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Unconsciously, the "double reduction" new policy, which can be called the most stringent in the history of education and training, has been landed for two months.
According to the "forefront of entrepreneurship", during this period, some parents completely gave up the "fantasy" of subject tutoring and chose to "chicken themselves" at home, and some parents chose to continue the subject tutoring class after the middle school last week, and some parents "repeatedly tried" on the edge of supervision and insisted on enrolling their children in subject tutoring classes.
However, the crackdown by relevant government departments on illegal discipline training can be described as "no mercy".
Recently, the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on Resolutely Investigating and Handling the Problem of Carrying Out Off-campus Training in Disciplines in Disguised Violations", which clearly requires that the out-of-school training of disciplines must comply with relevant national regulations in terms of training subjects, training personnel, training time, training locations, training contents, and training methods.
Under the pressure of supervision, which parents still insist on letting their children attend subject tutoring classes? Can not go beyond the program, can not be ahead of the teaching, how long can these parents who apply for classes persist?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="9" >1, K12 parents of the two camps</h1>
The issuance of a "double subtraction" document has gradually led K12 parents to two camps.
One camp is the K12 family that says "NO" to subject training.
Zheng Hao, an executive of an off-campus training institution, told the "forefront of entrepreneurship" that after the introduction of the "double reduction" policy, those low-income families who do not attach much importance to their children's subject education have given up giving their children subject tutoring classes, which has a sense of "Buddhist lying flat".
"These parents' attitude towards the 'double reduction' policy is more joyful." Zheng Hao said that after all, children and parents are relaxed.
In fact, it is not only low-income families who actively "flee" discipline training, but also families who have other good ways out.
Some parents plan to have their children study abroad or inherit the family business. "But if you can arrange a way back for your child, parents will not be able to dwell on the matter of subject tutoring for a long time." He Jun, a senior K12 education and training practitioner, said that "entrepreneurship is at the forefront".
In addition, some parents choose "self-chicken" after withdrawing from subject training.
Ding Yu, a parent of primary school students in a first-tier city, told "The Forefront of Entrepreneurship" that before tutoring her children, she would re-learn the relevant textbook content. "Except for high school, it is basically no problem to deal with elementary school and junior high school, and it is even more efficient than when I went to school."
Ding Yu analyzed that the extracurricular tutoring system is different from the school teaching system. The former is generally ahead of the latter, the latter is more basic, and the former emphasizes improvement. For children, if they cannot master 100% of the knowledge in the classroom, blindly pursuing the improvement of grades is inevitably a bit inverted.
"I did not enroll my child in the subject tutoring class, her main task in the current third grade is to lay the foundation, read more when she has time, you know, the child's advanced learning may not be able to achieve good results." Ding Yu said.
The other camp is a "solid advocate" of the discipline training course.
Xu Hua, a veteran education investor, told "Frontline of Entrepreneurship" that at present, many parents have their children continue to take last week's middle school tutoring classes, with the aim of consuming the remaining class hours. "After all, parents have already paid for the course, and the rest of the lessons have to be delivered normally." He said.
The vast majority of chicken parents will also let their children continue to attend subject tutoring classes. "Instead of a 'double subtraction' policy, chicken parents will choose to lie flat, and they are still very worried about their children's future growth." Xu Hua said.
Of course, high-income families who have high hopes for their children and have also reported a large number of subject tutoring courses will also continue to enroll their children in subject training. They have a very good training fee, and they can try many "non-compliant" ways to obtain subject training resources. "Parental irregularities like this are often difficult to ban." Zheng Hao said.
In addition to high-income families, parents from middle-income families who are well-educated themselves will continue to let their children participate in subject tutoring out of high hopes for their children. They generally meet their children's subject tutoring needs through instant messaging tools, online recording of courses, and even teaching aids.
And those low-income families whose economic status is not very satisfactory, but who want to help their children change their fate, will also let their children continue to attend subject tutoring classes. "It's no exaggeration to say that they could really 'smash pots and sell iron' to do this." Zheng Hao said.
As for the form of subject training chosen by parents, it can be said that it is "various".
Among them, more people choose to find school teachers to provide subject counseling services for children. Li Guan, a practitioner of education and training, revealed to the "forefront of entrepreneurship" that due to the pressure of further education, many parents of the first grade in the fourth-tier cities where he is located invite teachers who are familiar with or have good relationships to their homes on weekends to tutor their children in subjects.
Not only that, but there are also parents who directly find teachers in their own communities to tutor their children in subjects. Liu Di, a parent of primary school students in a first-tier city, told "The Forefront of Entrepreneurship" that there is an English teacher in the community where she lives who has been teaching for nearly 20 years, and she said in the owner group that she can provide door-to-door English tutoring services, and parents in need can contact him. "As far as I know, since the release of the 'double reduction' policy, many community owners have found this teacher to make up lessons for their children."
Luo Feng, a parent of primary school students in a second-tier city, revealed to the "forefront of entrepreneurship" that some parents will entrust their children to their children's teachers in the middle of the week, and parents will take their children home after 7:30 every night, and the monthly fee is about 2,000 yuan. "Some school teachers will secretly take a few students, and in addition to helping them with their homework, they will also manage two meals." He added.
In addition, parents have children get subject counseling services through the conference software Zoom. Liu Di said that she found a teacher she was familiar with leaving the institution, and the two sides re-agreed on the cost of the class and completed the corresponding service delivery through the conference software Zoom. "Subject tutoring can't stop, to maintain a certain frequency, or not to regress may be obvious."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" >2, "Sword of Damocles" hanging over his head</h1>
Although many K12 families have not pressed the "pause button" for subject training due to the implementation of the "double reduction" policy, the risks and challenges they face cannot be ignored.
Liu Di admitted that the teachers she found in Zoom were not regulated by institutions or platforms, and once the fees were not fulfilled, the risks caused by them were entirely borne by themselves. "It's hard to get it back, and you usually have to think you're unlucky."
In addition, parents spend much more on their children's subject tutoring than before the "double reduction" policy was introduced. For example, a certain education and training giant originally had 300-600 yuan / lesson training course, and now parents are likely to need to spend 800-1000 yuan / class hour to find a suitable (personal) teacher to tutor their children. "For parents, the cost of subject tutoring has increased significantly." Zheng Hao said.
The reason why the teacher suddenly raised the price stemmed from the multiple risks he faced.
First, teachers run the risk of reporting from their children. "It is one thing for parents to disagree with subject tutoring, it is another thing for children to disagree, parents invite teachers, but children do not approve, children will report the teacher." Zheng Hao said.
Moreover, the probability of teachers being reported by children is higher. Zheng Hao said that except for a very small number of people who especially love to learn, most children are not willing to attend subject tutoring classes. "From a mental point of view, parents are against the nature of their children to play."
Second, teachers are also at risk of reporting from parents. After the teacher finished tutoring the child's subject, the parents reported the teacher in order to get a few thousand yuan in rewards (and at the same time, they could get the tuition back, which is a real case). "In fact, from the reported cases that have occurred, we can see that parents do not have the burden of evil." Zheng Hao said.
Finally, teachers are also at risk of reporting from neighbors. According to Zheng Hao, due to the limited consumption power of some community owners, they will collectively piece together a small class of "as few as a dozen people and as many as twenty people" on weekends to let their children receive subject training.
This kind of illegal subject tutoring practice, not to mention being reported by others, only the neighbors upstairs and downstairs are likely to report the teacher. "After all, if you get a bunch of kids to take the elevator up and down the stairs every day, the neighbors will most likely know." He said.
Once reported, teachers run the risk of being fined. Before the release of the "double reduction" policy, whether the teacher charged parents the subject tutoring fee according to the standard of 600 yuan / class hour or 800 yuan / class hour, it was a compliance operation, but now, once the teacher is reported, it is likely to be fined hundreds of thousands of yuan. "It's not a small amount for the teacher, it takes a long time to earn it back." Zheng Hao said frankly.
For teachers in the system, if they give their children subject counseling in violation of the law, once they are reported, they are likely to face the risk of being dismissed from public office.
Of course, many parents are also willing to pay a higher cost to let their children continue to receive subject tutoring. Objectively speaking, the need for tutoring is initiated by parents, and many parents' anxiety is alleviated from tutoring, and their children have also tasted the "sweetness" of rapidly improving scores from tutoring.
"If you give up asking for tutors, your child's learning status may be affected, plus there is a relative shortage of teachers at present, so in the face of those tutors who are still willing to provide services to their children, they are naturally willing to give higher treatment than the original market price." Xu Hua analyzed.
In addition, Xu Hua also mentioned that at present, the vast majority of college students' tutors have not obtained teacher qualification certificates. According to the policy requirements, college students need to hold a teacher qualification certificate to engage in tutoring work. "This undoubtedly prevents many college students from becoming tutors, and to a certain extent, it also pushes up the training expenditure of parents." He said.
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Since there are many risks and challenges, why do parents still defy the wind and let their children participate in subject training?
"Like Hebei and Shandong, they have been implementing the measures of the 55th grade of the middle school entrance examination for two consecutive years, and the general high admission rate on our side is basically close to 50%." Li Guan learned from local teachers that only about 55% of junior high school graduates in his city this year were admitted to key and ordinary high school schools, and the remaining junior high school graduates could only choose to go to secondary vocational colleges or go out to work.
In addition, unlike first- and second-tier cities, the more sinking cities, the greater the pressure to go to school. More importantly, for children in many places, they can still choose to repeat their college entrance examination failures, but there is only one chance to take the middle school entrance examination.
"In this case, if someone else's child enrolls in a subject tutoring class, and you don't report to your child, then your child may not be able to go to high school, and no one wants to let their children go to secondary vocational colleges." Liu Di said.
Ding Yu also said that Beijing has gradually begun to implement the five-five diversion of the middle school entrance examination. This means that only half of the candidates can enter ordinary or key high schools normally each year, and the other half of the students go to secondary vocational colleges. "It was only in the past few years that I learned that Beijing controls the high school promotion rate, and at first I didn't believe it, but then I slowly believed it." She said.
As for the reason for the occurrence of the "five-five diversion of the middle school entrance examination", it is not difficult to understand.
Compared with academic talents, the country is more in urgent need of practical talents who can "take a shovel and can study". "To be honest, some phDs are okay with academic theoretical knowledge, but once they practice, they may be full of loopholes." Zheng Hao said bluntly.
Xu Hua also mentioned that there is no shortage of highly educated talents in the market, but the problem is that the better-paid jobs for them to choose are relatively scarce. "You know, some highly educated people run to deliver takeaways, which is really a huge waste of talent."
Therefore, to some extent, although the country needs highly educated talents, it also needs highly educated talents. "After all, technology and innovation depend on the genius of talent." Xu Hua said.
In addition to the five-five diversion of the middle school entrance examination, the "only academic degree theory" is also an important reason for a group of parents to send their children to subject counseling classes in violation of the law.
In recent years, when more and more employers are recruiting talents, the "theory of only famous schools" and "only the theory of academic qualifications" are popular, artificially setting threshold obstacles, and taking full-time and part-time academic qualifications as restrictive conditions, resulting in many part-time graduates not being eligible to participate in recruitment, forming artificial "discrimination".
"I have been recruiting people recently, and I am deeply touched that the differentiation is getting worse and worse, there is no education, and it is really difficult to enter a good unit (including private enterprises) in the future." Luo Feng said.
This is true even for small businesses. "To tell the truth, even a small company like ours does not like to recruit ordinary undergraduate students, and the college entrance examination has screened people very carefully." Luo Feng said that people from famous schools or highly educated people are more likely to be talents.
"I would rather give a graduate of a famous school an extra 3,000 yuan in basic salary than to recruit an ordinary college student, and the difference in training costs between the two is not general." Luo Feng said.
In his view, academic qualifications are more often a filter. "In the future, the probability of academic discrimination will become more and more serious."
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Although "there are policies on the top and countermeasures at the bottom", with the gradual implementation of the "double reduction" policy nationwide, how long can parents continue to enroll their children in subject tutoring classes?
Let's start with the midweek discipline coaching for compliance. According to Liu Di, some institutions have taken the initiative to reduce the difficulty of subject counseling content according to policy requirements. "For example, the super-syllabus question types that were originally explained in the class have been deleted."
For those parents who pursue difficulty, they will generally consider whether to let their children continue to follow the class. "After all, it's better to let your child go to a subject tutoring class with less difficulty than to stay at home and learn by yourself." Liu Di said.
The more central problem is that it is difficult for students to take time out of the week to participate in subject training. Ding Yu cited Beijing as an example and said that according to regulations, the mid-week school time of primary school students in Beijing has been postponed from the original 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day. Even if parents go through the written application process, they can only pick up their children from school at 4:30 p.m.
"The child has been in school for nearly 10 hours, if you sign up for the mid-week subject tutoring class, the child will take half an hour to eat in the middle, and then go until the end of the class until 8:30, the child is not an iron man, he will be tired, so if it goes on, the body will collapse sooner or later." Ding Yu said.
Look at subject counseling in violations. According to Xu Hua, the relevant departments of education have already said hello to third-party platforms such as ClassIn and asked the latter to strictly review the teachers who have settled in and their teaching content. "This will curb the occurrence of illegal 'discipline training' to a certain extent."
However, Zheng Hao believes that some illegal discipline tutoring behaviors are difficult to define. For example, peer-to-peer subject tutoring, if the two are only making up lessons in the form of simple chat, it is obviously difficult for the relevant regulatory authorities to define it as a violation.
In addition, Zheng Hao also mentioned that the quality of school teaching is difficult to meet the demands of students' parents. Because the teachers of education and training institutions generally take the improvement of students' performance and parental satisfaction as the criterion, they will serve students from the perspective of the inferior. As long as the school teachers meet the teaching requirements, they will serve students from the perspective of the superior.
"Therefore, the hope that the school will improve the quality of teaching services and finally meet the demands of students and parents can almost be abandoned." Zheng Hao said.
Whether parents give up subject training depends to a large extent on whether the enrollment system and evaluation system of the middle and high school entrance examinations have changed.
Because as long as the recruitment policies of some key schools do not change, the "baton" of the middle and high school entrance examinations remains unchanged, and user needs will always exist. "In the case that the user's needs are not fully met, simply eliminating the supply side has not solved the substantive problem." Zheng Hao said.
In the case of the enrollment system and evaluation system of the middle and high school entrance examinations, if the middle school is truly recognized by enterprises and society, then the behavior of parents allowing their children to participate in subject counseling in violation of the law may be reduced.
At present, the common stereotype of parents is that children go to secondary vocational colleges, basically can not learn anything useful, graduate out to find a job, usually because of the "academic discrimination" of enterprises are rejected, and are not recognized by society.
"In fact, the problems of 'meritocracy' and 'academic qualifications' really don't mean that they can be solved in a day or two or a year or two." He Jun said frankly.
Of course, it is not enough to be recognized by enterprises and society, and secondary vocational graduates also need a good salary package.
At present, one of the major problems facing our country is that there is a surplus of white-collar workers and a scarcity of blue-collar workers. Although the national level attaches great importance to skilled talents, it has to be said that parents generally do not see that blue-collar workers can make a lot of money. "Therefore, most parents will still let their children rush to the excess white-collar workers." He Jun said.
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It is true that the introduction of the "double reduction" policy has not only hit the chaos of the K12 education and training industry, but also curbed the excessive interference of capital in the field of education to a certain extent.
However, if the recruitment policies of some famous schools do not change, and the enrollment system and evaluation system of the middle and high school entrance examinations do not change, it may not be realistic to rely solely on the supply side of education and training institutions to finally break the anxiety of parents and achieve educational fairness.
After all, most parents' worries about their children's further education and employment have not been finally resolved by the issuance of "double subtraction" documents, which means that their behavior of letting their children participate in subject counseling will continue to exist.
*Note: Zheng Hao, He Jun, Li Guan, Liu Di, Ding Yu, and Luo Feng are pseudonyms in the text. The picture in the text comes from the photo network and is based on the VRF protocol.