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According to the UNESCO website, as of March 17, more than 850 million children and adolescents worldwide have been suspended due to the outbreak.
With the suspension of classes, students from all over the world began to explore and adapt to the new learning model. In South Korea, tuition classes have become a “life-saving straw” for local students.
Korea Broadcasting Corporation (KBS) It was reported on March 5 that 81 tutoring classes were being held in Seocho-gu, Seoul During this period, a total of 650 tuition classes in Gwangju were suspended, which was only 13.7% of the total number of local tuition classes.
Yonhap News Agency also stated that more than 70% of tuition classes in South Korea have officially started.
The ensuing and unavoidable incidents are, of course, infections that occurred in the cram school. In this regard, the attitude of many city education departments in South Korea is based on advice. At that time, the start of tuition classes was not explicitly prohibited.
On the previous day, Yonhap reported that a total of 4 confirmed cases had appeared in a tuition course in Busan. A lecturer became ill at the hot spring church, and then the virus was transmitted to the tutor and the two principals.Students.
Another city, Gwangju, also has confirmed cases in cram schools.
The governments of the two places have issued notice of suspension of tuition schools, and also sent text messages to parents, asking parents not to send their children to tuition classes.
But the former is under business pressure and cannot be closed immediately; the latter is also under academic anxiety and is afraid to stop easily.
At the Central Epidemic Prevention Conference on the 22nd of this month, the Prime Minister of the State Council of the Republic of Korea further stated that local governments should strengthen supervision of corresponding facilities and implement centralized management of dense facilities such as tuition classes according to specific conditions.
Under the epidemic, the fire of cram school still needs to be extinguished passively, and students still have to study so hard, because for many Korean families, they are slightly behind in the competition, and they are even more afraid to face it. Right thing.
“2 million won per semester and can only be used for the final exam”
The madness of Korean students for cram school did not erupt due to the epidemic. The journey started as early as usual and early in kindergarten.
Children in the kindergarten are not under pressure to progress to school, but they are going to go classes, art classes, and piano classes at a young age. Parents feel that this is to let their children find real interests.
After entering school age, as the Korean government has banned advanced learning in schools, off-school tutoring classes have become almost the only way for students to advance.
If you don’t start early, you will not be able to keep up. / unsplash
As early as 2010, nearly three-quarters of students in South Korea needed to take cram schools after class. Now this proportion has exceeded 80%, and there are more than 100,000 tuition schools in South Korea.
Even for families with a monthly income of less than 1 million won, their children participate in private tutoring at 36%, not to mention families with a monthly income of more than 6 million won, let alone 90% of children will go to cram schools.
The “Internet Red” study room, which is popular among white-collar workers in China, originates from South Korea. Unlike China, these study rooms are mostly used by students in Korea. After a day of high-intensity campus and tuition classes, the next stop to meet them is the study room.
A small lamp, curtains pulled, and the distance in the distance was dark. Korean students learned here near midnight as soon as they were studying, and then came home exhausted.
Sixth-grade elementary school students can go to bed as early as 12 o’clock.
Under such a crazy “bombing”, some elementary school students in South Korea have completed junior high school knowledge in their fifth or sixth grade. Related surveys show that 8 out of 100 junior high school students have advanced to high school content.
Behind the students’ undivided attention, they are the “money price” of many Korean parents who also have to grit their teeth when they sell iron.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education of Korea, the per capita tuition fees for junior high school students in South Korea in 2018 exceeded 300,000 won.
In Seoul, the cost of one-to-one tuition is 200,000 won. Even if it is a comprehensive multi-student tuition course, daily Mandarin, math, andEnglish turns to learn, and it costs 500,000 won per month.
According to the Korean National Daily, many parents spend 2 million won per semester (equivalent to RMB 11000 Diversified) , please give your child a one-on-one personal tutoring for the mid-term and final exams.
In addition to cultural subjects, Korean parents have to “throw money” so that children have a perfect resume and go to a good university.
Not long ago, Shenzhen launched a pilot program for evaluating the comprehensive quality performance of junior high school students. Many parents criticized it as a disguised “daddy fight” due to various unreasonable and extra-curricular activities and the number of practical innovation activities required mom”.
But South Korea has introduced the “High School Comprehensive Life Record Book” as early as the 1990s. Its recorded social activity records and competition rankings are all important for Korean high school students to “step down a thousand people” during the college entrance examination. Capital one.
Korean National Daily reported that it would not be possible to win prizes with children alone in preparing any competition, so parents can only hire teachers from related disciplines to prepare for the competition.
Some tuition classes have also launched extracurricular activity consulting courses, which cost 200,000 won per class. Instructing students to write “advanced” courses such as short papers can cost up to 8 millionwon.
“The so-called rich qualifications of the students are built by parents with money,” said one parent who was interviewed.
In order to study well, I must go to a private high school when I ’m desperate
In the “Sweat and Sweat” created by several Korean high school students, there is a line of lyrics:
“The first level is SKY, the second level is in Seoul, the third level is the National University, the fourth level is the ground complex, and the fifth level is the college.”
For the students of private high schools, it is possible to go to SKY even lower rankings, that is, Seoul’s top universities, Yonsei University, and Korea University. However, if the ordinary high school students work hard, they may not be admitted to the university in Seoul.
Hanmen came up with Takako and was admitted to a private high school as the first stepping stone to enter a prestigious university.
Ye Yuan, a protagonist in the documentary “The Betrayal of Learning”, shot by (EBS) by the Korea Education Broadcasting Corporation As a goal.
She was born in a small city. She always maintained the first grade in junior high school, but this was not enough.
To be admitted to a private high school, you must have at least 2 years of preschool education, that is, you need to learn high school knowledge 2 years in advance.
Ye Yuan, who only started studying high school content in the last year of junior high school, can only continually reduce his sleep time, not enough sleep for 3 hours a day.
The dense plan book has daily, weekly, and monthly plans. In her words, “I also want to rest, but if one day is lazy, it will only be more difficult afterwards.”
She thinks that those future high school classmates from big cities who have a good family and study so hard are “monsters.” Thinking of going to high school to compete with these “monsters”, she was embarrassed.
After the first high school exam results came down, the ominous premonition became a reality. There were 395 people in the whole year, and she ranked 313.
So, can ordinary high school students give up early?
No, they did their best to go to college in Seoul.
The Korean college entrance examination is divided into three parts. One part is the college entrance examination itself as we know it, which only accounts for 30% of the total score. The record book mentioned above is an extra point during the interview.
The major part is the internal assessment, which accounts for 70% of the total score. Every unified examination in the school will affect this assessment score.
The other protagonist of the documentary, politician, attended ordinary high school. He strove to jump from the top 30% to the top 10% through his efforts.
Originally, the politicians hoped to be admitted to the university in Seoul, but the regression of the repeated exams in the second year of high school made him gradually disappointed.
“I don’t think I can get into college, and a mistake of 1 point can make my school’s assessment ranking fall back several times.” The politician regretted it. He felt that the reason for this situation was because he didn’t do well in high school. learn.
Using school uniforms to study at home can make politicians feel more urgent.
He is in a poor family and just wants to hurry to Seoul and finish his college job to find a secure job.
Because of the taste of poverty that his parents have tried, he doesn’t want to repeat it.
To prevent hierarchies in high schools and reduce the “tuition fever”, the Korean Ministry of Education proposed in mid-November last year that the independent elite high schools, international high schools, and foreign language high schools “elite high schools” should be transformed from 2025 onwards. For general high school.
However, in many parents’ minds, the concept of “elite high school” has long been ingrained.
Even after the transition, “everyone still clearly understands which are good high schools and which are really ordinary high schools.”
The competition is a difficult problem for young Koreans too.
Another documentary film “Poor Student 1-Traces of Learning” by EBS mentions: “Children who do not learn well = most children in Korea.”
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Education of Korea, the average number of dropouts in South Korea reaches 60,000 per year, mainly because the decline in performance makes them feel frustrated.
The first classmate often worry about being overtaken by others. Once he returns to the third to sixth place, he feels that he has failed the exam.
People whose grades are so bad that even they and their teachers have given up on themselves, some want to go to college even if they want to, and some simply drop out of school.
Even if I barely admitted to college, “I’m still afraid. If I graduate from a bad university in the eyes of others, I will be ignored.” Jin Minzhi, a senior in the film, said.
Different from the college entrance examination rate that China has climbed year by year, although the college entrance examination rate in South Korea is not only 50% as rumored, it did fall from 69.4% in 2007 to 67.6% in 2017. And even though nearly 70% of high school students can go to college, only 2% of them can get SKY.
It’s difficult to get into college, it’s even harder to get into college. In order to go to college, why not spend a few more years of youth?
Zhengfeng in the Korean drama “Please answer 1988” has passed the college entrance examination seven times before being admitted to Sungkyunkwan University. Despite this exaggeration, it is true that the number of repeat students in Korea is increasing.
According to the Global Network, the number of South Korean college entrance examinations in 2019 was 548,700, of which 142,300 were repeat students, an increase of 5% over the number of repeat students in 2017.