Have you ever controlled the number of exams and homework in primary and secondary schools?

Yes, in order to reduce the burden of primary and secondary school students, the education departments in Shandong, Shaanxi, Fuzhou, Fujian and other places have taken action to draft or issue relevant notice regulations, and put forward the requirements that the homework time in primary schools should not exceed 1 hour and that in junior high schools should not exceed 1.5 hour. In the face of a series of notices to reduce the burden, many netizens are in favor of the refinement of the regulations. At the same time, some netizens have suggested that some regulations are difficult to implement and cannot really help students reduce their burdens.

On February 18, the Education Department of Shandong Province drafted "Fifteen Provisions for Standardizing Running Schools in Ordinary Primary and Secondary Schools in Shandong Province" and publicly solicited opinions from the society. According to the regulations, to ensure students' sleep time every day, primary school students should be no less than 10 hour, junior high school students should be no less than 9 hours, and senior high school students should be no less than 8 hours.

The regulations also require that schools should not organize classes in a unified way on legal holidays such as evening self-study, weekends, winter and summer vacations, and should not allocate students' self-study time to subjects. In the aspect of operation management, it is required to design operations scientifically, and repetitive and punitive operations are not allowed. In addition, strict examination management is needed. Primary school grade one and grade two schools can organize 1 unified examination every semester, and other grades can take the unified examination no more than twice every semester. Test scores are graded, and students' scores and rankings are not published in any way.

On February 23rd, the website of Fuzhou Municipal Government published the Notice of Fuzhou Education Bureau on Strengthening the Work of Reducing the Burden of Primary and Secondary School Students. Similar to Shandong, Fuzhou also controlled the number of examinees. The school organizes a unified examination of 1 time every semester in the first and second grades of primary school, and no more than two unified examinations in other grades. Test scores should also be graded to let parents know that it is strictly forbidden to publish students' test scores and rankings inside and outside the school in any way.

In addition, in terms of operation management, Fuzhou also proposed that repetitive and punitive operations should not be arranged. It is worth noting that Fuzhou has further refined the amount of homework: there is no written homework in primary school 1 to grade 2, and the amount of written homework in grades 3 to 6 is controlled within 1 hour, and the junior high school grade does not exceed 1.5 hours. In addition, after the start of the winter and summer vacations, the school does not organize various exams for students to study during the holidays, nor does it force each student to fully complete the homework assigned by the school during the holidays.

On February 23rd, Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education issued the "Guidelines for Curriculum and Teaching Management of Compulsory Education Schools in Shaanxi Province", which stipulated that the number of examinations and the workload of primary and secondary school students were the same as those in Shandong and Fuzhou. At the same time, the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education has stated that it is strictly forbidden to use the award-winning certificates of various competitions, academic competition results or grade certificates as the basis for placement; It is strictly forbidden to organize placement examinations in various names.

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Experts said that the burden reduction regulations are in line with the laws of education, but comprehensive reforms are needed:

2 1 Yang Dongping, president of the Century Institute of Education, said in an interview: "It is a basic fact that the learning burden of primary and secondary school students is still mainly homework and exams left by school teachers." Yang Dongping said that at present, the academic burden of primary and secondary school students usually comes from two parts: on-campus study and off-campus training courses. Most of the extracurricular tutoring is on weekends and holidays, and most of the daily learning tasks basically come from schools.

2 1 Xiong Bingqi, vice president of Century Education Research Institute, believes that the current education evaluation system is the main source of students' academic burden. "The exam-oriented education under the current education evaluation system has turned learning into a competition. This kind of competition makes schools run irregularly, parents have more utilitarian requirements for their children's learning, and social training institutions have also begun to worry about marketing. Under such pressure, students are surrounded by the pursuit of scores. " He said.

Thesis-Many places control the number of exams and the amount of homework in primary and secondary schools. Expert: comprehensive reform is still needed to reduce the burden.