Some make up a holiday lesson "enough to buy a car." How should teachers manage paid make up lessons?
Xinhua News Agency, Changchun, December 24 -
Problem: some make a holiday lesson "enough to buy a car," the loud noise control remedial teachers paid?
Xinhua News Agency "Xinhua Viewpoint" reporter Li Shuangxi
Recently, the Changchun City Education Bureau has reported many incidents of paid supplementary lessons for teachers at school, which has attracted widespread attention.
"Xinhua Viewpoint" reporter investigation found that although the education authority has repeatedly prohibited school teachers from paying for remedial lessons, some training institutions and school teachers are still fighting against the wind. Some teachers’ illegal income from making up a holiday lesson is “enough to buy a car. ".
Violation of paid supplementary lessons "all tricks"
The Changchun City Education Bureau recently notified 7 in-service teachers with paid supplementary lessons, covering all stages of elementary school, junior high school, and high school, including teachers from the middle school affiliated to Jilin University and the experimental school affiliated to Northeast Normal University.
These teachers are all attending classes in off-campus training institutions, and have been punished by warnings, demerits, demotions, and salary deductions after being investigated.
Dong Yan, deputy director of the Changchun Bureau of Education, introduced that in order to reduce the burden on students, the Bureau of Education recently set up a special class for governance to investigate the behavior of paid supplementary classes in the city and conduct round-the-clock supervision of key areas, schools, and objects.
"For more than half a month, I checked half of the tutoring classes." According to Zhou Ligang, the head of the special class, intensive inspections were conducted in key areas such as Changchun Torch Building, Hexion Complex, Huihua Building, and Mellon Building.
When investigating a training institution, the work class encountered many parents.
After the law enforcement officers entered the class, they found that the female teacher in the class did not understand the knowledge on the blackboard, and in the last row of the classroom sat a person who claimed to be an "audience parent".
When asked to take photos of him for evidence, the "parent" tried to escape several times.
After repeated inquiries, it was discovered that he was a teacher at an affiliated school in Changchun City. Before the second high school simulated exam, he "walked the acupoints" to give lectures for 2,000 yuan per lesson.
After being found out, the teacher was punished by administrative records, not being promoted to professional titles within three years, cancellation of year-end bonus, and transfer from the position of head teacher.
Many remedial classes are in deep-hidden dwellings and it is difficult to obtain evidence.
When the reporter followed the staff on an unannounced visit to the underground make-up class and came to the Changchun Mingzhu community, they found that the make-up institutions did not have signs, the shutter doors were hanging down, and the cameras were densely covered.
The door was closed tightly after the students entered, and the staff knocked on the door repeatedly and no one answered.
Law enforcement officers have to squat for a long time or pretend to be parents to enter the relevant area.
Parents falsely claim that "free supplementary lessons" are also a new problem encountered by the special class during the inspection.
What makes the inspectors helpless is that some parents not only did not cooperate with the inspection, but also falsely claimed that the teachers did not pay for making up lessons, and did not cooperate in providing evidence of fees. Students were also silent about this and it was more difficult to obtain evidence.
Some parents take the initiative to organize in-school teachers to make up lessons and some teachers charge more than 2500 yuan an hour
The reporter's survey found that behind the paid supplementary lessons, on the one hand, parents’ urgent need to "hope their sons into a dragon", some training institutions conduct "famous teacher speculation" on the psychology of parents; on the other hand, the income of supplementary lessons outside school is higher than the school salary, and some teachers are fighting against the wind .
In a key high school in Changchun City, reporters randomly interviewed a science class, in which a quarter of the students made up classes outside the school.
The 2019 annual report on the quality of basic education monitoring and evaluation results released by Changchun City shows that more than 50% of students in the second stage of high school participate in 1 to 5 extracurricular classes a week.
A high school physics teacher believes that there are many reasons for students to go outside to make up lessons, not entirely because the teacher does not teach in class.
Part of the reason is indeed because they did not understand in class and need to make up after class; some students feel that they are "not enough to eat" in class and also go to make up after class.
"No matter the grades in the class are good or poor, almost all of them go to training classes outside."
It is understood that in the "catch-up market" in Changchun and other places, one-on-one tutoring for high school students, non-service teachers generally cost 200 yuan per hour, and in-service teachers can reach 700 yuan to 1,000 yuan per hour.
A parent who organizes supplementary lessons for teachers at school for a long time has calculated the account to reporters: organizing a supplementary lesson, junior high school teachers earn about 1,500 yuan an hour, and some high school teachers earn more than 2,500 yuan.
During the winter and summer vacations, many students have as many as 6 lessons per day, and some teachers earn 100,000 to 200,000 yuan a holiday, "enough to buy a car."
Despite the high price, some parents still actively organize teachers to make up lessons.
This parent expressed the general mentality: “Finding teachers to make up lessons is that on the one hand, they understand the situation of the students and can more closely integrate the curriculum; on the other hand, it is equivalent to giving the teacher a red envelope in disguise, so that the teacher can take more care of the child in school. "
Some people in the industry believe that the prohibition of paid supplementary lessons for school teachers but encountering the wind up is a manifestation of some teachers’ misconceptions of teacher ethics. Some teachers who violate the rules of supplementary lessons believe that “compulsory education is hard work, and extracurricular supplementary lessons are also fortune.” Earnings from work and earning money from knowledge" "It is unfortunate to be caught making up classes, and it is incompetent not to make up classes"...
Two-pronged approach: keep a close eye on training institutions and strengthen teacher ethics
In the recent special management, the Changchun City Education Bureau regulated the school-running behavior of off-campus training institutions, prohibiting them from hiring in-service teachers, revoking school permits once found, and announced a number of training institutions "whitelist".
It is understood that the Changchun City Education Bureau will further regulate the school-running behavior of training institutions so that they will no longer use teachers as a selling point or provide a platform for paid supplementary lessons.
Education experts suggest that in order to prevent the phenomenon of paid supplementary lessons from resurgence, the competent education department should further strengthen the standardization of training institutions' school-running behavior, and promote normalization and standardization of governance.
Lin Dan, a professor of the Department of Education of Northeast Normal University, believes that "learning from high schools is a teacher, and one is a model." Educational authorities should study and establish evaluation standards for teacher ethics, innovate and improve the long-term mechanism for teacher ethics training, and establish teachers' pre-service, entry, and The integrated system of teacher ethics education in the job helps teachers establish a correct professional concept.
Li Guorong, the principal of Changchun No. 2 Experimental Middle School, said that the school should sign a "Teacher's Ethics Commitment" with teachers, and promptly correct the signs of paid supplementary lessons for teachers. It should also supervise the teaching quality of teachers, regularly listen to lectures, strengthen teaching evaluation, and find that teachers have Talk in time for situations that are not taught in class, and tilt teachers’ performance salaries to the frontline of teaching to stimulate teachers’ enthusiasm for teaching.
"It is also an important aspect to reverse the parents' wrong idea of making up lessons." Dong Yan believes that students should "make up lessons" for their parents before making up lessons, so that parents can change their mindset of blind follow-up and cultivate a correct view of education.