64 teachers; There are 20 academic leaders and teaching experts in cities and counties. Chen Hong, chairman and principal, 14 years principal of Sheyang Middle School. Now he is a special moral education teacher and a senior English teacher in middle school. He is the only well-known principal in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. He has presided over 2 national and provincial scientific research projects, published 3 books and published more than 40 papers, among which "Mental Health Care for Middle School Students" won the first prize of excellent achievements in philosophy and social sciences in Yancheng in 2002. Shi, Party branch secretary, executive vice president, senior middle school Chinese teacher, national excellent middle school Chinese teacher, member of Yancheng senior high school entrance examination proposition group, director of Yancheng junior high school Chinese teaching and research activity center, the only in-service junior high school Chinese teacher in the county, published more than 400 papers, presided over 5 provincial and municipal scientific research projects, and won the first prize at the national level for scientific research achievements. More than 40 teachers won the first and second prizes in the provincial, municipal and county young teachers' teaching grand prix and the young teachers' basic skills competition. The school also hired three foreign teachers to give oral English lessons to students. Teachers publish nearly 100 papers in journals above the provincial level every year. At present, the school has 1 1 national sub-projects and provincial and municipal projects. The school was identified by Yancheng Education Bureau as "Yancheng Junior Middle School Chinese Teaching and Research Center", which undertakes the research and promotion of junior middle school Chinese teaching, senior high school entrance examination and new curriculum reform in the city.
Teachers in experimental junior high school in Sheyang County collectively suspended classes.
In the early morning of April 14, more than 4,000 parents of experimental junior high school in Sheyang County, Yancheng City received a short message from the teacher to suspend classes. The news spread all over the county like wings. Shocked, parents began to complain that this middle school was the best school in their eyes. Many parents spent tens of thousands of dollars to let their children in, but as a result, this "suspension storm" happened, and the children could only study in the classroom. It is reported that the main appeal of teachers' suspension is to restore their status as public teachers. Previously, they had tried hard and were rejected by government departments. The teacher decided to take radical collective suspension.
Public teachers have been sent to private schools for nearly 10 years.
Collective suspension of classes urges the government to "correct mistakes"
14 On the afternoon of April 4th, in Sheyang Experimental Junior High School, the reporter saw that 100 many teachers were concentrated on the playground, while nearly 4,000 students in 59 classes of grade three in junior high school had been studying by themselves for most of the day.
"The general office of the provincial government issued the document 1 124 on October 9 last year, requesting that the existing schools in the compulsory education stage be cleaned up and standardized. After the standardization, the reformed school is either public or public, and can no longer be used as a' scorpion' for the reformed school. " Teachers told reporters that according to the spirit of the higher-level documents, Sheyang experimental junior high school should also be included in this clean-up specification. Because in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the Promotion of Private Education, private schools must be "four independent", that is, independent legal persons, independent financial accounting and personnel management, independent campuses and buildings, and independent education and teaching.
According to reports, Sheyang Experimental Junior High School was originally the junior middle school of a famous local school-Sheyang Middle School in Jiangsu Province. 200 1, transformed into joint-stock private schools in the reform of the school-running system of public primary and secondary schools in Jiangsu. At that time, some public teachers who taught in the former Sheyang Middle School also went to the private experimental junior high school to teach, but the personnel relationship remained.
In the next eight years, these teachers, whether public or private, were left there for no reason. On March 16 this year, the responsible person of Jiangsu Province held a video conference to further clean up and standardize the work of the restructured schools, and asked all localities to clarify the basic direction of the restructured schools before May 1 to do a good job in teacher placement and safeguard the interests of students.
Teachers told reporters that they believe that if the government can completely "correct the deviation" in the cleaning norms of the restructured schools according to the provisions of the Compulsory Education Law, it will not only reduce the educational burden for the people, but also promote educational equity, and at the same time, the problem of teachers' identity can be solved.
The voices of the teachers did not get a response from the local government. "Yancheng municipal government requires all counties and districts to come up with specific plans before April 15, but the county has not made a clear statement until today (April 14 afternoon)," a teacher who participated in the suspension told reporters. Seeing that another opportunity to correct irregular reorganization behavior is about to be missed, we have to call for collective suspension of classes.
Quality education resources are highly monopolized.
"Fake private" takes the opportunity to charge high fees.
On the morning of April 15, teachers of experimental junior high school in Sheyang County were suspended. More than one student's parents expressed their worries about their children's studies to reporters. During the investigation in Sheyang County, the reporter found that although the incident was triggered by the teacher's refusal to restore the local government's public status, the deeper reason was that the local government turned a blind eye to the unclear nature of the school, the irregular behavior of restructuring, and the high fees charged in the name of restructuring, which led to strong dissatisfaction among the masses.
A teacher familiar with the situation in Sheyang Experimental Junior High School told the reporter that there are many irregularities in the process of school restructuring. In addition to a large number of teachers who are actually public, for a long time, the experimental school even had a public Sheyang Middle School.
According to reports, for a long time, it is this kind of "fake private school" under the banner of restructuring that uses state-owned high-quality educational resources to run schools, but charges high tuition fees, which greatly increases the burden on local people. Teachers told reporters that students who go to school in experimental junior high schools have to pay a maximum of18,000 yuan when choosing a school, and even pay 9,000 yuan if they pass the independent entrance examination.
"Two of the three private schools in Sheyang County are public schools, which cover almost all outstanding junior high school students and quality teachers in the county." Teachers told reporters that the monopoly of such high-quality students and teachers in the county is unique in the province. Parents also told reporters that due to the high concentration of quality education resources, studying in Sheyang County is too heavy a financial burden.
In this case, the Jiangsu provincial government issued the document "124" in June, 2009, demanding to further clean up and standardize the restructured schools and stop the "fake private schools" in an all-round way, which was regarded by parents and teachers as an important measure to change the unreasonable allocation of educational resources and correct the previous policy deviation.
The local government insists that the school is private.
It is difficult to standardize and reflect the deviation of running a school.
On the afternoon of April 15, according to the introduction of teachers who participated in the suspension of classes in experimental junior high schools, they received a notice from Sheyang County Education Bureau asking teachers to resume classes unconditionally.
Can the education department of Sheyang County consider the voice of the masses, respond to the call of superiors, seize the opportunity of cleaning up the norms, thoroughly clean up the problems left over from history and "correct the deviation", and rationally redistribute the high-quality resources in the compulsory education stage? These questions are unknown, because the reporter's repeated requests for interviews with the local government and education authorities were rejected.
Just as the reporter was about to leave Sheyang County, he got a reply from the local government to the teachers who stopped classes. The letter stamped with the official seal of Sheyang County Education Bureau said: Sheyang County Experimental Junior High School meets the requirements of "four autonomy" of private schools, and the county party committee and county government decided to retain the private nature of the school. The school will not take it back for public treatment until the superior has a clear opinion that it must be taken back.
Teachers told reporters that at present, the restructured schools in the surrounding areas have been taken over by the government. In the document "124" of the provincial government, which is regarded by teachers as "the new policy of benefiting the people", the reporter also noticed that the basic principles of cleaning up and standardizing the work of restructuring schools are to coordinate local public and private education, adhere to the public welfare nature of education, rationally arrange schools in compulsory education stage and control the proportion of students' contributions.
"Why is it so difficult for the country to implement the policy of benefiting the people by returning education to public welfare in Sheyang?" A parent of a student in Sheyang County Experimental School issued such a sigh. An old teacher familiar with local education told reporters that in recent years, it is difficult to promote the work of cleaning up and standardizing the restructured schools, which is actually caused by the obstruction of vested interests behind "fake private".
But what makes the old educator feel sad is that teachers, schools and local governments are wrestling around the contradictions arising from the clean-up norms of the restructured schools. The school that originally educated people has now become a place where the interests of all parties play games, which is not only sad, but also more terrible.