What’s wrong with full-time private schools?

No. 9 Huanhua North Road, Chengdu. This is a quiet residential area. The buildings are not high, but you can often hear the sound of schoolchildren reciting the classics of Confucius and Mencius. The oldest among them is 12 years old and the youngest is 3 years old. The Analects of Confucius, Mencius, the Bible, Shakespeare's Collected Works and other Chinese and foreign classics are the main contents of their study. What’s even more amazing is that every child here seems to be able to recite several passages from ancient classics. The children sat in front of the long bench, holding "The Analects of Confucius" and reading loudly, while the teacher stood aside and occasionally gave guidance. A 3-year-old child can even recite "The Analects of Confucius" backwards without reading. As long as children can recite 200,000 words of ancient classics, their Chinese proficiency will be passed. During recess, the five children were playing games in the room, and the 12-year-old eldest brother showed great care to his younger siblings.

English is also a compulsory course for children. The teachers are graduate students from major universities, as well as foreign teachers. Three days a week, the foreign teacher will play games with the children and teach them to write short stories in English. What is amazing is that children who have only been here for a few weeks can understand the daily spoken English of foreign teachers. A 7-year-old girl even held out a Bible and recited it in fluent English. The current fee for this private school is about more than 2,000 yuan per month. Art courses such as painting, calligraphy, and piano are also charged separately. The annual fee may exceed 30,000 yuan.

Purpose of running a full-time private school

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1. To provide students with a happy and healthy learning and growth environment. Private schools do not take the college entrance examination as the goal, nor do they take the examination as the guideline. Private schools are also different from traditional Chinese studies schools. The private school is guided by Western educational concepts, attaches great importance to sports and physical fitness, emphasizes students' independent personality, emphasizes doubt and analysis, emphasizes practice, respects students' natural nature, and cultivates students' confident and optimistic personality.

2. In private schools, Chinese, English, vocal music, painting and other courses are available. Most of the teachers are professors or graduate students from major universities, and there are even many calligraphers and painters. There are currently no mathematics courses. It is very easy to find a mathematics teacher, but I want to find a good foreign teacher to teach children mathematics. He doesn't teach children how to solve problems, he only inspires their thinking. Start thinking about China’s traditional education model. At first, he experimented on his own children and taught his daughter Chinese studies and English at home. Later, friends around him gradually sent their children to his door. For this reason, a family-style private school was formed.

3. The parents who send their children here are wealthy people who do not want their children to be bound by the traditional education system and want to send their children abroad in the future. There is also a category of children who have been "kicked out" by school. Some children can only score 30 points in school and are not liked by teachers. Some textbooks for primary and secondary school students. In fact, children in private schools will also learn traditional textbooks, but they will not spend one semester, but one month. Mr. Xia said that in his private school, children need to recite a large number of ancient classics. After the children can memorize the classics, the teacher will teach the children to understand and interpret them. They only spend one month each semester studying traditional textbooks, and most of the textbooks are also used as extracurricular books for children. For a child with a very strong classical humanities literacy, traditional textbooks are simply too simple.

Official attitude of full-time private schools

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Education Department of Full-time Private Schools

The education department is suspected of running schools in violation of regulations. The Chengdu Municipal Education Bureau expressed strong opposition to Mr. Xia’s private school. The relevant person in charge of the Regulations Department of the Municipal Education Bureau said that the current education methods of Mr. Xia's private school violate the provisions of China's "Compulsory Education Law" and the current form is illegal. According to the "Compulsory Education Law", all children over the age of 6 must receive compulsory education. Private primary and secondary schools enrolling students in the compulsory education stage must also meet government requirements in terms of funding, school hardware, teacher software, and number of students. The person in charge said that Mr. Xia’s private school was suspected of running a school in violation of regulations and should be stopped.

Full-time private schools and parents

Some school principals and teachers believe that such private schools are closed in the family environment and cannot learn much patriotic education content, nor can they guarantee Activities such as student military training, and more importantly, many of the abilities that children need to develop in school such as independence and getting along with others will be missing, which is extremely detrimental to the growth of children.

Opinions from all sides on full-time private schools

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Attitudes of parents in full-time private schools

It is too risky for parents to choose this model. Ban, Mr. Xia believes that the essence of education is to impart knowledge to students. As long as what the children learn can meet their future needs, there will be no problem. He even strongly expressed that after studying, it would not be a problem for children in private schools to participate in exam-oriented education. At the same time, parents’ attitudes are also different. A parent whose children study in this private school told reporters that they all sent their children voluntarily. The most important thing is that these children find fun in learning. He believes that this private school does not violate the country's compulsory education policy because the content taught to students fully meets the requirements of compulsory education. Some parents also said that this private school is just a way of home learning or home education and should not be framed by the relevant regulations on "social forces running schools". But at the same time, some parents believe that this kind of private school cannot determine the future effects and impact on children. After all, at present, education in China still has to follow the traditional education model. It is too risky for parents to choose this model.

The future of full-time private schools

How far can full-time private schools go? "Meng Mu Tang" has been quietly opened in Shanghai for nearly a year. Its experimental teaching method of completely replacing primary school education with private school education has aroused strong controversy among all parties in society. On the one hand, many parents called Zaobao to ask how to register; on the other hand, the education authorities yesterday gave a red light to "Meng Mu Tang". Chen Jian, chief of the general education section of the Minhang District Education Bureau, said that if it is found that the school is operating in violation of regulations, it will be dealt with according to regulations. The Meng Mu Tang-style private school teaching method is a way for some like-minded parents to educate their children. The expenses are shared equally among the parents, and the teacher's salary is paid by the parents according to the current market rate for teachers in general schools. If we look at the requirement that "private primary and secondary schools enrolling students in the compulsory education stage must meet government regulations in all aspects such as funding, school building hardware, teaching staff, and number of students," then of course "Meng Mu Tang" does not have the compulsory capacity to provide education to school-age students. Educational Qualifications. However, the innovative education method "Meng Mu Tang" has aroused strong interest among parents. Obviously, "Meng Mu Tang" has its successes.

China’s current teaching model, which focuses on exam-oriented education, once caused social criticism. The curriculum of "Meng Mu Tang" better highlights the strengthening of students' individuality, and the cultivation of students' overall quality is not necessarily worse than that of formal education institutions. Although according to relevant laws and regulations, there is a big gap between "Meng Mu Tang" and formal educational institutions, as long as "Meng Mu Tang" can ensure the personal safety of students and improve the overall quality of students, we should allow its existence and encourage its development. The purpose of education is to improve people's overall quality. Hardware is just a symbol, and comprehensive improvement of people's comprehensive quality is fundamental.