Chuanguan News Reporter Yuan Chenglin Text/Photo
"There are many ways to pass basketball, such as chest passing, hitting the ground passing, low-handed passing, one-handed shoulder passing, etc., the most commonly used is chest passing..." On Saturday, October 30, on the playground of Xinhong Central School in Xuanhan County, a group of students were conducting basketball passing training under the organization of teachers, and laughter came from time to time.
Teachers at Xinhong Central School play basketball with left-behind students
On weekends, the campus, which was supposed to be silent by pressing the "pause button", is still running almost as usual. The 36 left-behind children of Xinhong Central School in Xuanhan County continued to stay in school on weekends and holidays, and the school sent special teachers to take turns to tutor and carry out physical exercise, interest cultivation, homework counseling, character education, etc., to give left-behind children a second home.
Left-behind children still board boarding schools on weekend holidays, as are two other nine-year schools in Xuanhan County, Qingxi Hongwen School and Shuanghe School.
Left-behind students at Xinhong Central School are reading
As a major labor export county with 27,500 left-behind children, the Xuanhan County Party Committee and County Government have long regarded caring for left-behind children as an important task. Since the beginning of this year, the Xuanhan County Working Committee for Caring for the Next Generation (hereinafter referred to as the "Customs Work Committee") has taken the lead and joined hands with the County Civil Affairs Bureau, the Education and Science Bureau, the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, the Youth League County Committee and other departments to explore and carry out the pilot project of "Left-behind Children's Weekend Holiday Boarding School" in the above three schools, care for left-behind children, and strive to solve a series of social problems.
Teachers at Xinhong Central School help left-behind students with their homework
Weekend holidays "unsused"
The school sends teachers to tutor the left-behind students
"In addition to basketball, we also organize volleyball, badminton, table tennis, tug-of-war, chess and other activities." Yao Pihua, a teacher at Xinhong Central School, is a chemistry teacher and a sports and chess enthusiast, and homework tutoring, physical exercise and fun activities are the subjects he focuses on tutoring at school on weekends.
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Unlike the daily classes, the tutoring on weekends is rich and varied. Yao Pihua took out a "Schedule of Weekend Boarding Students' Schedule and Counseling Courses", including reading classics, physical exercise, chess, music, watching news or patriotic films and television, homework tutoring, extracurricular reading, labor social practice, mental health education and other contents, "cultivating students' interests and hobbies, so that left-behind children can develop in an all-round way." ”
"A total of 10 teachers were arranged, divided into two groups in primary school and junior high school, two teachers in four and a half days on weekends, and one teacher in the evening, taking turns to tutor the school." Pang Xiaomei, principal of Xinhong Central School, said that left-behind children are prone to inferiority and introversion, and "self-confidence education" is the focus of the school, through a variety of activities and psychological counseling, so that children can speak boldly and have a cheerful personality.
Qingxi Hongwen School left-behind students in the movement
Focusing on the goal of Lide Tree, combined with the actual development of tutoring courses, is a common feature of the three pilot schools.
At about 13:00 on the 30th, the reporter walked into the Qingxi Hongwen School, where the left-behind students were watching a movie in a public classroom, and in another classroom next door, many students were writing homework.
Founded in 1923 by revolutionary Wang Weizhou, Qingxi Hongwen School has a glorious and long revolutionary history and culture. "Morning culture class tutoring, afternoon interest cultivation." Zhang Xiaohua, principal of Qingxi Hongwen School, introduced that special attention is paid to cultivating the interests and hobbies of left-behind students, such as badminton, basketball and football. Relying on rich red resources, the school often organizes students to carry out party history study and education, so that every left-behind child can tell several red stories.
In addition, Qingxi Hongwen School organizes left-behind children to carry out large-scale collective activities in a timely manner, such as celebrating the birthday of left-behind students who celebrate their birthdays in the middle of each month; organizing students to wrap rice dumplings together during the Dragon Boat Festival; and organizing spring excursions to Beacon Hill Forest Park and climbing the Ten Thousand Steps Ladder. Zhang Xiaohua revealed that it is planned to organize an autumn tour in November, a collective picnic, "so that students can make a meal by themselves." ”
Qingxi Hongwen School "Children's Companion Home Class Group"
Improving the life capacity of left-behind children is also the focus of this pilot. Zhang Zongzhao, head of the Xuanhan County Customs Work Committee, introduced that the three schools are equipped with 1-2 "child companion mothers", which are public welfare posts provided by the county civil affairs department, teaching children to wash clothes, cleaning, and assisting young children to bathe and wash.
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The pilot of weekend holiday boarding schools for left-behind children stems from real-world difficulties. Some of the grandparents of left-behind children have passed away or are unable to take care of them due to their advanced age, and the study, life and safety of left-behind children are the most worrying things for migrant parents.
"Wang Ke (pseudonym), an eighth-grade student, lives with his aunt due to family changes, and his home is more than 10 kilometers away from the school, and it is difficult to go home on weekends." Zhang Xiaohua gave an example, and what worried him even more was the student's mental health problems, "I continued to pay attention to him for two semesters on weekend boarding, and my personality was much more cheerful.
"Some students come home on weekends to play mobile phones, addicted to games, have poor self-control, and their homework cannot be completed on time." During the interview, many teachers confessed their previous situation and shook their heads repeatedly.
Students of Qingxi Hongwen School watched the film intensively
Since the introduction of weekend holiday boarding, positive changes have emerged. Wang Jiang, a ninth-grade student at Qingxi Hongwen School, said that he could not wash clothes before, often played with mobile phones, wasted a lot of time, and after weekend boarding, there were teachers supervising, tutoring, and with classmates, all aspects have improved.
Wang Jieli, a ninth-grade student at Xinhong Central School, has made outstanding progress in his grades by leaps and bounds. After Wang Reili transferred from the county private boarding school to the Xinhong Central School, his score increased from more than 430 points to more than 620 points. "The teacher helped a lot with homework on the weekend." Wang Grain Pear said.
Weekend holiday boarding brings changes to left-behind students and reassures parents. Pang Xiaomei told reporters that once a mother chose to work in school in order to take care of her children, and after starting to implement weekend holiday boarding, the mother went to work outside the province, "The school salary is low, and weekend holiday boarding has eliminated her worries, and she has gone to work outside with confidence." ”
In the weekend holiday boarding schools, all three schools have built a "Child Companion Home Class Group", and the tutor and the "Child Companion Mother" regularly share the student counseling curriculum arrangement plan and student activity photos to let parents grasp the situation of their children. Every Saturday night, the school schedules an hour of affectionate time for students to video chat with their parents.
For schools, they also benefit. Pang Xiaomei said frankly that the school is located in Pujiang Street, less than 10 kilometers away from the county seat, and the family has good conditions to choose to study in the city, facing the severe situation of student loss. "Implemented a pilot boarding school for left-behind weekend holidays, and 4 foreign students were transferred this semester." This allowed Pang Xiaomei to see the hope of consolidating the source of students.
Zhang Xiaohua also has a similar experience, Qingxi Hongwen School has more than 10 students transferred this semester, including from the county seat. The principal of Sanhe School said that the weekend holiday boarding attracted students from other townships such as Basho, Hujia, Qingyun and Xiaba to study at the school, and even the parents of a student in Kaijiang County also came to send their children.
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During the visit, the reporter learned that the number of left-behind students in the three pilot schools is increasing. "At first, we did the mapping, there were only about 10 students, and then it grew to 36." Pang Xiaomei said. Zhang Xiaohua also told reporters that the weekend holiday boarding students that the school can accommodate under the current conditions are almost saturated, and many students are still applying.
In terms of the source of teachers, the three schools encourage teachers to join the weekend holiday trusteeship, give certain financial subsidies, and give preference to those who have outstanding achievements in this work, in the evaluation of the first, the evaluation of professional titles and the upward recommendation and commendation, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of teachers.
Students at Qingxi Hongwen School wrote their homework, and the "child companion mother" stood by
Yao Pihua admitted that he usually has no special hobbies, staying at home on weekends, watching TV or playing chess, "coming to school, not only accompanying students, but also accompanying students." ”
Looking at the cost, a number of local teachers introduced that to study in a private boarding school in the county, the tuition fee is more than 7,000 to 8,000 yuan per semester, which does not include other costs, and in the pilot school, only need to give more than 1,000 yuan for meals a semester, which greatly reduces the burden on families. Other parents who are caring for their children at home can also free up their hands to go out to work and earn money.
"To establish a left-behind children's weekend holiday boarding school, the first thing to use is the school's existing school buildings, venues, equipment and teacher advantages, on this basis to improve a certain infrastructure, make full use of and give full play to the school's teachers, hardware facilities and other resources." Judging from the pilot situation, in general, each school is only about 30,000 yuan, and it is a one-time investment and has been used for many years. The appropriate subsidies involved for tutoring and accompanying teachers are estimated and the results of the practice of the three pilot schools are about 40,000 yuan per school year. Zhang Zongzhao said that with smaller inputs, what has been obtained is the healthy growth of left-behind children, the relief of the worries of migrant workers, the stability of the source of students in rural schools, the full use of rural education resources, and the alleviation of the tightening of urban educational resources.