The Ministry of Education has taken action to rectify the "ten minutes between classes" and connived at school bullying
The Ministry of Education issued a notice today (14th) that it will carry out the "Year of Standardized Management" action for basic education, aiming at basic education, from the bottom line of safety, daily management disorder, teacher ethics and teacher style anomie and other three aspects of key norms and rectification, and detailed 12 negative lists of basic education standard management, including various ways to squeeze students "ten minutes between classes" break, teachers ignore and connive at student bullying, compulsory education stage schools organize various examinations for the purpose of selecting students, etc.
The Ministry of Education requires all localities to start implementation from now on, improve and refine the negative list, comprehensively self-examine and rectify, and will further promote the implementation of standardized management requirements through cross-city and county cross-research, responsible supervision into schools, and professional force guidance. The Ministry of Education will conduct assessments in due course, provide feedback and report on existing problems.
In addition, the Ministry of Education's "Year of Standardized Management" for basic education will also establish a monitoring and exposure mechanism and a reputation evaluation system.
- All local administrative departments for education should unblock and publish channels for accepting reports from schools, such as telephones, mailboxes, and online platforms, and widely accept oversight of students' parents, people's congress deputies, members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and all sectors of society on the conduct of running schools.
- Establish an exposure station to publicly circulate and criticize schools that have been verified to be true in violation of laws and regulations.
- Strengthen the building of supervisory forces, strengthen the daily supervision of school running behavior through parents' committees and specially invited supervisors, and strive to build every primary and secondary school kindergarten into a school that reassures the party and satisfies the masses.
- Administrative departments for education at all levels should also explore the establishment of a reputation evaluation system for basic education in running and governing schools, truthfully recording the non-standard conduct of education departments and schools in all localities, and separately displaying matters that have major safety incidents, triggered major public opinion, and caused a vile social impact.
The Ministry of Education requires administrative departments for education at all levels to increase the extent of punishment for school-running behaviors that violate the provisions of the negative list and touch the bottom line, and strictly pursue responsibility in accordance with laws and regulations. For the administrative departments of education that ignore the school's violations, perfunctory responsibility, or ineffective handling, the administrative departments for education at the higher level are to supervise and hold accountable.
According to reports, in recent years, all localities have continuously improved the level of administering education in accordance with the law and standardizing the running of schools, but the problem of illegal running of schools in some localities and schools is still prominent, seriously affecting the physical and mental health of students and destroying a good educational ecology. The Ministry of Education's "Year of Standardized Management" action on basic education will further clean up and rectify the violations of laws and regulations, violations of the laws of education, and utilitarian and short-sighted behaviors in the field of basic education, and further establish and improve a long-term mechanism for management according to law, strict management, and standardized management.
The negative list for the standardized management of basic education is as follows:
1. It is strictly forbidden to have erroneous words or deeds such as opposing the Party and socialism, tarnishing the image of the Party and the State, slandering Party leaders or heroic models, splitting the country, distorting history, or beautifying aggression, or disseminating or forwarding relevant erroneous views in public or through the Internet.
2. It is strictly forbidden to investigate and rectify formalism in campus safety, to allow major campus safety hazards, to conceal and lie about major accidents, or to handle them improperly.
3. It is strictly forbidden for teachers to discriminate against students from disadvantaged groups, and to carry out corporal punishment, covert corporal punishment, verbal abuse, beatings, sexual harassment, or other conduct that insults the personal dignity of students.
4. It is strictly forbidden to have bullying behavior on campus such as bullying the few, bullying the weak, or bullying the small, or teachers ignoring or condoning student bullying.
5. It is strictly forbidden to use promotion rates or test scores to evaluate and rank schools, issue promotion targets, and rank, reward and punish teachers.
6. It is strictly forbidden for schools in the compulsory education stage to organize all kinds of examinations for the purpose of selecting students, or to use all kinds of competition certificates, social training results, examination certificates, and so forth as the basis for enrollment.
7. It is strictly forbidden for schools to violate the uniform provisions of the administrative departments for education to start school early, delay holidays, or use holidays, winter and summer vacations to organize students to make up classes collectively.
8. It is strictly forbidden to arrange students' sleep time in violation of national regulations, or to occupy students' "10 minutes between classes" in various ways.
9. It is strictly forbidden to violate the provisions of the national curriculum plan by arbitrarily adjusting, adding, or removing curricula, or crowding out class time for moral education, physical education, aesthetic education, labor education, and comprehensive practical activities.
10. It is strictly forbidden to assign homework that exceeds the total amount and duration prescribed by the administrative departments for education, or to assign repetitive or punitive assignments.
11. It is strictly forbidden to use teaching materials and teaching aids in violation of regulations, or to force or induce students to purchase books, electronic products, teaching materials, stationery, and so forth through designated channels in any form.
12. It is strictly forbidden for schools to violate the regulations on the management of fees by increasing the items of fees, raising the standards of fees, expanding the scope of fees, deducting and misappropriating all kinds of funds issued to students, and so forth.
Source: CCTV news client
