"You can enroll if you don’t live in a house." "The name of a prestigious school can be used as soon as you hang it." This should be a normal education facility, but it has become a hot spot for developers to speculate.
"The school is not built, the reputation is outside", "You can enroll if you don't live in the house", "Except for the school, there are no supporting facilities" "The name of the prestigious school is good when you hang it"...
In recent years, the number of newly-established prestigious schools (hereinafter referred to as naming schools) has surged.
It was supposed to be a normal education facility, but it has become a hot spot for many developers to speculate, forming the phenomenon of "prestigious schools around the city".
With the psychological expectation of "buying a house into a prestigious school", some people found after buying a house that some schools were almost overcrowded, making it difficult for children to enroll, and some schools were misnamed and the quality of teaching was uneven.
Experts suggest that we should be wary of prestigious schools that "replicate in batches" during the compulsory education stage in various regions to increase the popularity of the real estate market, affect the implementation of the "housing, housing, no speculation" policy, and ultimately harm the interests of the masses.
Educational balance or real estate marketing?
"Academic school is close to the future," "Prestigious schools are collected, elites are cultivated"... In the new urban areas of Changchun City, Jilin Province, there are numerous advertisements for similar real estates.
In these new urban areas, there are many compulsory education schools newly built by a well-known university, and there are many new buildings around the school.
Relevant departments have issued multiple documents prohibiting real estate developers from bundling education for publicity.
However, Xinhua Daily Telegraph reporters visited and found that these newly built schools have become a marketing "weapon" for surrounding real estate.
"The school is not built, and the reputation is not there." Some "educational land" that is still under planning is used as a marketing gimmick before it has been constructed.
The "Longhu Shunshan Mansion" in Changchun City has just opened, and the sales office is full of people. The display board indicates that there is an "educational land" next to the real estate.
According to the property consultant, although it has not yet been constructed, this school must be a prestigious school.
"You can enroll if you don't live in the house."
In the "China Resources Kunlun Royal" in Changchun, the salesperson introduced: "We do not promise the school district, but how close the house is to this prestigious school."
The school she was talking about was a public school established by the local government in cooperation with a well-known university. It started enrolling students last year.
The salesperson said that although the house has not been handed over, the owner’s child has already been enrolled.
When visiting the surrounding area, the reporter saw that some plots were still grass, some roads were still "broken roads", and the nearest large supermarket was several kilometers away.
Why do newly-built prestigious schools get together in the new city?
According to relevant persons in the education department, the education foundation of the new city is weak. In order to promote the balanced development of education, the government has invested a lot of funds to jointly run schools with well-known universities and prestigious schools in order to attract population gathering and promote the development of the new city.
For example, a new urban area in Changchun introduced a number of prestigious schools that cooperated in running schools. In the past five years, the number of students in compulsory education has increased from less than 8,000 to over 40,000, driving the price and popularity of housing in surrounding school districts to increase.
Why are famous schools willing to settle in the new city?
The reporter found that on the one hand, prestigious schools have received high custody fees, on the other hand, they can quickly realize low-cost "territory" expansion and provide a promotion platform for their teachers. Normal teachers become "famous teachers" and key teachers become principals.
According to the official website of a university education group, there are more than 80 affiliated (experimental) schools and a group of resource service schools responsible for management, operation and resource services of the group, distributed in more than 20 provinces across the country.
Why are real estate companies keen to auction and sell houses in the outer suburbs?
Industry insiders in the real estate industry revealed that before the land auction, some places would suggest that the developer would provide a "type of school" for the relevant land, that is, the prestigious school named the school, and some real estate developers would also hype the concept of school district in the sale.
Therefore, the phenomenon of "prestigious schools come to pick up places" and "prestigious schools come to sell houses" is constantly happening.
Active matching or hype concept?
The construction of schools in the new city area was originally an active support for the government to perform its compulsory education duties.
However, some places took the opportunity to hype the concept of prestigious schools, which raised the psychological expectations of the people, but greatly reduced the educational experience and harmed the interests of the people.
When opening many city maps, it can be seen that most of the named schools are located in the new city rather than the old city, and in some places there has also been a "city-renowned school belt".
"Why are the cooperative schools not first located in the old city but built in the development zone?" questioned Liu Ming, a parent of a student in Nanguan District, Changchun.
The source of students in the school where Liu Ming's household registration is located has shrunk, and teachers have aged.
He waited and watched for many years, but the school did not improve, so he could only buy a school district house in Xincheng District.
"Prestigious schools are prioritized in the new city, and I feel that the children in the old city are unattended." Liu Ming said.
In addition to liking "new" and disliking "old", the expansion of prestigious schools is also not worthy of the truth.
"I thought that if you entered a prestigious school, you would be able to enjoy the education of famous teachers, but found that they were all newly recruited teachers and had no experience." A parent of a famous school in a new urban area complained: "In order to quickly improve the quality of teaching, some naming schools frequently take exams in the first grade of elementary school. In order to make the grades look good, some head teachers encourage parents to apply for extracurricular classes. Teachers transfer the pressure to parents. What kind of high-quality education is this?"
Yang Yingxiu, a professor at the Department of Education of Northeast Normal University, said that judging from the operation of naming schools in some places, there were many difficulties in the early days of the school. Although the hardware facilities are advanced, the teaching team often cannot meet the needs, and the people often only recognize the brand.
In fact, some people are aiming at prestigious schools to buy houses, only to find that enrollment is not guaranteed.
Standing outside the construction site of a naming school in Changchun City, Li Wen's mood is complicated. The school will be completed in July this year, and then new students will be welcomed.
A year ago, she deliberately came here to buy a house. She originally had a fancy name for a school. At that time, the developer vowed to enroll in the school.
Unexpectedly, the school recruited 20 classes for freshmen last year, and the degree was full.
At the beginning of this year, she learned that the child was no longer able to attend school, and the degree was assigned to another naming school.
"It will be a prestigious school when it is built? The new school is a few kilometers away from home, no bus, and it takes more than 40 minutes to walk." She said.
There are many similar situations.
In recent years, many naming schools have enrolled 1,000 students each year. After the lack of academic degrees, some of the children of the owners of nearby real estates cannot enroll nearby.
The new city can only open "prestigious" branch schools in batches, which arouses dissatisfaction among the masses.
Curb the impulse to name a prestigious school
The Department of Education of Jilin Province recently issued a document to prevent artificial speculation of school district housing and ease the huge financial burden and mental pressure of parents due to school choice and purchase of housing.
Experts said that the government must take into account the coordinated development of new and old urban areas, strong and weak schools in the development of compulsory education, curb the compulsory education’s impulse to become prestigious schools, industrialization, and commercialization, and prevent the phenomenon of “prestigious schools around the city” from further creating new imbalances and deepening people’s anxiety. , Harm the interests of the masses.
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, believes that when planning in some places, it clearly lists how many key or model primary and secondary schools will be built.
Such a plan is to reinforce new imbalances and inequalities, and the government's responsibility is to run every school well.
Setting up leading or model schools, or including the hierarchical development of compulsory education in the plan itself exposes deep-seated hidden problems.
Experts said that the government should increase investment, fulfill the main responsibility of compulsory education, promote the institutionalization and normalization of exchanges and rotations between principals and teachers in the compulsory education stage, and do not expect the naming, trusteeship, and group operation of famous schools to avoid a small number of people. In the name of education, it hurts the interests of the masses.
Zhang Leisheng, an associate professor at the Institute of Higher Education of Jilin University, believes that some universities and prestigious schools should be carefully evaluated for wholesale sales and commercialization, so that the naming schools can operate in the sun, curb the impulse of "name naming of prestigious schools", and implement "housing, not speculation". policy.
(Li Shuangxi, Duan Xu, Zhang Jian)