Once upon a time, the purpose of going to a technical school was to learn a skill, and after coming out, you could even be directly assigned a job.
However, the current technical schools have inexplicably added a touch of "negative" colors: smoking and drinking, fighting and group beatings, pregnancy and abortion......
Parents seem to send their children to technical schools just to be supervised, and even the teachers at the technical schools say that there are only two requirements for students: men do not die, and women do not give birth.
So, is there really such a mess in today's technical schools? What kind of life do students face after graduating from technical schools?
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In today's society, vocational education, as an indispensable part of the education system, undertakes the important mission of cultivating skilled talents and promoting economic development.
However, with the changing times, the once popular technical schools are now facing many challenges and dilemmas.
"How can students train qualified workers to fight directly with knives in schools?"
In 2021, the Guilin police reported an incident in which technical school students gathered in a crowd to fight.
On October 16, in Guilin Technician College, several students met again on campus because of their usual conflicts.
The other students on the side did not persuade them, but stood on the sidelines and watched, which eventually led to one person being injured.
But this is not the only one in which there was a fight.
As early as 2016, in a publishing technical school in Jinan, four male students had multiple conflicts because of conflicts, and the last time one of the male students directly stabbed three other students with a knife he had just bought.
In the end, all three were injured to varying degrees, two seriously injured students were also sent to the hospital for surgery, and the male student who stabbed others was also arrested by the police.
This kind of thing does not get better until 2024, just in April this year, a vocational school boy from Shaanxi was directly locked in the dormitory by four classmates and beaten in a group, and his whole body was covered with wounds.
And his parents said that because the child usually serves as the minister of discipline inspection, he is responsible for managing the mobile phones of his classmates, so he will be looked down upon by some students.
Even that night, the student who hit the boy sent a text message threatening to "let him die".
Such lawless behavior was so arrogant that the four students who beat them were eventually criminally detained by the police.
Some people may say that this is all because boys are prone to conflicts, but in fact, girls in technical schools also can't reassure parents.
In 2016, some netizens broke the news that a female student at a vocational school in Yunnan was violently beaten by female classmates in the dormitory. In the video, the girl wearing a striped half-sleeve was kicked in the abdomen several times by others, and then pulled by her hair, punched and kicked by another person......
It is understood that the four girls involved have just been enrolled in school for about two weeks, but because of the conflict over trivial matters, there was a physical conflict in the dormitory, fortunately the girl was not harmed, and the school and the education department also quickly dealt with it after learning about the relevant situation.
Similar violent incidents have emerged in technical schools, but the most worrying concern for parents of female students is the problem of "causing human lives".
On December 31, 2020, many students in a vocational and technical college in Guangxi reported that there was always an inexplicable rancid smell in the dormitory. A few students thought the dormitory hadn't been cleaned, but they found the body of a baby in a storage box!
Then the school and the police quickly launched an investigation, and it turned out that a female student who enrolled in October last year had sex with her boyfriend without proper protection and became pregnant unexpectedly.
Afraid to tell her parents or the school, she went into hiding and gave birth to the baby in the dormitory, and then abandoned it. It is understood that the girl has been detained afterwards.
Coincidentally, in March 2024, a message suddenly circulated on the Internet, claiming that a couple in a school in Wuhan had dumped their baby in the trash after giving birth at the school.
Subsequently, the head of the school also responded, saying that some of the relevant information was not true.
The girl was a self-examinee who was only studying and taking exams at school and did not live in accommodation, while her boyfriend was a member of the community. At that time, the girl was about to give birth, and suddenly felt a stomachache, and the child was born without waiting to rush to the hospital, and the baby was indeed found in the trash can, but who lost it still needs to wait for the police to investigate.
There are so many shocking cases that really worry parents, but there are many reasons for such chaos in technical schools.
First of all, the enrollment threshold of technical schools is very low, and it is often the last choice of those students with the worst grades, which leads to a general lack of enthusiasm for learning, serious truancy, and basically sleeping in class.
On the other hand, if the child is not admitted to university, but is not old enough to go out to work, parents feel that they should simply let them learn a technology, so that they can find a job in the future, and some even want their children to spend this period before adulthood safely.
Therefore, the requirement for technical schools is only that children do not cause trouble, and it doesn't matter what kind of learning they have. But in this way, the management of the school will be much lax, and the students will basically not be able to "not cause trouble".
Who would have thought that the technical schools that trained thousands of workers in the last century would become like this?
Technical education in mainland China can even be traced back to 1950, when Chairman Mao praised when he inspected the Harbin Vehicle Factory: "It is a good way to train skilled workers in factory-run technical schools." ”
Later, as the country entered an important period of construction and development, technical schools also became part of the national plan, and in less than 10 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China, more than 740 technical schools were established across the country, with as many as 280,000 students.
These people have become the technical backbone of factories and enterprises across the country. This also laid the foundation for the rapid development and popularity of technical schools.
In the eighties and nineties, the number of people who applied for technical schools after the college entrance examination was even higher, because many factory-run technical schools would directly assign jobs to students after graduation, which was a proper "iron rice bowl" at that time. If anyone has a "technician" who works in a factory, it is a matter of pride for all the villages.
However, with the expansion of higher education and the reform of the employment system, technical schools have gradually lost their former aura and moved towards marginalization.
This change is not accidental. With the rapid development of social economy, people's expectations for education continue to increase, and the pursuit of high education has become the mainstream.
At the same time, technical schools have failed to follow up in a timely manner in adapting to market demands and improving the quality of education, resulting in a significant decline in their attractiveness.
For a long time, technical schools were labelled as "concentration camps for poor students". Although the saying that "men do not die and women do not give birth" is biased and discriminatory, it also reflects the minimum expectations of society for the management of students in technical schools. This bias not only affects students' self-perception, but also puts great pressure on the development of technical schools.
Limited by the quality of students and educational resources, the teaching quality of technical schools is generally not high. There is little interaction between teachers and students, and the classroom atmosphere is dull, which makes it difficult to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning.
With the change of the job market, the employment advantage of technical school graduates is no longer obvious. Some students may become unemployed young people directly after graduating from technical schools, which also makes the competitiveness of technical schools decline again.
In the face of the dilemma of vocational education, we need to work together to explore ways to break the situation. I hope that in the future, the technical school can return to its former thriving scene, and I also hope that the children can really learn a real skill to settle down here.
Resources
Bright Net
Jinan Times
Observer.com
Qilu Evening News