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"Students are not allowed to bring their mobile phones into the campus. Once discovered, they will be broken or thrown into the bucket immediately. At the same time, students are not allowed to wear strange clothes. The braids must not exceed 21 cm. Once discovered, they will be advised to cut them short." Recently, a message published by the official website of Fanting Middle School in Shanxi Province "Fanting Middle School strictly prohibits students from bringing mobile phones into the campus" was published.
According to the information on the school’s official website, the school sets up security check channels at the school gate. The head teachers of each class hold metal detectors and check students’ backpacks and luggage. When they find that their mobile phones are thrown into buckets to destroy them. As of 6 pm that day, the school destroyed two mobile phones and ordered more than 200 girls to cut their hair short. It seems that the school is really serious about managing mobile phones and students' hairstyles.
Whether it is purchasing multiple metal detectors, destroying the mobile phone once discovered, or ordering girls to cut their hair short, it all comes from the school's original intention of strict management, and strict management is to allow students to focus more energy on their studies. From this original intention, the school has indeed taken great pains. However, although the school stated that it had signed an agreement with parents before destroying the mobile phone to let parents understand and support the school's regulations, it is still difficult to deny that this management method is too rough, which not only damages personal property but also damages students' dignity. Although the purpose is good, it is difficult to counter-prove the rationality of methods. It is inevitable to face huge controversy.
Interestingly, many schools have issued similar school rules, which seem to be not the strictest, only stricter. Public opinion controversy arising from similar "strictest school rules". But the controversy has not changed the course of other schools, and more schools still do their own way. Judging from the publicity of Fanting Middle School using metal detectors to search for mobile phones and destroying student mobile phones , the school is full of confidence in this management method, otherwise it would not be publicized with great fanfare and pictures and texts. The existence of this phenomenon also reflects the huge gap between school education philosophy and the public: the public feels that the management method is too rough, but the school is still proud, and this may also be supported by most parents. In addition, the school leaders who proposed this management method have also received various honors and have been highly recognized by the education system. It is reported that the principal of the school has won the titles of National Model Principal, Provincial Model Worker, and Provincial Famous Schools. The principal said that he had put pressure on himself, "I am already living in the school, and when the students return to school, I also stood at the school gate and fought with everyone." The former principal also had a passionate speech at the graduation ceremony of the 2019 class. "For your class, I have taken great pains and taken many measures, some of which may be unkind. The daily signing of the surveillance sheet started when you were in your first year of high school, and the ban on mobile phones started when you were in your second year of high school..." The principals all paid this way, and they were a little unbearable to criticize them. From this point of view, it is probably not easy to hope that schools will manage schools and students in a more artistic way.
Different regions and schools face different school environments and different student sources. School management is not an easy task, and there seems to be no universal method. Famous schools in first-tier cities pay attention to respecting students' personalities and advocating to manage independently, which is undoubtedly the ideal state of education. But if placed in township middle schools, improper guidance may lead to "great chaos in the world". The reason why many "strictest" and "ruthless" school rules emerge one after another and have received support from parents is that they meet the expectations of "managing good results". After all, for school administrators and parents, good grades are the bottom line, and how to manage them is secondary. As long as you can achieve good results, you can accept it no matter how strict you are.
It is worth questioning: Can strict control achieve good results? Be strictly guarded, one passage after another, one security door after another, and not let go of the cabinet or under the bed, so that students' mobile phones have nowhere to hide; strictly stipulate how long hair must be left, so that children can make good grades by putting every minute and every second in their studies? Education is a science and an art. Student management is a human work. We cannot ignore science or lack art. We must strictly guard against it and ignore students' autonomy. The result may be completely different.
(Source: Guangming.com)
