With rural teacher subsidies, why can’t rural schools retain teachers?

I have been teaching in rural areas for 15 years, and I would like to share some of my thoughts with you.

Now we all have subsidies for rural teachers, but teachers still leave whenever they have the opportunity. I think there are the following reasons. Please forgive me if there is anything wrong.

1. Too tired. Most students in rural schools go home once a week and basically live on campus at other times. This increases the workload. In addition to preparing lessons and teaching, the class teacher also has to manage students' morning exercises, lunch breaks, evening readings, evening breaks and daily life. I am a teacher of general subjects, and I am scheduled to be on duty once every semester. I feel very tired after one week, let alone being a class teacher.

2. Low status. Nine-year compulsory education is a good thing. I have seen many students whose families are very poor but can still enjoy education. This starting point is very good. But there are advantages and disadvantages. Let me give you an example. A student in the second grade of a certain year often did not study well, fell asleep in class, and drank alcohol at night. Even though the class teacher taught him many times, he still did not repent. Once in class, I was playing cards in class and the subject teacher confiscated them. After that, I had an argument with the teacher. Later, I refused to obey the discipline of the class teacher. I put my schoolbag on my back and left the classroom. I told the class: In a few days, the class teacher will come to my home and invite me to come to school. Then he turned and left. After much persuasion, he returned to school. Excuse me, where is the teacher’s face? ! How can you still teach in this class in the future? !

3. The overall quality of students is low. Really, you can hear swearing at any time; students just pass you by and ignore you. Teaching cannot achieve satisfactory results. The most common thing many teachers say when they come to the office after class is: I am a one-man show again today. If only a few students answer your questions, this kind of teaching effect will not lead to good results. Without results, there will be no sense of accomplishment. Without a sense of accomplishment, where can the happiness come from?

This is my reality here.

I am a grassroots teacher. I graduated from a secondary normal school 20 years ago and was assigned back to the countryside where I was born and raised. I have been teaching ever since. Because the district and county where I teach is a suburban area with no mountains or plateaus, no subsidy has been provided to rural teachers in the past 20 years. In the first few years when I started working, I really regretted coming back. At that time, after we graduated, we were assigned to people with a little connections who could stay in the city and teach. The school is nearly 10 kilometers away from home. I commute to get off work by bicycle every day. Due to the inconvenience of transportation, the road is a standard dirt road. When it rains, the road becomes a cement road, so I can only ride my bicycle. During holidays, teachers have to take turns to be on duty. To buy a pack of instant noodles during lunch time, they have to go to a village one kilometer away from the school to buy it. I remember that at that time, I would occasionally get together with my classmates from the normal school, and everyone would talk about the work unit and what we would receive during the holidays. I would just listen to it, because apart from the basic salary and no other benefits, we rarely discussed such topics with everyone. What is gratifying is that with the acceleration of urbanization, the place where I am has now become a new urban area. Today's conditions are getting better and better, and teachers' salary levels are now on par with their counterparts in the old city.

Having experience in rural work, let’s now look at the main question. I think the salary of rural teachers should be doubled first. A subsidy of only a few hundred yuan a month is indeed not very attractive to people. That's because a survey report from a domestic recruitment website shows that the average monthly salary expectation of domestic fresh graduates is around 8,000 yuan. In an environment where talent flows and areas with difficult living conditions want to attract outstanding talents, they must not offer lower salaries than those in developed areas, but must offer higher salaries. This is also the experience of developing rural education in Japan and the United States. Teachers who go to work in rural areas are paid better than those in urban areas.

Secondly, the living environment of rural teachers should be improved. In the past, when promoting the most beautiful rural teachers, too much emphasis was placed on rural teachers' selfless dedication, hard work, regardless of remuneration, etc. Their spirit is indeed commendable. However, these publicity cannot retain outstanding talents. On the contrary, it gives people an image that rural teachers are "hard". It is recommended to consider building affordable housing for rural teachers near their workplaces to provide supporting solutions to life security issues that teachers are concerned about, such as medical care, children's education, and elderly care.

Instead of a teacher who has been teaching in rural areas for 30 years, just a certificate of honor as a rural teacher gives people empty joy and no real benefits at all. Continuously improve the treatment of rural teachers in all aspects, truly make the profession of rural teachers attractive, and truly reflect the sense of professional honor of rural teachers.

I am a rural school teacher in the outer suburbs of Lanzhou City. There has never been a rural teacher subsidy. In 2003, our school established an independent high school with about 140 faculty members and about 1,400 students. Now fifteen years have passed. The number of students has dropped sharply to more than 700, and the number of teachers is about 80. The average age of teachers in the school is 47 years old. This is thanks to the five or six new young people who came last year to lower the average age.

Many young people are trying to find a way to go to the city. Why?

First, the quality of students in rural schools is getting worse and worse. No matter how hard teachers work, they cannot achieve good results and have no sense of professional fulfillment. It is difficult for young people to improve their teaching level and obtain teaching honors, which affects their evaluation. Job title affects income.

Second, the living conditions are not good. Young people from other places live in dormitories and cook their own meals. Many of them don’t know how to cook. There are no TVs or Internet access in the dormitories. Life is very inconvenient, which is ugly to say. It's hard to find a partner.

Third, there is no guarantee for the future. With fewer and fewer students, many rural schools are facing dissolution and mergers. Young people have to change schools, which has a great impact and they can only leave as soon as possible.

The above opinions are personal opinions and friends are welcome to exchange them.

I have been teaching in rural areas for 31 years, and I am still teaching on the front line in rural areas. It is estimated that I will retire like this. I would like to share some of my thoughts with you.

In fact, rural teachers in many places do not have rural teacher subsidies for the time being. We are lucky and we are relatively lucky. Nowadays, rural teachers who have been in school for five years are provided with rural teacher subsidies. However, young teachers still have to leave as soon as they have the opportunity. They try their best to go to the county seat and rely on the county seat. This semester, there are two more colleagues. Find a way to enter the county seat. Analyzing the reasons, I think the main points are as follows:

Rural teachers are too tired. Most students in rural schools go home once a week and basically live on campus at other times. This increases the workload of teachers. Not only do they have to prepare lessons and teach, but the class teacher also has to manage students' morning exercises, lunch break, evening reading, evening break and three meals in daily life - carefully calculated, some places simply call it "eight presence", the class teacher must be present, and there are administrative Check and register on duty. I am a teacher of general subjects. The school arranges for self-study after get off work twice a week. I feel very tired on this day of the week, let alone the head teacher.

Rural teachers have a low status. Nine-year compulsory education is essentially good. I have seen many students whose families are in a very poor financial situation but can still enjoy education. This starting point is very good. But there are advantages and disadvantages.

Let me give you an example. Many years ago, a student in the eighth grade often did not study hard, slept in class, led a group of people to hide in the toilet, smoke, play cards and gamble in the dormitory... The class teacher taught him many times and still refused to repent. Once I was reading a romance novel in English class, but it was confiscated by my subject teacher and I had a quarrel with the teacher. Later, he refused to obey the discipline of the class teacher and immediately put on his schoolbag and went home. The head teacher was so anxious that he immediately stopped him. If you really want to leave, drive him home. He privately told some people in the class: In a few days, the head teacher will come to my home and invite me to come to school.

The student returned to school after many attempts to persuade him. Excuse me, where is the teacher’s face? ! How can you still teach in this class in the future? ! But now this phenomenon is much better - a few students leave privately, and they don't come to the door to "beg" them to come to school. Occasionally, on the premise of not violating the policy, they will persuade someone who is too bad to leave. Students - either ask their parents to take them home for education and reflection for a period of time; or they may persuade their parents to find ways to change their children's environment, that is, to "transfer" their children.

Rural schools have poor student resources. It is true that the overall quality of rural students is generally low, and you can really hear swear words at any time; some students pass you by, but ignore your existence, and sometimes they even tease you.

This is only second, the most important thing is that they also treat the classroom as a playground - but the schools I have been to are not bad, and most of the students are polite after education.

The most important thing is that teaching often fails to achieve satisfactory results. I often say one or two words to myself unconsciously on the way back to the office after class (which is probably what many teachers say or think most often after class). (sentence): Today I am performing a one-man show again. This kind of class has little effect and is in vain.

Only a few students will answer your questions. This kind of teaching effect will not lead to good results. Without results, there will be no sense of accomplishment. Without a sense of accomplishment, where can the happiness come from? Sometimes I feel relieved that I don’t take grades very seriously. Even if the school evaluates models and excellence based solely on teaching performance, it still implements a “one-vote veto”: if the teaching grade does not reach B level or above, no outstanding (model) teacher can be evaluated. The German pacesetter is also out of luck.

Therefore, we also value the quality of students, especially their ideological and moral character, but this all depends on family education, especially tutoring since childhood - after all, parents are their first teachers. My acquired efforts can only be done to the best of my ability.

The current situation in rural schools is obvious to all: better teachers are trying to find ways to move to the county towns, and good students are also moving to the counties.

The living conditions in rural areas are not very good. Young people from other places live in dormitories and cook their own meals. Many of them cannot cook. There are no TVs or Internet access in the dormitories. Life is very inconvenient. To put it bluntly, it is difficult to find a partner.

Most of these young workers who have just joined the labor force also serve as class teachers. They usually have many things to do and are often too busy to prepare meals. Fortunately, many rural school leaders have also realized this. Central primary schools and township junior high schools have generally made great improvements. First, ensure that they eat enough, and then pay attention to eating well.

The future is not guaranteed. With fewer and fewer students, many rural schools are facing withdrawal and mergers. Young people have to change schools, which has a great impact and they have no choice but to leave as soon as possible. This situation is more obvious in some small villages. I once went to several small villages in a certain township to find out. Some village directors, village party secretaries (or relatives) stretched their hands too wide. In their eyes, the village primary school belongs to his family. No one dares to say "no" to any classroom where he wants to pile up debris. Do you still want to teach here? The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the principals of central primary schools are generally beyond their reach and are at their mercy.

Most of the above are the actual situation of rural schools in many places. If we want to change this situation, I think we should first double or triple the salary of rural teachers. A subsidy of only a few hundred yuan a month is indeed not very attractive to people.

Teachers in remote mountainous areas like our county also receive car subsidies, also called "transportation subsidies." This is also a discount. Generally, local teachers, especially those of a certain age, often don’t want to leave, and unintentionally get a few more salary levels.

The current professional titles are also tilted towards rural teachers: many teachers who have always had no hope at the senior level have experienced salary increases due to this. Regardless of whether you have a senior teacher qualification certificate or not, if you teach in rural areas for 30 years, you can be automatically promoted to a senior professional title - you will only get a senior seventh-level salary, but no formal appointment certificate; and once you leave a rural school, such a senior teacher The benefits were also terminated.

In rural schools with difficult living conditions, in order to attract outstanding talents, they must not offer lower salaries than those in developed areas, but must offer higher salaries. This is also the experience of developing rural education in Japan and the United States. Teachers who go to work in rural areas are paid higher than those in urban areas. Only by paying much higher wages can we retain good rural teachers and be willing to stay in rural areas for a long time, even for a lifetime, without any regrets.

Many people are excited when they see the news that teachers, especially rural teachers, will receive a salary increase, saying that a large number of urban teachers will return to the countryside. I really don’t know how much people can be retained even if the subsidy of 200 yuan after deducting the round-trip fare is not enough. But recently I have deeply felt that I want to leave.

Wednesday this week is my mother-in-law’s birthday. I was speechless when I saw the whole family calling for family reunions, especially when I saw my cousins ??who were studying in other places came back specially. information. The psychology is even more sour.

People in rural areas who are more than 30 miles away from the city cannot get home if it takes 30 minutes to get home by car. Others can’t get home if it takes half a day by train. As a rural teacher, I never show filial piety. I cannot hand over money or help when things happen. I will spend my whole life as a rural teacher doing nothing. What is the reason to persist?

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Teaching in rural areas, the biggest feeling is loneliness. It seems that I am only 30 or even 20 miles away from home, but due to work restrictions, I have to take care of the class almost around the clock from 5 am to 10 pm (the head teacher has strict requirements). Usually I am mostly isolated from social activities at home. Everyone understands that I am working in the countryside and cannot come back. But once or twice is understandable, but the relationship will naturally become distant after more times.

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This is true for relatives, let alone friends. If you don't come to the social gatherings between friends, they will slowly be forgotten. What slowly passes away is not only the feelings, but also all kinds of latest information. Slowly becoming an island. I have a good friend who works in urban construction, and we could chat with him every time we met. Now when we meet, it's getting a little awkward and we don't know what to say. In fact, behind the appearance is that after working in the countryside, it gradually loses its use value. Can a rural subsidy of 200 yuan solve the problem?

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Some people interpret the relationship between people as mutual use. This is too biased, but after careful analysis, you will find that even if they are relatives, except for In addition to family ties, it is better to take advantage of high-value popularity, no matter how bad his temper is. As a rural teacher, no matter how much the salary is, it is still the salary on the salary schedule. Based on the actual punch-in salary, the difference between the two standards is thousands of yuan. Rural areas still lack some welfare subsidies, and there are few part-time opportunities. The 200 yuan rural subsidy cannot fill this hole. He was directly raped for money.

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Not to mention interpersonal relationships. Many female teachers in rural areas have a problem finding a spouse because of the closed circle, let alone having any interpersonal relationships. In addition, the rural areas themselves are backward and isolated, and the problem becomes even more acute. Even more so in terms of personal connections.

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In fact, I feel that the most serious problem is the education of children. It is difficult for people who have not experienced it to imagine how difficult intergenerational migration is. I only learned from my parents how much it cost their generation to move from rural areas to urban areas and take root. The most critical factor is knowledge and academic qualifications. Although many people say that academic qualifications are devalued, it is still the biggest shortcut to changing your destiny. However, the work of rural teachers is likely to cause big problems in the education of the next generation of teachers’ children.

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I don’t know if anyone has seen the learning status of rural students from elementary school to junior high school to high school. Boring study has worn away their interest in learning. Intergenerational education makes them lose self-restraint. It is undeniable that rural education has gone downhill, and it is plummeting. Today, only one-fifth of students in a school can go to high school. In this environment, it is difficult for children of teachers to go to high school. Therefore, some rural teachers still have to leave for the education of the next generation.

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Some people may say that I discriminate against rural education. I want to say that as a front-line worker, I just speak out the reality I see. Many powerful policies ultimately lack strong implementation. Almost every teacher has received the 200 rural subsidy directly, but did you know that it took three years for a teacher’s 30-year honorary certificate to reach the hands of teachers? Rural teachers don’t have to wait for anything. Those under 30 years old can jump out of the countryside as soon as possible through postgraduate entrance examinations, civil service examinations, etc. The past work can be regarded as giving back to the countryside. If you work hard to jump out, you can look forward to the future. If you just wait blindly, the result will only be a bleak future, and you will ruin yourself and your children.

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1. Rural schools are generally small in size, have a large number of students, and have poor school life and accommodation conditions. Some people born in the 1990s and 2000s couldn’t bear the hardship and either gave up or were transferred.

2. The teaching and research atmosphere in rural schools is poor. New teachers do not receive learning and guidance, their personal professional growth is slow, and they see no future.

3. Many special posts and recruited teachers come from places with good conditions. The schools are often too far from home, making travel inconvenient. I can’t take root in a foreign country.

4. Rural school life is monotonous, with few people to know and interact with, and many young male and female teachers of the right age have difficulty finding a partner. forcing them to leave.

5. If you have family connections, use the countryside as a springboard. After working for one or two years, you will naturally be able to transfer to a place with better conditions. There are also young teachers who took civil service examinations and career exams and left.

In short, rural schools cannot retain teachers, and the source of students is getting smaller and smaller. Many village schools and teaching centers have disappeared, and we hope to attract the attention of the government.

With rural teacher subsidies, why can’t rural schools retain teachers? This question is just a casual talk. Aren’t there students still going to school in every rural area? There are people attending classes every day. It’s just a matter of willingness or unwillingness. In the past, graduates were assigned jobs, either in big cities or not. Aren’t there people who go to the poor mountains and ravines? There is nothing we can do about this. Children in poor rural areas also need to learn. The country knows this. It is enough to provide rural teachers with more hardships. If it is not enough, they will give more subsidies. If it is not possible, more subsidies will be added. The teachers themselves have made comparisons from all sides and believe that going to the countryside to be a teacher is not as good as Teaching in the city is bad. There are also teacher evaluation titles. Teachers in rural areas are automatically promoted to senior professional titles after 25 years. Those who have worked in rural areas for more than 30 years are given a one-time subsidy when they retire. After their death, I, like civil servants, receive 40 Monthly salary, and other methods can be used by the state. There are many ways to do it. Now that rural teachers have received additional subsidies, they are still unable to retain them. That’s because it has not yet been implemented. Through comparisons in various aspects, urban areas are still better than rural areas. One day, rural teachers will indeed be paid particularly high. People So I tried to become a rural teacher. Ha ha! ! !

From many years of experience in rural school education and my understanding and analysis of the current situation of rural schools, I believe that one of the main reasons why rural schools cannot retain teachers is still the issue of student sources, which has to do with teacher salaries or rural teacher subsidies. The question doesn't matter much.

Judging from the current subsidy standards, rural teachers in our area receive 500 yuan more in rural subsidies per month than teachers in county towns. This number should also be somewhat attractive compared to the salary of primary and secondary school teachers.

The implementation of rural teacher subsidies has only happened in the past five years. However, it has become a common phenomenon more than 10 years ago that many teachers and students in rural schools have been expelled and annexed.

In 1990, when I first graduated and entered the school teaching in this township, there were 7 administrative villages under the jurisdiction of the township, and every village had its own small school, and each administrative village had at least 3 or 4 Area teaching point. Counting this way, there are nearly 30 primary schools and teaching points in the township alone. However, by around 2000, in addition to one township primary school, there were only five village primary schools left, not a single teaching site in the area was left, and several village primary schools were also withdrawn.

Let’s talk about junior high schools. There were originally three junior high schools in our township. One was merged in 2000, and another in 2008. In 2017, the only junior high school in the township merged with a junior high school in another town. Going to a new campus is actually equivalent to the fact that there is no junior high school in the township. The original township junior high school is now being renovated into a township primary school and is under construction.

Now back to the question: Why can’t teachers be retained despite generous rural teacher subsidies?

I believe everyone has some understanding of the reasons:

1. The number of school-age children showed a linear decreasing trend at that time;

2. A large number of migrant workers went to cities to work, and their children went to cities with their parents to study;

3. A large number of rural children came to to county schools;

4. Loss of students and teachers forced to transfer;

5. Impact of the policy of concentrating educational resources on running schools;

6. Improvement of teacher quality , on the one hand, the supply of fresh blood cannot keep up, on the other hand, a large number of rural teachers retire due to age.

It is precisely the above reasons that have led to the serious loss of former rural teachers.

Let me also talk about my situation. I started working as an ordinary English teacher in 2001. As soon as I graduated, I was assigned to a middle school in a small town more than 100 kilometers away from home ( (My home is near the county seat). The road conditions are not very good. It takes about two and a half hours to drive home. I haven’t moved home in 18 years. Life in a small town is still convenient. I have been a senior teacher for two years now. We have a policy of caring for rural teachers in the evaluation of professional titles. Basically, they can be evaluated as soon as they reach the age of teaching. The salary has always been not ideal. It only took five or six years for the salary to increase significantly. In the first two years, When the county's finances are good, the check-in salary is almost 8,000, plus the 1,050 rural subsidy, the salary is about 9,000 per year. At the end of the year, there are thirteen months of salary, but it is the basic salary. The provident fund is 1,150 per month, no. It won't be used to buy a house. The local house price is less than 4,000. The old men and women with senior professional titles who have retired in the past two years have a pension of about 7,500. My wife and I are both teachers in a school. In a small county in the 18th tier, this kind of income should be said to be pretty good. Except for a few young people who have just started working in the school (special post teachers punch in 3800 per month), every family Every household has a car, ranging from just over 100,000 yuan to 150,000 yuan in general. There are also a few families in good condition with more than 200,000 yuan. The best ones are a GLC and a Prado. There are houses in the city, and of course most of them We all have mortgages, but then the county finances ran into problems, and the check-in salary also shrank a bit. Now the monthly check-in salary is 6,000 to 1,050, and the couple has lost 40,000 to 50,000 yuan in a year! Although I feel unhappy, what can I do? Compared with the income of colleagues in Shandong, Henan, and Anhui that I know, our income here is not bad. The education in rural schools is just like that. Although the income of teachers varies widely, it should be said that rural education across China is facing similar problems, such as the shortage of students, parents not paying attention to education, and poor learning atmosphere. But Compared with colleagues in the city, work is easier. Having said that, there are gains and losses. Teachers in the countryside also have troubles. I think there are three main aspects. One is the education of children. The education and learning atmosphere in the countryside is not good. Don't worry when you go back to the city. Old men and women can only be responsible for transportation and food. They can't teach more, and they may develop some bad habits. Besides, it's not good for the children to be away all the time. The other is medical issues. The medical conditions in rural areas are not good, and many problems cannot be solved. You have to take leave and go to a big hospital in the city