"Education expert" Zhao Juying overturned, exposing the absurdity of family education

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2024-05-15 13:27Posted on the official account of Guangdong Nanfeng Window

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"What about your dreams? What about your goals? What about your study plans? What about your schedule? ”

This is what Zhao Juying said to students in a video of the account "Zhao Juying Family Education" on social platforms.

The main content posted on the account is that a family education expert who claims to have 33 years of teaching experience is invited by parents to visit homes all over the country and conduct "one-on-one learning guidance". This "expert" is Zhao Juying.

Zhao Juying operates multiple accounts on social platforms, mainly "Zhao Juying's Family Education", "Home Visit China", and "Zhao Juying Talks about Education". Among them, the account "Zhao Juying Family Education" has released many videos of Zhao Juying's different home visits, and most of the videos have been hidden.

Zhao Juying's homepage of the video account

Because of her extreme and tough language, Ms. Zhao's video content sparked controversy on the Internet: During a home visit, she forced students to put all the anime merchandise on their desks into bags, then take them downstairs and throw them away.

Many netizens think that Zhao Juying's education method is "bullying education". But before it caused a strong controversy, Zhao Juying had already attracted the attention of some parents on the Internet. They hope that Zhao Juying will provide them with a solution to their home education problems.

The concept of utilitarian education is deeply ingrained in many families, and confused and anxious parents appear in droves on the Internet. They are facing a "critical period" of their children's growth every day, but they are caught in the difficult problem of parent-child relationship, and they do not know where their children's education should go.

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There are many doubts

Among the operating accounts related to Zhao Juying, the most popular account "Home Visit China" has more than 290,000 fans. In addition to being a family education blogger on the Internet, Zhao Juying is also the founder of a cultural media limited liability company.

In the WeChat public account of "Midsummer Light Cloud Classroom" certified by the company, it can be found that the company's educational products are still being sold in the store. It mainly includes Zhao Juying's family education series of books, family education series video courses and high-end consulting services.

According to the publicity of the summer camp in the mall, the summer camp is mainly to improve the comprehensive quality of students, and its propaganda slogan is "birds want to fly high first to flap their wings, people want to learn first".

In 2022, Wen Qing was in her third year of high school, and by mistake, she and her friend who were also high school students also participated in Zhao Juying's summer camp.

She remembered that the summer camp she participated in was indeed a ten-day camp and a one-phase 10,000 yuan, and the address was also in Bishan, Chongqing. However, the environment of the summer camp is not as netizens said, "like Yuzhang Academy, which can be shocked or closed in a small black house", but in a farmhouse, surrounded by mountains and lakes, "the scenery is not bad".

Registration page for this summer camp

Wen Qing also mentioned that the summer camp has a fast turnover of personnel. During the ten days she attended the summer camp, new students joined every day, and some students left early after less than ten days, "This summer camp is open all summer vacation, and you can come at any time if you sign up."

When she first learned about this summer camp from her mother, Wen Qing was a little hesitant. However, out of the idea of "wanting to learn useful methods to improve grades", Wen Qing did not refuse.

But the results after participating made Wen Qing feel unsatisfactory.

The students in the summer camp are mainly elementary and junior high school students. Wen Qing said that there were about one or two dozen students in the summer camp. But because he and his friends are both high school students, they have been arranged to study in a separate empty classroom during the summer camp, and the practice questions are also bought by Wen Qing herself.

In the summer camp, Zhao Juying is not the only teacher. Wen Qing said that Zhao Juying will personally participate in the teaching of the course, but more often, "she asks college students to work part-time and poach people from their parents' friends." She remembers that another friend of hers was one of the college students who came to work part-time.

Group photo of the training of the Midsummer Light Cloud Classroom Summer Camp

The teaching content is mainly subject knowledge, and sometimes Zhao Juying will also share learning methods. According to Wen Qing's recollection, Chinese and mathematics in primary school, "this kind of teaching is relatively easy to teach", Zhao Juying will personally speak, and junior high school students' English, physics and other subjects are taught by college students. In addition, when teaching is carried out, elementary and junior high school students are taught separately in the summer camp, and "more detailed (class teaching) will not be possible".

Wen Qing was always puzzled why there was no course for high school students in the summer camp, but she still charged normally and agreed to let high school students participate. And the effect after participating is not ideal, Wen Qing thinks, "Even if it is to improve the learning method, I don't feel that I have talked about it." ”

Such a strange phenomenon is not limited to the summer camp opened by Zhao Juying.

On her social media page, there are many accomplishments written in the bio. For example, "he has won many provincial and national awards for outstanding education and teaching achievements", "the first personalized "one-to-one" companion growth education model in China", "the American Positive Discipline Association certified family and school dual lecturer", and so on.

Zhao Juying's profile on social platforms

According to media reports, although Zhao Juying claims to be a homeschool dual lecturer certified by the American Positive Discipline Association on the social software profile, there is no such person on the official website of the American Positive Discipline Association.

Regarding Zhao Juying's questionable status as a retired teacher, the staff of the Education Bureau of Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province, has also responded to the media, Zhao Juying will retire from a primary school in the city in 2023; For "bullying education", the local education bureau will intervene in the investigation.

Wen Qing told Nanfeng Window that during the summer camp, Zhao Juying's husband Du Naiqi was mainly responsible for auxiliary work such as procurement, and he often supervised her and her friends' self-study.

Nanfeng Window obtained the contact information of Zhao Juying and Du Naiqi through the enterprise inquiry website, and Du Naiqi quickly hung up the phone after learning the identity of the reporter. As of press time, Nanfeng Window has contacted Zhao Juying and Du Naiqi many times through different ways, but the other party has not responded.

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"The target student is a knife"

When the reporter browsed on social platforms, he found that under Zhao Juying's previous "Home Visit to China" series of videos, there were many parents who wanted to invite Zhao Juying to visit their homes to solve the problems they faced in family education.

The main problem is focused on parents' concerns about their children's academic performance and attitudes towards learning. Most parents reported that their children's academic performance was not good, and words such as "failing" and "not getting scores" appeared frequently in the comment area, and there were also parents who hoped to further improve their children's learning ability.

There are many family education guidance bloggers similar to Zhao Juying on the Internet, and in horizontal comparison, Zhao Juying's social platform account fans are not many. For other homeschooling bloggers, parents who are confused have different expectations for them.

Zheng Yun's child was diagnosed with depression in the hospital last year. She was very remorseful and told Nanfeng Window that she didn't care about it at first, but "the result got worse and worse."

Under Zhao Juying's previous "Home Visit China" series of videos, there are many parents who want to invite Zhao Juying to visit their homes to solve the problems they face in family education

After tossing and turning several times, Zheng Yun's request for help was transferred online. At first, Zheng Yun taught herself how to solve children's psychological problems on the short video platform in front of the short videos of education and guidance bloggers. Later, she also spent 199 to report for classes on the platform.

To Zheng Yun's disappointment, the "family education guidance experts" on the Internet are mixed, and all the efforts she has made have not achieved satisfactory results.

Later, Zheng Yun found a "reliable" home education teacher, saying that the teacher was treated through "covert intervention", and in the treatment cycle of about two months, Zheng Yun said that she and the teacher cooperated very well.

After several twists and turns, Zheng Yun's child finally recovered in March this year.

The family education guidance industry is mixed, but it cannot be denied that "family education instructors" can indeed help solve some family education problems.

Zhao Hua is the deputy leader of the professional team of family education guidance services of a county-level women's federation in Guangdong, and in the cases he has been in contact with, there is also a child who is addicted to figurines. Zhao Huaqiao used his own methods to let the children take the initiative to start learning.

He recalled to Nanfeng Window that when he received the case, he began to "squat" on the Internet, searching for the network dynamics of the target students, pretending to leave messages to the students by chance, and getting to know them in the comment area.

This kind of "sneaky" behavior is actually a common method used by family education instructors. In the industry, this practice is called "covert intervention," and Mr. Zhao said that the students he came into contact with did not know that he was specifically there to focus on him. 

In one of the home visit videos, Zhao Juying asked the boy to smash the figure

In this year's contact with students, Zhao Hua felt that the turning point for his students to rediscover their interest in learning was that he bought a schoolbag pendant for the students. At that time, the students wanted to merge one of their favorite anime characters, and asked Li Hua to give him the pendant.

To have the opportunity to get in touch with the child's interests and hobbies after school, Zhao Hua did not hesitate and agreed to the child's request on the spot.

After buying the pendant, Zhao Hua found that students began to ask him questions such as how to learn mathematics well, and the child's parents also reported to Zhao Hua that the child's enthusiasm for learning has improved.  

In the work of home education instructors, in order to ensure the quality of service, they often have a limited number of service users. Zhao Hua told Nanfeng Window that according to his experience, there have not been many cases where he will meet his children, "there may only be one or two a year, and he needs to accompany him in a designated area for half a day, and in principle, he does not visit his home." 

The introduction of the 2022 Family Education Promotion Law has allowed some local people's governments and relevant departments across the country to organize the establishment of professional teams for family education guidance services.  

Wang Peng, who has been engaged in the family education guidance industry for decades, admits that he does not object to parents learning educational knowledge through online platforms, and there are not no "reliable teachers" on the Internet. However, homeschooling teachers are uneven and need to be carefully identified by parents. If parents do not have enough awareness of family education, they will be like "headless flies" who will not be able to identify suitable family education methods.

This is also the reason why Zhao Juying has been controversial. Zhao Juying's home visit video presents a simple and crude education method as a whole, and Zhao Juying's home visit does not solve the child's learning problems, but stimulates the anxiety of parents and students.

Wang Peng believes that the industry demand for family education has always existed, "but now the parent-child relationship is becoming more and more acute, and the demand has been expanded."

Nantong Tongzhou District Three Initiatives to Promote the "Family Education Promotion Law" / Source: Nantong Tongzhou District Law Popularization Office

In Wang Peng's view, Zhao Juying's existence caters to the needs of many parents who do not have a high level of awareness of family education. Moreover, there are many problems in family education at present, and the needs of parents are still not met.

Zhao Hua thinks that "the target student is a knife, and what we (family education instructors) need is to find out where the knife is rusty and give feedback to the parents." ”  

Wang Peng also told Nanfeng Window that the family education instructor should "help" the client, stand aside with the visitor, "If you encounter difficulties, I will help you find a way together."

Zhao Juying's tough and arrogant approach is obviously biased.

Wang Peng feels that the most terrifying thing at present is that there are still many parents who are willing to ask Zhao Juying to visit their homes and find outsiders to "deal with" their children.

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What to do about homeschooling

For both children and parents, Hu Lai's family education is dangerous.

Xiaojuan had a conflict with her daughter because of study problems. Xiaojuan told Nanfeng Window that she recently discovered that her daughter, who was in the first year of junior high school, was "always grinding" when doing homework, and her grades had also declined. One day, when she peeked at the photos in her daughter's mobile phone album, a red envelope refund message popped up, which made Xiaojuan unexpectedly find that her daughter had pulled the "homework sharing group" by herself.

In the group, students can upload photos of completed homework to each other, and then copy each other's homework, and send red envelopes.

Xiao Juan instantly felt very angry. "I wanted to grab her and ask her as soon as she came back from school." But Xiaojuan still chose to endure it and didn't tell her daughter about it.

Until it was time to eat, Xiaojuan and her daughter hinted, "Daughter, Mom, I don't have any pocket money, can you send me some red envelopes?" ”

The daughter heard her mother's words "with a gun and a stick", and immediately asked Xiaojuan, "Are you secretly looking at my phone?" ”

"yes, how big are you? You can also send red envelopes to your classmates and let them serve you. ”

Xiaojuan remembered that her daughter got angry immediately after hearing this, and began to cry when she returned to the room. Xiaojuan admitted frankly that she didn't understand it at the time, "I didn't say anything, I don't know what to be angry about."

According to Wang Peng's previous work experience, he said that more parents will report that their children's learning problems, "in fact, most of them are problems with parent-child relationships."

Parents leave messages at the bottom of the "Home Visit China" series of videos because of their children's learning problems

Take, for example, a child's homework struggle. Wang Peng said to Nanfeng Window, "This is just a symptom", in fact, parents can go a little deeper to understand the reason, "Is it a learning problem?" Or is it too stressful? Or is it an emotional problem that is not resolved? ”

Zhao Hua told Nanfeng Window that he contacted students at work only so that he could discover the shortcomings of parent education, and his main job was to give feedback to parents on the family education improvement plan.

For home education instructors, it is unprofessional and dangerous to guide students beyond their parents.

Xiong Bingqi, president of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, believes that family education instructors, as the name suggests, are to guide parents and how to carry out family education.

Homeschooling instructors are mentored to parents, not students. "He can do some role models for parents, but he can't be a substitute for parents."

In Zhao Juying's home visit video, she bypasses the parents to give direct guidance to the child

Xiong Bingqi told Nanfeng Window that at present, some people who claim to be family education instructors are using the title as a gimmick to conduct academic training in the name of family instructors, "This behavior is not in line with the current double reduction policy and is prohibited."

Door-to-door tutoring and family education are obviously "two different things", and parents should have a clear understanding of the purpose of some bloggers' "home visits".

A student's education consists of three aspects: school education, family education, and social education.

The purpose of the home visit is to understand the situation of the student's home education. Xiong Bingqi told Nanfeng Window that school teachers can improve the school education received by students by understanding the situation of students' home education, rather than replacing parents for home education.

In addition to the problems in the regulation of the family education guidance industry itself, parents should also change the concept of family education in a timely manner.

At work, Zhao Hua found that most of the parents who came to ask for help did not know their children and did not care whether their children were happy.

Xiong Bingqi believes that many institutions and family bloggers will now "sell anxiety" to parents, and use a utilitarian discourse to stimulate parents' anxiety, so as to win attention.

"Family education instructors should tell parents how to truly form a healthy parenting concept and pay attention to their children's physical and mental health." But this kind of behavior is not noticed.

Parents who came into contact with Zhao Hua "subconsciously have an inertia that these children are tutored, and the children must follow suit. "Parents don't care so much about their children's feelings and moods.

There is a subconscious inertia among parents that because everyone is tutoring these children, their children must follow suit

Xiong Bingqi told Nanfeng Window that family education should change the utilitarian concept of success and education. Instead of catering to the utilitarian concept of "reading for grades and for further education", education should be strengthened and "return to the essence of paying attention to children's personality, interests, and personality development." ”

After all, there are only a few students who can be admitted to prestigious schools, and many more children will be ordinary workers in the future. "If you can't get into a prestigious school, you're a loser" will not only exacerbate students' psychological problems, but also affect their future career values.

As an important part of education, family education needs to be regulated in addition to related industries, and it urgently needs a less impatient, more inclusive and understanding environment.

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