In July 2023, the Ministry of Education issued the latest burden reduction document, the Interim Measures for Administrative Penalties for Off-campus Training, which will be officially implemented on October 15, 2023. As soon as the method came out, the rumors were loud, and the training market was full of mourning, as if the end of off-campus training had arrived. But after a gust of wind, everything is still the nephew beating the lantern - business as usual. The reason for this is that parents' strong demand for out-of-school training has not disappeared due to a ban by the education authorities. Demand determines the market, and as long as there is demand, the market will not disappear.
Corresponding to the increasingly strict supervision of off-campus training by the education department, the increasingly relaxed educational environment in schools has led to the widespread promotion of so-called happy education. At present, the learning in the compulsory education stage focuses on happiness, the learning content is reduced, and the difficulty of the examination is reduced. In order not to hit the child's fragile self-esteem, the main focus of learning is not squeaky, the student's grades are not announced, or hello, I am hello, everyone, all of them are excellent, and they cannot reflect the real effect of learning at all.
This kind of happy education, the school has herded sheep, and the education departments at all levels can rest assured, but who thinks about the parents? With a test paper full of more than 90 points, parents can't be happy at all, because everyone knows what's behind the score. The school's teaching could not meet the demands of parents, forcing them to turn to out-of-school training.
Now, I get no less than 10 advertisements and harassment** every day, most of which are for marketing training courses, and most of them are under the guise of working famous teachers. While it is well known that the state penalizes in-service teachers for participating in out-of-school training exceptionally severely, it does not prevent some people from taking the risk of participating. Of course, it is not excluded that some people sell dog meat on the head of a sheep and commit fraud.
At the same time, some of my friends have children who have just started elementary school.
In the first and second grades, they expressed concern about their children's learning, and some of them provided their children with more extracurricular training than in the past few years. It is said that now the Olympiad is dead but not stiff, in other words, it is a change of vest, and the body is still the Olympiad, but with an added layer of packaging. The institutions that carry out the training do not carry out publicity, and the main focus is word of mouth, and the number of places to learn is basically seconds, and grabbing the quota is comparable to grabbing the Spring Festival train ticket. Although the state prohibits the use of Olympiad results in junior high school activities, it cannot be stopped at all. After all, the power of enrollment is in the hands of the school, and it is difficult for the competent authorities to catch first-hand evidence. Moreover, some of them are still turned a blind eye by the competent authorities, or even secretly supported them. If the education authorities really want to make up their minds to stop merit-based admissions, they need to do it in one way: they will be allocated to all students, leaving no school of choice. Can it be done? Totally impossible! On the one hand, there are people in the authorities who want to work for the welfare of their children; On the other hand, it is necessary to save some face for those key schools. Once all students are assigned places and the level of students is leveled, the future performance of some schools is really not necessarily better than that of ordinary schools. In the long run, how can these key schools be embarrassed? The results of key schools have come down, how should you choose when your children want to go to school in the future? If you don't believe it, just look at the political security in Xicheng and the accommodation in Haidian. As far as I know, boarding students in Haidian Junior High School are basically equivalent to independent enrollment.
Parents are not only interested in the results of the compulsory education stage, but also for the sake of the college entrance examination. Elementary school promotion is the key to whether you can enter key high schools in the future and have an advantage in high school. Although the school quota is now vigorously promoted, and the opportunity for general schools to enter key high schools has increased greatly, many children in general schools cannot quickly adapt to the learning rhythm of high school after entering key high schools, and they will face huge pressure, which will affect their academic performance.
In the past two days, some people have begun to look at the composition of the final exam papers of the third year of high school to ** the impact on off-campus training. They believe that the current test papers are closer to the reality of life, the amount of reading has increased greatly, and even interdisciplinary comprehensive test questions have appeared. The changes in the college entrance examination papers make it impossible for training institutions to adapt, which in turn makes parents lose trust in training institutions. This idea is somewhat fanciful, as many training institutions have close ties with in-service teachers in schools, and even in-service teachers serve in institutions. Any changes in school teaching and learning will soon be grasped by the training institutions and find a way to deal with them.
Of course, the introduction of penalties still has an impact on a small number of families and institutions. This also gave birth to the resurrection of the learning machine. The traditional large-scale training institutions represented by Xueersi, relying on the massive learning resources accumulated over the years, have launched learning machines, which have become a substitute for some parents to training institutions.
The country's governance of off-campus training may be in the right direction, but the measures taken and the happy learning that is not in line with the National Day determine that the governance of off-campus training has a long way to go.