Recently, a principal from Luocheng Township, Shaoyang County, Hunan Province published a statement in the WeChat group that “those who come to my township to grab students can see people hitting people and car overturning”, which aroused public attention.

According to a report by The Paper on August 23, a person in charge of the Luocheng and Rural Government of Shaoyang County responded that the principal of the Internet Information Department had already criticized and educated him in the message posted in the WeChat group in April this year.

The principal involved responded that his speech was not elegant and he had made an in-depth review.

　　The intensity of the "grabbing" and "defending the source of students" in schools in some rural areas can be seen through this incident.

Behind this competition for students, it reflects the serious imbalance in the running of local compulsory education schools.

　　According to reports, the principal involved said that due to various factors, many elementary school graduates in Luocheng and rural areas had left the local area and went to junior high schools in other townships. This made him worried and eagerly wanted to avoid the loss of students.

If what the principal involved is true, it is very likely that the local junior high school enrollment does not strictly implement the nearby enrollment policy stipulated by the Compulsory Education Law, and there is a certain degree of "free enrollment and free school choice".

Of course, the reason behind this may be that the parents think that the schools in their hometowns are poor, and they choose to study in other towns under the offensive of enrollment by other township schools.

　　As we all know, in the urban areas of our country, the enrollment of compulsory education schools has been divided into enrollment (multi-school division or single-school division).

Parents think that the school district their children are enrolled in is not good. Unless they buy a house in another school district, they cannot freely choose to study in other schools, and other public schools cannot compete for students.

Therefore, this kind of "defense the source of students" in rural schools is a bit unfamiliar to urban schools.

　　However, in some rural areas of our country, schooling nearby has not been strictly enforced.

On the one hand, due to the imbalance between urban and rural areas and regions of compulsory education, the loss of rural students has been serious in recent years. The main flow is from villages to towns and towns to cities. On the other hand, some rural schools are in a crisis of survival due to the loss of students. Weakened the attractiveness to parents and students.

　　Regarding the integration of urban and rural compulsory education, there are two different understandings. One is to run every rural school, including rural junior high schools, so that children can go to the nearest school, so that the village has a reputation; the other is to let rural students Concentrate on studying in cities and towns, and let the rural schools with no students "die".

In some rural areas of our country, not every town has junior high schools, and high schools are concentrated in counties.

"Rural schools are empty and towns are crowded" is a true portrayal of education in some rural areas.

　　In this context, it is not difficult to understand the concern of the principal Luo Chengxiang about the loss of students. If it continues, it is possible that the local junior high school will not be able to continue.

The method he adopted is undoubtedly wrong, and it is difficult to reverse the dilemma of the loss of students in the enrollment of junior high schools in the township.

In fact, the current township schools that can "win" the battle for student sources between towns and villages are also facing the problem of losing students to towns with better quality of running schools.

　　Based on the current imbalance in running schools in rural schools, and on the basis of respecting students’ right to choose, the prerequisite for rural schools to be standardized and orderly is the balanced development of rural schools.

To solve this problem, we must strengthen the county-level overall planning of rural school education, scientifically and rationally arrange rural schools, so as to ensure the resources of rural schools and improve the quality of rural schools.

　　Xiong Bingqi