Xinhua News Agency reporters Hu Hao and Shi Jingnan
There is no off-campus training on weekends and holidays, and there are fewer written assignments on weekdays.
With the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, my country's basic education pattern is undergoing major changes.
After the "double reduction", where did the children's time go?
Less burden of homework, more rest and sleep
The adjustment of school and school hours is the first direct change that many parents and children feel after the implementation of the "double reduction" policy.
In Beijing, the Municipal Education Commission requires that the morning class time for primary schools is generally no earlier than 8:20, and that for middle schools is generally no earlier than 8:00; the afternoon school time is adjusted to 17:30.
If parents have special reasons for pick-up and drop-off needs, they can apply to the school.
After the "November" holiday, Hangzhou Junior High School will cancel the unified morning reading, and the class time is generally no earlier than 8:00.
The Hangzhou Municipal Education Bureau requires that the end of evening self-study for non-boarding junior high schools should not be later than 20:30, and the nighttime lights-off time for boarding junior high schools should not be later than 21:30.
Guangzhou issued the "Notice on Effectively Reducing the Work Burden of Students in Compulsory Education and Improving the Quality of Teaching", asking for quality in the classroom, leaving homework as little as possible, and making every effort to ensure that children sleep 10 hours a day and more than 1.5 hours of sports activities.
"In the morning, I can almost wake up naturally. After eating breakfast, I will go to school." said a fifth-grade student in Yuexiu District, Guangzhou.
The delay in school time is to give the children more time to sleep; the postponement of school time is to solve the "three thirty" problem that parents are difficult to pick up and drop off.
At about 4 pm, I walked into the Cuidian School of Lu'an Road Primary School in Hefei, Anhui Province. On the playground, track and field clubs, cheerleading clubs, basketball clubs, etc. were training; in the teaching building, all grades had "after-school services" with teachers Under the guidance, students write homework, read, draw...
The "double reduction" changes not only the time between school and school, but also the distribution of children's spare time.
"I used to have homework in all subjects every day after I got home, dictation, corrections, and clocking in, often late. Now a lot of homework is done at school, and the child can go to bed earlier." The lady told reporters.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Education, as of the end of October, 99.3% of compulsory education schools across the country have introduced homework management measures, 97.1% of schools have established an internal homework disclosure system, and schools have generally established a system for helping students with learning difficulties.
There is less off-campus training and more hobbies
Reducing the burden of school homework and reducing the burden of off-campus training is precisely the purpose of the "double reduction".
No need to "hurry up to class", can you give your children a happy childhood?
In the primary school affiliated to Tsinghua University, more than 70 "1+X" courses have been opened every semester for more than ten years, which are available to all students in the school. After the "double reduction" has landed, it has become more and more popular with parents and students.
"'Double reduction' is essentially the full implementation of the party's education policy and the pursuit of high quality education." Dou Guimei, principal of the primary school affiliated to Tsinghua University, believes that on the one hand, we must step on the "brake" and remove students from the heavy homework and extracurricular training in the past. Freed from the burden, on the other hand, we must step on the "throttle" for the iteration of school education, reconstruct a high-quality school life that fully implements children's quality education, and guide students to learn to learn to learn, learn to do things, learn to live together, and learn to be a person.
After the "double reduction", more and more children began to use their spare time, or engaged in housework within their capacity, or went outdoors for physical exercise, or picked up extracurricular books, picked up paintbrushes, checked in to bookstores, museums, etc., and invested more extensively. World of interest.
Cui Chenxi, a first-year student in Shenyang junior high school, was on the hot search for pointing out the mistakes in English textbooks with pictures. Netizens praised him: "The posterity is terrible! This is what quality education should look like." His mother, Wang Dan, said that he had "tuitioned for children". "The class report is less" and anxious, but finally decided to give the children the space to grow up freely.
After the "double reduction", Cui Chenxi, who loves insects, has more time to observe outdoors, go to the library to select books, and stick to the "love" in his heart.
After the "double reduction", Beijing Book Building welcomed more primary and middle school students reading and buying books. Some private bookstores also actively tried out after-school reading services and held public welfare lectures.
"Now the cram school is not allowed. Children have a lot of time to read, which can broaden their horizons and cultivate their sentiments. It is also a good choice." Beijing parent Mr. Sun said.
Experts said that "reducing" burdens must also "increasing" interest. Children have more free time to do things they are interested in. "Double reduction" will inevitably bring about a healthier education ecology and allow children to accompany their hobbies. Enjoy childhood in music.
Children's time changes impact traditional ideas
"Double reduction" is an unprecedented reform, which will inevitably have an impact on some traditional educational concepts and methods of education.
In October of this year, the head of a family in Guizhou complained that the teacher assigned too many homework, but 37 parents jointly asked him to transfer his child because of different ideas.
Training institutions can’t get it, so they can “one-on-one” or “saving classes”; if they have less school homework, they just buy papers for children to “scratch the questions”-this concept is indeed contrary to the “double reduction”.
To change the inertial thinking and reduce the anxiety of parents, a set of "combined boxing" is needed.
"Out-of-school problems should be solved in the school, and extra-curricular problems should be solved in the class. The school must make comprehensive efforts in party building, curriculum, teaching, homework, after-school services, management and other aspects." Zhou Jianhua, the vice principal and principal of the Aerospace City School attached to the National People’s University of China, believes that the “double reduction” should work from outside the school to improve the quality of the school. People, strengthen the role of the main position of education, let students return to comprehensive and individual development, and finally achieve the goal of "de-utilitarian, return to public welfare; de-examination, return to quality; de-anxiety, return to rationalization".
"We must use the construction of a community of education as a carrier to deepen the collaborative work between home and school." Li Mingxin, the principal of Beijing Elementary School, believes that we must do a good job in policy publicity and interpretation, so that parents can understand the policy, trust the work of teachers, reach consensus, form a joint force, and coordinate education.
At the same time, it is necessary to provide parents with family education methods to improve the quality of family education.
Dong Shengzu, director of the Private Education Research Institute of the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, suggested that schools should win the recognition and support of parents with their teaching reform achievements, and guide parents to change their short-sighted and utilitarian mentality of education. Some "double reduction" supporting reforms need to be deepened. Advance.
Burden reduction is a long-term task, a systematic project, which requires the linkage of the government, schools, families, and society to work for a long time.
Representatives of schools and parents from all over the country said that the implementation of "double reduction" also requires deepening the reform of the education evaluation system and the reform of the evaluation-oriented social employment, so that the growth channels of talents will be more diverse and broader, and a good education ecology where people can use their talents can be formed.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, November 28th, by wire