The school responded that commercial housing and bonuses were funded by a local education fund, mainly to motivate more outstanding teachers and students, and have been rewarded for four consecutive years.

Pengpai Special Commentator Zhu Changjun

On Teacher's Day on September 10, the school presented the award to Youfan. Respondent

Recently, the "post-90s" teacher Youfan in Linhai City, Zhejiang Province was awarded a commercial house of 2 million yuan and a bonus of 100,000 yuan for outstanding teaching results, which caused heated discussion. The school responded that commercial housing and bonuses were funded by a local education fund, mainly to motivate more outstanding teachers and students, and have been rewarded for four consecutive years. Three years ago, Youfan was rewarded with a car worth 280,000 yuan.

The just-passed Teachers' Day, many places have rewarded excellent teachers. However, it is still very rare to directly reward outstanding teachers with a suite like Duqiao Town, Linhai City.

Many netizens applauded this. For example, some netizens commented: "But township middle schools have taught many 985211"; "Retain good teachers, attract more students, and improve the overall teaching quality. There is nothing wrong with it. Don't be jealous, as long as they have grades, they can afford it."

However, some netizens also said that is not fair enough to other teachers for such a large reward? It should be noted that the local area does not award Teacher Youfan alone. According to reports, more than 380 teachers and more than a dozen outstanding students received rewards this time, and "post-90s" teacher Youfan is just one of them. The total reward fund of more than 4 million yuan is not paid by the finance department, but an education foundation formed by local local elites and entrepreneurs.

The reason why Youfan was awarded a commercial house of 2 million yuan and a bonus of 100,000 yuan was because his performance was indeed outstanding. It is reported that the number of students admitted to key universities in the two classes taught by Teacher You this year reached 71, and the enrollment rate of one of the classes was as high as 79%, setting a record high in Duqiao Middle School in 20 years. Moreover, as early as 2019, 23 people were admitted to key universities by Teacher Youfan. For the first time in many years, the school achieved a breakthrough in single-digit admission to key universities in the college entrance examination. In the new semester this year, Youfan took on the position of head teacher of four innovative classes in the first year of high school.

Therefore, although the reward for a house is heavy enough, as netizens said, this is a perfect interpretation of "the capable work more" and "the more you work more" in Teacher You.

In fact, this matter has attracted attention and there is another important background that cannot be ignored. In recent years, township and middle schools in some areas have generally fallen into a vicious cycle of loss of student sources, decline in college entrance examination scores, and inability to retain outstanding teachers. It can be said that the achievements made by outstanding teachers like Youfan and the students they led were hard-won. And the heavy reward is the most real motivation for this excellent teacher.

"No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education", "Treat teachers well is to treat education", "Encourage outstanding teachers to take root at the grassroots level"... We often hear these slogans. But in reality, the motivation for teachers can indeed be done better. In this context, a township teacher with outstanding performance was rewarded with a commercial housing worth 2 million yuan, which may also remind the society that it is indeed necessary to re-view the true value of excellent teachers.

Some people may say that the value of teachers as " human soul engineer " cannot be measured entirely by material rewards. However, compared with the spiritual praise and encouragement of teachers, the material level of motivation is actually a very important way of expression of "respecting teachers and valuing education".

In fact, judging from the trends in recent years, the incentives for teachers in many places are indeed increasing. As media reports, Yibin District, Luoyang, Henan Province also offered 2.3 million yuan to reward schools and teachers on this Teachers' Day. This is a gratifying positive phenomenon. Because it means that the value of teachers is not only valued spiritually but also materially. This is also one of the direct manifestations of local governments paying more attention to education.

Of course, not all places have the same financial resources or abundant education funds to reward outstanding teachers. What is a "heavy reward"? You can have different understandings in different places, and there is no need to pursue unified standards. The key is to truly demonstrate respect for teachers through practical actions so that they can get rewards that match their efforts and contributions.

Source: The Paper