The barber in the shop chatted with me casually while giving me a haircut. He also talked about his children and his children's school. I vaguely remember that he was also talking about children last time. Last time he said, "Although the junior high school where the child is located does not have any tuition and book fees, the fee for a student's school uniform is more than 800 yuan for a semester or a year."
This time , he also talked about the "price" paid by his family's children to go to school across school districts. He spent a total of about 30,000 yuan to successfully let his children enter a "better school district" to go to school. Among them, more than 20,000 are equivalent to "sponsorship" for that school, and the other several thousand are for teachers in the admissions office and teaching office.
After cutting my hair, I sat on a chair and continued chatting with him for a while. He told me that it was difficult for him to get an appointment with the teachers in the teaching office to have dinner. They always had "dinner parties". It is conceivable that these meals may also be invited by other parents.
Then I asked him, what if your children go to school in your own school district without crossing school districts? After hearing this, he hurriedly waved his hands, with a look of disgust on his face and said, "Our school district is too bad, it can't be compared with others..."
So, it is understandable that everything he does is for the sake of the children. . But what people can’t understand is, why? Why has this method of dividing educational resources by "school district housing" appeared in recent years, as well as the phenomenon of "stuffing red envelopes" and "giving benefits" to let teachers help take care of children?
The editor is not saying that this is a common phenomenon, but it is not a very rare phenomenon, and it is even a topic that can be heard from time to time in the workplace and life. Especially parents who already have children will occasionally discuss what to give to teachers, which house to buy for their children to attend a certain school district, etc.
The existence of this phenomenon seems to make it increasingly difficult to distribute educational resources “more equitably”. Good teachers and good teaching equipment are in better school districts and better "key classes". Do the other children in ordinary school districts and ordinary classes "appear to be at a disadvantage" relatively speaking?
As parents of children, we will not let our children suffer too much in education. If a child's academic performance does not allow him or her to go to a better school district, parents may have to "find ways" to enter a school district with better resources. At this time, there is a "supply demand" in terms of benefits.
As long as parents can provide enough "sponsorship" and "benefits", they can be accepted by better school districts. Although we can understand the parents’ good intentions and the schools and teachers’ “acceptance” of the “high sponsorship fees”. But the more this phenomenon occurs, it means that those children from poor families who cannot afford "high sponsorship fees" will have relatively fewer fair opportunities.
A few years ago, Peking University student Liu Yuanyuan mentioned the topic of "It is difficult to produce a noble son from a poor family" in a speech that shocked the entire Internet. Of course, this was not the topic of her speech. She just listed such a topic worthy of discussion. What she really wants to express is that even if you come from a poor family, the palm of fate can still slip through the net, and there are "countless" cases of children from poor families making counterattacks in life.
In her speech, she quoted a British documentary "Seven Years in the Life". In the film, researchers interviewed twelve 7-year-old children from different walks of life. These children will be interviewed again every seven years. In the film In the end, they discovered that the children of the rich are still rich, and the children of the poor are still poor. However, there is a poor child in it who, through his own efforts, became a university professor.
What Liu Yuanyuan wants to express is that in fact, even when resources are scarce, children of poor people can get a better life as long as they work hard enough, work hard, and do not complain about their background or parents (plus some opportunities).This is indeed the case. For example, Liu Yuanyuan, who boasted in her speech that she “doesn’t even have a door at home,” is a case of “a noble son comes from a poor family.”
Returning to the above topic, if the above-mentioned "transaction-like" education phenomenon does not improve in the future, it will become an increasingly common norm. As the education field becomes more and more smelly of copper, the opportunities for children from disadvantaged families who are relatively lacking in material resources to have equal resources will become increasingly diminished. Although "a noble son from a poor family" will still come out, will the probability of it become smaller and smaller as a result?
Of course, the "noble" in "noble" here does not mean becoming materially wealthy in the future through high-quality teaching resources, but refers to a person becoming more socially valuable in the conventional sense. For example, children from poor families work hard to become professors who spread knowledge, or famous doctors who save lives and heal the wounded, or scientists who research advanced technologies.
This is not to say that the above positions are more valuable than other jobs that rely on basic physical and mental skills. Although the positions themselves are not distinguished by high or low, in today's era of rapid economic and technological development, some positions are indeed regarded as more important. These positions will also put more demands on the corresponding personnel, including basic physical skills. Health requirements, to certain academic qualifications, knowledge, and experience requirements.
If children from poor families cannot obtain relatively fair educational resources, what will happen in the end? It is very likely that: few children from poor families can get ahead through their own efforts; social class is hereditary. For example, some students may never be able to obtain fair educational resources due to unfair distribution of educational resources. Eventually, they will become the next generation of "heads of poor families" .
finally said:
. Regardless of the educational resources available to parents or children, we do not advocate an "educational environment full of copper odor" because if education, the most fundamental thing, is to cultivate children's knowledge, instill children's ideas, and teach children Moral places have begun to "look at money", and the seeds of "things that can't be done without money" are planted in children's minds since childhood. Then what will happen in the future?
2. Regardless of the educational resources available to parents or children, we always advocate "struggle". Even the generation with better parents cannot waste various high-quality resources at will, otherwise it will be difficult to continue the high-quality resources of the previous generation in the future. Children from poor families with limited conditions must persist in self-study, believe in themselves, and do not complain about their parents. No matter where they are, gold will always shine, especially those children who are talented and intelligent.
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