Why don't parents feel relaxed when they don't need to change their homework? Follow-up implementation is mostly anticlimactic

There is no need to change homework. Why don’t parents find it easy?

　　Commentator

　　Jiang Fang

　　Recently, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to require primary and secondary education in the new semester to strictly control the total amount of homework in accordance with regulations...resolutely overcome mechanical and invalid homework, and eliminate repetitive and punitive homework.

The press conference specifically emphasized that "Parents shall not be assigned or assigned homework in disguise, and parents shall not be required to check or correct homework."

　　For a long time, although there have been some different voices about "burden reduction" in the society, the original intention of the policy is undoubtedly good.

What needs to be clarified is that "burden reduction" should reduce the burden of low quality and machinery, rather than reduce high-quality, reasonable arrangements.

This time, the Ministry of Education not only emphasized the reduction, but also clearly proposed the reduction of "mechanical", "invalid", "repetitive" and "punishable" tasks, encouraging the increase of hierarchical and flexible tasks, focusing on exploratory and practical tasks, and exploring interdisciplinary , Comprehensive homework, etc.

These new requirements are equivalent to emphasizing quality improvement while reducing the burden, responding to social concerns.

　　However, despite getting a "shield", many parents still say "not to be too serious" when they are happy.

After all, since 2018, the education departments of more than ten provinces have issued relevant documents, and "fancy" has stopped parents from correcting homework.

In some places, work supervision is clearly carried out, and work management is even included in performance appraisal.

Unfortunately, in the follow-up implementation process, the relevant requirements are mostly anticlimactic.

Especially in the context of the epidemic, the number of group check-ins and online operations has surged, causing new public dissatisfaction.

　　For such a trivial matter as the correction of homework, the competent authorities have issued documents five times and again without stopping, reflecting the embarrassing reality of the chaotic boundaries of family and school responsibilities, and also reflecting the public's complex mentality towards the problem of reducing the burden on education.

　　First of all, around the contradiction of "correcting homework", the current situation of home-school relationship is not caused by individual lazy teachers, but due to the dislocation of school education and family education, and is inseparable from the "involution" of education.

Facing the increasingly fierce competition for higher education, teachers’ work pressure has risen sharply, and some have passed the overflow pressure on to parents. On the other hand, in order to prevent their children from losing at the starting line, parents have unprecedented expectations of teachers.

　　Another reality that must be faced squarely is that many of the “small burdens” that have been reduced in schools in the past few years have been passed on to parents and even become “big burdens” for the whole society.

For example, the reform of ending school at 3:30 in the afternoon seems to have reduced the length of school time, but it has directly caused many urban families to have to face the difficulties of picking up and taking care of their children; the school burden is reduced, social training institutions are invaded, and the academic burden is not reduced. , The economic burden has soared...Compared with these problems, although "correcting homework" has caused more troubles, it may only be the last straw to crush the camel.

　　Based on these existing social realities and social sentiments, in order to manage the "small" problems of correcting homework, we still need to consider the big essay on reducing the burden, and we must continue to maintain the new ecology of home-school co-education, so that it is possible to truly resolve the "pain points". , To get rid of the "thunder spots", and received sincere praise from the masses.

　　Schools should reduce the burden with better quality education and teaching, and earnestly assume the main responsibility of school teaching and educating; the government should pay more attention to reducing the burden on grassroots educators from the top-level design, and control the chaos of out-of-school training; parents should also master the family education Professional knowledge, believe in and respect the professional opinions of schools and teachers.

Only with concerted efforts of all parties can "burden reduction" be in place.