It is a wise move to stop school communication. Wangying (special commentator) Recently, a netizen in Quanjiao County, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province reported on the People's Daily "Leader's Message Board" that he and another parent expressed doubts about the use of "school communi

stop school communication is a wise move

Wangying (special commentator)

Recently, a netizen in Quanjiao County, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province reported on the People's Daily " Leader's Message Board " that he and another parent expressed doubts about the use of "school communication" in the parent group, and were later moved out of the group chat by the teacher. In response, the Chuzhou Municipal Government responded that the Quanjiao County Education and Sports Bureau has ordered Chengnan Primary School involved to strengthen teaching management, implement standardized school management requirements, and strictly prohibit communication companies from promoting and handling "school communications" on school.

school communication is a kind of home-school contact information that was earlier than WeChat groups and QQ groups, that is, parents pay fees to purchase communication company packages and receive text messages from the school. Since 2014, in order to avoid the problem of "disguised charging", many provinces and cities including Beijing, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Hebei, Qinghai and other provinces have successively issued documents to clearly stop "school communication" business. But in some areas, the school communication still has a market, and it has even been transformed into an app.

Nowadays, smartphones have been basically popular, network signals have been basically covered, and social methods such as WeChat and QQ have become mainstream, and it is no longer appropriate to use school communication to communicate with home and school. Not only is the convenience and fastest school communication not only as convenient and fast as WeChat and QQ, but also charges a certain fee. Forced students and parents to use school communications will bring unnecessary financial burdens to parents, which the education department has explicitly prohibited.

Although some schools and teachers claim to let parents voluntarily purchase school communications, if teachers only publish through school communications when assigning homework, this becomes another form of forced purchase. Therefore, schools and teachers should be highly vigilant about all business behaviors that claim to be convenient for students and parents. They should neither wave flags and act as advertising spokespersons, nor use hidden means to force parents to buy in the name of serving education and teaching and improving students' grades, nor do they need to make profits from it.

There are many ways to contact and communicate with schools. You don’t have to communicate through school communication, and you don’t even have to use WeChat groups or QQ groups. Home-school communication is an educational behavior with clear purpose and planning. Through effective communication, teachers and parents educate students based on their personal characteristics. The communication content is sometimes not open. A warm home visit, a heart-to-heart interview, and a phone call with clear purpose can solve major problems in students' learning and growth, and the effect is far better than that of cold school communications, WeChat groups, and QQ groups.

Someone once joked that the parent group is a "homework group", "task group", "complaint group" and "flatter group"... It seems that the main function of the parent group is only to assign homework, post tasks, or complain and flatter each other, and does not really play the role of home-school communication. As for homework assignment alone, not using communication tools to assign homework can improve students' concentration and enhance students' sense of responsibility to complete homework. Therefore, some provinces have issued documents to clearly state that teachers are prohibited from using communication software to assign homework.

stopped school communication, which not only reduced the economic burden on parents, stopped campus business behavior, but also optimized the methods of home-school communication and enhanced the effectiveness of home-school communication. It is a wise move. Schools and teachers must have a clear understanding of this and must not do things that damage teachers’ personal and educational image for temporary small profits.

(Author Wang Ying, special commentator of Dandelion Comment. This is the first work published by Dandelion Comment website. Please be sure to mark the source for reprinting, violators will be prosecuted.)