As the principal of the primary school corresponding to the Shenpan Wending Garden, Zhang Xuejun always advises the media not to write that Wendingyuan is "the world's first Mengmupan" and "the most cattle school district house", which is a kind of harm to the school. "I'm very disgusted, in fact, some people are speculating on house prices."
He refused to compare the results between the different campuses of Xuejun Elementary School, believing that the parents who applauded the Zijin Campus "have a purpose, I hope that the house price in that community will rise, I can't cooperate with them, and I don't need it." He even found out which campus was particularly good, so he changed the teachers.
He said the best school district room is the study at home.
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The Wending Garden in Hangzhou was once known as the Divine Disk throughout the country. When the average house price in Hangzhou is about 30,000, Wending Court is 127,000 per square meter.
It is surrounded by schools, the west gate is Wendingyuan Kindergarten, the north gate is Xuejun Primary School (Zijingang Campus), And Zijingang Middle School is 200 meters to the west, seven or eight minutes outside, and it will arrive at the Zijingang Campus of Zhejiang University. Xuejun Primary School is one of the best primary schools in Hangzhou.
However, the most striking thing about Wending Court is a group of parents. They compared themselves to Meng Mu and created no less than five "Meng Hen Blood Groups". This community seems to have become a testing ground for this group of parents.
If everyone in a community works hard to make a baby, what will the child become? In addition to the chicken baby, will the housing prices in the community rise?
Outside, there are constantly rumors of the scene of the chicken doll with a sense of ceremony in the community. In May 2020, a big red banner was hung outside Wending Court that read, "Congratulations to the Eight Outstanding Students of Xuejun Zijingang Primary School for Entering Hangzhou". The award photos of the Meng mothers holding the "WendingYuan First Primary School Students' Thinking Challenge Cup" for their children also spread online.
In July, when an owner browsed the real estate information, he found that the total price of a 120-square-meter Wendingyuan house exceeded 10 million. Excited, he found a parent of an Olympic number institution in Wending Court and discussed that he wanted to hold an Olympic mathematics competition in Wending Court, "hoping to have a learning atmosphere, compare chicken blood, and improve the performance of his children through various channels."
▲ Wending Court Owners Committee and property produced the "Congratulations to eight Xuejin Primary School students admitted to Hangzhou" big red banner image source network
The poster hit, more than 100 students signed up, the crowdfunded prize fund went up to five thousand yuan, and the organizer lamented the cohesion of the Mengmu group in WendingYuan, but before they could come up with a good question, the competition was stopped, on the grounds of cooperation with epidemic prevention.
The chicken babies of the Meng mothers are more everyday in the group.
Parents who enter the group must change their names to a certain parent and "forget themselves for a while". Parents share learning resources, cram school resources and educational experience in the group, and some people list all the tutoring institutions around the community into an excel table, stating the advantages and disadvantages. Some parents posted their own timetables designed for their children, accurate to the minute. After the exam, the form will appear in the group again, a few wrong questions, where is the mistake, and what is the focus. There are also parents who share their parenting methods, every day after picking up their children home, the whole family's mobile phones are stacked on the refrigerator, and no one can touch the children before going to bed.
The sharing of mengmuqun is meticulous and in place. From the choice of neighbors at the real level to the group heating in the virtual space, just like the land wind, a rare "Meng Father" in a group said, "simulating the social environment". Lu Feng liked to use such words to describe his choice. He bought Wendingyuan three years ago to create an environment for the Wendingyuan community - "a competitive environment, a good environment", he said, other communities may be in two classes per capita, Wendingyuan children per capita at least four or five classes, chicken baby atmosphere is heavier. In an atmosphere full of competition and always upward pursuit of progress, he does not have to deliberately take who to be his daughter's example, she herself will see the efforts and excellence of her classmates, "which simulates the competitive environment in adulthood." He also often heard voices that called for reducing the burden and criticizing the chicken baby, but those opinions were suspended. "The whole society has no burden reduction, you let the children play silly when they are young, and when they grow up, they are confused."
At Wending Court, this is a common perception. Reading is not the only way, but the easiest way, "easy" means that you only need to listen to the teacher, go to a cram school that has been proven to be effective, bloom everywhere, work hard towards the score, and always get into a good university - live a safe and good life.
This is also what Lu Feng pursues for his daughter. He graduated from "ordinary undergraduate, not a special brand", post-80s, working in the Internet industry, with a monthly salary of more than 30,000. Compared with the house price of Wending Court, his income is not high. Fortunately, buying a house early, in 2015, the daughter Tutu was still in kindergarten, Lu Feng sold the original 130 square meters of house, changed the 98 square meters of Wending Garden small apartment, more than 6 million, and still has to repay more than 10,000 loans every month.
He believes that within the scope of tolerance, it is necessary to give children the best education and environment. In the previous community, parents would complain that the teacher's homework was too much, and Wendingyuan "used the house price to screen out the parents who attached importance to education, because if they did not attach importance to education, they would not spend this money to buy this house."
He specifically explained that in Wending Court, he is not a parent who puts a lot of pressure on his children. He worked from home most of the time to supervise his daughter, and set up English, math, ancient poetry and programming courses for her. He feels that these requirements are not high, the principle is "do not turn the tail, there can be no short board", for the exam, the short board means danger, means uncontrollable.
The "short board" to be overcome recently is the skipping rope, Tutu is 7 years old, and is studying in the first grade of Xuejun Primary School Zijingang Branch. In order to welcome the long rope competition in the school, Wendingyuan organized the same competition. Tutu was afraid and could not move her steps, others urged her, she cried, and the child behind her crossed her and jumped into the rope circle. Lu Feng wrote in the homework book: Jumped 0.
He decided to solve this problem and found a tree in the neighborhood, and the rope was tied to the tree at one end, and the other end was grabbed by himself and thrown up. Tutu was still crying, and Lu Feng said, "If you cry well, you will jump, and today you will not go home because you cry." He threw the rope for ten minutes, and Tutu finally jumped in, crying as he jumped. Lu Feng felt distressed, but he said that this must be passed, Tutu is just fear, this fear must be overcome, otherwise "it will drag its feet."
Dragging your feet is not allowed.
▲ Photo / Screenshot of the TV series "Little Shed"
It is rumored that WendingYuan has a "parent picket", and when they see the children playing in the community, they ask them if they have finished their homework. Contrast and pressure are everywhere. As soon as the final exam is over, the ranking of Zijingang School will be sent to the group, and a group of people in the group will congratulate.
The owner, Zhou Xi, is the mother of a third-grade boy, and in order to supervise her son's homework, she always changes with her colleagues until 3:30 to leave work. She felt the atmosphere in the neighborhood. In Wending Garden, it is almost impossible to see children above the third grade playing in the community on weekends. "I don't quite believe any kid who doesn't have classes on the weekend."
Her child Long Long used to attend the kindergarten affiliated to Zhejiang Normal University, "good is good, just don't learn, the first goal is to play", Long Long played for four years, playing football, fishing, climbing mountains, to the big class, the gap suddenly appeared. Xuejun Primary School does not open the ranking, but will rate the grade, excellent, good, qualified, unqualified, superior to the top 30% of the class, the child is not in the excellent, Zhou Xi knows that the child is in the bottom few in the class.
Zhou Xi saw the gap in the starting line. When the child was going to elementary school, a friend recommended her Wending Garden, saying that the results of the Xuejun Branch School over the years were not worse than those of the school, and they were getting better and better. Zhou Xi bought a house, at that time 31,000 a flat, she began to follow the trend of the community to catch up with the shift. The language language tuition class starts in the first grade of elementary school and is installed on Fridays after school and on weekends.
The mother-child relationship also seems to have entered a stalemate. She couldn't help yelling, and the child couldn't help crying. "Mom didn't ask you to be as good as anyone, but you have to take the middle school, and every time you take the last few exams, isn't it embarrassing for you yourself?"
She is also worried about putting pressure on her children, but she can't stand the last few tests for her children. Sometimes I feel that cram school is ineffective, it is better not to go. Long Long became frightened and said to Zhou Xi, "Mom, let's try it again." ”
She knows that her son is hard, but she never wanted to get out of this environment, "I think you have to adapt to me in this environment." 」 ”
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When the road has been demarcated, the school district housing becomes just needed. One mother pointed out, "This kind of school district room has the best cost-effective second child." "In Wending Garden, it is common to see infants and young children during the day, and occasionally see a few large children, usually in a hurry, only when the school is out, can you see rows of children crossing the road and entering the community." Most of the children of the same age are classmates, from kindergarten to primary school to extracurricular classes can always be encountered, children play skateboarding, bicycles, are a hula team.
Outside Wending Garden, on a street opposite Xuejun Primary School, there are more than a dozen tuition institutions lined up, and there is no difference from the introduction. But there is a form circulating in the Mengmu group of Wending Court, and dozens of training institutions are scored in detail, proposing advantages and disadvantages.
Needless to say, parents have the posture of catching up. In the extracurricular class, it is not too much to let go.
Hu Yue is a piano teacher who opens classes for children aged 3-6 to explore their suitable instruments. Wendingyuan's mothers heard about it and invited her to the community to start a class in an idle house of her mother's house. The schedule is 4:45 to 5:35 p.m. on Friday afternoons, and no one is late. There is a mother who has enrolled her child in seven classes, and also wants to report to her child for Hu Yue's class, the husband opposes, the child has a large burden and a large cost, the mother hesitated for a long time, or decided to go to class: pay for it herself, pick up and drop off by herself. Once a father brought a two-year-old child to listen to the class, Hu Yue said that the child is too small, still can not understand, the father said, "Teacher Hu, you can rest assured, we want to keep up, we will start the enlightenment earlier", tried a class, the child really did not understand, he said, "Wait a year older, and then form a class." ”
Outside the Wending Court community, and the tuition agency is also lively, is the real estate agent. In 2016, Hangzhou house prices rose sharply, Wending Court house prices doubled, and house prices have been rising in recent years. After Xiaosheng initially changed to a citizen recruitment, Wending Court as a school district house rose again. From 2012 to 2016, it rose at a rate of 3% and 5% per year, and directly doubled in 2016, from 30,000 to 60,000, and then rose by 10% or even 20% per year thereafter.
The better the grades of Wendingyuan children, the higher the price of the house, and the "chicken baby" seems to have become a means of speculating in the house, at least it is a win-win situation.
The correlation between grades and housing prices has naturally taken shape. Wu Wei, an intermediary, always advises customers to buy a house quickly, saying that last year, Wendingyuan Kindergarten could not accommodate the children in the community, and some children had to go to other kindergartens in the surrounding area. This is especially true in elementary schools, where some families have to set up school districts six or seven years in advance. Listing prices are getting higher and higher.
Wu Wei said, "Wending Court is more transparent, there are groups, how much money is traded, everyone knows." One look at how much you sell, how much I want to sell. In February this year, Wu Wei sold a two-bedroom apartment for 9.8 million; in April, he sold another set of 10.63 million, up nearly one million in two months. He said that in the month with the highest transaction volume, Wending Court sold 49 houses, and usually can also deal more than ten or twenty sets a month. There are also some houses that are always hanging in the intermediary and never sell. Wu Wei said that there are suites hanging for three years, every time a customer wants to buy, the owner will increase the price, a rise is a million, from more than 9 million to 15 million.
▲ Wending Court is famous for its excellent geographical location, known as the school district Fangshen Pan. Graph source network
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Unlike the noise created by the intermediaries and the Meng mothers, Zhang Junlin, the principal of the primary school, prefers to say that "the best school district room is the study at home."
The principal's office of Xuejun Primary School is facing the street, and from the window, you can see the street lined with more than a dozen training institutions outside the Wending Court community. Zhang Junlin came to Xuejun Primary School in 1999 to teach mathematics, and later served as the vice principal, in 2011, he successively went to Zhuantang Primary School, Yucai Foreign Chinese and other schools as a principal, public, private, famous schools, weak schools, he stayed, six years later, he returned to Xuejun Primary School as a principal.
He was a little helpless about the controversy that his primary school was frequently swept into the district room.
He always told the media not to write that Wendingyuan was "the world's first Mengmu pan" and "the most cattle school district house", which was a kind of harm to the school. "I'm very disgusted, in fact, some people are speculating on house prices." He refused to compare the results between the different campuses of Xuejun Elementary School, believing that the parents who applauded the Zijin Campus "have a purpose, I hope that the house price in that community will rise, I can't cooperate with them, and I don't need it." He even found out which campus was particularly good, so he changed the teachers, and once transferred the teachers from the Zijingang Campus and the Qiuzhi Campus to the Zhijiang Campus, which was not long ago.
Zhang Junlin said that the school wants to keep a low profile, but parents are afraid that no one will know. Last year, 8 students from the Zijingang Campus were admitted to Hangzhou, 12 Qiuzhi Campuses, 1 Zhijiang Campus, and the school did not publicize it, but Wending Court pulled a red banner to congratulate the Wending Court Owners Committee and the property, "Which is a great interference to the school." The state explicitly prohibits the Olympic mathematics competition, and the community is actually organizing, "Doing so is an impact on the normal teaching order, nothing more than the parents of the organization behind the organization are engaged in Olympic mathematics training." A lot of hype is behind the impure motive, some people want to get benefits, others are swept up in the back, don't. ”
He could understand the parents of Wending Court. During the period of social transformation, "the most anxious is the new middle class in the city, they jump from the original relatively harsh environment, jump to a level, have stable jobs, good economic conditions, he is very afraid that his children will fall below, he is very anxious, after all, the high-quality resources of society are limited." "A large part of the parents of Xuejun Primary School are such a new middle class, they have borrowed money to buy nearly ten million houses, they hope that their children can become dragons and phoenixes, "but it is impossible for dragons and phoenixes to fly all over the sky, and the sky is bound to fall." The principal of the primary school seemed bitter, "Society also needs small beetles."
Zhang Junlin tries to dismantle the criteria of success and excellence, but he also realizes that all he can influence is the environment inside the school, and the outside of the school is still a scorching fire. He said that now everyone feels that don't let the child lose at the starting line, where is the starting line? elementary school? kindergarten? "I can tell you cruelly that you are late, and the moment the boy and girl are together, the starting line of your child is determined."
"Peking University parents Zhejiang Dawa, Zhejiang University parents Zhejiang Gong Dawa, this is very normal", Zhang Junlin said that parents should have more courage to admit that their children are ordinary people, "when the first grade held a parent-teacher conference, all parents were eager for two people to come, and the whole family had expectations." By the sixth grade, they all sat from the back to the front. In middle and high school, some parents are reluctant to participate. Why? Because in the process he gradually accepts (the child is an ordinary person). ”
The most fundamental thing is the overall pressure, "the school district room is more stressful for our school and teachers." People are like this, the more I give, the more I want to return, right? If you spend ten million to buy a house, do you expect the same from your children? No, education is also an investment, and we all hope that the output will be rewarded. So the greater the price, the easier it is for his mentality to hurt, not a good thing. ”
"Everyone wants to run, and the consequence of running is to trample on each other." Zhang Junlin sighed that this equation has no solution unless parents figure it out - but under social pressure, it is not easy to figure it out, and it is even more difficult to do it.
▲ Xuejun Primary School, which reopened after the epidemic. Photo / Visual China
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There are still people who are making such efforts. Some of the Meng mothers also wanted to jump out of the net.
Because of the middle school teacher, Wang Ying did not report many tutoring classes to the children, but tutored the children at home, and her confidence in teaching made her show her alienation from the Meng mother group. She feels that some parents are too blind and want to give their children a stream of knowledge, but there is no need to make it so chicken blood. Last summer, after Wendingyuan was widely reported, she quit the Mengmu group. "Before, it was very common, just like other people selling things, you need to buy, it doesn't matter if you don't need it, but after being reported, he feels that everything he does seems to have excessive attention, and he must make a name for himself."
Before the children went to elementary school, Zhang Wen's family moved out of Wending Garden. This is equivalent to giving up the enrollment quota of Xuejun Primary School, which is a major loss in the eyes of the outside world. She works at a publishing house, her husband is a professor at Zhejiang University, and the family moved to the family area of Zhejiang University, "just want to be simple, a little easier."
Compared with Wending Garden, she feels that the Zhejiang University family area is more like a small village, children visit each other, write together, sing nursery rhymes, know plants on the lawn, parents regularly hold book clubs, discuss education, and psychology teachers to share, Zhang Wen said that the owners here will have a longer-term vision, not particularly concerned about children's achievements. She said she saw a post on the "19th Floor of Hangzhou" in the local community, where many people said that children in the Zhejiang University family area may not achieve top grades in elementary school, but in junior high school, the staying power will be stronger than other children.
The owner, Roy, was another person trying to leave. Her children attended the military primary school, did not attend the kindergarten bridging class, and began to fear difficulties almost as soon as they entered primary school. Roy communicates with the teacher, who says that the state requires that the child not be pressured, but the problem is that because you or two children have not attended the kindergarten transition class, we cannot slow down the progress. By the third grade, there were more problems, essays could not be written, and homework needed to be stared at all the time. Roy goes to a parent-teacher conference, and a young teacher tells her that your son is always the slowest in class. "This is labeling the child, my husband was very uncomfortable at the time, since you labeled him, it is difficult to ensure that you usually do not do that to him." 」 Every time the class teacher came in, she would be anxious.
She feels that the child is already very busy, "I look back now, I regret it, I didn't do a good job of the child's psychological construction, we have no experience, he will be frustrated, he will feel that he just can't keep up with others." ”
In September, she decided to transfer her child to an international school. Roy didn't get into a good college, studied computers, worked as a teacher and makeup artist, opened a clothing store, and now works as a micro-business, these experiences have made her look at reading laxly. Before deciding to transfer schools, Roy deliberately took the child to the international primary school for a round, there is a swimming pool, the class is also interesting, the pressure of homework is not large, Roy asked the child if he would like to transfer, the child is reluctant to be the current classmate, but he still agreed.
The change is subtle, in the past six months, Roy has not lost his temper with the child because of learning, she said that she figured it out, and only hopes that the child likes to learn and does not force him to produce results. The child's stress has become less, and he is no longer as afraid as before.
In March this year, Hangzhou made an adjustment to the junior high school student allocation system, increasing the proportion of students allocated in the six urban areas from the previous 50% to 60%, and may increase to 70% in the future. The probability of ordinary junior high schools entering key high schools has increased, and the popularity of using school district housing to grab key primary schools and key junior high schools has decreased. In August, Hangzhou put forward clear requirements for the release of intermediary information, prohibiting the speculation of school district houses. Under various regulations, the price and transaction volume of Wending Court, as the representative of the school district, began to decline.
Agent Wang Zhen felt the change, he said, in July and August Wending Court transaction volume is very small, in the past there were 8-10 houses per month, the owners of the price bite to death, the buyer basically did not counteroffer. But since April, volume and prices have been falling. In July, only two or three sets were traded, and the average price in the first half of the year was more than 110,000 / flat, and now more than 100,000 / flat. Wang Zhen predicts that after the introduction of the multi-school district reform policy, wending court house prices may fall by 30%.
There is still a long way to go to alleviate the pressure of education, but everyone feels the direction of the wind.
Wending Court has reduced the price, can The Meng mothers "unwind"? Lu Feng feels that for the sake of Wendingyuan's parent group and strong learning atmosphere, even if the house price has fallen now, it is worth buying Wendingyuan. Roy said that the house price has fallen, she is not ready to sell the house, and there is a little daughter, who can go to primary school here in the future, if there are more schools and can't go to the military primary school, she can only accept, she thinks, "or family education is more important."
Of course, the three migrations of Meng Mother are a good story, but modern Meng mothers must learn to truly understand their own and their children's hearts.
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