Parents have mixed feelings and worries under "double reduction", and comprehensive measures are needed to alleviate anxiety
A few days ago, the Beijing News Education News launched a special survey on the parents of primary and middle school students, showing that 98% of the parents interviewed had more or less enrolled their children in extracurricular training institutions, and 83.82% of the parents chose subject training.
The overall expenditure is concentrated between 20,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan per year.
The "double reduction" policy was gradually rolled out.
For parents, there is always a mixed blessing.
Some people are still waiting and watching, while others are starting to worry about new ones... What parents hope to see is that there will be a more complete and high-quality school education system and supplementary out-of-school training to support all parents' imaginations about their children's growth. .
Admission to higher education, replenishment, and custody are the main reasons for parents to apply for class
Among the parents who participated in the survey, 78.43% were from first-tier cities, more than half were parents of students in grades 4 to 6, and 24% were parents of junior high school students. Among the interviewed parents, parents of primary and secondary school students in grade 4 and above accounted for 79% .
According to the survey, 39.7% of parents said they had reported to more than three training institutions for their children, and only 2.94% of parents had not reported any institutions.
It can be seen that enrolling children in extracurricular institutions has become a normal choice for ordinary families.
"After all, children are under pressure to enter a higher school, and the training outside of class actually helps them improve their academic performance." A parent commented anonymously in the survey.
With the development of online education, the survey shows that 70.59% of parents have given their children online training classes, of which 63.7% are parents who attend both online and offline get off work.
Extracurricular training fees are also a considerable expenditure.
54.9% of the parents interviewed said that the annual expenditure on extracurricular training institutions was 20,000 to 50,000 yuan, with 50,000 to 100,000 yuan accounting for 22.55%, and 5% of the parents said that the annual expenditure on extracurricular training institutions was between 20,000 yuan and 50,000 yuan. More than 100,000.
Almost no parents say that there is no expenditure in extracurricular institutions every year.
"I can accept a training fee of more than 10,000 yuan a semester. After all, children need to catch up with the disadvantaged subjects through tutoring." Mr. Bai's son is in the first grade of a school in Haidian and spends 6 hours a week in physics and mathematics. Of extracurricular training.
"It is difficult for school education to achieve a qualitative leap in a short period of time, but as a parent of junior high school students, you cannot let your children be delayed at this time."
"Custody" is also one of the reasons why parents choose to apply for extracurricular training for their children.
Zhen Hua's daughter is in the fifth grade of elementary school in Xicheng District. Although the child's school provides care services until 5:30 in the evening, it still cannot meet the demand.
In the past spring semester, the tutoring class teacher came to pick up the children, and several children enrolled in the same school to study and do homework together in the offline tutoring class until 7:30 in the evening, and then their parents took them home.
Renewal, refund? Most parents are still watching
Since the "double reduction" rules have not yet been issued in various places, like Zhen Hua, parents who are still on the sidelines still account for the majority.
Whether to renew after all?
Ms. Xu struggled with this problem for a week. The child’s online English lesson package is about to expire. If the tuition is not renewed, the child will stop tuition.
If the fee is renewed, she is also worried that the training class will be suspended suddenly and it will be difficult to refund the fee.
Ms. Liu just renewed her child’s offline English training organization for 10,000 yuan in class hours. The sales teacher promised her that the training organization will transform into a quality education organization. As long as parents still need to learn English for their children, the original training content will be Won't stop.
Ms. Sun’s daughter is in the fifth grade of a primary school in Haidian District. She said that the teachers of the extracurricular tutoring organization are still recommending courses to her, but she has decided not to register for her children.
Ms. Qin’s son will start the first year of junior high school. She said that the suspension of the subject training class will allow her children to spend less time studying outside the language and leaving more time to enter science and technology venues, museums, and art. Pavilion.
In the opinion of Ms. Xu, the parent of a third-grade student in Zhongguancun Primary School, the introduction of the "double reduction" policy will to a certain extent alleviate parents’ anxiety and reduce children’s advanced learning, but she is afraid that after subject training is cancelled, parents will give their children privately. Save classes", "If this is the case, then the meaning of reducing the burden will be lost, and parents will still be very anxious."
Mr. Bai also has similar concerns: If he can't attend a large tutoring class, he can privately find a "one-on-one" family church to increase family expenses.
In his view, education itself is to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, and some children meet their learning needs in class, while his son feels that the knowledge in school is "not enough to eat" and he needs teachers to conduct extracurricular training.
The wandering parents hope that the "double reduction" policy in various regions will eventually "achieve a balanced development of education and narrow the gap between schools."
Experts advise parents to establish a scientific concept of parenting
Family education is a relatively weak link in the cooperative education mechanism of home-schools and cooperatives.
How should parents cooperate with the "double reduction" work?
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education recommends that parents keep close home-school contact, actively participate in parent-teacher meetings and parent-schools, actively communicate with teachers, understand students’ learning and physical and mental conditions, formulate targeted home-school linkage education programs, and update parenting concepts. Understand the laws of children's physical and mental growth, improve their own quality and ability of educating people, rationally plan the future development direction of children, and do not blindly send children to participate in out-of-school training.
Qu Yifan, director of the Research Department of the Education and Open Economy Research Center of the National Opening-up Research Institute of the University of International Business and Economics, believes that training meets diversified needs, but if the entire population is engulfed, it will become a problem.
In her view, part of the needs of parents is the unbalanced demand for high-quality educational resources, and part is the distorted demand under the "theatre effect", which requires parents to establish a scientific concept of parenting, and of course solve the problem fundamentally. It also requires comprehensive policies both inside and outside the school, as well as the coordination of social parents.
“At present, there is still a contradiction between the people’s expectations of education and the imbalance of educational development. Every parent wants to let their children enter a high-quality school. This is understandable.” Gu Mingyuan, a senior professor at Beijing Normal University, said, Vigorously promote the balanced development of schools and strengthen the construction of weak schools.
Only when education develops in a balanced way can the problem of overburdening students be solved fundamentally.
Dong Shengzu, director and researcher of the Institute of Private Education of the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, pointed out that in the long run, only to further balance the allocation of resources, improve the quality of education, narrow the education gap, while highlighting the orientation of quality education, optimizing education evaluation methods, deepening the reform of the high school entrance examination, and comprehensive Breaking the dilemma of "only points are based on", "getting people by points" and "points and counting" in school education can fundamentally alleviate the education anxiety of all sectors of society, and effectively reduce the majority of students and their parents in the aspect of "compensating the difference and training excellence". The so-called "just need".
Beijing News reporter Liu Yang