Today I saw a hot search about the "kindergarten closure tide", and it happened that I just talked about this topic to my friend Xiaoxue a few days ago. Xiaoxue, the principal of a well-known local kindergarten, she has been engaged in the preschool education industry for more than ten years, and was just promoted to the principal last year.
In the past year, she has grown up very quickly, and the kindergarten is well managed. However, as a principal, I am very helpless in the face of the declining student rate.
She said that when she was a teacher in the past, she could have a class of the same age group in a semester. Now that I am the principal, I will only admit one class at the beginning of the new semester.
The huge gap made Xiaoxue begin to doubt her ability, and even had the idea of leaving the preschool education industry. However, the poor student rate in the kindergarten is really because Xiaoxue's ability is not good?Nature is not, but related to the general environment of our country.
According to data from the Ministry of Education, in the first half of 2023 alone, it has already appeared across the country5160KindergartenShut downphenomenon, accounted forNational Kindergartensof
I remember when my child went to kindergarten, in order to enter a better kindergarten, I made various investigations, comparisons, and even relationships with my father. At that time, some friends didn't understand, saying that it was not enough to choose a nearby kindergarten. However, we have visited many and still hope to let our children enter a kindergarten with a good educational concept.
Many people think of kindergarten as a nursery school where they help take care of their children during their own workday. In fact,3-6 years oldIt's the kidsXi behavioretcCultivateofImportant periodsKindergarten has a very great impact on a child's life.
Benjamin Franklin, known as the "Father of the American Nation," was asked by a reporter at a party in which university or laboratory he learned the most important things in his life. Franklin's answer surprised everyone:Kindergarten。He said that he learned a lot in kindergarten, sharing with others, good Xi, loving to think, loving to observe, etc.
Therefore, for a child, kindergarten is very important for their development. This is also one of the important reasons why many kindergartens are "hard to find" in the past few years.
Today's kindergartens are starting with ".A garden is hard to find"It became".It's hard to find in a lifetime”。An important factor that caused thousands of kindergartens to be closed within half a year turned out to bewith newbornsofBirth rate
Several of my colleagues and friends have said that they have no plans to have children, and this phenomenon is not uncommon. According to the National Bureau of Statistics,years of our countryNewbornsOnly8 million people。Compared with the 17.86 million births in 2016 when the two-child policy was liberalizedDecline ratehas exceeded
This set of data means that the number of new births in our country is getting lower and lower. Although the countryOpennowSecond childThree-child policy, butNeonatal dataStill year by yearContinued decline。When the birth population is low, the birth rate will naturally become tight. Not only were kindergartens closed, but even many kindergarten teachers were laid off. In the future, this situation will spread to elementary schools, junior high schools, and high schools, forming oneA vicious circle
As mentioned in "Sanlian Life Weekly": "The closure of kindergartens is the first domino to be toppled by the decline in China's birth rate."Shrinking populationThe whole aspect of Chinese societyImpactand now it's just beginning to be revealed. "This is not alarmism, but a problem that fertility is bound to face.
We all know that Japan is a country with a very aging population, according to the data released by the Japanese Cabinet, by October 2020, Japan65 years of age or olderof the elderly, accounting for the total populationIn 2020, Japan's total population was only 1200 million.
The biggest reason for Japan's serious aging is the low fertility rate, fewer and fewer young people, and more and more elderly people, and the future results of the country seem to be possible.
The low fertility rate is also a real problem facing our country. When I was still young, I felt that the people who felt "Dink" were a minority, and there could be no less. But now,Do not have children, do not marryBut it has become you and meNormality。Why is the country's two-child and three-child policy liberalized, and the fertility rate is declining instead of increasing?On the whole, there are mainly the following reasons.
Reason 1: The economic pressure is high
My colleague Xiao Liu said: "The few "wretched" (wages) I earn a month are not enough to spend on myself, how dare I raise a child?""This is not a whim of young people, but with the rapid development of the economy, young peopleEconomic pressuresCost of livingMore and moreHigh, housing loans, car loans, entertainment, life chores, etc., it seems that everything needs to spend money, in such a situation, who would dare to raise another child?
Zhang Chaoyang recently shared **: It is good for young people to rent a house and get married, don't use all your savings to buy a house, and don't have to use your salary to pay off the monthly payment, so that you have spare money to raise your children. Having said that, in the face of the housing prices of the Japanese general, there are still many people who believe that there must be a house to be truly stable.
Reason 2: The pursuit of a higher quality of life
In 2022, the "China Fertility Cost Report" released a national average data, mentioning that the cost of raising this generation of children** is:48.50,000 yuan, which is equivalent to Chinese per capita6. of GDP9 times。This is only until the age of 18, not counting the money needed for college, graduate school, future marriage, etc.
In the face of such a future after having children, many people who pursue quality of life no longer regard having children as important. They will feel that it is better to have a better quality of life than to spend so much money on raising children.
Reason 3: Women choose to pursue careers
There is a line in the recent hit web drama "News Queen" that netizens jokingly called very "vicious": "You can't even imagine a dog biting a man, the world of a man biting a dog is not for you."Find a man to marryIt's right. What made this line out of the circle was precisely the last sentence.
Today's women are free from the traditional shackles of returning to the family, no longer dependent on men, but use their own abilities to support the sky. Just like Qin Lan, in the face of some people on the Internet who think that "giving birth to a child is a woman's obligation", she directly replied, "If my uterus is not used, what does it matter to you." ”
Yes,FemaleYesFollow yourselfofIdeasLife,Pursue a career, and not trapped in a trap like "having children is a woman's obligation".
Reason 4: Labor surplus
A netizen said: "I am not allowed to go to work at the age of 35, so much."Excess labor, why do you want to give birth?"With the adjustment of some policies, many middle-aged people have become soUnemployment is forcedinto surplus labor.
Excess labor represents unemployment, generationThe table is not stableeconomyIncomewithStable lifeIf your three meals a day are a problem, who wants to let a little life suffer?
Broken thoughts:
Now it seems that the wave of kindergarten closures is like a curtain, and many hidden problems are revealed after being revealed. Backwards, it seems that in order to solve the wave of kindergarten closures, it is necessary to solve the negative growth rate of the population, which is an important problem that China and even the world are facing. It seems difficult to come up with a solution, we are just a group of people who are being pushed away by the torrent of the times.
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