In the future, will public teachers become civil servants in the true sense?

Some time ago, relevant departments publicly stated that: So far, all parts of the country have implemented the promise that "the average salary income level of compulsory education teachers is not lower than the average salary income level of local civil servants", and formally established a long-term mechanism for guaranteeing teacher salary funds and compulsory education A linkage mechanism in which teachers’ salary income is adjusted with the compensation of local civil servants. Many people believe that public primary and secondary school teachers have the same treatment as civil servants; some people even bluntly say that public teachers are civil servants.

It is certainly not accurate to say that "public teachers are civil servants". Civil servants refer to the staff who perform their public duties in accordance with the law, are included in the national administrative staff, and are paid by the national finance. They have administrative staff; public teachers are public institutions The staff, the establishment is the career establishment, the identities of the two are different, and there is a big difference.

But there are indeed many people around us who can’t distinguish the difference between teachers and civil servants. In their view, teachers and civil servants are both state-financed personnel with similar incomes and should be classified in the same identity category. In fact, it is only the local finance that guarantees that the average salary of teachers in public primary and secondary schools is not lower than that of civil servants, and other aspects are not mentioned.

So if the status of a teacher is changed to a civil servant, what are the benefits?

First of all, the treatment of teachers will be more comprehensively guaranteed.

Teacher treatment includes not only economic treatment, but also political treatment. Although the country has basically achieved the goal that the average salary of teachers in public primary and secondary schools is not lower than that of local civil servants, as long as there is a difference in the status of teachers and civil servants, it is difficult to guarantee that this balance will not change in the future.

Furthermore, even if the economic treatment of teachers has always been equal to that of civil servants, other aspects of the treatment of teachers may be weaker than civil servants for a long time. The reason is that the establishment types of the two parties are different, the management systems are different, and the social status is different.

If the status of a public elementary and middle school teacher is changed to a civil servant, the widely criticized "remuneration gap" between the teacher and the civil servant will completely lose its institutional foundation.The remuneration of teachers will be more comprehensively guaranteed, and many problems will be solved.

Secondly, the attractiveness of the teaching profession will be higher.

Civil servants and in-service teachers in public primary and secondary schools are all members of the system, but both sides have high and low social status. Some people may think that as teachers’ wages and civil servants gradually equalize, the social status of both parties will become the same. We admit that the increase in income can improve the social status of teachers to a certain extent, but it is still too early for the social status of teachers to reach the level of civil servants.

Within the system, civil servants have the highest social status. There is no dispute about this. Only by letting teachers become civil servants in the true sense can the "equal status of teachers and civil servants" be achieved, people's sense of identity with the teaching profession can be enhanced, and the public can have more respect for educators. As a result, the atmosphere of respecting teachers in society will be stronger, and the attractiveness of the teaching profession will be higher.

Third, teacher exchanges between schools will be smoother and the education ecology will be healthier

In order to make the education ecology healthier, many regions have launched teacher exchange systems. However, due to the type of establishment, the teacher exchanges in public primary and secondary schools are mostly "people do not leave". The exchange teachers work in the exchange school for 1 to 3 years, and then continue to teach in the original unit. It is difficult for them to belong to the exchange school. As a result, school management has also become a lot more troublesome, which has led to many front-line teachers and school management to have a great view of the system.

If the status of a public elementary and middle school teacher is transformed into a civil servant, teacher exchanges between different schools can be conducted with reference to the exchange of civil servants between different administrative units. People will be separated, teacher exchanges will be smoother, and the education ecology will be healthier.

There are so many benefits of changing the status of a teacher to a civil servant. Will teachers become civil servants in the true sense in the future? The answer is: it is entirely possible.

Three years ago,The central government issued the "Opinions on Comprehensively Deepening the Reform of the Construction of the New Era Teacher Team", which mentioned: " clarifies the particularly important status of teachers... establishes the special legal status of public primary and secondary school teachers as national public officials... enhances the political status of teachers , Social status, professional status, attracting and stabilizing outstanding talents to teach.

Civil servants are national public servants. To establish the legal status of public primary and middle school teachers as “national public servants” is to use the anchor of civil servants to determine the identity of teachers. Perhaps in the near future, teachers will be on an equal footing with civil servants.

However, after all, public primary and secondary schools are public institutions, not administrative agencies. In-service teachers are public institution staff. Their staffing is the career staffing. The possibility of being adjusted to the “administrative staffing” in the short term is extremely low. Teachers become a real sense The civil servants still have a long way to go.

In fact, it does not matter whether teachers can become civil servants. Judging from the reform trend of the education industry in recent years, in the future, the treatment of teachers will only get better and better and their status will only get higher and higher. Therefore, front-line teachers do not need to worry too much. Focusing on their careers, teaching seriously, and working hard to improve their theoretical level are the things that need to be done most at the moment.

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