In the past two days, a mother in Guangdong sent ** that one of the topics in the child's winter vacation homework is to fill in the parents' family income and expenditure, such as the salary income of the parents, daily consumables, housing loans and other expenses. The mother said in **, is this a winter vacation homework or a family background check? What's the point? She wondered.
We are all familiar with winter vacation homework, generally speaking, the form is greater than the content, as long as the students can complete it on time, school teachers will rarely pay too much attention to checking the winter vacation homework. Especially for this kind of quality topic, some school teachers probably don't even read it. Moreover, winter vacation homework in public schools is usually distributed by the education department, and it is not up to a specific school to have the final say.
Judging from the content posted by this mother, the topic itself is more like trying to cultivate children's financial awareness, let children understand the family's income and expenditure, and understand how difficult it is for parents to earn money, so as to develop the habit of not spending money indiscriminately and spending rationally.
Therefore, if it is determined that this winter vacation homework is to collect information from parents and point the finger at the school or education department, it is logically a bit far-fetched. Of course, even if the original intention of setting this kind of question is good, there is no intention to collect information from parents at all, and this form is very inappropriate.
Income and expenditure status is the most important privacy of a family, if it really wants to be presented in front of the school and teachers, and it involves the face of the child in front of the teacher and the treatment at school, parents are particularly disgusted by this, and it is reasonable. Looking at it now, the author of the question obviously has no awareness of this. In fact, as far as the topic is concerned, it is very simple to avoid this controversy, just change the form slightly, let the child go home and discuss it with his parents, and he does not have to fill it in.
It is worth mentioning that although the form of the question is easy to change, the disgust of this mother and the majority of netizens is more worthy of the attention of the education department. A not-so-important winter vacation assignment can also cause widespread resentment, precisely because it is nothing new for schools to collect information from parents and investigate students' family backgrounds.
Judging from the previous news, schools in some places are racking their brains and full of tricks in this regard. For example, some schools directly send questionnaires to students, asking them to fill in the occupation and work content of their parents; Some of them are in the class WeChat group, counting the educational background of parents, as well as the number of children of teachers and public officials; A primary school in Yuanping City, Shanxi Province, after collecting the positions and incomes of students' parents, classified students according to grades, and "children of leaders" and "children of business owners" were impressively listed; Even kindergartens require parents to take pictures of their children's cars....
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the school's method of peeping into students' homes and collecting parents' information not only violates the privacy of parents and children, but also undermines educational fairness. The essence of education is to teach without class. Regardless of family origin, every child should be treated fairly and without discrimination at school. Once the school and teachers grasp the situation of the children's family background in the class, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not watch people put on the dishes, and educational resources may become bargaining chips for power rent-seeking and interest exchange.
For example, under this kind of news, parents often ridicule whether teachers will let children with good family conditions sit in the front and give special care. And in places that people can't see, whether the family situation will affect the child's evaluation will make parents anxious and worried.
Because of this, the relevant policies and regulations issued by the education department make it clear that it is strictly forbidden to collect the job and income information of students' parents when enrolling, emphasizing the principle of not providing materials unless necessary and not collecting information unless necessary. At the same time, it is strictly forbidden to use all kinds of apps and mini programs to collect student-related information repeatedly at will.
Now that the policy has been clearly stated, the education department still has to take it to heart, be more careful, and always tighten the string to protect parents' privacy, so as not to offend parents by intentional or unintentional information collection.