● Since 2018, the education departments of more than 10 provinces including Liaoning, Zhejiang, Hainan, Hebei, Guangdong, Shandong, Guizhou have issued relevant documents to "stop" the practice of parents correcting student homework, and in some places it is clearly carried out regularly Work supervision and even incorporate work management into performance appraisal
● The “one size fits all” approach may lead to more contradictions. This is what we often say to reduce the burden on students, that is, increase the burden. Once the burden is reduced, the burden will be increased immediately, and the effect of administrative power will be reversed.
● Educational laws require multiple evaluations of students.
If a student is not the seed of a mathematician, even if he tries to study mathematics, he may not learn well.
The ultimate goal of modern education is to develop everyone's potential and give play to everyone's talents
□ Our reporter Han Dandong
□ Su Xinyu, our newspaper intern
Not long ago, the head of a family in Jiangsu said that the teacher asked parents to correct homework and teach homework, so that he took on the responsibility and work that the teacher should be responsible for.
On November 10, the Department of Education of Liaoning Province announced on its official website the "Ten Requirements" for the Management of Student Assignments in Compulsory Education in Liaoning Province, which clearly stated that teachers must personally correct the assignments, and parents and students are strictly prohibited from doing work for them.
Teachers who do not personally grade their homework on time will all be disqualified for promotion and evaluation, and the school principal will cancel the qualification for evaluation.
It is understood that since 2018, education departments in more than 10 provinces, including Liaoning, Zhejiang, Hainan, Hebei, Guangdong, Shandong, Guizhou, have issued relevant documents to "stop" the practice of parents correcting students’ homework. Clearly carry out regular work supervision, and even incorporate work management into performance appraisal.
Parents can't stand it up
Teachers complain about too many tasks
Many parents complained about the correction of homework. A parent of the second grade student, Li Li (pseudonym), said: "Now the teacher basically asks the parents to correct the homework after assigning the homework. The teacher should do his job well and delegate the work of homework correction. Parents, what else do you need a teacher for? And marking homework is too difficult for a parent who graduated from junior high school like me. I can’t understand English and math homework. One will be online homework and the other will be homework. Really Can't stand it."
Some teachers also grievedly said: “The task of the teacher is not as easy as it seems on the surface. Parents treat the teacher as a babysitter, and the school treats the teacher as a handyman. In addition to basic teaching work, there are also a lot of meetings, training, reports, and inspections. dispersion."
Cheng Pingyuan, a professor at Nanjing Normal University, analyzed the phenomenon of parents correcting homework: Parents correcting homework made parents undertake the workload of the school and also assume the functions of the school.
Behind this phenomenon are deeper reasons such as the education system and the current social structure.
Cheng Pingyuan said: “After the privatization of education, education was opened to the market, leading to a sharp increase in competition. For this reason, parents need to improve their children’s performance through tutoring classes. In this case, education has become non-educational and an economic Activities, the pursuit of scores is the same as workers chasing output. At this time, a chain reaction is formed, that is, parents fight in it, children fight in it, and school teachers are also driven by whips. Teachers are assessed by the principal, and principals are assessed by the Education Bureau. It is not an isolated phenomenon."
In Cheng Pingyuan's view, the teacher has the initiative, and his individual basically cannot complete the huge workload, and the parents actively cooperate. For example, in the tutoring class with scores as the goal, the parents cooperate with the teacher.
Some parents will cater more passively, such as giving gifts.
A harmony mechanism has emerged between parents and teachers.
In this case, in many cases, it is not the teacher who takes the initiative to give the task to the parent, but the parent takes the initiative to accept the task assigned by the teacher and is proud of it. At this time, the parent and the teacher form a cooperative relationship.
Teaching and educating talents is the core
Home-school cooperation is essential
When talking about whether there are any disadvantages in parents' correction of homework, Yao Jinju, a professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University Law School, said: "This problem cannot be generalized. Now parents also have the obligation to help educate their children. Children's education cannot be solely the responsibility of the school and the teacher. Whether the homework assigned by the teacher exceeds the guidelines. Parents have the obligation to educate their children, but it depends on the scope of the education obligation. Parents should let their children develop the habit of doing homework on time. From the growth of the child, parents should at least check whether there are reasons Careless and wrong questions. If the teacher asks the parents to correct all the homework, this is a high requirement, but if the teacher asks the child to do all the questions right, then this requirement is not excessive."
In fact, many parents expressed their understanding. They believe that one of the tasks of teachers is to seriously correct students’ work, give students correct feedback and evaluation in time, and also provide feedback for their own teaching work, which can improve the quality of education and teaching. Promote the common progress of teachers and students, and also provide parents with the latest situation of students.
Parents can't leave it alone, and must cooperate with teachers to supervise their children to complete their homework on time and earnestly.
Yao Jinju said that it should not be distinguished whether correcting homework is the responsibility of parents or the responsibility of teachers. Parents and teachers have a common responsibility to educate people.
So on this issue, the society should be more tolerant, and the education administrative department should have more guidance and coordination.
Some parents report that teachers will always assign some formal or beyond the ability of students' homework, which is impossible for students to complete independently.
The parent Hao Jing (pseudonym) said: "My child goes to kindergarten, the teacher assigns manual homework, shooting short video homework, etc., all parents need to participate in the completion of the work, and will also make a "baby little file", I often help the child after finishing the homework Then I write my own work report, and I am often busy until three or four in the morning."
Yao Jinju expressed his views on this: “Teachers should not encourage students when assigning homework. They should take into account the students’ ability to complete, and it is best to guide students by grades. Although compulsory education says that all children are treated equally, the development of children is indeed different. If there are differences, is it possible to grade when assigning homework. Compulsory education pays attention to fairness, but quality is the greatest fairness for students. People have their own strengths in some aspects, so we must teach students in accordance with their aptitude and assign homework according to their talents. It puts forward the ability requirements for the teacher's knowledge and management."
"In addition, teachers should also learn more about the situation of the parents, whether the parents have the ability to mark homework. Some parents are willing to tutor and have the ability, some parents have the ability but not the will, and some parents have the will but the ability. The committee and the education administrative department should help teachers avoid risks and guide home and school to understand each other." Yao Jinju told a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily.
A veto is not advisable
Educational collaboration deserves attention
Regarding the “stopping” of parents’ homework correction measures in some provinces, Yao Jinju believes that this is part of the province to reduce the burden on parents, but the parents are sure that this reduction is to completely ignore the children’s education, but let the school take full responsibility?
This is actually a process that requires the cooperation of home and school.
"The education department has the responsibility to guide this relationship to the center, rather than the education administration department immediately deal with the teacher when there is a problem. This is wrong. If the education department wants to respond to parents, it should first investigate this matter clearly. If there is indeed Some homework that children cannot complete at all is also problematic. How to grasp the amount and difficulty of the homework assigned by the teacher is also a challenge. Not only must the guidance to the teacher be strengthened, but also the guidance to the parents. This is the best Yes. The'one size fits all' approach is somewhat unfair to teachers." Yao Jinju said.
Cheng Pingyuan questioned whether the form of a document can effectively improve the status quo when complex mechanisms are working.
He believes that nowadays there are more and more various documents, which will exacerbate various contradictions, such as between teachers and students, and between home and school.
The contradictions under the conflict are transferred to the authorities, such as the education department.
The measures taken by the superiors are simple and rude, namely in the form of files.
If the document does not study the deeper causes of contradictions, it will cause a series of problems.
In Cheng Pingyuan’s view, the “one size fits all” approach will lead to more contradictions. “This is what we often say to reduce the burden on students, that is, increase the burden. Once the burden is reduced, the burden will be increased immediately, and the administrative force will be reversed. Through the document form It can only serve as a deterrent for short-term rectification, but this deterrence does not take into account the education system and social structure."
Cheng Pingyuan believes that these measures are currently not in the form of laws, but in the form of policy documents, that is, arbitrating a contradiction by administrative power.
If you use law to arbitrate or use public opinion to arbitrate, or if everyone competes with each other to eventually produce a balance mechanism, this is not a problem, but the use of power to arbitrate a social conflict and social contradiction is not very scientific in terms of laws. It can be done.
"The relationship between parents and the school is also formed between them, not determined by other power structures. It can be resolved through social mechanisms, through supervision and even legal forms." Cheng Pingyuan said.
So how should the status quo be changed?
Cheng Pingyuan believes that, fundamentally speaking, the current education problems are caused by a single evaluation system with scores as the core and scores as the goal.
To evaluate a student, the final evaluation is based on a single score.
At this time, every parent and every student is pursuing scores. Now big data is used to assess teachers' monthly and weekly exams. Everyone is under pressure under this system.
Cheng Pingyuan suggested that if we want to fundamentally change the problem, we must return to the law of education itself.
The law of education requires multiple evaluations of students.
If a student is not the seed of a mathematician, even if he tries to study mathematics, he may not learn well.
The ultimate goal of modern education is to develop everyone's potential and play everyone's talents.
Everyone is different and needs to learn selectively. We must use our strengths and avoid our weaknesses, but we are now learning from our strengths, and we are not evaluated by education experts, but by the administrative department of the Education Bureau.
“A student’s excellence can only be seen by the teacher’s eyes, but the scores are not. The subject scores and abilities are separated. For example, no matter how good a person is in Chinese, he may not be able to become a writer; It must be very good, but he reads a lot and has poems and books in his stomach. Such a person may become a talent. The current elimination mechanism eliminates human talents and talents." Cheng Pingyuan said.
Yao Jinju pointed out that education coordination issues need to be paid attention to. For example, letting children leave school more than two o'clock but their parents have not yet finished get off work. What should I do?
Education can’t just talk about facts. There is a hot issue in society. We will respond immediately. How to coordinate is the most important thing.
Yao Jinju believes that if a teacher really violates the ethics and style of teaching, it is not correct to make a profit by not teaching in get out of class and teaching after class.
However, this "one size fits all" approach is not advisable for parents to stop correcting homework.
Assigning homework and how much homework is assigned are issues that we need to consider.
Reducing the burden, reducing the burden on children going to school, increasing the burden on children going to extracurricular classes, who caused this result?
And this "one size fits all" approach will also suppress the enthusiasm of teachers.
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