"I'd rather my children don't go to school than go to technical school, it's too messy."
Some parents say that even if their children are uneducated, it is better than crime.
A few decades ago, people were still proud of technical schools, and at that time, Li Ping, who was admitted to a technical secondary school, and Zhang Hua, who was admitted to Peking University, could have a bright future.
And now, not only do technical school students not study, but also become a gathering place for gangsters in people's eyes, some people have statistics, the pregnancy rate of technical school girls is as high as 20%-40%.
The occurrence of these vicious incidents has made people more and more disgusted with technical schools, and even preferred that their children do not study rather than go to technical schools.
What happened to the technical school? What went wrong?
Once the cradle of craftsmen of a great country
The original technical schools were not as disgusted as they are now, on the contrary, they were very popular, and some students even preferred to give up their university letters for a vocational college admission letter.
In 1980, a worker named Gao Fenglin completed his studies in a vocational college and entered the workforce, and in the next 40 years, Gao Fenglin welded more than 130 rocket engines, and half of the rocket engines in the mainland were welded by him.
There are still many craftsmen from major countries who graduated from vocational schools like Gao Fenglin, and they have been the top technical talents in their respective fields for a long time, and they can complete many tasks that the most sophisticated machines can't do.
At that time, there were a large number of young female workers in a factory called Kaida in Shenzhen, all of whom were "working queens", eating chicken legs and luncheon meat, saving money and changing color TVs and washing machines for their families, and their wages made many people envious.
During this period, children from poor families hope to be able to attend a secondary school and graduate as soon as possible.
At that time, in technical schools, students could work directly in the factory after graduation, and thanks to policy support, they could almost be employed immediately after graduation, and some school graduates also had cadre status.
In 1978, vocational school students accounted for 7.6 percent of the total number of high school students, and by 1998, the number of secondary vocational school students was 14.51 million, accounting for more than half of the total number of high school students.
At the same time, during this period, private vocational colleges also gradually began to develop, in 1986, in Jinan, Shandong, a man named Rong Lanxiang founded Lanxiang Vocational and Technical School, two years later the school has tens of thousands of students.
In 1996, the "Vocational Education Law" was promulgated, which clarified the development direction of vocational education and provided high-quality talents for enterprises.
During this period, technical school graduates laid the foundation of China's manufacturing industry, and it can be said that without them, there would be no highly developed industrial manufacturing industry in China today.
At this time, the marketization of vocational education also gradually began to be carried out, vocational high schools not only do not include allocation, but also have to pay their own tuition, in the mid-to-late 90s, technical secondary schools also gradually began to not include allocation, but this is only the prelude to the decline of technical schools.
Until the turn of the century, in 1999.
The beginning of the decline
"Workers have to think for the country, if I don't lay off, who will be laid off."
This is a sketch from the 1999 Spring Festival Gala, but it pierced the hearts of countless workers.
Since the beginning of this year, almost all enterprises have begun to reduce their burdens and increase efficiency, and workers have either been laid off or reduced their salaries, and it is no longer possible to have a high salary like the previous Kaida.
The workers are okay and have some way out, but the students are even more uncomfortable at this time. Students in vocational high schools are in a dilemma, and the prospect of employment to the left is slim, and it is becoming more and more difficult to find a job; If you can't keep up with the cultural classes on the right, it will be even more difficult to be admitted to university.
In this way, vocational schools have changed from the ideal place for top students to a helpless choice for poor students.
"Study hard, go to a good university, and if you don't study, you can only go to work." "What are we working so hard for? Just to get you to college. "Can't you even get into college?" It's a lifetime of waste. ”
Such words have begun to gradually entangle our ears, as if going to a technical school means self-depravity.
In the following period, the number of students enrolled in vocational schools declined, and by 2001, the number of students enrolled in vocational high schools was less than one-third.
However, there has been no reduction in enrollment targets.
At that time, there was a vocational high school, the number of students was greatly reduced, but the indicators did not decrease, and in desperation, the indicators were spread on every teacher.
As a result, some junior high school students were forced to sign a pledge to voluntarily give up the high school entrance examination and enter vocational high schools, and some teachers even used the ID cards of their relatives and friends to register when they did not recruit enough people. These things have also become routine.
In recent years, the actual number of students enrolled in many vocational high schools has been less than half of the number of applicants.
Since then, although the number of students has gradually increased, vocational colleges have also become synonymous with poor students, and they are called "poor student shelters".
According to a survey by relevant institutions, more than 80 percent of secondary vocational students have rural household registration, and 40 percent of students have an annual family income of less than 3,000 yuan.
No matter how hard some students born in rural areas try, it is difficult for them to be admitted to normal schools due to the influence of the quality of education.
Some children of migrant workers are unable to go to a normal high school and can only go to a vocational high school.
It is obviously inappropriate to define these students in terms of poor student shelters.
After entering vocational colleges, these students who have no choice can easily choose to fall into self-depravity due to the influence of social opinion and the environment.
Up to now, the status of vocational colleges in people's hearts is no longer comparable to Peking University, but has become a school with many problems.
A problematic technical school
According to a report by a local prosecutor's office, the proportion of vocational school students in juvenile crime is increasing year by year, especially in cases of theft, rape, and gathering crowds to fight.
On the one hand, the school is indifferent to students, school rules and discipline are in vain, even if students don't go to class, they don't care, teachers generally lower their requirements for students, and some teachers even bluntly say "as long as no one lives".
Moreover, the school's physiology and hygiene-related courses are limited to the surface, which is equivalent to not attending, which indirectly leads to many girls becoming more and more self-indulgent, and abortions are frequent.
On the other hand, legal education in schools is weak, students have poor legal awareness, and it is difficult to distinguish the boundary between righteousness and law, and fights and brawls often occur.
Parents send their children to technical schools in order to learn technology and find a way out, but now, it is difficult for students with weak willpower to survive in this environment, and they naturally have to fall into depravity.
Some netizens who are even studying in technical schools said that their teacher's only requirement is that "the men in the class will not die, and the women will not be born." ”
Under this influence, the reputation of the technical school became worse and worse, and eventually it received a bad reputation as a "concentration camp for poor students" and a "gathering place for small gangsters".
However, despite the problems of technical schools, they are also an important support for the modern manufacturing industry in the mainland, with an employment rate of as high as 90%, and most small and medium-sized foundries can only gain a place in the international market by virtue of these technical talents.
epilogue
Today, although the reputation of vocational schools is still very bad, the turnaround has begun to gradually appear.
According to some of the latest documents, the importance of vocational colleges has been mentioned again, and the upgrading of vocational colleges has gradually begun in some places.
I hope that in the near future, vocational colleges can once again become the cradle of craftsmen in a big country!
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Source: China Education News 2019-09-27 "Forging Great Craftsmen and Laying the Foundation for Made in China - 70 Years of Vocational Education Reform and Development in New China"
Source: Procuratorate Daily 2021-01-21 "Strengthening the Shortcomings of Legal Education in Vocational Colleges"
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