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Do you still remember that in the TV series " Xiaoshe ", there is such a magical plot that turns tutoring into a "spy connection" ?
A mysterious teacher gives tutoring lessons to students, just like fighting guerrillas. Not only does the place change, but there are also secret codes for communication. Parents can only wait outside during class, and their mobile phones will be confiscated.
even wears sunglasses, a hat and a mask in class, and even the students don't know his true identity.
Although it is not so exaggerated in reality, it also vividly restores the tension and excitement in the TV series.
Recently, many parents in Nanchang City have reported that in the communities of Xihu District and Xinjian District, they can see such advertisements for summer training for primary and secondary school students.
It says: "Open a small stove in the summer, win in the new semester, 1-on-1 in each grade..."
A reporter conducted an undercover investigation based on the information in the advertisement, and found that classes at this training institution can be called "a large-scale spy joint site" ".
Under the guidance of the staff, they walked through the dark corridors, around the maze-like teaching building, and walked up many floors before reaching a locked glass door.
After the staff member whispered "check the password", the door slowly opened. A staff member looked outside the door warily and led the reporter into the office reception room.
After passing through the office reception room, I saw the teaching area divided into multiple cubicles. From time to time, the sound of classes could be heard in the cubicle. The staff pushed open a small cubicle and looked around. There was a teacher giving a lecture inside, and there were nearly 10 students listening to the class in the audience.
The atmosphere in the entire classroom was tense.
What’s even more shocking is that this secret cram school charges a lot of money.
Take the third grade of junior high school as an example: the recharge amount is within 15,800 yuan, and the class fee is as high as 208 yuan per hour. The fee for each of the ten nursery classes is 5,000 yuan.
is 208 yuan per hour, which can be regarded as a "class" worth a fortune.
As we all know, 's " double minus " policy has been implemented for a year.
In this year, both the education and training industry and the public education system have undergone earth-shaking changes under supervision. In our understanding, the phenomenon of make-up lessons has tended to be
Could it be that from the current point of view, the "make-up lessons" market, which has been dormant for a year, has revived again?
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In fact, the phenomenon of making up classes privately like this is not uncommon in the past year.
Just last week, a father in Hangzhou drove 1,400 kilometers all the way south despite the high temperature, passing Jinhua, Quzhou, Lishui, Wenzhou.
Everywhere he goes, he goes straight to the middle school.
He first found the location of the canteen and teaching building, then waited until lunch time or evening, and stayed at the school gate for more than an hour, using a drone to "reconnaissance" around.
In the end, 8 middle schools were recorded by drones, and there was a phenomenon of making up classes during the summer.
After returning to Hangzhou, he uploaded these materials to the Zhejiang Government Service Network " Zhejiang Office " and reported the phenomenon of summer vacation make-up classes to the local education bureaus in real name. Some students also took the initiative to contact him through social platforms, broke the news about summer vacation make-up classes in various places, and entrusted him to help report.
Just two weeks before he reported it, a similar incident occurred in Hangzhou.
On July 19, 2022, a parent wrote a report letter entitled "Rampant tutoring in various communities in Binjiang", stating that since the implementation of the "double reduction", illegal tutoring has repeatedly occurred in the residential building where he lives. , students would come in and out on weekends and holidays. Later, it became so rampant that even those who did basketball training started to run cram schools.
He also listed the communities where tutoring is the most common, including Qingchenglian, Dongfangjun, Ruili Central Flower City, Fengya Qiantang, Qiantang Chunxiao, Gate of Wisdom, Platinum Era, and Warm Home , Xinzhou Garden.
Actually speaking of this Binjiang District , this is not the first time that I have been reported for making up lessons.
In November last year, some parents reported that parents in Binjiang District were encouraged by certain training institutions to travel around various communities on weekends and rent houses in various communities to teach students. Parents of
said that not only do they make up classes privately, but they also charge exorbitant prices.
Before the "double reduction", a class cost about 100 yuan. After the double reduction, the tuition fee was close to a thousand yuan, tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan a month, making it unbearable for working-class parents.
But there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom. In order to avoid supervision, some parents even bought RVs and "moved around" to make up classes.
RV is more concealed than a fixed place. After picking up the child, you can drive to a less crowded area or directly make up lessons while driving, making it difficult to detect.
Some parents even said: In fact, driving a RV to take tutoring can be regarded as a kind of study trip for their children.
Some people also thought of recruiting "high-end housekeepers" and "senior nannies" to hire tutors.
On the recruitment website, you can see that similar positions offer very high salaries, ranging from 20,000 to 50,000 per month. They are either graduates from 985 colleges and universities, returnees from overseas, have a master's degree, and more specifically, have CET-8 English and have a teacher qualification certificate and other labels are clearly listed.
These "senior nannies" usually not only provide subject tutoring, but also formulate study plans and cultivate study habits for students. They also include transporting students to and from school as well as part of the work of ordinary nannies. Those who can calligraphy, painting and musical instruments are more popular. .
It is said that some parents gathered around the gate of Tsinghua University and Peking University, looking for talented and experienced student tutors...
So it seems that the "double reduction" not only did not reduce the students' involution, but intensified the parents' involution. , does such a measure really make sense from now on?
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Before answering this question, we must first understand why the country wants to "double reduction"?
The concept of "double reduction" comes from the "Opinions on Further Reducing the Homework Burden and Off-Campus Training Burden of Students in Compulsory Education" issued by the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council in July 2021 (hereinafter referred to as "Double Reduction" "Opinion). The
document draws a clear red line for make-up classes - the relevant provisions of the Minors Protection Law are to be strictly implemented. Off-campus training institutions are not allowed to use national statutory holidays, rest days and winter and summer vacations to organize subject training.
In addition, all localities will no longer approve new subject-based off-campus training institutions for students in compulsory education, and existing subject-based training institutions will be registered as non-profit institutions; excessive and advanced training is strictly prohibited; false discounts, false publicity, etc. are prohibited Unfair competition and other regulations have also been evaluated by the industry as a "precision attack" on off-campus training institutions.
For a time, was adopted, and the education and training industry was filled with disasters.
Under the influence of this incident, another big news in the field of education was covered up, that is, under the banner of Hengshui , the first high school education group completed the US New York Stock Exchange of listing.
Speaking of this No. 1 High School Education Group, there is a man named Zhang Shaowei standing behind it.
In 2002, Zhang Shaowei from Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province became a freshman at Jinqiao College, Kunming University of Science and Technology. While in school, he first worked as a tutor himself, and later started a "tutoring agency" by collecting information from both the supply and demand sides of tutoring.
In 2005, Zhang Shaowei discovered that more and more students were taking the postgraduate entrance examination, so he bought the agency rights of the postgraduate entrance examination education brand " Qihang postgraduate entrance examination ". Relying on the tutoring resources at hand, he quickly expanded the scale and occupied 80% of Kunming's postgraduate entrance examination tutoring industry. market share.
In 2013, he set his sights on the after-school tutoring market for primary and secondary schools.
It happened that that year, Hengshui Middle School was outstanding, taking the top 10 in liberal arts, science and liberal arts in the college entrance examination in Hebei Province, which attracted Zhang Shaowei's attention. After some contact with
, the two parties hit it off. On March 24, 2014, Yunnan Hengshui Experimental Middle School was established. Zhang Shaowei was responsible for running the school. Hengshui Middle School provided teachers and lesson plans, plus output of teaching concepts.
The effect of this cooperation was also immediate. In 2017, "Yunnan Hengshi Middle School" sent 14 people to score above 600, 282 people from the whole school took the exam, and 71 people went online.
In the 2020 college entrance examination, 63.9% of students under First High School Education were admitted to college, and 29.2% of students were admitted to first-class universities. In the same year, the average proportions in the western region were only 40.5% and 13.1% respectively.
With a better admission rate, there will naturally be a better source of students, and it will also bring more profits.
Zhang Shaowei began to use the money to frantically poach teachers and students from public schools , and took over all the high-quality local teachers.
According to his plan, after the listing, the capital supply will be stronger, and this model will be copied across the country. By then, all high-quality teachers in the country will "belong to him."
saw that a private education empire was about to "rise", but at this moment, "double reduction" shattered his wishful thinking.
With the restrictions on private education companies in the "double reduction" , the listing of the first high school education group was greatly affected. It broke at the opening and fell nearly 20% during the session. On April 6, 2022,
’s stock price not only failed to recover, but also stepped on the delisting red line of US stock due to low profits.
On June 24, 2022, First High School Education received a US Securities Regulatory Commission low stock price delisting warning. In order to boost the stock price, First High School Education announced a stock buyback plan of 4 million yuan, but to no avail, the stock price continued to decline.
Zhang Shaowei’s dream of “capturing the public sector” collapsed.
From this perspective, the arrival of the "double reduction" can be said to extinguished the flame of domestic education industrialization and interrupted the pace of capital intrusion into the education industry.
If there is no "double reduction", not only the No. 1 high school education group, but also those well-known education and training giants are "encircling" the territory of the public education system.
continues, and the capitalization of education is the inevitable result.
In a few years, we will be like the United States, divided between rich and poor since childhood. Children from ordinary families will not have access to high-quality educational resources.
Education and medical care are precisely the areas where the country can least tolerate the erosion of capital.
So although we say that "double reduction" has indeed brought many negative impacts and left many loopholes, from the perspective of the meaning and original intention, it is still worthy of recognition.
The more important question now is, how should we adjust this measure to ensure that during its implementation, can always benefit the interests of the majority of the people?
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On October 15, 2021, the door of a public elementary school in New York was blocked by dozens of angry parents.
They held signs in their hands that read: "Save New York Talent Plan" and "Leave Talent Plan for Children."
On the same day, similar protests occurred in multiple locations in New York City. Even the prosperous Manhattan business district saw nearly a hundred people protest.
What forced these parents to take to the streets to protest, as the slogan said, was the education reform plan just launched by New York City: Cancel the "New York Gifted and Talented Program."
What is the "New York Talent Program"? To put it simply, is the establishment of an American version of "Children's Genius Class".
The government and schools pass examinations to select talents with "extraordinary intelligence and abilities" from 4-year-old children, and put them into special classes and schools, and provide special training starting from kindergarten.
These children will continue to go through class placement and entrance examinations in the future when they are promoted from elementary school to junior high school. The "survivors" who pass the layers of selection will become candidates for elite universities in the United States in the future.
For parents in New York City, this is a path that can be seen with the naked eye: being admitted to the "Excellent Talents Program", entering the fast class in elementary school, being admitted to prestigious schools in junior high and high school, and finally entering the top 50 in the country. famous university. The first door to embark on this road to success is the exam of the "Excellent Talents Program".
However, as New York City canceled this plan, this "road up" was blocked, which triggered protests from parents.
After all, under the current "alumni system" game rules in the United States, only donations and recommendations from parents can successfully enter prestigious schools, successfully enter high-end industries such as finance and IT, and successfully continue the family wealth story.
Children from ordinary families can only settle at the bottom from generation to generation.
"New York Talent Program" In a sense, it is like our college entrance examination, allowing more ordinary people to have the opportunity to leap over the dragon gate.
If various training courses are allowed to develop, high-quality educational resources will be fixed by capital and become an exclusive service for rich children. In a certain sense, this is the "alumni system."
Therefore, at the current stage, although training courses are resurrected and even showing signs of becoming more and more violent, it is understandable. The " involution of " in the past few decades has suddenly stopped, and there must be huge inertia.
However, the "double reduction" policy must be adhered to and must continue to become stricter.
The reason is very simple, it is to express an attitude: defining the capitalization of high-quality educational resources as a violation of laws and regulations.
Just relying on "blocking" is not enough. In order to fix high-quality educational resources in the public education system, we must also do a good job of "draining".
Teachers are human beings too and have to support their families.
At present, the education department should also introduce relevant assessment and management standards as soon as possible so that high-quality teachers can earn higher incomes in the public education system.
Beat magic with magic.
"Blocking" is to let capital and teachers know where the red line is. "Sparse" lets teachers know where the way out is.
At present, it seems that we need more complete supporting policies in both aspects.
At the same time, another task must be done - strengthening the dual-track system.
Speaking of this, we have to mention the country targeted by this "double reduction" policy: Germany.
my country has many similarities with Germany in terms of national conditions. For example, both are industrial countries with a large population base, and the education system is mainly public.
In terms of education system, our country has also followed Germany's footsteps. From the initial K12, to the later dual education system, and now to the current double reduction, we have all stepped on their stones to cross the river.
But what has caused the most controversy is the dual education system.
has a more familiar name in China, called dual-track system.
later came to China and became the familiar "universal vocational diversion". After the high school entrance examination, 50% of the children went to high school, and the rest went to vocational schools.
It is precisely this point that has become the biggest enemy of "double reduction" today.
Domestic parents are anxious and angry all day long, desperately looking for cram school chicks everywhere, and dare not take a moment to rest. The biggest source of anxiety is to prevent their children from being placed in the bottom half of the high school entrance examination and entering vocational high schools to become workers.
However, German parents don’t worry about this at all.
Not only are they not in a hurry, but they are also very Buddhist. Children can go to school if they can, and it is fine if they can't. It is completely acceptable to enter workshops and factories.
Why is this? The reason for this is not because they are big-hearted, but because as a blue-collar worker in Germany, the salary is no worse than that of white-collar workers.
In Germany, blue-collar jobs are truly “high-paying jobs.” The annual income of newly graduated technical workers can be 15% higher than the annual income of office white-collar workers; the average annual income of German technical workers can reach 45,000 euros (approximately 307,000 yuan), much higher than the income of civil servants; the salary income of some senior technical workers can be as high as Professor at the university.
Speaking of this, everyone must understand that the difference lies in the expected return of the career.
In recent years, the demand for talents in my country's manufacturing industry has been great. The news that "college students don't go into factories to deliver food" is no longer news. I think the reason why
has such a problem is not entirely the fault of 's "diversion from general to professional positions".
is more responsible for the fact that various localities are implementing the "separation of general posts" and are executing the tasks in a state of completion.
For example, many regions across the country are reducing or merging majors related to clothing and textiles because, after mechanization, the scale of employment has shrunk rapidly. However, these professional teachers are readily available and can easily complete the "diversion from general to professional" tasks.
On the other hand, new infrastructure, big data, new energy, this majestic emerging new industry has a huge supporting industry chain behind it, which requires a large number of scientific and technological talents and a larger number of supporting workers.
Especially in places like Guangdong, Jiangsu and Shandong, there have been many specialized and new companies, industry leading companies and hidden champion companies . The talent gap is getting bigger year by year.
However, judging from the current objective facts, there are not enough college managers with decision-making courage and vision.
This is also the biggest obstacle to the "diversion from general employment". Many parents are afraid that their children will learn the "BB machine maintenance major" after graduation. In particular, society as a whole does not yet recognize the value of vocational school qualifications.
Epilogue
17 years ago, an article "I struggled for 18 years to sit with you and drink coffee" went viral on the Internet, sparking heated discussions.
The article tells the story of a rural boy who, through study and hard work, eventually became an urban white-collar in Shanghai.
But in 2022, many parents are worried that due to the "double reduction" policy of , the threshold for cram schools will be higher, and the rich will still have access to . Like this scene of 's "small town problem solver" counterattack, maybe it will happen again It won't show up in my own children either.
This kind of worry is natural.
However, I believe that the "double reduction" of must be implemented and must become more and more strict. We must not compromise just because of short-term setbacks. Because this matter is related to the greatest fairness - educational fairness.
I don’t believe that the policymakers of this country will take the pressure to do things that go against the interests of the people of the country.
At the moment, we feel "pain" because we have found the right "carbuncle", and next, we have to prick it. , let the pus flow out. This is a symptomatic treatment.
As for the root cause, we must use "magic" to snatch back high-quality educational resources, and let the students who have been diverted have a bright future. This may not be something that can be solved in one generation.
Our pain is because we are experiencing pus extrusion.
