Online courses without a trace High school subject training ushered in "double reduction" strong supervision?

The regulatory scope of the "double reduction" policy is gradually extending to high school subject training. During the winter vacation, a notice about the illegal training of high school students by Xueersi Training School attracted widespread attention. After the Spring Festival, the high school subject courses of many online educational institutions are no longer in their spring enrollment catalogs, including Xueersi Online School, Gaotu, Homework Help, Youdao, New Oriental and many other well-known education and training enterprises. Will subject training at the high school level also face "business to non-business" and a significant reduction? According to the latest release of the Ministry of Education's 2022 work points, this year the Ministry of Education will guide the implementation of discipline training at the high school stage in various places in strict accordance with the policy requirements of the compulsory education stage.

Disappearing high school subjects online classes

Halfway through the winter vacation, for the education and training institutions in previous years, February is the peak enrollment season for the spring courses of high schools, but with the in-depth promotion of the "double reduction" work, it is difficult for subject training at the high school level to return to the past. The reporter noted that at present, on the websites and Apps of many well-known online education and training institutions such as Gaotu, Xueersi Online School, Homework Help, youdao, etc., the subject training courses at the high school level are in a "disappearing" state.

Among them, the customer service teacher of the homework help told reporters that whether or not to register for the course is subject to the course information on the App. As a result, the reporter tried to select courses in the Homework Help App, and did not find any subject courses at the high school level. In the New Oriental Mini Program, the current optional courses at the high school level are all small language courses such as Japanese and international education courses, and there is no trace of domestic subject courses.

In addition, in order to further understand the specific situation of the current high school subject training, the reporter also consulted the curriculum teachers of Xueda Education as a parent. The teacher said that at present, the institution is in the scope of the white list, if you want to give your child a high school level of tuition, you can sign up for one-on-one training, the time can start at any time, but whether the spring semester of the institution can be opened and when it will be opened has not yet been determined.

There have been cases of penalties for illegal high school training

The disappearance of subjects at the high school level is not without a trace. On the eve of the Spring Festival, a punishment for xueersi training schools has aroused many concerns. This penalty is also related to subject training at the high school level. The circular shows that the "double reduction" work class in Xicheng District of Beijing received reports from citizens, and through verification, it was found that Xueersi Training School organized discipline training for some high school students in the form of "customized classes", which seriously violated relevant regulations and "double reduction" policy requirements.

As a result, the "double reduction" work class in Xicheng District reported and criticized the Xueersi training school and ordered it to stop all training behaviors and rectify within a time limit.

In fact, the regulation of subject training at the high school level has been explained since the release of the "double subtraction" policy. Judging from the original text of the document, the expression around the supervision of high school discipline training is: "The management of discipline training institutions for ordinary high school students shall be implemented with reference to the relevant provisions of these Opinions." ”

Reference to implementation is the attitude of "double subtraction" work to subject training at the high school level.

At the same time, the Ministry of Education's 2022 work points released a few days ago also specifically mentioned that the Ministry of Education will guide all localities this year to implement the policy requirements of discipline training at the high school stage with strict reference to the compulsory education stage. At the same time, it will also promote the supervision and supervision legislation of off-campus education and training, strengthen law enforcement forces, enhance law enforcement capabilities, and do a good job in law enforcement inspections.

The Ministry of Education said that in view of some regulatory blind spots, it is necessary to carry out systematic research and guide local standard management. Guide all localities to distinguish between sports, culture and art, science and technology and other categories of non-disciplinary training institutions, pay close attention to clarifying the competent departments, reflect the public welfare attributes, realize normalized supervision, and prevent the emergence of new barbaric growth.

From the perspective of policy, the supervision and rectification of subject training at the high school stage by the "double reduction" work in 2022 will be further strengthened.

Crack the source of students' tuition needs

After the "double subtraction", what is the actual tuition situation of high school students? In the view of Ms. Gao, a parent in Hebei, the "double subtraction" is more of a training institution. Ms. Gao's daughter is in her third year of high school this year, and according to her, the make-up classes for her daughter and classmates are more through teachers introduced by acquaintances, usually in the form of one-to-one or one-to-many. "Two or three years ago, when the child first went to high school, he used to attend a cram school in advance at the institution, but after the release of the 'double reduction' policy, the cram school broke the sign and closed its doors. The institutions in the circle of friends that once issued a lot of advertisements are now silent. ”

Ms. Gao told reporters that her child's high school career coincided with the epidemic prevention and control period, "the child has been taking online classes at home for a long time, the learning efficiency and self-discipline at home are not high, and the parents hope that the child can learn better, so they signed her up for some tuition." But by now, the child is in the third year of high school, respecting her wishes, in addition to the school curriculum did not add a new tuition to the child."

Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, told reporters in an interview that from the perspective of the "double reduction" policies and measures that have been released so far, most of them are focused on governance off-campus training, and the balanced development within the school is not specific enough. "The school is also an important position for 'double subtraction', which needs to be explored in multiple dimensions from the aspects of examination evaluation and educational balance."

"No matter how severe the rectification measures, the effects actually have been limited." Chu Zhaohui said bluntly, "To use a simple metaphor, for example, the initial goal is to avoid holding a hammer to repair, but in the end the target becomes the hammer itself, so that there is a target shift." ”

In Chu Zhaohui's view, the ultimate goal of "double reduction" is for the healthy development of adolescents, but if the measures themselves have little effect on the healthy growth of adolescents, then the measures have little significance. In addition, some education experts said that there is a certain difference between the high school stage and the compulsory education stage, and it is necessary to consider the actual situation when implementing it, and then carry out the corresponding governance work. (Boiling Point Investigation Team)