Text/Kefan Since the fall semester of 2020, the No. 4 Middle School in Simao District, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province has divided newly admitted seventh-grade students into smart classes and ordinary classes based on whether to purchase tablet computers, requiring 719 students in 14

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Starting from the fall semester of 2020, the No. 4 Middle School in Simao District, Pu'er City, Yunnan Province has divided newly admitted seventh-grade students into smart classes and ordinary classes based on whether to purchase tablet computers. 14 smart class students are required 719 students purchased tablet computers, supporting equipment and resource services at the standard of 5,800 yuan per set. As of the inspection by relevant departments, 719 students had each paid 3,400 yuan (including tablet computers, supporting equipment and first-year resource service fees), with a total fee of 2.4446 million yuan. (July 5th The Paper )

This is not the first time that the purchase of tablet computers has been used as the basis for class classification. As early as 2020, it was revealed that parents at an experimental junior high school in a city in Zhejiang Province were forced to buy a 6,500 yuan "tablet teaching" system in disguise. No information about the parameters, price, etc. of this tablet computer could be found online. Purchase through school channels. Relevant data shows that similar phenomena are not only "unique" to this school, but are also common in several other local middle schools. From 2014 to now, more than 22,000 junior high school students in the city have participated in "tablet teaching" and purchased tablet computer hardware per capita. Calculating that the equipment costs 3,000 yuan, plus the bundled teaching assistant software and traffic packages, local junior high school students participating in tablet teaching spent a total of about 110 million yuan.

On the surface, the school says that the purchase of tablet computers is a voluntary purchase by parents, and the transaction has nothing to do with the school. But in fact, even if students who purchase tablet computers are not clearly divided into classes, even if they are in the same class, they may It will lead to "differential treatment". For example, parents will worry that other children have tablets, but my children do not. Will they fall behind others? Students will also be concerned that when others are using tablets to study in class, but they are not, will there be a gap? Therefore, "voluntary purchase" actually means compulsion.

It is unreasonable and goes against the principle of equality in compulsory education to use the purchase of tablet computers as the basis for class classification. According to the "Compulsory Education Law of the People's Republic of China", equal access to compulsory education is a basic right given to all school-age children and teenagers. To distinguish between smart classes and ordinary versions based on whether students buy tablets, firstly, it violates the compulsory education stage. The principle and concept of "equal access to education"; second, it violates the provisions of the " Compulsory Education School Management Standards " on "implementing balanced class formation, regardless of key classes and non-key classes".

Schools force students to buy products such as tablet computers and bundled teaching aid software in disguise, which will also increase the financial burden on students and parents. More importantly, behind the unified charging behavior shown in this matter, there may be problems of non-standard and opaque cooperation between schools and enterprises, and even the transfer of benefits. On the one hand, the purchase of tablet computers designated by the school undoubtedly deprives students and parents of the right to choose tablet computers in disguise. These tablet computers and teaching aid software are generally purchased by the school, so students and parents have to know the computer model, specific source, and You may know nothing about hardware performance and software functions, and have neither the right to choose nor the right to bargain. You may not even know whether the sales entity is a school or a company; on the other hand, there is also a lack of unified standards and specifications for the introduction of tablet computers in schools. , behind similar chaos, what highlights is the "passive" status of parents. Often the designated teaching materials and the use of teaching aid software are just the words of the school, and parents line up to buy them. Are there any "stuff" and kickbacks behind this?

Obviously, the presence or absence of a tablet computer and whether to purchase a tablet computer should not be the basis for treating students differently or even dividing them into classes. Compulsory education is equal education. The bottom line of teaching and educating people is not to make a name for themselves and not to make profits from it. If you use the banner of learning for children to make excuses for profit transfer, this kind of teaching concept is really too biased and too far. . Refunding the collected fees is only the first step. Ultimately, a review and supervision mechanism must be established. Those who charge illegal fees must be severely punished, draw inferences from one example, strengthen supervision and management, and purify the educational atmosphere on campus.

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