The author | Dust
Edited | Kress
In 2019, the United States had the largest admissions fraud case in history, involving 50 high-class people, including Emmy Award-winning actress Felicity Hoffman, a well-known actress who starred in "Desperate Housewives", famous fashion designers and business executives, and many other wealthy parents, who successfully entered Yale University, Stanford University, Georgetown University and other first-class universities through bribery and fraud.
In 2014, there was fraud in the Asian region of the "American College Entrance Examination" SAT test, and all the results of the examinees involved in the case were invalidated, involving dozens of off-campus training institutions, who created cheating opportunities for speculative test takers and parents.
In this year's college entrance examination, a candidate in Huangpi District of Wuhan City was found cheating on the exam, and he mixed his mobile phone into the examination room, took questions during the exam, and sent them to a training institution for answers.
Such behavior is repeatedly prohibited, occurring in all corners of the world. Those who participate in the inner volume of education have their own tricks. Just like the theater effect, some people don't follow the rules and stand up, and then everyone has to follow suit, and the environment deteriorates.
The essence of "double subtraction" is to press the pause button for these blindfolded rushes, and finally realize the fairness of educational resources by weakening the coercion of capital on education. In the midst of the changes, parents have their own thoughts, some people are worried, some people are lying flat.
After all, the effectiveness of this mighty educational revolution will take years to be seen. Everyone can only make the best choice for the moment.
Here's what they said:
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Jiani Nantong parents 35 years old
"Chicken", the child is bitter, not "chicken", may not be able to pass
"National education looks at Jiangsu, and Jiangsu education looks at Nantong." In Nantong, there is such a saying in every household.
Why is Nantong so famous? Because of the "chicken baby", but the most "chicken" is not Nantong City, in fact, it is the following county town, which is basically the same as the model of Hengshui Middle School.
Uncle Ge Junge, who made the candidates of the whole country famous and fearful, is our Nantong people. He is the author of the college entrance examination, but whenever he participates in the propositions of Jiangsu Province, the math volume will be particularly difficult, so he is called "the man who makes Jiangsu examinees most afraid".
Born in Nantong, we are also very helpless, "chicken", children are bitter, not "chicken", may not be able to pass the exam.
My sister's son is an example, all the way "free range", let him grow freely, did not give him a make-up class, the result of this year's middle school examination, rounded to 300 points, high school admission line is more than 700 points, even secondary school can not be good.
In the past, I made a plan early, and after my son went to primary school last year, I enrolled him in several training classes to keep the pace of learning tight.
Source: Stills from "Little Joy"
Every day at 4 p.m., he arrives home at 4:10 p.m., drinks water and eats snacks, goes out at 4:30 p.m. to go to training classes, comes home after class, eats dinner and writes homework, and then reads extracurricular tutoring materials, basically learning until more than 10 p.m. I also signed up for English and Lego classes over the weekend.
Winter and summer vacations are even less relaxed. Nantong's holiday homework is not a one-time arrangement, but a cycle of arrangement, the holiday will be added every few days will add new homework, the teacher every 3 days in the group to collect homework, urge homework, make people nervous.
My son was originally very lively, and there were many small mouths and words, but after going to elementary school, he was obviously silent. At first, he resisted, crying and saying that he wanted to go out to play, but later he felt that he had "confessed his fate", and at the end of the day, he laid out the books and sat up straight.
Recently, the epidemic has been coupled with "double subtraction", and many tutoring institutions in Nantong have been closed, including several institutions where we take classes. My son rarely had time, he ran wildly in the community after school, and this weekend he went to his cousin's house to play all day, letting his cousin play basketball and roller skating. Seeing him have so much fun, I also feel very emotional, this is the state that children should have.
I hope that the "double subtraction" can be completely, if everyone is not "chicken baby", of course, I am not "chicken".
02
Liu Lin Shanghai parent 35 years old
The training institution was gone, and I was in a dilemma
Recently, the whale small class of the foreign teacher platform that I have used for 3 years suddenly collapsed and could not attend classes. I watched the news and learned that it was originally affected by the policy, and the subject training of foreign personnel abroad was stopped.
I originally chose half a day, only to pick the whale small class, it is all North American foreign teachers, self-compiled teaching materials, as well as fixed foreign teachers and school companions, although more than 20,000 a year, but for the sake of children's learning effect, we also recognized.
The policy is coming, the institution wants to stop, I understand, but our problem now is: the institution does not give tuition refunds. Whale's previous class system has now been directly transformed into a class change center, and we can only exchange the remaining courses for public welfare assistance courses of other institutions.
It sounds beautiful, but in fact, there are no courses suitable for my children in the system - either it is an experience class suitable for a small baby, or a large class class in institutions such as Learning and Thinking, Ape Tutoring, etc. Parents who have heard the appointment say that the experience is very poor. At that time, we chose small classes to attend classes, so that the teacher could have enough energy to pay attention to each child, and changed to a large class, which was equivalent to spending this money in vain.
I still have nearly 20,000 yuan left in the course fee, if changing this kind of large class is enough to go to junior high school, the question is how many years can these institutions live?
Parents around me who are in the same situation have begun to find another way. Some people proposed to use ZOOM to continue the original foreign teacher's class, and the teacher provided the meeting number and password on the line, which is considered to be the darkness of the Ming Xiu Zhan Dao Chen Cang. I haven't tried it yet, let's see how they work.
03
Cai Ming, a Beijing parent, is 43 years old
One step forward is the focus of the city, and the next step is the vocational high, I dare not relax
The "double subtraction" policy is coming, and I think it is very good for the babies who go to kindergarten and primary school, after all, it is small and idle. But for my boss, I don't dare to relax.
She is in the second year of junior high school this year, which is a very ordinary school. The child's grade is about 10th in the class, which is considered to be in the upper middle. This achievement seems to us to be very risky: go forward, can go to the focus, retreat backwards, or go to the high school.
My boss is not smart, but well-behaved and diligent, from the beginning of primary school to make up classes until now, xueersi, VIPKID, new oriental training courses have not been interrupted, after the third grade also added the Olympic number. Except for spoken English, which is taught online, the others are all offline classes, which makes time very tight, especially on weekends.
So our family division of labor is clear, on the weekend, the child's mother is responsible for taking the second elder at home, I send the eldest to make up lessons, the elderly are responsible for cooking and buying vegetables, and doing a good job in logistics.
Source: Stills from "Little Shed"
After the "double subtraction", the order of our previous study and life has been disrupted. The foreign teachers were gone, and our VIPKID one-on-one foreign teaching classes were replaced by small classes, and the class time was changed to mid-week.
The Chinese class of learning and thinking, because of the "double reduction" policy, was also changed to mid-week, but my home was too far from the school, I had to drive, at that point I had not left work, and it was impossible for the 70-year-old to take his children to squeeze the subway, only to stop.
Math class is something I dare not be careless about. The class that the child applied for, before the "double reduction" policy landed, did not know what the reason, the institution stopped. Fortunately, the teacher was not bad, and he still lived near my house, so I sent the child directly to his house to make up lessons.
The process is also quite funny. Because of the epidemic, now vehicles into the community have to register, we will park the car in the nearby parking lot, with the child like home to walk in, so that there is no need to register any license plate information and the like, and we are not afraid of being reported. We're not the only ones who do this. When I took my children to class, I met more than once parents and students who had not yet had time to leave, and everyone laughed and laughed at each other and did not speak.
However, according to the current policy, this is also illegal, and to be honest, I have not yet figured out how to deal with it.
But I knew that she had to make up math, not online. During the epidemic, I accompanied her to online classes, and there was no teacher staring at her one-on-one, and I couldn't listen to it at all, and the tuition fee was almost like a donation. Make-up classes in midweek? I think it is not very reliable, the child is very busy in middle school, if you make up classes at night, plus complete school homework, you have to sleep in the middle of the night, obviously unsustainable.
Compared to the nervousness of the boss, we are much more relaxed with the second boss.
The second is now in kindergarten, and he has not reported any class - the eldest has begun to learn English at this time. To say the reason, one is that the energy can not be taken care of, one is really the era is different, and now is the era when everyone has to reduce the burden.
My expectations for the boss are actually not high, that is, I will go to high school no matter what. Many vocational education is not standardized now, and the school spirit is extremely poor.
My sister's child went to secondary school, and the whole person was ruined. Originally graduated from junior high school and was admitted to a five-year vocational school, insisting on getting a college diploma after reading, but the child played games every day, and now look, it is difficult to insist on reading for three years to get a secondary school diploma, and it is estimated that I will go to Foxconn's factory in the future work.
Different academic qualifications determine different starting points in life, no matter how the policy is adjusted, I have to try to support the starting point of my children.
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Qin Lan, a parent in Qingdao, is 33 years old
We wanted to sneak into class on Saturday and were rejected by the teacher
Before "double subtraction", I enrolled my child in an Oral English class.
Not a big institution, is the baby before learning and thinking about teaching English teachers, pure accent, lively teaching methods, word of mouth is particularly good, many parents have named her class, she rented her own house alone, I reported to the child every Saturday morning class.
After the "double subtraction", the weekend did not allow make-up classes, the teacher provided a midweek class schedule, but I was too slow to grab the Friday class.
At other times of the week, my family definitely can't go to class. Because we are studying in a key primary school, the class teacher is very chicken bloody and hardly gives children time for off-campus training. Elementary school regardless of lunch, students are outside the small dining table to eat lunch break, the class teacher can catch up with the small dining table, to the child volunteer to make up an hour of class, every day to leave a lot of homework, my children normally finished homework has been 22 o'clock, and then go to two hours of English class, obviously not feasible.
The parents of our cram school are very familiar with each other, and everyone discussed, or Saturday class, quietly sent the child over, the door closed. If not, find a café for class.
But the teacher is very cautious, especially after the media reported that a child in Inner Mongolia reported the tutoring agency, she was worried that some children who were forced to attend classes would kill the "teacher", and she was afraid that the child would be followed and then reported when she came to class, and rejected the proposal.
I don't have a good idea right now. I am also a Parent of the Buddhist Family, and if everyone didn't secretly learn, I would definitely choose to lie flat.
05
Gu Haitao Shenzhen parents 40 years old
I found the K13 track that escaped the inner volume
For the "double subtraction", I raised my hands and feet in favor, because the K12 track is really rolled up to the extreme, and I did not want my children to participate anymore.
My children have also attended the training class, and I look at it with pain. I'm going to go on the 13th track, not "chicken" kids, "chicken" themselves.
I am ready to apply for the Excellence Scheme in Hong Kong. I have friends who are intermediaries in this area, I can apply for graduate students in Hong Kong, find a unit to associate after graduation, after seven years, you can get Hong Kong identity, in the future, my children can participate in the college entrance examination as a hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan overseas Chinese student, the admission score line is at least more than 200 points lower.
The college entrance examination is a point and a playground, and more than 200 points is the gap between the junior college and 985 and 211.
I've calculated that this is a lot more cost-effective than sending children to make up for it. I live in Shenzhen, it is very convenient to go to school in Hong Kong, and now during the epidemic, I can also take online classes, and the cost is between 300,000 and 500,000. If you report elite one-on-one or learning and thinking and other counseling institutions, this money may not be enough to "chicken" to the college entrance examination.
However, this road needs to be planned in advance, after all, the time span is large, and there may be variables in the middle. This is also my backup plan, if the child is particularly good at learning, this money will be my donation of merit box, if the grade slag, it is also one more road.
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Zhong Qin, a Shanghai parent, is 31 years old
After the "double subtraction", there is no entanglement
My son is in kindergarten this year and elementary school next year. People from my colleagues advised me, "Mathematics and English must be arranged now, and then apply for a kindergarten transition class next summer to learn pinyin, so that we can quickly adapt to the opening of primary school in September." ”
These exhortations make me nervous and tangled.
My son is very naughty, can not sit still at all the master, my husband taught him to write numbers, write a 2, taught a night did not learn, how to write is crooked, to my husband angry: "Dog dogs will be, this child is not a little stupid." ”
The son was also nervous. Since I started to arrest him to study, as long as my husband and I arrive home at night, he is cautious in talking and doing things, afraid that we will test him for what he will not do, and will not be like before, as soon as we open the door, he will pounce on him and ask for a hug.
On the one hand, I was lost, on the other hand, I was also anxious, the children around me were learning this and that from a young age, and I was afraid of losing at the starting line.
I have a colleague, from the age of 3, he signed up for various training classes, children's English, logical thinking, abacus, pinyin, etc., kindergarten for three years, but also desperately to prepare for entering the primary school, after school and holiday time, all stay in the training classroom, later, the child was admitted to a primary school in Pudong that is known for chicken blood, and the second grade wore glasses.
I don't really want my kids to live like this. After all, 4-6 years old is the most lively and active time for children, hard to close the child in the classroom, somewhat inhumane, but everything is afraid of contrast, people around are "chicken", I am easy to fall into anxiety, afraid that I have delayed the child's early education.
In a way, policy saved me. Anyway, the outside institutions are also closed, and the primary school also stipulates that all courses must be taught from scratch, and there is no need for the kindergarten to start "chicken".
I began to feel at ease and let my son enjoy his childhood.