the state, not leeks, and students and parents should not be lambs to be slaughtered, let alone let arbitrary fees hinder the development of compulsory education.