There are voices against "reducing the burden" one after another. Zhang, a deputy to the National People's Congress, pointed out: At present, most parents have not reached a * * * understanding of some key issues of "reducing the burden", and there are even many misunderstandings.
In fact, reducing the burden does not mean the "retreat" of public education;
It is not equal to reducing the curriculum difficulty of primary and secondary school students;
Does not mean that students should not study hard;
Does not mean reducing students' study time;
Doesn't mean you don't take the exam.
With the above conditions unchanged, what is the original intention of "reducing the burden"?
The original intention of reducing the burden is actually to reduce the heavy schoolwork and psychological burden of children, hoping that children can learn and grow happily. At the same time, promote the implementation of quality education and improve the quality of teaching.
Why must we insist on "reducing the burden"?
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Protect students, teachers and parents' right to rest.
According to relevant data, China's youth suicide rate ranks first in the world.
However, in the ranking of the causes of children's suicide in China, excessive study pressure occupies the first place (45.5%).
So, how heavy is the learning pressure of China teenagers?
According to the survey, at present, in first-and second-tier cities in China, children basically start attending various interest classes or cram schools from kindergarten. A child has to attend three cram schools or interest classes every week on average, and the busiest child has to attend nine cram schools or interest classes every week.
This kind of intensive learning directly leads to a serious lack of sleep time for children.
Some time ago, Shanghai released a set of survey data about students' sleep. The data showed that less than 20% of children of all ages reached the standard of sleep time, and the situation of high school students' lack of sleep was particularly serious. 10.7% of high school students slept less than 6 hours a day.
Some students said in an interview with CCTV: The best time in life is when you can sleep after studying.
Sleep, for students, has become a luxury!
Where are the parents? It is equally difficult to go to work during the day, supervise children to do a lot of homework at night, and accompany them to various training institutions at weekends.
Not to mention teachers, they have the pressure of being parents, and their own responsibilities and obligations also make them physically and mentally exhausted. It not only affects the quality of teaching, but also affects the family management of teachers.
The implementation of "reducing the burden" is actually a humanized measure, which can effectively protect the rest rights of students, parents and teachers.
Perhaps some parents will think that it is the responsibility of the school to parents to postpone school and leave school early, which increases the burden on parents.
In fact, the school's adjustment of school hours does not mean that children must leave school after school. Children can stay at school to finish their homework independently, go to the school library to read books or exercise in the playground, without increasing the burden on parents.
On the contrary, children's self-study time after school can reduce the time and energy for parents to supervise their children's homework at night.
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Students have the right to learn independently.
Krishnamurti once said: The purpose of education is to awaken children's minds.
And "reducing the burden" also hopes that children will change from passive learning to active learning.
What is passive learning? What is active learning?
Passive learning means that students themselves are unwilling to learn, and their hearts are miserable about learning. Their learning often needs the external control of their parents or teachers to complete.
Active learning, that is, the healthy development of students' personality, has their own goals and understanding of learning, has a desire for knowledge and is willing to learn.
Parents who shout against "reducing the burden" are basically passive parents. Because I can't control myself, I hope that teachers in schools or institutions will put pressure on their children for themselves.
However, pressure can't solve the problem. On the contrary, this kind of cramming education will deprive children of their thinking and creativity.
Moreover, in today's society, it is useless for a poor person to improve his education merely by studying. There are also students from Tsinghua Peking University who have poor grades after graduation and spend thousands of dollars a month muddling along.
Therefore, our education should not only instill knowledge, but also give students the key to develop a cultural treasure house, so that students can explore and infer independently and understand the motivation and significance of spontaneous behavior.
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Rectify the chaos in the education market
Among the voices against "reducing the burden", apart from parents who are anxious and at a loss, the loudest voice is the practitioners in the education industry.
There is no doubt that the appearance of the "burden reduction" order has moved the cheese of the profit-making institutions in the entire education market.
Schools decompress, and they encourage parents to put pressure on their children.
However, as we said before, this kind of pressure is meaningless. Repeated test training can only turn children into test machines.
In addition, the current education market is mixed, and the implementation of "reducing the burden" will be under the pressure of relevant policies, which can rectify this chaos to some extent and protect the rights and interests of students' parents.
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Relieve the phenomenon of class solidification
To tell the truth, the widening class gap under the market economy is an inevitable phenomenon.
Many parents worry that "reducing the burden" will seriously solidify the class. In fact, on the contrary, "reducing the burden" can alleviate this gap to some extent.
Last year, Xiong Xuanang, the champion of the Beijing College Entrance Examination, said: The current college entrance examination is a grade examination, which is becoming more and more difficult in rural areas. I am a child of a middle-class family, born in Beijing. The educational resources I can enjoy in a big city like Beijing determine that I can take many shortcuts in my study. I can see that many top scholars are powerful people at home, so knowledge may not change my destiny, but without knowledge, it will definitely not change my destiny.
This means that the so-called class solidification at present is essentially the unfair educational resources brought about by the gap between parents' economic and social status.
Therefore, the intervention of the "burden reduction" order will inevitably rectify the allocation of educational resources.
You know, many real upper-class people in China have stopped taking the college entrance examination. The college entrance examination has actually become a competition between the middle class and the lower class. What are the objections to reducing the burden?
It opposes undermining the leading edge of the middle class.
In fact, if the burden is not reduced, it will be a real disaster for the children of poor families.
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How to reduce the burden is the problem.
Teacher Huo, the author, said: All education is a tool of class reproduction and does not shoulder the heavy responsibility of class rise. Whether it is to reduce the burden or reform education, the goal is simple, that is, to make education as a filter more efficient and make students more successful.
When it comes to success, we have to talk about the single value definition of "success" and "success" in current society: power, power or advantage.
And this is the real reason for the "failure" of reducing the burden.
In other words, it is not the failure of "reducing the burden", but the failure of school education and parents' education for quick success and instant benefit, and the failure of a single value.
Therefore, we should "reduce the burden", let it really play its original intention, effectively improve children's ideological and moral level, study habits, learning methods and learning ability, and retain children's curiosity and interest in exploring the world;
Avoid schools evading the responsibility of reducing burdens, coercing students to fill in untrue information that meets the requirements, and deceiving the education and inspection of superior leaders;
Avoid the phenomenon of reducing the burden on campus, the cluster of "remedial classes" outside the school, and the increasing burden on parents.
Don't put the cart before the horse, there will be consequences after Japan's "burden reduction"
Then, this requires the government, the market, families, schools and teachers to assume their respective responsibilities and establish corresponding accountability mechanisms.
Only in this way can we truly "reduce the burden" and curb or even improve the unfairness of resources, competition and class.