Do you know that there is a 43-year-old private kindergarten owner who turned white overnight because of the drastic changes in the industry. You may wonder what could make him so anxious?
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Take a look at a set of data and you will understand: in 2012, the number of newborns in the country was as high as 16.5 million, but in 2023, this number has dropped sharply to 9 million. Once upon a time, kindergarten was a crowded place to enter, but now it has become crowded. In the face of this precipitous decline in the birth population, many kindergartens have to make adjustments, and some even close their doors directly.
Public kindergartens took the lead in initiating reforms, trying a new model of "integration of childcare" to attract more children to kindergartens, while the bosses of private kindergartens are looking for a new way out on the road of struggling to survive. Just like Mr. Yu, he has been working in the preschool education industry for 21 years, and at his peak he was in charge of 11 kindergartens, but now there are only 8 left, and the number of children in each family is only half. He said with a wry smile that it is not easy for middle-aged people to start a business, and the weight of the past two years has turned his black hair into silver threads.
At the same time, many kindergarten teachers have also changed careers under the pressure of life. Teacher Tang is one of them, she has been in this kindergarten for more than ten years, and the starting salary is only more than 1,000 yuan, and now it has barely risen to 1,800 yuan, which is already the general level in the industry. What makes her even more sad is that every winter and summer vacation, her salary will shrink to 1,000 yuan. In the end, she chose to leave this position of dedication to her youth and joined a factory to screw up, although she worked 11 hours a day, but at least a monthly salary of 5,500 yuan. She was full of emotion: "For the two days off every week and the long holiday of two months a year, calculate the account, how much hard-earned money I have lost." "The preschool education industry, which was once known as a sunrise industry, is now in an unprecedented predicament in the torrent of the times.
While we are concerned about how children grow up healthily, should we also pay more attention to these practitioners who have worked hard for education, and what is their living situation? Some people may ask: "Why is the salary of private kindergarten teachers so low?" Do you think that you can do it by finding a literate adult, so the salary has not been able to go up, which is similar to hiring a salesperson in a shopping mall? On various statutory holidays, you can still receive your salary even if you are on vacation, and the difference in treatment is really staggering.
The era of demographic dividend has passed, and the future social development can no longer rely on this dividend drive, but should be transformed and upgraded to a higher level and more technical industry. Just imagine, if one day all preschool children can enjoy free education, parents no longer have to worry about tuition fees, the quality of life is improved, and people's livelihood is fully guaranteed, is it natural that the new population will gradually pick up? So, should we reflect on whether we have paid enough attention and respect to the investment and return on education? This is a question that every one of us in this era should think deeply about.