However, the childlike interest in these summer vacations seems to be getting farther and farther away from "after 00" or even "10". Instead, extracurricular classes, interest classes and online classes on holidays ... The two-month summer vacation is becoming the "third semester" for children.
In recent years, in the appeal of public opinion, the national level has repeatedly applied to reduce the academic burden of primary and secondary school students, rectify the off-campus training market, and give children a childhood that can be "paddling". However, the summer vacation on 20 19 is already over half. Is the off-campus training market really cold?
? Don't let the children fall behind.
? Summer vacation for two months, signed up for seven classes.
? Clarinet, calligraphy, art, dance, English, piano, Lego ... For 7-year-old Tong Tong, summer vacation is not a holiday, but a training class in an office building.
? Tong Tong, who lives in Jiyuan, Henan Province, entered the first grade of primary school last September. Even as a primary school math teacher, Tong Tong's mother, Yang Hong, thinks: "You can't let your daughter lose at the starting line."
"I have seen many children's roads to success. They can not only complete their studies, but also expand their interests and make achievements in other aspects. "
? Because she is a teacher, Yang Hong insists that her little daughter should not attend any cram school. But seeing other children sleeping, I can't help worrying. So, she asked Tong Tong to choose several interest classes that she liked. In this way, Tong Tong began to learn painting at the age of 3. Four years later, her interest classes have increased from one to seven.
Yang Hong's point of view seems to represent the mentality of most parents in China.
China Education Online 20 18' s survey on the reasons why children attend training courses shows that 33% of parents hope to improve their children's grades and enter a better school through training courses. There are also 3 1% parents who want to increase their children's specialties and improve their competitiveness. In short, the reason why parents choose to enroll in classes is that they are worried that their children will "fall behind".
? "Now the children are like this, and they work hard in class." Yang Hong said that many students in Tong Tong's class also participated in various talent trainings during the summer vacation.
This summer vacation, many training institutions also printed brochures of various training courses online. A well-known domestic education and training institution said that the summer training course offered more than 20 subjects such as Chinese, mathematics and English. The institution where the training course is located has 52 campuses in Beijing alone.
Parents use holidays to "recharge" their children. For children, a relaxing holiday has become a burden on their shoulders.
During the busy holidays, Tong Tong still has to leave early and return late: "Go out at 7: 30 in the morning and go home at 5: 00 in the afternoon. I have to practice piano and Lego when I go home. "
No matter how hard it is, son.
Spent 40 thousand on children in a summer vacation
In addition to the pressure brought by the training course itself, the training fee is also a problem for many parents. Take Tong Tong as an example. Counting seven courses, the annual cost spent on interest classes is about 30 thousand yuan. ?
Behind the cultivation of children's specialties is the increase in investment in education by the whole family. But this has become a competitive business opportunity for training institutions in the market.
In fact, in order to reduce the burden on students and standardize the off-campus training market, the Opinions on Regulating the Development of Off-campus Training Institutions issued by the General Office of the State Council in August 2065438+2008 clearly stated that the training end time of off-campus training institutions should not be later than 20: 30, and no homework should be left; It is strictly forbidden to organize and hold subject level examinations, competitions and rankings for primary and secondary school students.
For the phenomenon of summer school fever, Yang, a child protection expert, also pointed out that it is understandable that the concept of social parenting leads parents to place high hopes on their children, but some parents are too strong and blindly enroll in classes: "It is said that children can't lose at the starting line, but few people can think clearly about the ultimate goal of children enrolling in classes."
Save what, the childhood occupied by the newspaper?
The fate of Tong Tong's interest cultivation, 1 1 year-old Hai Ming and seven-year-old Yu Hai's brother, showed strong resistance to the arranged summer courses.
At the end of June this year, Haiming Yuhai, who lives in Qinzhou, Guangxi, finally waited for the summer vacation. But to their disappointment, this holiday was not a rest and relaxation in the past, but was occupied by the training class that parents reported in advance.
"It is a holiday, I have to get up at 6 o'clock in the morning. One day, I have to attend four training courses in Chinese, English, mathematics and art, and my younger brother who is only in the first grade has to learn pinyin. " Talking about his current summer life, Haiming said, "My parents forced me to take these classes, and I really don't want to go at all."
Like hamming, off-campus training has become the main burden of children's study to some extent. China Education Online 20 18' s survey on children's schoolwork burden shows that over 70% of parents think that schoolwork burden mainly comes from extracurricular training.
However, even if parents think that remedial classes will increase their children's academic pressure, more than half of them think that they should persist in further study when the burden is too heavy. Only 14% parents support reducing the burden.
In fact, in February, 2065 438+2008 65438, the Ministry of Education and other nine departments issued the Notice on Printing and Distributing Measures to Reduce the Burden of Primary and Secondary School Students, which mentioned that it is necessary to strictly manage off-campus training institutions, explicitly prohibit off-campus training institutions from exceeding the standard, and control the training time.
Parents can feel the resistance of the Hamming brothers: "The two brothers are actually very sensible, but they just told their parents several times that they don't want to go to cram school." But this still hasn't changed my parents' decision. The child's aunt said: "In order to go to school, we can only insist."
Facing the current busy summer courses, Hamming can always recall the time when he didn't have to go to cram school: "When I didn't have to go to cram school, my brother and I could go back to my hometown with friends to catch fish, climb trees and pick fruits, and the holidays would be very happy."
? "Children are immersed in learning all the year round, which does not necessarily conform to scientific laws." Combining work and rest and growing up with parents is also an indispensable way of education: "Apart from subject study, what is more important is the development of children's character and their ability to deal with difficulties, which are not the teaching that can be completed in training courses."
How should children spend their holiday life? In addition to studying, parents can also take their children to participate in more life practice and public welfare practice, and feel the nature, so as to enhance their practical ability and sense of social responsibility and realize their wholehearted development. "
On March 20 18, at the press conference of the 13th session of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Wang Guoqing, then the press spokesman of the conference, said this when talking about the problem of reducing the burden on primary and secondary school students: "Everyone is familiar with the song" Let's row ",and there is a lyric in it: Let's play after finishing our homework for a day. I was thinking, look at all the children around us. I heard from people around me that those children sometimes do their homework until nine o'clock, ten o'clock or even eleven o'clock in the evening. After finishing their homework, where will they be happy and where will they go? "
At present, the summer vacation is over half. After finishing the holiday course, Hamming Brothers, Tong Tong and Xiaofeng will devote themselves to the life of the new semester. Even though this summer vacation is full of busyness and fatigue, they are still full of expectations for their future holiday life.
Therefore, children should be given some time to relax after finishing their homework. Childhood should not only have cram schools and homework, but also have fun.