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How did you get into a key school?
“Because I have expertise.”
In 2019, after missing the team championship for four consecutive years, the Chinese team once again won the first place in the International Mathematical Olympiad team.
Looking back at the past four competitions, the Chinese were astonished that these 90s who had been soaked in Olympic training courses since their childhood, did they really “collapse” in the new international competition?
Since the 1980s, the Chinese team has always been the overlord of international Olympic competitions. In the 25 sessions held between 1989 and 2014, the Chinese team won 19 team championships.
In the years when the Mathematical Olympiad Tuition School was popular, it was thought that such a good performance should have been maintained.
From 2020, enrollment of all kinds of special students at the compulsory education stage will be fully or cancelled. / Weibo screenshot
With the arrival of the red line in 2020, the policy of enrolling special students in compulsory education will also gradually withdraw from the historical stage. Recently, relevant documents released by Guangdong, Shanghai, Anhui and other places have released obvious signals:
The special education system at the compulsory education stage has really come to an end.
Unsurprisingly, those who are waiting for the Olympiad training and dance instrument training market will be a basin of cold water. This also provides the best answer for those who have questioned the “fallout” of the post-90s generation:
Behind the sizzling specialty training is not the awakening of educational awareness. Every parent and child is just “tempted” by the extra points under the pressure of further education.
A good test is worse than extra points. / “Youth of Youth”
At one time, the admission system for specialty students was highly anticipated. Some people hope that it can break the ice of fractionalism and promote quality education and all-round development.
Some people also hope that it will attract talents and promote fair education. From now until now, the enrollment of special students with too many hopes has been given, and in the face of the predicament of the education system, it has become a driving force to solidify the predicament.
The fate of this system, which once attracted the social atmosphere, has been set. In the last days to accompany him to withdraw from the historical stage, in addition to endless booing, people should most reflect on how the special student enrollment system has been pushed out of the way. .
“Fractalism” overthrows the system of specialty students
The admissions system for special students has existed for a long time. From the inside and out, this was originally a system for discovering extraordinary people.
In the imperial examinations of the Tang Dynasty, there was a saying about “examination for the subject”. In addition to the national unified regular exams, there are other non-scheduled exams such as the “system test”, the purpose of which is to prevent the talents from being buried in the regular exams, thereby discovering “excellent students”. Three years after Tang Xianqing, poet Han Siyan embarked on the career path through this “special move” channel.
After 1949, the days when major administrative regions had greater autonomy in education did not last long. With the gradual return of the power of higher education examination enrollment to the central government, a nationwide chess education pattern has gradually been established.
It is also in this context that the advantages of the special longevity system gradually emerge. In the case of a single iron plate across the country, it has added more autonomy to the locality, and has also become a source of living water under the “fractional theory” system.
Until the college entrance examination resumed at the end of the 1970s, special student enrollment also existed.
In 1987, the “Interim Regulations on Enrollment in General Colleges and Universities” was promulgated. The decree clearly defines the items and points that can enjoy the bonus policy. Since then, the special college entrance examination bonus policy has become a stable college entrance examinationpolicy.
Along with this, from compulsory education to higher education, the entire chain of extra points has been established. However, with the evolution of policies, the “niche system” that originally targeted a few people with special skills eventually evolved into a popular competition method, and the recruitment of special students also violated the original intention.
Under all education systems that surround higher education, whether it is elementary school, junior high school, or high school, excellent points have become a dependency of serving higher education. Cultivating special talents is no longer the goal, and gaining extra points through special skills has become the goal of people’s pursuit.
Thus, those children who do not have special skills also need to train their special skills from an early age. An industrial chain attached to the recruitment of special students has been formed.
The enrollment of talented students who used to be a useful supplement to traditional education has become a subject of traditional education in disguise. In addition to the classroom learning, students also need to bear the academic burden of special training.
A long-term student who has already entered the university once said: “When the junior high school graduation season is near, most people are worried about their cultural class results.” Because no matter how “maximum” in your specialty project, cultural class results It is still a factor of veto.
“It doesn’t matter if the cultural class scores are good enough, and the specialty is slightly worse.” The latter will be more popular among students with a very good specialty and a slightly poorer academic performance.
People are wondering, is the primary criterion for admission to specialty students still not specialty?
Features are synonymous with backdoors
A classic excerpt from Shen Teng’s “Charlotte Trouble”.
In the class, the class teacher announced that Yuan Hua, the outstanding student in the class, won the first prize of the district composition contest. The name of the composition is “My District Father”.
The ironic film plot is also a reflection of reality to a certain extent. In an era when some honors can get extra points, it is not difficult for qualified parents to “operate” several extra points for their children.
Many people have been criticized for the extra points project of special students, and the extra points test of the navigation model must be listed. China Youth Daily reported that in 2009, of the 19 candidates who participated in the extra test in a city in Zhejiang, 13 came from powerful families in the city.Six are teachers’ children.
Their parents are some of the city’s leading cadres, some of the state-owned banks’ top and second leaders, and some of the city’s major bureau leaders or school principals. As soon as the news came out, it aroused great repercussions in the society, and people ridiculed it as “the college entrance examination bonus club”.
It is not a secret that extra-graduate students’ bonus points are gradually becoming shady. In the years of scandals, sports specialty students were accused of having too much water. Thousands of candidates in a place received extra points. Special talents are added to the selection and have long been reduced to a game of fighting for money.
Under such circumstances, it is not only unfair to ordinary candidates who have not scored extra points, but also unfair to those who truly have special skills.
In addition, many ambiguous bonus points provide some parents with a space to make a name for themselves. In the end, the student won a title that sounds tall but has a limited actual gold content, and snatches extra points that were not their own.
Especially in the college entrance examination, the advantage brought by the 20-point extra points makes the profiters enter heaven, and another group is destined to be put into hell.
Over time, the public has linked special students with backdoors, and the recruitment of special students has gradually become stigmatized by society.
University students, the school may not really want to train you
On the Internet, there was a passage: a group of special students took the test. In the end, among a group of students with the same ability, one who could play the cello qualified for extra points. The reason is that the college orchestra admitted to him is just missing a cellist.
Compared to the extra points for compulsory education, the admissions of colleges and universities are much more rigorous and regular. But it cannot be denied that the ironic phenomenon in the paragraph does exist in reality.
Every year, many prestigious universities recruit a group of talented students who excel in vocal music, fine arts, or sports. However, it is puzzling that even at the top universities in China, many colleges do not have specialized vocal, art or sports departments.
Students who pass the exam will gain points through their specialties, and eventually, like most students, enter non-art colleges.
Besides studying, they need to join the school’s orchestra or sports team, and win honors for the school on the national or global university student arena.
Li, a former swimming team from a certain province, once said that the college score will be reducedRecruitment into the school, naturally also need him to “go to the school to get honor”.
Every graduation season is near, many college sports team coaches will tour major high schools across the country to recruit students with outstanding sports talents, expecting that they can bring new talents to school sports teams.
From another perspective, this is of course a win-win situation. The school has obtained high-quality talents to win honors in the competitive competition of college students. These talented students also have the opportunity to enter prestigious schools.
However, the consequences of entering a prestigious school are likely to be the end of a specialty career.
Mr. Li said: “Even in the national professional athletes, their rankings have reached the forefront, and it is even more important to compete with college students.” But it is almost impossible for the university to continue after the end.
“Like other classmates, enter the society after graduation and find a job” is the common destination of this kind of specialty students.
Respect the differences and recruit different developments in recruiting foreign specialty students. When many players in the NBA took the road to professional athletes from universities with outstanding sports talents, domestic professional players almost all came from provincial teams or sports schools in various provinces. Of course, this involves the “dual-track” characteristic training of sports talents in China.
But don’t assume that the NBA is the norm for foreign specialty students. Since they live in the global village, chaos is almost the same.
Last year, the United States shocked society with fraud in the admissions test, and money fraudulent resumes were frequently reported. The head coach of the Harvard Fencing Team sold the property to a family for $ 300,000. One child of this family was accepted by Harvard, and the other child was already on the Harvard Fencing Team.
Although Harvard did not acknowledge fraud, the coach was subsequently fired.
The more amazing thing is Indonesia. A university in Jakarta issued a notice saying that students with YouTube fans of not less than 10,000 can get admission if they pass other assessments.
Netizens sigh: Internet celebrities can also become special students. Even more excited is the mighty flourish merchants on a certain treasure.
For domestic students, they need to invest time in training competitions during college. Not only will the daily study time be crowded out, but their competitiveness in the job market is often not as strong as those who have already been busy internships.
take no more thanThe award certificate for the competition may not yet have an internship certificate from a large company with a gold content.
The admission of special students at higher education level, even if the rigorous procedures are increasing, to a certain extent, the purpose of discovering “very talented persons” has been achieved, but not many schools are really based on the training of excellent special talents.
Did students make real progress in arts and sports during college? Can their “very talents” be sustainable after graduation? Should we really cultivate outstanding artists who will benefit society in the future?
Or is it more important to win honors for the school?
Rural students: My hair is “extra long”
Urbanism of the education system has always existed. From elementary school to university, extra points for extra students, extra points for project competitions, extra points for subject competitions, autonomous admissions … rural students are almost always at a disadvantage.
The rural students who have a weak foundation and need the most points to cross the threshold of high-quality high school or university are just the group of people who have the least expertise and the most conditions to get extra points.
In the beginning of this century, the enrollment of Wuhan University and Nanjing University in their respective Wuhan and Jiangsu provinces accounted for nearly 50% of the enrollment. Fudan University and Sun Yat-sen University are even more so. The proportion of the two universities that recruit local students from Shanghai and Guangdong accounts for more than 60% of the total number of students admitted.
Students who are in backward and rural areas are already in a weak position in the competition under the original backward education conditions.
Urban youths have 9.6-12.8 times more opportunities to receive higher education than rural youths in the 1980s. Even in the 1990s, urban youths still have almost 6 times higher education opportunities than rural youths.
Under circumstances where education is inherently unfair, a series of special channels launched will inevitably radiate a sense of urbanism.
Cultivation of specialty is essentially a game of money. For the majority of rural students, they have neither energy nor financial resources.
Expensive vocal training courses, accompanied by increasing tuition fees, increasing difficulty, and difficulty in accessing the Internet, resulting in a narrow knowledge, lack of systematic scientific sports training, and inability to access various bonus policies in time … Both have become the limiting factor for rural students to be unable to compete with urban children in extra points.
Once, a documentary documentedUnder the artistic dream of rural girls in Baoding, Hebei, but no one would take “Ballet on the Field” as the normal state of rural China. For rural children, it is already fortunate to achieve their homework skills.
For a longer period of time, these disadvantaged students have been competing with their peers who have extra points.
Of course, no matter whether it is elementary school or university, the system of extra points for specialty students is right, and students with specialty skills are even more right.
The extra points system at the compulsory education stage, or the unconventional channels for entering the university, have the original intention of providing another path for rural children with disadvantaged scores.
However, there are many factors such as urban-rural duality, regional differences, and so on. Therefore, it is not necessary to fall into the critique of the pros and cons of the special longevity system or the independent admissions system, and it is not necessary to carry out unnecessary criticism of the dark side of human nature.
What should be more reflective: Why have these policies not worked as expected? Why do we not have the environment and soil that support their orderly and healthy development?
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