Repeated speculation about Hengshui’s advice education or harvesting flow?
The annual "College Entrance Examination" is about to begin again. This is one of the few major events that can make waves in the hearts of three generations at a fixed time every year. Although the process of examination, volunteering and admission is only a few months, it is the ups and downs of countless families for nearly 20 years.
At this time, Hengshui Middle School and Maotanchang Middle School, as the well-known "cow schools" in the national college entrance examination, will be put in the spotlight for people to comment, stir up a meal and have a good time. Just as holiday TV stations will broadcast hit dramas such as Princess Huanzhu and The Journey to the West on time.
"Hengshui opens a branch school nationwide", "Hengshui collects a lot of training fees", "Maotan Factory, a college entrance examination processing factory" and "Maotan Factory earns millions of parents to accompany them" … … Although the title is hot, the content is actually old-fashioned. Most of them are fried cold rice, old wine in new bottles, and some even don’t change the bottles. They stick a new trademark and just change the "production date" and sell it to anxious parents.
For Hengshui School and Maotanchang Middle School, which have become hot spots periodically, apart from preparing for teaching and cultivating students, they have to spend a lot of energy in dealing with public opinion and public relations every year. For the reform of the college entrance examination system, this kind of snooping report, which is keen on students eating for five minutes and running to the toilet, also lacks value and significance.
As we all know, Hengshui and Maotanchang Middle Schools are just derivatives under the current college entrance examination system. Without Hengshui, there will be running water middle school and boiling water middle school to collect the money. If Maotan Middle School has not become a college entrance examination processing factory and charged a high re-reading fee, there will be Pingchang Middle School and Huatan Middle School to do this.
Of course, we are not in favor of and encouraging Hengshui students, but we hope that public opinion can examine the current educational topics more comprehensively and use valuable attention resources for more rational and in-depth discussion, instead of focusing on those two "cow schools" repeatedly just to attract attention and harvest traffic.
This is not the responsibility that two high schools can bear, and it is not conducive to the fundamental solution of the problem. In short, Hengshui middle schools have only brought the potential of exam-oriented education to the extreme, which is a choice that many schools have to make or even be forced to make under the current college entrance examination system.
What’s more, in the past few years, the "devil-like" education of Hengshui middle school students often has some voices of ridicule, ridicule and even contempt, which is not only indifference and ignorance to the complicated social reality in China, especially the extremely unbalanced education, but also contempt and ruthlessness to those poor students who are eager to change their dreams through the college entrance examination.
At all times, it is a common practice to select, train and shape talents through examinations. College entrance examination may not be the best way to select talents, but it is still the fairest talent selection system in China at present, although it has various practical defects and deficiencies.
As a social tool, the media should make suggestions for the college entrance examination from the perspective of the whole system, and strive to promote the balanced development of educational resources, instead of letting people fall into the so-called "regional differences" and "school district differences" debate; Strive to promote the reform of "one exam for life" and let education jump out of the trap of utilitarianism; Pay attention to the given standards of multi-admission reform, and don’t let them become a cover to create injustice; Supervise the quota and threshold of self-enrollment and let it return to the original intention of selecting special talents … …
Only by solving these major practical problems in the college entrance examination system, finding some ways to remedy the deformity and deviation, finding some ways to help the defects and difficulties, and finding some ways to carry forward the advantages and strengths, can the college entrance examination truly become a good system to ensure social fairness, promote social mobility and give social hope.
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