The hot topics of the National People's Congress, whether it is education equity, or school violence

Keyword 1: multi-school slicing

Before this year's National People's Congress, the Notice on Doing a Good Job in 2016 Urban Compulsory Education Enrollment and Admission Work was issued, making it clear that this year, multi-school slicing will be actively and steadily adopted in the places where there is currently an imbalance in the allocation of education resources and a strong impulse to choose a school according to the actual situation. During the two sessions of the National People's Congress, multi-schools have become one of the focuses of journalists' attention. Minister Yuan Guiren, while attending the fourth session of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), said that the previous document recommended the national promotion of multi-school slicing, but it does not mean that they all have to be sliced, and it is recommended that localities take appropriate approaches in light of the actual situation. Guangdong Provincial Department of Education Director Luo Weiqi responded that multi-school slicing is not "one size fits all". He revealed that Guangzhou to take what policy, is still developing research, has not been reported to the province.

Wu Yingmin, vice president of the China Education Association and president of the Guangdong Federation of Primary and Secondary School Headmasters, said the "school choice fever" reflects the unbalanced allocation of education resources in the city, which makes it difficult to satisfy parents' demand for quality education resources. To alleviate the school choice fever, multi-school zoning is only a stopgap measure, is relative to the current fixed 'right number' near the link model supplement. "The obvious benefit of multi-school zoning is that schools in the area *** enjoy resources, good schools to help the weaker schools. Make education resources more quality and balanced, so that the majority of citizens are favorable. I hope the people look at multi-school slicing from this perspective." Wu Yingmin said.

Guangzhou 86th Middle School Principal Hu innovation, multi-school paddling from the short term may bring some cooling for the heat of school choice, but overall it is an "indicator does not cure the root cause of the problem" of the way. To solve this problem, the most important thing is to equalize the allocation of educational resources, to do a good job at home school. "In Guangzhou, the hardware is not a problem, the key is the teachers, as well as good management team, principal team and school philosophy." Hu innovation said.

Keyword 2: school system reform

Mo Yan, a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, suggested in his speech during the group discussion that the 25-year period of pre-school to postgraduate education is too long, and basic education takes up too large a proportion of the total, and suggested that the primary and secondary school system should be changed from 12 to 10 years, and that "primary to junior high" and "junior to senior high" should be canceled. "junior high school" and "junior high school" two unified examination, so that students on the "through train", in the continuous reading system of schools in a relaxed and pleasant learning environment for healthy growth. In addition, the media reported that Yuexiu District may pilot the "5+4" school system during the 13th Five-Year Plan period. For a while, the reform of the school system has aroused heated debate in the education sector.

"The basic 12 years divided into three segments, the promotion of evaluation, there is evaluation, there is preparation for the test, it will increase the burden of students. Some places will even spend a lot of time doing repetitive exercises. From this will indeed waste students' youth." Wu Yingmin said. Xie Hucheng, principal of Nanhai Middle School in Guangzhou City, also agreed, "Mo Yan advocated shortening the school system said that there is a certain significance, according to the current school system, students tend to take a year or even longer in order to take the exam to review. In essence, it is a waste of this time, to a certain extent, suppressing the creative ability of students."

Wu Yingmin believes that despite Mo's good starting point, it still lacks feasibility at present. He said the ten-year consistent system is difficult to meet the demand for diversified development of education. It is difficult to divert students into the vocational education system during the ten-year period, and there are also considerations of whether students can accurately judge the direction of their future careers at the age of 16, as well as the current state of higher education resources. "What is more feasible is to run more nine-year consistent schools and cancel the 6+3 toss." Wu Yingmin said. Hu innovation that teaching must respect the growth of children's laws, the current "633" school system is the most scientific, overall, the most useful for children, the school system reform needs to take into account the export of students, as well as to do a good job of risk prevention and control.

Keyword 3: compulsory education

In this year's National People's Congress, on the extension of compulsory education, the call for more and more high. National People's Congress deputy Li Guangyu suggested amending the Compulsory Education Law to include pre-school education in the scope of compulsory education, exempting pre-school 3 years of young children attending public kindergartens from tuition fees, and purchasing services from private kindergartens for pre-school 3 years of young children attending public kindergartens of the same class in accordance with the same standard of public kindergarten tuition fees. National People's Congress deputy Shi Shu'e, deputy mayor of Xingtai City, Hebei Province, suggested that the current nine-year compulsory education be extended to twelve years of compulsory education, and that full education at the senior high school level (including ordinary high schools and secondary vocational schools) be implemented.

But Minister Yuan Guiren responded that in the 13th Five-Year Plan period, we will still insist on nine years of compulsory education.

National People's Congress, Guangdong Provincial Department of Education Director Luo Weiqi said, preschool education can be included in compulsory education, involving the provisions of the Compulsory Education Law, is not a simple matter, if the country wants to extend the years of compulsory education, will be revised on the basis of very careful research. People have paid attention to the nature of compulsory education, but there are other natures to watch out for, such as compulsory education has a coercive nature, you do not go to school, parents and children are illegal. The State now provides precise assistance to education and does not engage in "flooding"; those with difficulties should be subsidized, but not those without difficulties, not in the non-compulsory education stage. Guangdong this year, the children of families in need of kindergarten subsidies rose from 300 yuan to 1,000 yuan, that is to say, some of the difficulties should be appropriate to help.

"Twelve years of compulsory education, I am certainly in favor of it, which is good for improving the quality of the country's citizens," Wu Yingmin said, "the education system to achieve longer years of compulsory education in two forms. One goes down and one goes up. Compulsory education is different from education, the key lies in two issues, first, whether there are enough resources to run a good. Secondly, compulsory education is coercive and requires consideration of whether the law can be put into practice." He believes that it is too early for China to realize twelve years of compulsory education, at this stage, we must do a good job of nine years of compulsory education, preschool education that can be provided in places where there are conditions.

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Keyword four: campus violence

National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) member Gong Hanlin revealed that his own proposal this year to focus on campus violence. Gong Hanlin put forward a three-pronged proposal: any teacher who takes violence against students must be removed from the teaching force; emphasize supervision, those who flaunt it, and those minors who must be forced to educate themselves after hitting people and spreading the word on the Internet. There must also be some necessary measures for guardians; accountability for schools and education authorities. National People's Congress deputy Liu Xiaocui in his speech also paid attention to school violence, and suggested the development of anti-school violence law, even for minors, as long as the violation of the criminal law, and to achieve a certain degree of consequences, should be held criminally liable in accordance with the law.

Vice Minister Liu Limin said the prevention of campus violence is a high priority to ensure the healthy growth of minors. We will further strengthen education on the rule of law and mental health education. The emergence of campus violence should be dealt with in a timely manner in accordance with the law. We will strengthen school management and effectively implement school responsibilities. It is also necessary to strengthen the guidance of family education, promote the improvement of laws and regulations, and increase the strength of punishment.

"In general, it is now more channels for the dissemination of negative examples, but the phenomenon of school violence is not necessarily getting worse. With the quality of teachers and campus management increasing, this situation should tend to decrease only. We found that a lot of the situation is happening in the left-behind children, to solve the problem fundamentally or to make the children's educational environment become better." Wu Yingmin said. A secondary school teacher in Guangzhou said that China should introduce an anti-school violence law as soon as possible to severely punish cases of campus violence. However, most of the campus are teenagers, and the nature of their crimes is different from others. In terms of improving laws and regulations, we can learn from foreign anti-campus violence laws and formulate a targeted law to ensure that there is a law to follow when campus violence occurs.

Keyword 5: traditional culture education

Inheriting and promoting outstanding traditional culture is an important connotation of cultural construction. At the National People's Congress, 82-year-old Peking Opera performer Mei Baojiu continued to call attention to the quality of traditional cultural training of young people, through the children to practice brush lettering, learning traditional Chinese characters, listen to more singing Peking Opera, etc., so that the excellent traditional culture into the young people's hearts; Standing Committee member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the Chinese Calligraphers Association, Chairman of the Su Shishu proposal: in primary and secondary schools, "the curriculum plan "

In the "art discipline" to add "calligraphy" discipline, at least one lesson time per week.

In Guangzhou, excellent traditional culture into the primary and secondary school curriculum is not new. Guangzhou Nanhai Middle School as the first batch of Cantonese opera traditional education characteristics of the school, the principal Xie Hucheng, interested students can choose to take the Cantonese opera school-based elective courses, arranged weekly 1-2 hours. In addition, the school cooperates with Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Theater and other Cantonese Opera teaching organizations, and hires professional Cantonese Opera personnel to give guidance to the teaching of Cantonese Opera in the school. In addition, the school will also organize the basic movements of Cantonese opera into a set of "Cantonese rhythmic gymnastics", using this new form to promote Cantonese opera among students.