It's been a while since school started, but the discussion around school fees hasn't subsided. Many parents can't help but question when they see the school's fee list: Isn't it compulsory education? How can there be such and such charges? Don't ask, asking is "voluntary". School uniform? voluntary; Teaching aids? voluntarily bought; Various insurances? Voluntarily paid ......
Although there will be the word "voluntary" payment in the fee notice, parents also know that since it appears in the notice, it is very troublesome not to be "voluntary".
A few days ago, a parent in Lianyuan, Hunan Province broke the news, saying that the school issued a notice to let parents "voluntarily" buy teaching materials in designated bookstores or **. Some parents consider that the teaching materials that their children bought last year did not seem to be used much, and felt that since the teacher said "voluntary", it was not necessary to buy them, so they would not waste this money, so they did not buy them for their children.
Unexpectedly, a few days after the start of school, the teacher called the parents who did not buy the teaching materials one by one, asked the reason, explained the benefits, and the meaning of the words was to let the parents still buy, and said that this was arranged by the school layer by layer.
This makes parents very confused, doesn't it mean "voluntary"? Doesn't that make it a forced purchase? The teacher hits the **, what can parents say? Reason with the teacher, pick out the words, and debate the meaning of "voluntary"? Or do you mean that your children don't need it and don't want to buy it? This is obviously not very wise, and in the end, the vast majority of parents follow the school's "advice" and purchase this set of teaching materials.
After the incident spread online, the local education department responded, saying, "If you choose it voluntarily, you can do it"; "The above situation will be implemented immediately". In the face of such a response, parents are also very helpless, and it can be seen from the comments in the comment area that such a situation is by no means unique, and many parents have similar experiences.
Parents who resonated left messages in the comment area: "As soon as the school starts every semester, I buy all kinds of books, and I must be in a designated bookstore to buy them, 50 yuan a copy, where to reason"; "What is it to voluntarily buy teaching materials, I have also voluntarily ordered student milk"; "The style of the school uniform is so ugly and expensive, it is said that it is a voluntary purchase, and in the end, not everyone has to pay money, and the teachers who do not order are beaten one by one**" Can it not be voluntary? The teacher assigns the homework on it, and explains it, what to do if you don't want to, you can't let the child copy it" ......
Every day I say that I will reduce the burden on students, but there is no shortage of extracurricular exercises, Chinese, mathematics, and English, and those exercises cannot be bought anywhere else except the designated bookstore, and I bought a lot of teaching aids as soon as school started. School, teachers are keen to let parents "voluntarily" buy teaching materials, which everyone knows about the cat, but people are under the eaves and have to bow their heads, most parents just feel that they can't make trouble because of this hundred and ten yuan.
However, the number of "voluntary" is too much, parents will inevitably have a crisis of trust in the school and teachers, and they will be resentful, thinking that it is the teacher and the school that will benefit from it, and when these negative emotions accumulate to a certain extent, they will naturally erupt, which is why the conflict between home and school has been one of the important reasons for these years.
The school is a place for teaching and educating people, and the teacher is the leader of the growth of students. Among the "three violations" in education, the illegal purchase of teaching and auxiliary materials is relatively high, which requires the education department to strengthen supervision, crack down on the behavior of abusing power for personal gain under the guise of "voluntary" purchase, and also educate a pure land.