Sports meeting or prop show?

Doves of peace, drones... the school sports meeting is also so involved?

  Education experts: There is nothing wrong with the sense of ritual, but it should not turn into negative comparisons


  Speaking of sports, what do you think of?

Is it the passionate entrance song for athletes, or the universal opening sentence of "at this moment when the autumn wind is refreshing"?

Right now, it is the time for the autumn sports meeting of various schools.

The music is still the same, and the "season of crisp autumn" is still the same, but the situation of the sports meeting is quite different from the previous impression.

  For example, an entrance ceremony, Wia, peace dove, "Shenzhou Spaceship", drones... all kinds of props were brought into the stadium, coupled with the students' eye-catching costumes, neat makeup and hair, and The passionate music at the scene can be described as majestic and majestic, as if walking into a large fashion show.

  As the specifications of the sports games are gradually improved, the energy and financial resources invested by schools and parents have also increased.

A single admission to the opening ceremony can easily cost thousands, or even tens of thousands.

Some parents have made difficulties for this: Is it because sports will change the flavor?

Or are you not keeping pace with the times?

In front of the "full sense of ritual", will it make children form a comparison mentality?

  Wia, drones, doves of peace...

  The entrance ceremony of the school sports meeting costs tens of thousands of yuan per class

  Autumn is crisp and the osmanthus is fragrant.

It's time for major middle and primary schools to hold autumn sports games.

Many schools can be said to be trying their best, such as this scene——

  On the circular runway, children wore children's space suits and roared out on the balance car.

Walking around the field for a week, there were countless screams and applause.

This is not enough, there is also a phalanx carrying the inflatable model of "Shenzhou Spaceship", which is full of style.

On the other side, "Chang'e Fairy" waved his sleeves, and behind the huge "moon", Yangko phalanx, navy phalanx, camouflage phalanx, great white phalanx, panda phalanx... all emerged in numbers and walked past the podium one by one .

  At the end of the opening ceremony, we did not forget to have a collective release of hydrogen balloons, which is full of ritual.

  "Why is there no sports in this sports meeting?" Ms. Liao, a parent born in the 1980s, sent out a soul torture in the class group after watching the opening ceremony of the sports meeting for a day.

Some parents smiled and explained to her, "Today is the opening ceremony, and tomorrow is the official competition." "Is the opening ceremony so grand? It feels like a fashion show." Ms. Liao couldn't believe the ceremony specifications in front of her.

  The reporter learned that every major middle and primary school will hold two sports meetings in spring and autumn every year.

The theme is a fixed item, but the opening ceremony is optional.

How to make your class more "bright" in the opening ceremony also made the students and parents of each class spend a lot of effort.

  The dance performance needs to be unified, but it is obviously not enough to rely on the physical education teacher to rehearse it. It is not enough to spend money to hire a professional dance teacher to make it up; it is still not enough to have a neat choreography, so a variety of custom props have appeared: drones, aerospace Props, iconic infrastructure props, military props, Transformers models... Some schools even came to a peace dove release ceremony.

  Behind the sense of atmosphere is the efforts of all parties at home and school.

The school will bear the cost of on-site decoration and other expenses, but the cost of clothing for each class is mainly borne by the parents themselves, usually from the class fee.

  Parent Ms. Tao told reporters that in order to "stand out", some classes will buy a full set of brand clothing "concave shape", and sometimes customize it.

In addition to costumes, there are also props.

Ms. Tao said that from the perspective of comprehensive "serving the way", it is easy for a class to spend thousands of dollars for a sports meeting, and four or five thousand dollars for grand key points is no problem, and even more exaggerated may exceed ten thousand.

  One or two thousand for clothing and props

  Some online merchants sell "40,000+" hand-held custom props per month

  In addition to the secret rivalry in the class, there is also a "forced" change in the parents' psychology.

  Ms. Li is a parent of a student in the second grade of elementary school. She told reporters that before the sports meeting, some parents proposed to spend money to buy or rent clothes in the group, but some parents objected-"It's good to wear class clothes. "However, on the day of the sports meeting, when I saw students in other classes wearing camouflage uniforms, panda suits, and space suits, and holding various props, my child's class only wore class uniforms. "The sense of gap came up immediately." The parents who opposed it in the class group were also silent, "Buy it, and we will roll it up next year!"

  Ms. Zhang, the person in charge of the family committee of a private school in Chengdu, told the reporter that the cost of clothing and props is one or two thousand. Clothes can be rented or bought, but at least 40-50 yuan per set. If the clothes are better bought, one or two hundred sets , a class of 50 people, the cost of clothes alone is easily over ten thousand.

  The reporter searched on Taobao with the keywords of "sports meeting" and "class clothes" and found that the monthly sales volume of customized class clothes for group activities can reach an astonishing 10,000-20,000, and the customization of hand-held props can reach more than 40,000 per month. .

One of the merchants told the reporter that the average customer would place an order for 40 or 50 pieces at the same time, and use them as class uniforms during the sports meeting.

  It is not difficult to calculate that for a sports meeting, a class may spend 4,000-5,000 yuan on clothes alone.

In addition, the prices of various inflatable models, inflatable planes, flying saucers, and model rockets also range from 98 yuan to 1,500 yuan. Little Rocket".

It is not difficult to see from the comments on the product pictures that many customers bought them for class display in the sports meeting. "The effect is very good" and "the children are very happy". Parents wrote comments.

  In addition, expenses also relate to program rehearsals.

Ms. Zhang said that the class usually prepares programs such as dancing, singing, and sketches. Some simple programs can be rehearsed by teachers and parents, but for difficult ones, you need to spend money to hire a special person to rehearse.

  But not all classes seek new and different.

The parent, Ms. Zeng, told the reporter that the head teacher will communicate with the parents in advance about the program format and cost of the entrance ceremony, "It is not required to be too exaggerated or complicated. While doing a good job of creativity, I also hope that everyone can save money. "

  School:

  The sense of ritual is very important, but it should not be "arranged" by parents

  A school official told reporters that after the school selects the theme and puts forward restrictions, the props and arrangement should be done by the students themselves.

  Teacher Jia from the Moral Education Department of a primary school in Chengdu told reporters that they had "simplified" the exaggerated entrance ceremony two years ago. too much".

  In terms of the sense of ritual, Mr. Jia believes that it is necessary to have a more grand entry ceremony for the sports meeting, "Otherwise, what is the difference between the sports meeting and the physical education class?" After all, in elementary school, there are only 12 times in 6 years, so that students feel this It is a grand event, so pay attention to it, "It must be a very good memory for children to give a sense of ritual."

  But he also objected to the excessive "arrangement" of teachers and parents in the process, and children should still be involved.

For example, in terms of program selection and styling design, students should still be solicited for their opinions, rather than students participating directly after "arranging".

For example, in their school's basketball game, students who did not participate in the game spontaneously designed logos and mascots, and their enthusiasm for participation was high.

  But on the other hand, a parent of a young student said that where young students can do design and arrangement, it is basically done by teachers and parents.

Now teachers have many other tasks while completing teaching tasks, "very busy and tired", parents, especially family committee members, take on these tasks, from program selection to clothing styling, all done by them.

  Education expert:

  You can't talk about ostentation and comparisons in the sports meeting

  An education expert who did not want to be named believes that whether the sports meeting will cause comparisons depends on the situation. Although comparisons are not advisable, "a sense of ritual is still very important to students." Support, then there is nothing wrong with buying some costumes and props.

  Xiong Bingqi, dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, doesn't think so. He said that holding a sports meeting should not talk about ostentation or comparisons. This will increase the financial burden of the family and also give the wrong education guidance to the children.

  He mentioned that the student sports meeting is a sports meeting for students. Students should give full play to their autonomy. Parents should not participate too much. There can be competition between classes, but it should be a healthy competition. Not more than dressing up.

He emphasized that the key lies in the organization and guidance of the school. "The school requires the students to perform by themselves and wear school uniforms. Parents will not participate, so there will be no comparisons."

  Zhou Die, an attending physician at the Children's Psychology Center of Chengdu Fourth People's Hospital, said that this kind of "mutual scrolling" may be related to the psychology of comparison.

In order to prevent children from developing unhealthy comparison psychology, Zhou Die believes that first, parents should lead by example, avoid verbal comparisons in daily life, and put pressure on children; With a single evaluation standard, you must learn to see the bright spots in your child, and you must also combine the actual situation of the family to clarify the needs of the child, so that the child can obtain the desired rewards in a reasonable way.

  Zhou Die believes that the campus sports meeting is an activity to show the class style, exercise physical fitness, and cultivate team awareness. It should be advocated to avoid extravagance and waste as much as possible, combine the actual situation of the family, and do what we can, so as to reduce the impact on children and parents, and return to the sports meeting. original intention.

  Chengdu Commercial Daily-Red Star News reporter Yin Jianzhangling Intern Chen Junke