The Education Bureau's new regulations in 2024 clearly stipulate "one physical education class a day", but the reporter found that this is not the case.
The reporter visited and found that in the second grade of a primary school, it can be seen from the curriculum that the physical education class is very sufficient, and there is only one class in English. Before, English was still 3 classes a week, so it can be seen that it has been crowded. However, when the reporter interviewed the children, the students unanimously said: "The labor class is also in English, and the English teacher feels that the class time is not enough, which takes up the labor class time."
The reporter interviewed the parents at the school gate, and the parents said: There is an activity class every afternoon on the children's curriculum of the primary school, and the person in charge of the activity class is a teacher of language, mathematics and English, so they basically do not attend, and they are all occupied by the teachers of various subjects. And physical education classes on the schedule are often occupied, rarely attended.
Many parents believe that English should have been abolished a long time ago, "99% of people spend a lot of energy learning English, and it is useless after entering the society"; "It's all AI machine translation now"; "Learning English is a waste of national resources, and children's time and energy", "It is better to let children run and jump and play sports when they have that time".
However, some parents said that the high school entrance examination, college entrance examination, postgraduate entrance examination, doctoral examination, etc., English for the entrance examination is the top priority.
In the high school entrance examination, English is a compulsory test and the main subject, accounting for a large amount of scores;
In the college entrance examination, English is a compulsory test and the main subject, accounting for a large amount of scores;
For the postgraduate entrance examination, many subjects are examined in 4 subjects, and English is one of them;
Kaobo, even more powerful, a total of two exams, English is also one of them.
Therefore, English has become very embarrassing, and the school class time has become less, and parents can only choose to open a small stove for their children to "steal school".
In fact, there are many ways to arrange "one physical education class a day". The end time of the first and second grades is more than 3 o'clock, and the third grade is more than 4 o'clock. When parents pick up the baby, they usually scatter the baby outdoors for an hour. Therefore, if the school is an hour late for the child to have an extra physical education class, most parents will choose to agree. In addition, the child also has a large recess at school, and this time can also arrange rich sports activities for the baby.
Unless the assessment standards for cultural courses are lowered, sports crowd out cultural subjects, and there is no way to agree with it.