Will "double reduction" aggravate parents' educational anxiety?
72.7% of the parents interviewed after the implementation of "double reduction" said that education anxiety has been
alleviated a higher proportion of middle-income groups have alleviated
Nowadays, many parents are anxious about their children's education.
Where does the education anxiety of parents mainly come from?
What is the impact of "double reduction" on parents' education anxiety?
A few days ago, the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Social Investigation Center of the China Youth Daily launched a survey on the "National Compulsory Educational Parents' "Double Reduction" Policy Attitudes" survey. A total of 511,043 parents participated.
The survey shows that 87.0% of the parents surveyed feel anxious about their children’s education, and 73.2% of the parents surveyed said that the source of anxiety is that it is difficult for them to coach their children well.
After the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, 72.7% of the interviewed parents said that education anxiety has been eased, and the rate of relief for middle-income groups is even higher.
73.2% of the interviewed parents said that the source of anxiety is that it is difficult to tutor their children well
The survey shows that 87.0% of the interviewed parents feel anxious about their children's education.
Interactive analysis found that the parents interviewed with their children's performance in the lower reaches were the most anxious about their children's education problems, reaching 90.0%.
From the perspective of family income level, parents with lower-middle income are the most anxious, reaching 90.1%.
Ms. Wang, the parent of a third-grade student in Shanghai, feels very anxious about her children’s education problems. "My anxiety mainly comes from the promotion mechanism, and I hope my children can go to a good junior high school. However, the current selection mechanism is mainly linked to grades and can only force the children. Learn better".
Where does the parent's educational anxiety come from?
73.2% of the parents interviewed said that it is difficult to teach their children well because of their abilities. 53.1% of the interviewed parents believe that it is the industrialization of extracurricular training, and there is too much anxiety about “being left behind if you don’t make up for it”. 48.7% of the parents interviewed Feeling that due to income constraints, they are afraid that they will not be able to provide their children with the best educational resources. 48.2% of the parents interviewed believe that it is a mechanism for entering high school entrance examinations, and ordinary high schools and vocational schools are split 1:1, worrying that their children will be "professional" long ago.
Others include: rushing in the compulsory education stage is too common, and you have to be dragged forward (44.0%), pressure to choose schools, serious imbalance of educational resources in the area (36.6%), poor quality of classroom teaching, and some people learn. If you don’t understand, there are some people who are “not enough to eat” (35.2%) and so on.
A parent of a third-year student in Changsha, Hunan, said, “The problem of running away in education is still very serious now. Many people in my child’s class have finished the third-year course in the first year of the middle school. Will not keep up with the rhythm".
Ms. Wu, a parent of sixth grade students in Changping, Beijing, hopes that selection should not be based solely on scores, and quality education should not be superficial.
"Since the pressure is to be reduced, there must be strict policies and measures to ensure the implementation of the policies step by step."
After the implementation of the “double reduction” policy, 72.7% of the interviewed parents indicated that their education anxiety has eased
According to the survey, after the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, 72.7% of the parents interviewed said that their education anxiety has been eased. Among them, 34.3% of the parents said it eased a lot, and 38.4% of the parents said it eased a little.
In addition, 6.5% of the interviewed parents said they were more anxious.
15.1% of the parents interviewed said that there was no relief, and 5.7% of the parents interviewed said that they have not been very anxious.
An interactive analysis found that the parents surveyed whose household income is in the middle reaches have the highest percentage of relief, reaching 73.7%.
At present, the middle-income group is also the group most affected by the "double reduction" policy. However, unlike the popular views on the Internet, this survey found that the "double reduction" policy has brought about not deepening anxiety to the middle-income group, but Anxiety relief.
Due to too much anxiety in capital marketing, many parents have invested heavily in their children's out-of-school training, which has caused a financial burden on the family.
Among the interviewed parents, more than half have applied for out-of-school training for their children (51.8%), 15.2% spend more than 30% on out-of-school training classes each year, and 35.6% spend between 10%-30%.
After the "double reduction" policy, the interviewed parents gave an average score of 7.7 for their recognition of "decrease in extracurricular education expenditures and reduced parents' financial burden".
It shows that the parents interviewed are quite confident that the “double reduction” policy can reduce the financial burden of the family, thus alleviating education anxiety to a certain extent.
"The comparison phenomenon in education is too serious now. Doing a meaningless'involution' makes the child physically and mentally exhausted." Ms. Wu said.
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Huang Chong, trainee reporter Wang Zhiwei, trainee Yao Yipeng, Yang Zhe, and Gu Xinfeng Source: China Youth Daily