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The "dark" power behind the "chicken baby"

　　Because of media reports, the term "chicken baby" has suddenly become popular recently.

　　"Chicken baby" is an internet term, and it is a popular way of education among parents in big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in recent years where the competition for "little promotion and beginning" is relatively fierce. It means "tiger mother" and "wolf dad" hope their children will become a dragon. "Beat chicken blood", constantly "report classes" for children, arrange various studies and activities, and constantly encourage children to fight hard.

　　The behavior of "chicken baby" has not just become popular, but at the end of the semester, before exams or when the school season comes, "chicken baby" is more likely to become the focus of public opinion discussion.

　　In the beginning, the "chicken baby" always accompanied the "little promotion" and "Olympic mathematics": the children were taken by their parents to a number of mathematics training classes from the first and second grades of elementary school. Get an entry ticket to a good middle school.

However, since the past few years, the education administration department has issued the "Olympic ban", and at the same time, the education authorities at all levels have also made repeated orders to prohibit the linking of competition results with advancement.

　　Calculated logically, if there is no Mathematical Olympiad and the link between competition scores and higher education, the "chicken baby" should disappear.

But the fact is that the "chicken baby" has always existed, and the momentum has not weakened.

　　So, what drives the tireless "chicken baby" of parents?

What is behind the "chicken baby"?

　　The author found through observation that there has always been a strong "dark" force behind the "chicken baby".

　　In the case of Xiaoshengchu, there have always been two lines of news, one bright and one dark.

　　One of Ming’s news lines is official. The most representative news includes: "Examination-free admissions nearby", "Competition scores must not be linked to further studies", etc., and under increasingly strict policy control, all parts of the country have been "exempted from examinations" The proportion of “local enrollment” is increasing.

According to the latest data released by the Ministry of Education at the end of last year, the compulsory education exemption rate of nearby enrollment in 24 major cities across the country has reached 98.6%. Coupled with the special management of off-campus training institutions and the control of compulsory education stage competition activities, school selection The heat is easing.

　　The secret news line is just the opposite of the official news. They mostly originate from parent briefings organized by various training institutions or certain WeChat public accounts, and are widely spread among parents of large and small groups.

The most representative of these news is: a certain "niu baby" obtained the ××× certificate + ××× certificate and was "recruited" by a certain cattle school, the certain school has begun to collect resumes, and the certain famous school just secretly carried out test……

　　Whenever I see such news, the parents of the "chicken baby" have stronger motivation.

However, no one knows whether the admission of "Niu Ba" is related to the certificate, and there is no exact data on how many "Niu Ba" have been admitted to the Niu School.

　　As long as the story of "Niu Baby and Niu School" continues to circulate, the motivation for the parents will be.

　　Since it is secretly spread, the way of spreading must be very mysterious. Parents of "chicken baby" usually have a lot of "code words" when they communicate with each other. For example, "AS" means "Olympics" and "BS" means "cup competition" and " "Ao Niu" is the Austrian mathematics cow baby, the "English cow" as the name suggests is the English cow baby, and the "Australian-English mixed-blood cow" is the mathematics and English cow baby...

　　It is difficult for "newcomers" to understand at once what the full meaning of these messages is.

This kind of context in which codewords exist everywhere also sets a threshold for the flow of information. Therefore, there is a formula circulating in the "chicken baby" group: Niu baby's performance = dad's economic strength × mother's intelligence ability × baby's execution ability .

It can be seen that the "intelligence ability" has played a key role in the growth of the cow baby, and the "cow baby" is the ultimate goal of the parents of the "chicken baby".

　　Complementing the "code language" is that the banned "Olympics" still exists, but the "Olympics" has been renamed "thinking training" by some training institutions and organizations. Contests that have been banned are packaged into "research camps" and "winter camps".

　　Coupled with the English KET and PET exams, under the influence of the two lines of light and dark, the "excited" children suffer miserably.

　　An obvious fact is that as the number of people joining the parent team of “chicken babies” increases, the standards of “niu babies” are also rising, and there is a picture of “young babies”, “puwas” and “niu babies” circulating on the Internet. The comparison table shows that the literacy of a 6-year-old "Niu Ba" has reached more than 1,000 words, and some "Niu Ba" has even reached 4,000 to 5,000 words. According to the "Compulsory Education Chinese and Other Subject Course Standards" issued by the Ministry of Education "The ultimate goal of literacy at the compulsory education stage is to know about 3,500 commonly used Chinese characters.

　　The continuous improvement of the standards of this kind of "cow baby" has caused the parents of "chicken baby" to struggle repeatedly with high morale and deep anxiety.

　　However, the parents of the "chicken baby" did not get too many sympathy votes. In the eyes of ordinary people, the parents themselves are the initiators. They are the parents' utilitarianism and comparability, and the test-taking psychology that takes the scores too seriously is at stake.

　　Parents are also wronged.

Many parents of "chicken baby" said, which parent does not want their children to be healthy and happy?

The reason why I finally joined the "chicken baby" army was a little bit involved, and I also had a lot of pain and entanglement in this process.

　　Some experts pointed out that with the improvement of the overall level of education in my country, high school education and university education have gradually become popularized. In the process of continuous deepening of my country’s education reform, the difficulty of entrance examinations at various stages has also decreased, especially the high school entrance examination. The competition for points is fierce, which has increased the anxiety of parents to a certain extent.

And this kind of anxiety will definitely be transmitted downwards, and even some parents have been "chicken babies" since preschool.

　　However, since there is a "dark" power behind the "chicken baby", the solution should obviously be made on the "bright".

Fortunately, the Ministry of Education and local education authorities are carrying out more scientific and reasonable evaluation system reforms, expanding high-quality educational resources, encouraging the development of schools with characteristics, and blocking informal channels for further education.

However, after the policy is formulated and promulgated, it is more important to implement it. Only when the policy is truly implemented can the parents' trust in the policy be gradually increased, and only in this way can the "dark" power have no place.

　　Fan Weichen