Chinanews client, Beijing, August 5 (Ren Jing) After the release of the new national-level "double reduction" regulations, the trend of the education and training market has received high attention from the public.
The policy "boots" have landed, and the real rectification has begun.
Is the remedial class "cool" this summer?
In the future, where should deeper governance start?
Data map: Parents outside a primary school in Wuhan pick up their children from school.
Photo by Zhang Chang from China News Service
"The class has not changed, there is still a process for the implementation of the policy"
Wang Xinyue, who lives in Beijing, is a parent of a fourth-grade student. In the past two days, she finally decided to "take a risk" and continue to enroll her son in summer math bridging classes. A total of 7 classes cost 700 yuan.
"The country has a policy and dare not pay more. The enrolling teacher promises that the class will still be available, and the fee can be refunded without risk."
In July, the national "double reduction" new regulations were released, clarifying that all discipline training institutions must not be listed for financing, and off-campus training institutions must not occupy national statutory holidays, rest days, and winter and summer vacations to organize discipline training.
Public opinion uses "shuffle" and "earthquake" to describe the impact of policies on the off-campus training market.
The policy really came, but the heat of off-campus training did not seem to cool down immediately.
On the website of a well-known tutoring organization, summer courses and autumn courses can be registered normally. The customer service staff introduced, "The implementation of the policy requires a process, and the existing teaching plan will not be changed for the time being."
Screenshot of a training institution's course
The practitioners of some training institutions are mostly on the sidelines.
Wang Fusheng is the founder of a small training organization. As for the future of the company, his idea is to look at it as he walks, "currently he is considering doing research and summer camps."
In the face of rumors that "the company is about to lay off large-scale employees," Wang Yuanyuan, who has been a teacher at a well-known training institution for many years, said that the company is still arranging classes for teachers, and most front-line teachers have not yet changed jobs.
In the Huangzhuang area of Haidian District, Beijing, the words "Suspension of business, not open to the outside world" were posted at the entrance of a training institution.
Photo by Ren Jing, China News Service
Offline change online, weekend change mid-week
The summer classes have not stopped, and the teachers are still waiting and watching, but the off-campus training market has already "changed."
On August 4, in Huangzhuang, Beijing’s Haidian District, known as the "Universal Remedial Lessons Center," the door of a prominent training institution was closed, with the words "Suspended and closed to the outside world" posted on the door.
An office building crowded with training institutions is now deserted. Several parents and children wandered in the corridors to inquire about classes.
In the summer vacation of previous years, the scene here was that there were constant customer service calls, enrollment consultations were queued, and off-line get off work was full of elementary and middle school students...
Ren Qiao is the mother of a second-year student. Her attitude is a bit entangled in the rectification of off-campus training institutions. On the one hand, the phenomenon of "reporting classes for all the people" should be rectified. The children are working hard and the parents are exhausted; on the other hand, there is pressure to enter school. Always there, she even wonders if she wants to spend more money to ask her children for tutoring.
Obviously, there is still a demand market for subject-based off-campus training, and training institutions under the New Deal also have new strategies.
According to an admissions officer of a training institution, “Currently, online courses have not been greatly affected, but the new policy does not allow supplementary classes on rest days. Therefore, weekend classes have been transferred from Monday to Friday. The live broadcast class has also been changed to a recorded broadcast."
In the Huangzhuang area of Haidian District, Beijing, the empty classrooms of a training institution can be seen through the screen windows.
Photo by Ren Jing, China News Service
"Stealth" training, there are stories and facts
In fact, in addition to offline changes to online, weekends and mid-week, after the release of the new "double reduction" regulations, news about the "stealth" of off-campus training institutions spread on the Internet.
Such as "the physical education teacher in the summer camp is actually a math teacher", "the training class is renamed a bookstore, and the teacher's explanation becomes after-sales service", and so on.
During this period, there were even rumors of a "luxury cruise cram school", which was later refuted by the parties.
In addition, as the off-campus training market is rectifying, some paid supplementary lessons by teachers at school have also become the focus of public opinion.
"Teachers in Huangshan's villa were investigated and punished", "Beijing teachers lent their teachers' qualification certificates to their spouses to participate in paid supplementary lessons"... These news that have been hotly discussed by the public are not jokes.
"Some teachers take sick leave to take part-time jobs, some stagger the time at school, and some go to home for one-on-one tutoring. These are actually quite common, and the school also manages them, but they are helpless." Talking about teachers training outside the school Institutions attend classes, said a middle school vice principal who has taught in Henan for many years.
For teachers' behaviors such as "not teaching in class, but not in class", rectification also follows.
At the end of July, the Ministry of Education decided to launch a nine-month special rectification, which pointed to the problems of paid supplementary lessons in primary and secondary schools and teachers' illegal receipt of gifts.
Data map: Parents waiting for students to leave school outside a primary school in Wuhan.
Photo by Zhang Chang from China News Service
In the future, deeper governance must keep up
In accordance with the work objectives of the "double reduction" policy, the burden of excessive homework and extra-school training for students, family education expenditures and the corresponding energy burden of parents has been effectively reduced within one year, and the results have been significant within three years.
For the large-scale off-campus training market, the curtain of strict rectification measures has been opened, and in the eyes of experts, the next step of policy implementation needs to be targeted and address both the symptoms and the root causes.
"The need for off-campus training exists because, on the one hand, the current examination admissions is only score-based, and high scores represent better resources; on the other hand, the effectiveness of in-class education is low and cannot specifically address the needs of children."
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, said that to eradicate the chaos of extracurricular training, we should start from the root cause, reduce training needs, and reduce training enthusiasm.
Experts said that in order to truly regulate the training market and relieve parents’ anxiety, the most important thing is to reform the system and mechanism, get rid of the point-only theory, improve the quality of schools and the effectiveness of in-class education, and achieve a balance between schools.
(At the request of the interviewee, some parents and students have aliases) (End)