Recently, Beijing announced the launch of summer care services for primary school students in grades one to five. The sub-districts and townships will be used as the unit to determine the school, and students can voluntarily participate in the nearest school.
On July 9, the Ministry of Education issued a document to support qualified places to explore and develop summer custody services.
Up to now, Shandong, Jiangsu, Shenzhen and other places have successively launched summer custody classes undertaken by schools.
The summer nursery school launched this time has created a new model with schools as the main body and teachers as the main force.
Parents have to go to work, who will take care of the children?
For a long time, child care during the summer vacation has always been a worry for dual-income families.
Can the school-run trustee alleviate the parents’ "summer anxiety"?
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Solving the problem of summer nursing
Beijing Elementary and Middle Schools officially start their summer vacation on July 15.
It is understood that the summer nursery school is divided into two periods. The first period is from July 19 to August 3, and the second period is from August 5 to August 20, excluding Saturdays and Sundays. Students can only choose one. Participate in the period, each period of custody fee is 360 yuan, and the lunch fee will be paid separately.
Take Xicheng District as an example. There are 27 trustee schools in the district, with 1 or 2 schools in each street. Parents can choose according to the actual situation.
In Haidian District, the Education Commission will make overall arrangements to merge students from several neighbouring primary schools into designated schools for trusteeship based on the current school.
In Dongcheng District, each school is responsible for it. There is one class for each grade, with 35 students in each class, and no more than 50 students. If the number of applicants is insufficient, a mixed grade arrangement will be adopted.
Although there is no limit on the number of people in the trusteeship class, the conditions for participation are listed.
Ms. Shen, the parent of Haidian District, provided the reporter with the relevant documents of the school. It mentioned that the head teacher should be informed of the specific reasons for the difficulty in taking care of the children and submitted to the school for review.
The content of the trusteeship is "supervise students to complete their homework every day, and appropriately organize reading and other indoor and outdoor activities".
The summer nursery school was launched out of policy considerations of "double burden reduction".
Yan Kun, an associate professor and doctoral supervisor of the Institute of Education of Tsinghua University, said: “On the one hand, it can reduce the burden on parents. The original intention of the summer nursery school is to solve the nursing problem for parents; on the other hand, it can reduce the burden for children. The continuation of after-school services is also a response to the "double reduction policy", which aims to further standardize the phenomenon of "burden reduction within schools and burden increase outside schools"."
Gao Hang, a teacher at the School of Education of Renmin University of China, believes that summer nursery schools try to use quality education-oriented inclusive summer care services provided by public schools and non-profit organizations to replace the test-oriented education-oriented services provided by off-campus training institutions. For-profit summer custody service is conducive to reducing the financial burden of the family and purging the education ecology.
Some people welcome, some people wait and see
"The school is launching a trusteeship program. I raise my hands in favor." Mr. Zhang from Fengtai District, Beijing told reporters. "My wife and I are very busy at work. In previous summers, we could only send my son back to his hometown in Liaoning. However, the elderly cannot help with homework, and I am worried. The child has no restraint in playing electronic products, and he can’t wait to make two phone calls a day. Now that the school has a teacher to take him to do his homework, I can go to work with peace of mind. I hope that the hosting will cover the entire summer vacation in the future."
It is understood that the contents of the summer nursery school include providing learning places, opening libraries, reading rooms, and carrying out sports activities, but it does not organize subject training and group lectures.
Lou Qian’s son is in the fifth grade at Beijing Zhongguancun No. 2 Primary School Wanquanhe Branch. She has more expectations for the trusteeship class: “Summer kindergarten reduces our burden. I hope to use the vacation to cultivate his hobbies. If the school can develop some Interest courses, such as calligraphy, painting, and ball games, children will be more motivated."
There are still many parents who are still watching.
Ms. Wang, who lives in Xicheng District, Beijing, told reporters that the school issued the registration notice during the week of the final exam. Before that, she had filled her children's summer vacation.
"My daughter's mathematics has been slowing down, and I reported to her to check the vacancies in the off-campus training. I really didn't expect that the school could take care of it. I wanted her to try it, but I was afraid that she would be left behind after school started. Many parents around me also think this way. "
The school-based trusteeship model is still in the exploratory stage, and all parties need to adapt to the process.
Yang Xiaomin, an associate professor at the China Education Policy Research Institute of Beijing Normal University, pointed out that campus trusteeship makes full use of the school’s space and professional teaching staff, but it also has a certain impact on the school’s education and teaching management.
Yan Kun feels that the evaluation mechanism for entering higher education is an important factor that affects parents' choices.
Only when the assessment mechanism tends to be comprehensive quality rather than subject examination, parents will give more consideration if the trustee class provides corresponding quality education courses.
Starting from March 1, off-campus training institutions for subjects in Beijing began to resume offline teaching.
Gao Hang said that the effectiveness of the supervision of the off-campus training market, especially whether it can effectively crack down on training institutions that engage in advanced and advanced teaching during the summer vacation, will significantly affect the enthusiasm of parents to participate in school trusteeship.
"Looking forward to the summer vacation with flying dogs becoming a thing of the past"
The quality of the hosting service directly determines the parent's choice.
Yan Kun believes, "The positioning of campus trusteeship should be to solve both the needs of'nursing' and'education' at a lower economic cost. At present, parents are more worried that the trusteeship service is only'care' and not'education'. ."
Yan Kun suggested that in terms of teacher allocation, we can learn from the experience of Sanya, Shanghai and other places, and consider the combination of school teachers, government procurement and voluntary services.
For example, re-hiring retired teachers and recruiting normal students for summer practice.
Charges should be flexible, tutoring and lectures are free, and special courses such as painting and skating that require consumables or venues charge a certain fee.
"As far as the organizational form of the custody class is concerned, it can be divided into classes according to grades, or groups can be established according to interests. In addition, schools must be good at integrating various social resources to form a joint force of'home-school-community education'." Yang Xiaomin said.
The hosting service will continue to calibrate the positioning.
Yan Kun said that it is necessary to encourage measures to local conditions, "one policy for one place", and improve the guarantee system for personnel, funding, and course quality.
In the custody process, it is fun to teach and to let the children learn happily, and also to let the parents rest assured.
Lou Qian is confident about the future of campus hosting.
"For dual-employee families, this is undoubtedly a major benefit. Summer vacations are a thing of the past. Although many details of this year are not perfect and cannot meet the needs of all families, it is expected that after three to five years, there will be some accumulation in various places. Experience, the better the custody class."
Our reporter Chen Xi