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600 yuan / person Primary school graduation photos are "expensive" and compelling

The graduation season is coming, and the graduating children have also begun to take graduation photos.

However, recently, some parents in Chengdu High-tech Zone reported that the graduation photos in their children's classes cost 600 yuan per person, and the total of more than 30 children in the class is about 2,<> yuan. Parents were a little shocked by this: it costs so much money to take an elementary school graduation photo?

Subsequently, the Chengdu High-tech Zone Education, Culture and Sports Bureau said that the school had refunded the fee and stopped the activity.

This also resonated with many parents. Some parents told the Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News reporter that their children also handed over more than 600 yuan of graduation photos when they graduated, and the results were all kinds of panoramas, aerial photos, "looking tall, but even who is who is not clear."

Some front-line teachers and education experts said that the essence of education is to pay attention to the growth of people, and the essence of graduation photos is to record the growth of children and the freezing of the feelings of classmates, and graduation activities with more educational temperature and educational significance should be planned.

Compare to 20 years ago

Parent: Now the graduation photos have become sour

Seeing his son's graduation photo, Mr. Liu, a parent, also turned out his graduation photo more than 20 years ago. The son's graduation photo is not so much a graduation photo as a graduation album, "there is a close-up of a person, there is a whole class photo, there is a scene posing, and there is an aerial photo". Although every photo can be seen to be refined, Mr. Liu feels that "there is a lack of taste".

On the other hand, looking at his old graduation photo, the principal and teachers sat in the first row with a smile, and the students stood on the stairs behind, and above the graduation photo, there was a gilded "XX School XX Class XX Class Graduation Photo", and on the back, the corresponding names of each row of classmates. "During the class reunion, we often take out this photo, one by one, to find people, very kind."

Mr. Liu told reporters that his son's set of graduation photos was paid by each child in the class at that time about 300 yuan, "I was still surprised that taking a graduation photo was so expensive, and later I learned that it was not one, but a set." ”

Speaking of the child's graduation photos, parent Ms. Wang said: "The day my daughter took her graduation photos, it happened to be a sunny day, and one of the group photos was of children posing in various shapes on the playground, such as school initials, and some similar to concentric circles, and it took hours just to pose on the playground, and the children were too tired to move." ”

After getting the photo, Ms. Wang looked for her daughter everywhere, "The graduation photos of five or six hundred yuan per capita, even the baby's face cannot be seen, and the parents can't even tell who is who, I really don't understand the meaning of this kind of aerial photography."

In contrast, Ms. Wang also prefers traditional graduation photos, "calling all the teachers of various subjects, everyone is lively and crowded together, and it has a very collective feeling."

The per capita is often hundreds of yuan

A number of parents reported to the authorities

Some parents also have doubts about the cost of graduation photos.

It is understood that in the aforementioned school in Chengdu High-tech Zone, the average fee for graduation photos is 600 yuan, including shooting fees, lunch fees, and unified shoes and socks red scarf fees. In other words, for the graduation group photo, the class of more than 30 students will spend about 2,<> yuan.

The reporter immediately called the primary school's public phone number to verify the matter, but the teacher who answered the phone said that he did not know about it. However, the Education, Culture and Sports Bureau of Chengdu High-tech Zone publicly stated through the political platform that the school's graduation photo shooting activity was organized by the class parent committee itself, and the school had stopped it after learning about it and refunded the relevant fees.

Some parents in Qingyang District also reported that their children are enrolled in a kindergarten in Qingyang District, and the graduation photos of the kindergarten are in cooperation with external photography agencies, and the average person needs to pay a fee of 399 yuan, which is voluntary, but does not provide other options.

At the same time, the parent mentioned that for graduation photos, you also need to buy another 35 yuan for shoes and socks, a total of more than 400 yuan, and the photography agency provides 3 sets of clothing. Parents questioned: "Graduation photos should be simple teacher-student group photos, should not be a means of profit for photography agencies, and whether the park has made price comparisons when planning graduation photos has not been announced." ”

In response, the Chengdu Qingyang District Education Bureau replied that after verification, the Chengdu Qingyang District Education Bureau required the kindergarten to strictly follow the relevant provisions of the Notice of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Municipal Education Bureau and the Municipal Bureau of Finance on Strengthening the Management of Kindergarten Fees in Chengdu (Chengfa Gai Fee [2012] No. 963), fully understand the wishes of parents, follow the principle of voluntariness, and must not require parents to pay in any form, and explain to parents well.

In this regard, some parents said: "As soon as there is anything, it is said that it is organized by the parent committee, and the parent committee has not discussed with the school in advance, otherwise how can the activity enter the school", as for "voluntary participation", some parents feel that this is even more an invisible "kidnapping" of parents: "Graduation photo shooting, can I still say that our children do not participate?" Some parents believe that in such matters, the school should take the main responsibility, "can't say everything to the parent committee, let alone push anything (storm) to the parent committee."

How should I take a graduation photo?

Frame around the child's growth

Embodying the temperature of education

The reporter noticed that approaching the graduation season, many photography agencies on the market have also launched a variety of graduation photo shooting packages, including 298 yuan per person, 398 yuan per person and customized versions with higher prices.

For example, a package of 298 per capita launched by a photography agency is about 4-5 hours, you can change two sets of clothing, and join collective aerial photography, give away hardcover photo albums and other content; The 398 package shoots 6-8 hours, and in addition to the increase in the number of costumes and photos, you can also provide content such as micro-movie shooting.

In the face of the current trend of shooting graduation photos, Teacher Ye of a public school in Chenghua District, Chengdu, also has a lot to say.

Mr. Ye has been teaching for more than 20 years, "It can be said that he has witnessed the changes of graduation photos in the past 20 years." He recalled that the earliest graduation photos, the time of one class, can take pictures of the whole grade, "build a ladder in advance, pull up the banner congratulating the graduation, school leaders and teachers will also free up time, and then each class goes to take pictures next to each other, and finally the photos are washed out, one for each person." ”

He remembers that some schools would organize people to wear uniforms for group photos, and some schools would let students bring their favorite clothes on this day. Later, some schools began to introduce makeup artists to put makeup on the children before taking group photos; Others began to unify the style, such as boys' uniform shirts, girls' uniform skirts, "buy online, dozens of dollars per person", some girls want to put on some makeup, female teachers will also help the children put on some light makeup on this day.

About seven or eight years ago, Mr. Ye noticed that the shooting of graduation photos began to become complicated, and "aerial photography, micro-films, and fancy modeling are becoming more and more expensive."

For the "luxury version" of the graduation photo, Mr. Ye has a neutral attitude towards this, "The market economy, it stands to reason that how you like to shoot is a personal choice. But it should be noted that this is a group photo, not an option for individual families... The so-called parent committee, whether it can represent the opinions of all parents, whether there are parents who are forced to participate, this is what we should take the initiative to think about from the perspective of the school, rather than waiting for parents to complain before making a difference."

Secondly, Teacher Ye feels that these graduation photos seem beautiful, but they have no personality, "photography agencies are batch production, cover up the name of the album, you can't tell which school it is, such graduation photos, beauty is beautiful, but very empty, no educational connotation."

During the interview, some parents told reporters that in fact, most parents are very willing to give their children a full sense of ceremony during the graduation season, "such as taking graduation photos, shooting boys with spirit, girls beautifully, which is very good, leaving the most beautiful sense of ritual for youth... But a sense of ritual should not be equal to pompousness and luxury, but to the ingenuity and wisdom of education. ”

Xiong Bingqi, president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, believes that the innovation of graduation photos is actually understandable, but it is necessary to control the scale. In particular, schools should take the lead in guiding students and parents to understand the meaning of graduation photos, "graduation photos, representing the love of teachers and students, should be warm and simple." From the perspective of education, how to take graduation photos should ultimately focus on the growth of children and reflect the temperature of education, rather than abandoning the book to the end, so that graduation photos are only fancy and exaggerated forms. ”

In addition, Xiong Bingqi believes that how to take graduation photos can also become a good education lesson, "guide students to recall their school life, to experience the friendship of classmates, to feel the grace of the teacher, and on this basis, guide students to design graduation photos that belong to a certain class and a certain school without comparison and waste, rather than becoming a batch of goods on the shooting line." This is the embodiment of more educational wisdom and more educational temperature. ”

Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News reporter Yin Jian