Recently, according to the People's Network "leadership message board" news, Gansu Tianshui netizens reflected that "the school charges students classroom monitoring and installation fees", Tianshui Qin'an County Education Bureau replied that the "Parent Committee" in line with the purpose of "strengthening the supervision of children, standardizing children's behavior", decided to install video surveillance in individual classes, let the "third eye" supervise and restrain children, and said that this behavior is organized and implemented by the "Parent Committee" itself, and has nothing to do with the school.
The installation of video surveillance in schools has nothing to do with schools, so it is difficult to convince netizens with such an explanation.
From the reply of the Qin'an County Education Bureau, it can be seen that the installation of video surveillance is aimed at seventh-grade freshmen. To be fair, for most seventh-graders, the "upgrade" of roles from elementary school students to junior high school students is not necessarily accompanied by mental maturity and self-discipline. On the contrary, because you have just entered a new environment and met new classmates, it may be more difficult to follow your curiosity and desire to communicate. Looking left and right, handing over the ear and even pushing and shoving, fighting, etc., all belong to the "bad diseases" that students of this age often have.
Therefore, this period is also a critical period for the school to cultivate students' good learning, living and behavior habits. In view of the problems existing among students, the school can help students adapt to the learning environment at the secondary school stage as soon as possible by holding theme class meetings, inviting role models to give lectures, setting up interest groups, carrying out talent competitions, and opening etiquette courses, so as to help students adapt to the learning environment at the secondary school stage as soon as possible, successfully complete the role transformation from primary school students to middle school students, and integrate the code requirements of discipline and compliance, concern for the collective, self-esteem and self-love into daily life learning. In this way, the value of the school's moral tree can be fully reflected.
Secondary school students visit the university laboratory. Xinhua News Agency, photo by Liu Dongyue
In this process, we should pay special attention to the way of education in schools, whether it is guidance, inspiration or coercion, monitoring? Education requires patience and sometimes appropriate discipline, but if students' behavior is regulated in a way that violates the rights and interests of students, it may be counterproductive.
Not to mention that in this incident, the PTA has the right to require the school to install cameras and charge parents, as far as the school is concerned, only the PTA is subordinate, which is itself a misplaced function. As the name suggests, the parent committee is composed of parent representatives, which is convenient for home-school communication and realizes home-school co-education. Some of the ideas and educational concepts of the Parents Committee are not necessarily in line with the characteristics of student growth, and the school has the responsibility to communicate and guide, and also has the power to refuse its unreasonable demands.
However, what we see is that the school installed cameras in the classroom according to the requirements of the parent committee, but afterwards it dumped all the responsibility to the parent committee.
Parents may be worried about their children's learning in the new environment, and want to grasp their children's school information in a timely manner through video surveillance, and also urge children to enhance their sense of self-discipline. But schools should have explicitly rejected such an obviously inappropriate form of education. This not only involves the problem of illegal collection of fees, but also involves the infringement of the rights and interests of minors.
After all, no one likes to be monitored, and maintaining a modest distance from their parents is also the beginning of a person's move towards independence. In this regard, the voice of these monitored middle school students should be respected, and their psychological feelings should be taken care of.
Moreover, "installing video surveillance in individual classes" is also easy to form a labeled cognition among students, which is exactly what school education should try to avoid. In any case, it is difficult to say that the reckless action of the PTA cannot be prevented in advance, and then the responsibility is firmly bound to the PTA afterwards.
In the long run, this obviously compulsory "management" of education is not conducive to the cultivation of students' independent consciousness, nor is it beneficial to their growth. Although it is true that love is harmful. In this regard, every educator should have a clear understanding, parents should also guard the boundaries of home and school, and sometimes, learn to let go, in order to let the children fly high.
Source: Guangming Daily